Comment Rating Games (Score 1) 82
Oh no, if they prevent kids committing suicide because of game deprivation, how am I supposed to know which new games are good?
Comment It's all about the lights (Score 1) 876
This myth has been going on ever since computer cases added a light to them labeled hard drive.
A user sees this light blinks whenever the computer is "working", or so they think, so obviously the box that does all the work is the hard drive.
Submission + - Will Linux ever be ready for the desktop? (blogspot.com) 1
Anonymous Coward writes: "Repeatedly, articles are written trying to enumerate why Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. This article however takes a different approach, explaining that Linux will never be ready until certain flaws are accepted as existing, and work is done to eliminate them.
Interestingly, the article is separated into both business and home user adoption, and explains the different needs by each computing segment, showing that Linux is nowhere close to meeting the requirements necessary to become a desktop operating system."
Comment Re:This is new? (Score 2, Informative) 425
Okay, summary is definitely wrong, Debian already supports four completely different kernels.
See here.
Comment This is new? (Score 2, Interesting) 425
I must be missing something. I have a Debian FreeBSD Live CD from 2006.
Here it was reported that Debian imported the FreeBSD Kernel over 4 years ago.
What exactly happened now that is new?
Comment Re:Outlaw encryption (Score 1) 545
If you were using 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap, and replace it with only 8GB of RAM, you wouldn't run into any memory issues that you didn't have with the former setup to begin with.
Swap doesn't magically work better than actual RAM. Of course adding swap over RAM gives you more capabilities, however, it's hardly a requirement with enough RAM.
Comment Re:Outlaw encryption (Score 1) 545
Those indexing programs are only a problem IFF they're running while the encrypted partition is mounted. Hopefully those who use encryption are smart enough to realize that.
Your swap problem also only applies to the olden days. Now that we have machines with 16GB of RAM, who still uses swap?
Truecrypt does protect you, it's your own stupidity that would void that protection.
I personally have the updatedb script ignore all partitions under /mnt/special/
Your swap problem also only applies to the olden days. Now that we have machines with 16GB of RAM, who still uses swap?
Truecrypt does protect you, it's your own stupidity that would void that protection.
I personally have the updatedb script ignore all partitions under
Comment Re:Outlaw encryption (Score 1) 545
That's one of pros of TrueCrypt, you can hand over the password, and they still won't be able to access the encrypted data.
TrueCrypt allows you to make it that different passwords decrypt different parts of the encrypted partition, and there is no way to know if there's more than one part.
