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Comment Not a big deal, nuclear power is safe (Score 1) 169

I have lived 10 km from the only nuclear power plant in the Netherlands, now I live in Shanghai, guess which place is worse for my health. The only dangerous think about that reactor was the fact that when they would transport the depleted fuel rods (on the railway that came past my house at a distance of about 10 meters) I was afraid some greenpeace retards would derail the train.

Comment I think there are plenty who'd want to contribute (Score 1) 326

I build embedded Linux systems, I will not modify any code. Only use the platform to run our proprietary applications. Although I would love to contribute code back, this is not possible because whilst we use a lot of foss we don't change anything. I can easily see why there will be more companies that are in this position. For me the only thing I can give back to the community is helping people on a forum or mailing list.And I believe that is just as important as contributing lines of code.

Comment EMC... (Score 2, Insightful) 135

How can this ever be approved? I imagine this can cause all sorts of problems. The power grid in a normal house is not designed for this, same thing goes for the ethernet over power crap. There are all sorts or regulations about keeping net pollution down, and using it as a transmission medium goes directly against this.

Comment It is smart not to keep living in the past (Score 1) 1213

However, one part of the problem is also that they are afraid their (custom made) software will not work on a new OS. If more companies would adopt OSS then they could more easily transition between systems while using the same software package (with upgrades of course). Also the architecture of the computers would not be such a big deal as it is these days. The software development companies can then focus on giving support instead of writing some code and releasing specialized patches each time a new support ticket comes up.

Comment Wrong focus (Score 1) 532

Any graphical parts are not important. What is important is the fact that we can now ditch some technology that we have been using for a long long time. Of course people will complain about legacy software and what not, but any software worth using can just be recompiled or edited to deal with modern technologies.

Comment But it is still a bitch (Score 1) 179

At the company I work we have some little arm computers, no netbooks but rather thin clients. They come with windows CE 5 installed, but it is a bitch to get them to run linux. I have not succeeded at all. Partly because I don't know windows CE and I can't seem to get Haret to boot my prepared linux kernel because it won't work properly.

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