Comment Re:Failed how? (Score 3, Funny) 311
Missing the ground is fundamental in learning how to fly
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flying
See 3.
At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses 460
An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins "There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)"
Submission + - A decade's worth of IPv4 addresses (arstechnica.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)
Comment OLPC: CPU too slow (Score 1) 137
I also bought two OLPC, using the "give one, get one" program,
and gave the one sent to me as a Christmas gift to my nephew.
He used it and is still using it, but the main problem is: it is painfully slow.
The CPU in the XO-1 is an AMD / 433 Mhz and integrated graphics, with 64K Level 1 and 128K Level 2 Cache: I think that it simply cannot keep up with the amount of computation that its software components require.
And I do not think that Python is necessarily to blame here.
I cannot say for sure without profiling, but I think that for most interactive uses the perceived performance problems are not in tight Python logic loops, but in rendering and other basic stuff which mainly happens in C libs.
Comment robot uprising: I am ready. (Score 1) 344
Comment great news! (Score 1) 164
Great news for me, I'll be able to continue using my favorite distribution even in the 64 bit environment. After a brief initial experience with SuSe,
I went with Slack and never looked back.
Comment that's great. We need more of these game companies (Score 1) 117
I am happy of course to see that having a Linux native version is a priority at least for some developers.
Too bad I really don't like Quake-like games, or any FPS.
If only the RPG companies would have Linux in their mind. Like Bioware, which delivered Neverwinter Nights (thanks!), but now turned its back on us with Dragon Age.
Comment Re:All aboard mateys!!! (Score 2, Funny) 319
To Somalia! Clear blue waters with skull islands...
Comment my first time (Score 1) 739
I bought SUSE Linux together with a new computer in a small shop near my home.
I specifically asked for it, since I was going to go to the university, and I needed a Unix-like system for my studies, to practice at home and work on assignments, without having to always go to the computer labs, where DEC machines and terminals were available.
The guys in the shop installed the OS for me, so I had everything already working. No network connection btw.
I started messing around, and soon discovered that a game called "nethack" was installed.
It blew my mind.
Comment Re:Slashdot poll (Score 1, Informative) 508
We need a poll. I vote for the penguin doctor video
The penguin doctor video was much better.
Btw, the linuxfoundation.org site is already
Comment Re:Broke the internets! (Score 1) 407
Comment obligatory southpark reference (Score 1) 260
"With South Park's senior citizens behind the wheel, more than a few farmer's markets have been mowed down. Unwilling to surrender their driver's licenses, the elderly fight back."
Submission + - truly free gNewSense available as preinstalled OS
sick_soul writes: It seems that the FSF has finally found some truly free distros to endorse,
and is now announcing that
Los Alamos Computers offers laptop and desktop machines preinstalled with gnewsense-2.0
, probably the most popular of these free-software-only distros.
With some major hardware companies already preinstalling more mainstream
distributions on consumer products, will these attempts face too much competition
inside the FOSS community?
Or is it sign that the values of software freedom and openness are becoming
more mainstream?
OpenSUSE's EULAs vs. Free Software Ideals 59
Anonymous Coward Maximus writes with some interesting (and disheartening) bits found in recent EULAs from SUSE: "Apparently the Beta came/comes with an interesting EULA discussed in this Planète Béranger article that just makes me think where is this whole Novell/Microsoft ridiculousness going to end? One quote from the EULA to whet your appetite: 'The Software may contain an automatic disabling mechanism that prevents its use after a certain period of time, so You should back up Your system and take other measures to prevent any loss of files or data.' Hmmm... Here is the full Beta 3 EULA for you to dissect. Note that the final release has a different EULA that doesn't look that scary, but still mentions things like 'You acquire only a license to use the Software' and such." Personally, I find the "Benchmark Testing" section (under GENERAL TERMS in the final release's EULA) to be pretty irksome.
Submission + - A good look at six open source graphics utilities
An anonymous reader writes: Tis article provide a survey of a number of popular Linux data visualization tools and include some insight into their other capabilities. For example, does the tool provide a language for numerical computation? Is the tool interactive or does it operate solely in batch mode? Can you use the tool for image or digital signal processing? Does the tool provide language bindings to support integration into user applications (such as Python, Tcl, Java programming languages, and so on)? It also demonstrate the tools' graphical capabilities. Finally, it identifies the strengths of each tool to help you decide which is best for your computational task or data visualization.
