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Submission + - 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by CWmike on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @05:47PM

CWmike writes: Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'

Comment 2012 (Score 1) 264

by DamegedSpy on Friday January 08, 2010 @10:11AM (#30693840) Attached to: IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010

ONOZ! RUN! 2012 is also coming in the internet world! Well, more seriously, there is IPv6 so we don't have to worry for now(except for the harder to memorize addresses of the IPv6) I wonder how much we have left of IPv6? Maybe 2-3 decades? nahhh lets just wait until we have less than 10%(IPv6 Addresses) to make speculations.

Comment Stupid Ignorant (Score 1) 325

by DamegedSpy on Friday January 08, 2010 @10:05AM (#30693770) Attached to: Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images

Having poor conditions or ~5 bucks a day(~51 pesos) does not mean we are not civilized. Now, you are so happy with your government? We are happy we our government. Why? Because they don't hide us stuff! They don't censor us!(With some exceptions like paedophiles stuff) Now he problem is that the History and Anthropology Department own all rights to it. And Mexican government don't take lightly that other countries(Being companies or individuals) use any cultural material for making money. I had myself made a short video and there was no problem!

Comment Re:H-1B is a Fraud (Score 1) 605

by DamegedSpy on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @12:35PM (#30583028) Attached to: Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites

And competition make progress. In Mexico we have a Monopoly at the fluorescent lamps. (The long ones) They are expensive and of bad quality. You don't have a choice.

Submission + - Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Glyn Moody on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @08:00AM

Glyn Moody writes: Most people regard OpenOffice.org as a distant runner-up to Microsoft Office, and certainly not a serious rival. Microsoft seems to feel otherwise judging by a new job ad on its site for a "Linux and Open Office Compete Lead". According to this, competing with *both* GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org is "one of the biggest issues that is top of mind" for no less a person than Steve Ballmer. Interestingly, a key part of this position is "engaging with Open Source communities and organizations" — which suggests that Microsoft's new-found eagerness to "engage" with open source has nothing to do with a real desire to reach a pacific accommodation with free software, but is simply a way for it to fight against it from close up, and armed with inside knowledge.

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