Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164
I found in 2004 a slackware 3.6 mail server which I instaled back in 1998. It hasn't been rebooted since. Almost 6 years uptime and over the 2000 day mark.
Comment Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164
First one I installed it was 40 something floppy drives and it took me quite a few hours. That was back in 93. Nowadays you install everything off a usb stick in minutes. Sort of spoils the whole adventure.
Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 3, Insightful) 164
If you want a linux engineer to fix things up for you pick a Slackware user not an Ubuntu one.
Comment Re:Glad to here. (Score 2, Funny) 164
First distro I ever used. And I kept using it until 2002. It warped me for good on the BSD file layout. Now I can only use Gentoo because of that. :)
Comment Re:Will this help? (Score 1) 259
Me neither, but I am strongly advocating for the reduction of our impact on the environment. Otherwise we will cull ourselves by famine, due to destruction of fertile land, disease, caused by pollution lack of water supply and ultimately genocide. WAIT! We are already doing that!
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/eps/rwanda/rwanda1.htm
Comment Re:Will this help? (Score 4, Informative) 259
Mosquitoes certainly have their role in the ecosystem and killing them will certainly have unforeseen consequences. More like in the Mao and sparrows story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sparrow_Campaign
Comment Why a 100K would be needed from Bill to fund this? (Score 5, Insightful) 259
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
Hélder CÃmara
Comment Re:Translation (Score 4, Funny) 435
And they call me anti-social next they are going to call me a communist.
Comment Jane Goodal (Score 3, Funny) 435
Bring me that Jane Goodall chick!
Comment Re:Contrary to popular opinion... (Score 1) 604
better implemented product has to compete with the same feature set - you said it yourself - with a more established product.
Assuming they will be able to deliver anything, which they had a hard time anyway, after a mass defection. Good luck guys.
Submission + - Intel is not using Vista on its PC's (nytimes.com)
phoenix_nz writes: Time for another round of Vista bashing everyone! Intel will apparently not be rolling out Windows Vista for its 80,000 employees.
The New York Times (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html?ref=technology) and El Reg (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/26/intel_says_no_to_vista/) have information from an 'unnamed Insider' that, apart from "certain departments," Intel will not be installing the new Windows on their hardware. El Reg is quick to quip that "certain departments" are most likely those "charged with writing Vista drivers for Intel's various chip technologies."
Its not all bad news for Microsoft though. FTA: "Could Intel change its mind? Quite possibly. Microsoft's chief executive, Steven Ballmer, has few equals as a forceful, persuasive salesman, and he and Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive, meet regularly."
Looks like another nail in the coffin for Vista from my side of the fence though.
The New York Times (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html?ref=technology) and El Reg (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/26/intel_says_no_to_vista/) have information from an 'unnamed Insider' that, apart from "certain departments," Intel will not be installing the new Windows on their hardware. El Reg is quick to quip that "certain departments" are most likely those "charged with writing Vista drivers for Intel's various chip technologies."
Its not all bad news for Microsoft though. FTA: "Could Intel change its mind? Quite possibly. Microsoft's chief executive, Steven Ballmer, has few equals as a forceful, persuasive salesman, and he and Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive, meet regularly."
Looks like another nail in the coffin for Vista from my side of the fence though.
Feed New Scientist: Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'? (pheedo.com)
Missiles stored in the close confines of a submarine could explode in a chain reaction, according to a UK Ministry of Defence manual
Submission + - Intel dumps Vista (theinquirer.net) 1
V!NCENT writes: ACCORDING TO A memo circulating a few weeks ago, it looks like Intel is taking a wise decision and avoiding the Broken OS entirely. Yes, Intel is not going to use Vista on its corporate machines... ever.
Submission + - Bizarre Properties of Glass Revealed (livescience.com)
VindictivePantz writes: "Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid...Knowing the structure formed by atoms as a glass cools represents a major breakthrough in the understanding of meta-stable materials and will allow further development of new strong yet light materials called metallic glasses, [Paddy Royall] said, already used to make some golf clubs. This stuff is generally shiny black in color, not transparent, due to having a lot of free electrons (think of mercury in an old thermometer)....Metallic glasses could be suitable for a whole range of products, beyond golf clubs, that need to be flexible such as aircraft wings and engine parts."
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World 508
An anonymous reader writes "Most people are aware of the recent articles contending that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN might destroy the world. While most scientists have no such concerns, a recent preprint released to arxiv systematically dismantles the notion. The gist of the argument is this: Everything that will be created at the LHC is already being created by cosmic rays. If a black hole created by the LHC is interactive enough to destroy the world within the lifetime of the sun, similar black holes are already being created by cosmic rays. Such black holes would be stopped by dense cosmic objects (neutron stars and white dwarfs). A black hole stopped in one of these objects would eventually absorb it. We see sufficiently old neutron stars in the sky, thus any black hole that could be created at the LHC, even if it is stable, would have no effect on the earth on any meaningful timescale."
