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Comment Let the bloating begin...? (Score 0) 175

by snugge on Sunday December 19, 2010 @02:29PM (#34608688) Attached to: Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released

let's hope they dont screw this little gem up.

Comment Re:Aussies IT Directors Retarded (Score 0) 179

by snugge on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @09:15AM (#34403126) Attached to: Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down

With current laptop resolutions (usually so called "HD"), a 5 year old 17" monitor is not that bad....

Comment old news in sweden. (Score 0) 249

by snugge on Monday September 13, 2010 @05:45PM (#33566174) Attached to: Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US

this is already a reality in sweden for $140/month by "telia".

sorry but the link is in swedish, try babelfish :)
http://www.telia.se/privat/produkter_tjanster/bredband/bredbandvianatverksuttaget/fiberlan/

Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus" 65

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday September 11, 2010 @11:43PM from the time-to-upgrade dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With its new Caffeine search indexing system, Google has moved away from its MapReduce distributed number crunching platform in favor of a setup that mirrors database programming. The index is stored in Google's BigTable distributed database, and Caffeine allows for incremental changes to the database itself. The system also uses an update to the Google File System codenamed 'Colossus.'"

Comment BANHOF (Score 0) 421

by snugge on Sunday September 05, 2010 @06:56PM (#33484162) Attached to: Ideas For a Great Control Room?

check out this swedish bunker for ideas.
http://www.bahnhof.se/panorama/

Comment big l (Score 0) 487

by snugge on Monday August 23, 2010 @03:26PM (#33345844) Attached to: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzyaAuPh1lE
done!

Comment Re:The expense of the interlock... (Score 0) 911

by snugge on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @08:04AM (#33274176) Attached to: Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks

Now that's just egoistic.

On a bike, at least you're the only one who dies when you crash...

Comment BOfH #6 - Solar Flares (Score 0) 464

by snugge on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @09:14AM (#32577016) Attached to: NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013

http://bofh.ch/bofh/bofh6.html

ahhh... finally!
the solar flares excuse comes true. sweet.

Comment Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery (Score 1, Insightful) 326

by snugge on Sunday June 13, 2010 @08:14PM (#32559972) Attached to: A File-Centric Photo Manager?

I think it's exellent that the app does not alter the *original files* as the default setting.

Comment WRT320N (Score 0) 344

by snugge on Saturday April 24, 2010 @09:59PM (#31970920) Attached to: Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL?

...with dd-wrt.

good thruput.

no dual radio, though.

Comment fp! (Score -1, Offtopic) 533

by snugge on Friday March 12, 2010 @03:05PM (#31454790) Attached to: China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

fp!

Comment ...and? (Score 1, Insightful) 149

by snugge on Thursday March 11, 2010 @02:28PM (#31441218) Attached to: IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild

there will always be unpatched exploits for OLD and OBSOLETE software.

Comment Re:Victim of its own success (sorta) (Score 0) 438

by snugge on Sunday December 20, 2009 @04:25PM (#30506316) Attached to: A Requiem For Saab

maybe doctors tend to see quite a lot of traffic victims?

Comment Re:Let's just be clear on what they mean here (Score 0) 438

by snugge on Sunday December 20, 2009 @02:09PM (#30505326) Attached to: A Requiem For Saab

A short piece of heavy copper wire will do the trick when it comes to changing the clutch.

Comment but.. (Score 0) 859

by snugge on Saturday November 14, 2009 @12:50PM (#30098402) Attached to: German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names

Don't mention the war!

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