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Comment Re:And how bad it becomes when a vuln is found (Score 1) 154

by orange47 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @03:56PM (#37459522) Attached to: Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS

don't worry, sooner or later someone will make Linux variant that runs in BIOS :)

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 351

by orange47 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @02:07PM (#37434854) Attached to: Israel To Join CERN As First Non-European Member

if only Martians would join as first Non-Earth member, perhaps scientist would finally discover that Higgs thingy.

Comment Re:Not art (Score 1) 243

by orange47 on Thursday September 08, 2011 @02:50PM (#37343472) Attached to: $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art

prior art...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_shit

Comment Re:750,000 hours MTBF. (Score 1) 238

by orange47 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @02:35PM (#37330608) Attached to: 3TB Hard Drive Round Up

.. 'or' it could be thermal recalibration: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/pc_hardware_faq/3_14_What_is_Thermal_Recalibration.html
hard drives do get hotter with a lot of writing/reading. iirc, I noticed a difference of at least 5deg C.

Comment Re:It's convenience and security. (Score 1) 835

by orange47 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @06:46AM (#37324932) Attached to: Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die

well whats stopping you from sending 'email' using point-to-point connection? iirc, good old modems could connect at 33k.
then there are leased lines.
if both ends use the same ISP, maybe sending it with cable or adsl modem is as much secure.

Comment oblig. Simpsons (Score 1) 835

by orange47 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:05AM (#37324080) Attached to: Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die

"Do you know where you can buy ink for an Amiga brand fax machine?" Krusty

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 309

by orange47 on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @04:51AM (#37313776) Attached to: Tanks Test Infrared Camouflage Cloak

perhaps its somehow 'dumping' the waste heat to soil beneath the tank.

Comment Re:Better idea (Score 1) 229

by orange47 on Sunday September 04, 2011 @07:38AM (#37301766) Attached to: Tapping Subway Trains For Energy

I have an even better idea. Why stop train at all? Passengers could be sling-shot with some mechanism in moving train, one by one; through open roof or something.

Comment Re:Driving users to the App Store (Score 1) 397

by orange47 on Monday August 22, 2011 @05:05PM (#37171652) Attached to: Download.com Now Wraps Downloads In Bloatware

with notable difference that repositories are for free.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 557

by orange47 on Monday August 15, 2011 @08:19AM (#37092910) Attached to: The Death of Booting Up

and how is it supposed to display that dialog if hardware is broken? complex monitoring system would make it too expensive.

Comment Re:SSD don't do random read/writes (Score 1) 113

by orange47 on Friday August 12, 2011 @05:53AM (#37066408) Attached to: New Serial ATA Standards Target SSDs, Tablets

then why not define logical block size to be as large as NAND page? or defragment the thing. if that NAND page is rather large, OS makers should refrain from using multitude of small files.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 113

by orange47 on Friday August 12, 2011 @03:33AM (#37065868) Attached to: New Serial ATA Standards Target SSDs, Tablets

and you sound like a troll.. its not a good idea to write several Gb to a flash storage on every shutdown just to have slightly faster boot.
perhaps boot wouldn't be faster at all, given that it doesn't matter much to SSD whether its sequential or random read.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 113

by orange47 on Friday August 12, 2011 @02:10AM (#37065654) Attached to: New Serial ATA Standards Target SSDs, Tablets

hibernation is bad idea because of memory leaks and similar.

Comment Re:Messy (Score 1) 688

by orange47 on Thursday August 04, 2011 @07:54AM (#36984004) Attached to: Was<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET All a Mistake?

linux programmers, on the other hand, can safely use online banking..

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 291

by orange47 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:13AM (#36958198) Attached to: Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better?

well, in any case, CPU/GPU speed is bigger problem here than storage.

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