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Submission + - Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruh

on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @05:02PM

jfruh writes: "Mandriva, a venerale Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there any room in the marketplace for just a straight-up Linux distro anymore?"

Comment Re:First (Score 1) 271

by madmayr on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @07:17PM (#38657600) Attached to: Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes

oh come on .. why do all these 'i for one ..' comments get modded down? of course this meme is a little bit old and maybe slightly overused, but still no reason to mod it down i think

Submission + - Bloggers Sneak into Russian Rocket Factory 3

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Monday January 09, 2012 @10:15PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Remember Elena, who took us on motorcycle tour through Chernoby in 2004. Now young Russian blogger Lana Sator has broken into the Energomash plant outside Moscow showing a decrepit and seemingly deserted plant, with paint peeling off machinery and piles of junk outside. She and her friends apparently sneaked through a hole in the fence under cover of darkness and were able to access many of the plant's buildings unchallenged, including the control room. Russian media cited a senior space agency official, speaking anonymously, who describes the breach as a shock of the same scale as German pilot Mathias Rust's brazen Cessna flight under Soviet radar to land on Red Square in 1987 while Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says the security failure is "unacceptable," warning in a televised meeting with Roskosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin that "sleepy cats" who fail to maintain security at strategic defense sites face punishment. Sator has posted pictures of decrepit-looking hardware on her blog (google translate) from inside a rusted engine-fuel testing tower and the plant's control room."

Comment Re:Optical? (Score 1) 502

by madmayr on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @08:56AM (#38368634) Attached to: What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720

you have to be honest and don't speak of europe when you boast with your incredible connection speeds in austria (wqhich is in the middle of europe btw) you can get a 16/1.5 MBit (restricted for personal use) DSL connection with 'real' speeds of maybe 8/1 MBit if you're lucky for around 20e/month everything else is much more expensive because of the initial costs and few providers for higher speed solutions like fiber

Comment don't trust the PR (Score 0) 149

by madmayr on Sunday December 04, 2011 @07:08PM (#38260772) Attached to: AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million

but this 66% is really outrageous

Comment Re:Yes, but... (Score 2) 56

by madmayr on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:35PM (#38230970) Attached to: New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs

there are some helpful people - usually dressed in white - who will help you with a smile!

Comment it's sad (Score 2) 235

by madmayr on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:21AM (#38134542) Attached to: Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising

i always liked the AMD CPUs, mostly for almost equal computing power for less money but at the moment this is not really true anymore it seems when i look at the benchmarks (doesn't matter if desktop or server)

Comment Re:The Interface will be a problem. (Score 1) 220

by madmayr on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @08:46AM (#38072268) Attached to: MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses

Besides, why interface with the brain, why not just replace it?

because of cyberbrain sclerosis, duh!

Comment one word: (Score 1) 1880

by madmayr on Friday November 11, 2011 @10:13AM (#38023182) Attached to: What's Keeping You On Windows?

Skyrim

Comment why not? (Score 2, Funny) 73

by madmayr on Monday September 05, 2011 @04:31AM (#37306894) Attached to: Using Stem Cells to Save Endangered Species

why not just store their genetic information in a big 'noah's ark' database let the extinction just happen, see if a creature was really needed for the ecosystem and if yes, revive it

Comment Re:Er- why? (Score 0) 176

by madmayr on Thursday September 01, 2011 @03:39AM (#37272834) Attached to: German Ban On <em>Doom</em> Finally Lifted

mod+1 again please

Comment Re:FTP over TLS (Score 1) 166

by madmayr on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:59AM (#37175638) Attached to: GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack

i think he refered to this: http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/2338249/New-Research-Cracks-AES-Keys-3-5x-Faster, but i don't know why 251

Comment Re:EVE players fell for that? (Score 1) 171

by madmayr on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @03:22AM (#37104122) Attached to: <em>EVE Online</em> Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency

well, the roi wasn't too bad actually - 50% after 9 weeks is a nice interest, where you don't have to do anything for it you could focus on the stuff you really like to do, and not boring trading (yes, i might be biased on this one) and if you got your money out in time, it was actually a nice thing

Comment Re:Not really emulation then (Score 1) 227

by madmayr on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:17AM (#37042582) Attached to: A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator

Add a "turbo" button.

and how should this hardware magically run faster just because of a turbo button?

Comment Re:Not really emulation then (Score 1) 227

by madmayr on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @07:26AM (#37042248) Attached to: A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator

and you would loose the nifty feature of an emulator: temporary emulation speed boost (which is why i really like them)

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