Screw VMware, DOS apps run in dosbox. That's what it's for.

That sounds like what gets changed every 3-6 months in a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora. Are you suggesting that even after 2 years of full time work Microsoft can only make such small incremental improvements to Vista?

Hell, even the short changelog of the Linux kernel itself is more impressive once every ~3 months. What is Microsoft wasting so much time on?

Am I seriously the only person who suspects that i7 is short for i786? We've had i686 for a very long time.

I've been a FreeBSD and Linux user for several years. I must have missed the RFC for evil detection over SSH. Link?

What poor algorithm? Hash collisions aside, a password is a password. Only things like retry limits, retry delays, automatic blacklisting, etc. will make any difference, and as we've agreed, these are matters of configuration which must be identical between systems for any meaningful comparison.

Regardless of what kernel is running, a password auth's security hinges on the password. Yes, for Windows it's probably even easier to probe SMB or IIS, but the password auth will be just as good or bad as OpenBSD if configured the same.

So, Mr Formal Education In Operating Systems, will OpenBSD refuse a valid username and password combination because the person logging in has a hidden evil deep in their hearts, unlike Windows which has blind faith in all valid passwords?

You're very confused. It's true that, if configured to accept username and password authentication, any system will treat a valid username and password as sufficient. That's why most professional administrators use public key authentication with good private key protection policies. But given an equal configuration of username and password, OpenBSD will be just as trusting as Windows.

Yes; mm, cm, m, what are you measuring from? It could be the standard m, but then **37 it would get smaller, not larger.

Remember that in physical calculations, the unit is multiplied as well, not just the value. That's why acceleration is measured in "meters per second per second". If you differentiate one step further, it'll be "meters per second per second per second", and so on. If you don't specify the unit you're working with from the start, the values are *meaningless*.

4GB video RAM is not an issue on 32 bit because the only part of it the host system can address directly is the "aperture". This is the same as how you can use a 1TB disk even with a 32-bit OS and only 1GB RAM. They don't have to all line up directly. Unless I'm just taking modern operating system design for granted and Windows really does require a direct memory map from all video memory to system memory.

I have had two PSUs fail on me. One was in an expensive Dell workstation and it exploded overnight, leaving a very interesting smell. The other was an Antec provided with a case, and it just stopped working for no reason. I didn't think PSUs could suck so badly, but I've learned my lesson.

Every time you use an unspecified unit as the base in an exponential function, baby Newton cries.

The trend has been that as a market for a commodity electronic product grows, even if workers are being laid off due to increased efficiency, either the volume the company has to produce increases and they need equal or greater workers anyway, or those same workers end up growing new companies. You don't hear of companies like Western Digital going under because they became "too" efficient.

More importantly, it's just not that big a deal. GigE performance on a good card is still limited by software, such as buffer sizes, MTU config, network stack implementation, application implementation, etc. but of course 10GigE is definitely a PCI-e only endeavour.

Thank you FOSS for making all of this possible.

If it weren't for FOSS, Apple and OSX would be dead and all of this history and cool code would be gone.

So once again, THANK YOU FOSS, for doing what no one else can or could ever do.

Think different. Think better. THINK FOSS.

I've benchmarked onboard and PCI NICs and get over 850Mb/s throughputs with iperf and netperf. Sure you could get another 50-100Mb/s with PCI-e, but that's practically a rounding error.

Yeah, that was a riot, unlike the vanilla Oblivion where the main quest requires you to do good deeds regardless of your character, the Shivering Isles quest requires evil. Then Knights of the Nine is absurdly over-pious to the point of being downright tedious, such as having to not do anything evil just to use the equipment you earned from 5-10 hours of questing!