Comment Frivolous Lawsuits (Score 1) 241
I'm just afraid I'll find a finger in my CPU.
Comment Yet another story stating the obvious (Score 3, Insightful) 412
Of course people are upgrading from XP to 7 - if they are upgrading at all. Who upgrades from Debian to Windows? Or, Solaris to Windows?
Oh - 6 XP users upgrade for every Vista user? Surprise, surprise!! Probably half a billion people in this world THOUGH about upgrading to Vista, but decided not to when Vista proved to be such a bomb.
Let's remember, Vista wouldn't run on old equipment, while Win7 runs on anything over a gigahertz with a gig of memory. A lot of XP users COULDN'T upgrade to Vista!!
Comment Re:Linux 20% market share (Score 5, Funny) 412
Linux, therefore has 13.37% of the "non-MS market".
If that isn't proof Linux is awesome then I don't know what is.
Comment Re:Jail Breaking Makes sense NOT! (Score 1) 137
Sorry, but what part of "destroys the very security mode. that prevents malware from spreading" when you "break" the BSD "jails" is baloney? That is exactly what is happening when you jailbreak an iPhone. It is no longer secure and can be infected by a Trojan hiding on a Cydia repository. There was a version of Customize 1.3 back in the 1.3 days which was in fact a Trojan.
You can jailbreak if you want but you should be aware that your phone is no longer secure once you do that and any personal information that you store on your device can be compromised. The BSD jails prevent other applications from accessing data that does not belong to them.
Comment Re:Please Explain Further (Score 4, Informative) 154
I just saw your post as I was finishing researching mine... and I certainly agree with you that the summary is wrong.
The Microsoft KB article is quite explicit that the workaround is what disables the sleep states, leading to higher power usage - the hotfix itself does not exhibit this problem.
The Microsoft KB article is quite explicit that the workaround is what disables the sleep states, leading to higher power usage - the hotfix itself does not exhibit this problem.
Comment Re:AMD is looking better and this is the type of s (Score 3, Insightful) 154
Read the link. 5 pages of errata, and that's just headlines. Modern processors are very complicated, and they will have bugs.
The major difference between Intel and AMD when it comes to errata is that Intel learned its lesson about secrecy from the Pentium FPU fiasco. Since then they have had a very open approach to processor bugs. AMD hasn't had such a PR disaster and isn't quite as open. That doesn't mean they are particularly less buggy.
Comment Re:Can an American explain it to me? (Score 1) 143
If you want accountability, you need regulation. You can't regulate an illegal activity. When you make something illegal you give up the ability to control it.
Submission + - Malware Exploits Tiger Woods Car Crash (sophos.com)
Unexpof writes: As if Tiger Woods didn't have enough worries today, hackers have taken advantage of the huge interest in the breaking news story about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the golf champion's car accident to spread malware.
By using search engine optimisation techniques and creating webpages which pretend to contain video footage claiming to relate to the story, cyber criminals are distributing malicious code posing as a video browser plugin.
Sophos has published more details and pictures of the dangerous websites, and says that other celebrities who have been similarly exploited in the past include tennis star Serena Williams.
By using search engine optimisation techniques and creating webpages which pretend to contain video footage claiming to relate to the story, cyber criminals are distributing malicious code posing as a video browser plugin.
Sophos has published more details and pictures of the dangerous websites, and says that other celebrities who have been similarly exploited in the past include tennis star Serena Williams.
Comment What are your goals??? (Score 2, Insightful) 405
Without that information, all you'll get is a bunch of people suggesting their own pet projects.
Even if you just want to learn and play you might want to have a goal. Do you want to learn to administer ZFS? You seem to be fixated on it.
Comment Re:Only one way to find out for sure (Score 1) 186
> Send a bunch of scientists to Mars for at least ten years.
Sit back and enjoy the ensuing war with the multinationals.
Submission + - Why flame wars erupt online (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: PC Pro has an interview with psychologist and author, Patricia Wallace, who explains why people tend to be more aggressive online than in real life. "it’s not always that people who are particular evil or angry or belligerent are the ones who are doing those flame wars online, it’s that all of us can be drawn into that by the very nature of the environment," Wallace claims. "People aren’t aware of how their communication will be interpreted on the other end. They may have meant it one way but it was interpreted another way, more abrupt or blunt or belligerent or whatever. They just assume it was the other guy’s fault and that he’s an idiot."
Submission + - Wikipedia Refutes Editor Mass Exodus Claims (wikimedia.org)
eldavojohn writes: The Wikimedia blog has a response from Erik Moeller, Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, to last week's story on editors leaving Wikipedia. He offers these three points that they know, "1. The number of people reading Wikipedia continues to grow. In October, we had 344 million unique visitors from around the world, according to comScore Media Metrix, up 6% from September. 2. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property in the world. The number of articles in Wikipedia keeps growing. There are about 14.4 million articles in Wikipedia, with thousands of new ones added every day. 3. The number of people writing Wikipedia peaked about two and a half years ago, declined slightly for a brief period, and has remained stable since then. Every month, some people stop writing, and every month, they are replaced by new people." It's also noted that it's impossible to tell whether someone has left and will never return as their account still remains there.
Submission + - Apple forced to clean up its small print (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: Apple has been forced to tidy up its online terms and conditions, at the behest of the UK's Office of Fair Trading. The company has redrafted its Ts & Cs so that it now accepts liability for faulty or misdescribed goods sold from its website or the iTunes store. Apple must also ensure that its conditions are "drafted in plain or intelligible language" and that they "do not potentially allow changes to be made to products and prices after an agreement is made".
Comment More bad news. (Score 1) 554
Furries will also be disappointed to read the headline "Study questions usefulness of animal-human embryos".
Comment Re:Something to credit Microsoft for (Score 1) 319
A 20? My mobile client gets three times that!
