Comment Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score 1) 916
He didn't, he lived to 93 - the 0 at the end was approximately how many tenths of years - common translation problem...many of the ages from that time had a "tenths of year" on the end...
Comment Re:Ohh - maybe they could take it to the next step (Score 1) 271
I'm not married to USB CF or SD would work - something semi-portable would be for the best - as I would like to see the OS and OS only on the flash memory - maybe a couple gigs of that space wwould be writable for config files...
Think boot/OS disk...I'm all for speed, its just that USB is everywhere.
Comment Re:Ohh - maybe they could take it to the next step (Score 1) 271
Why would you need 4x16G for the OS - Vista doesn't even take up that much...I was thinking of starting with around 8G for Windows and uses a union FS to map Windows updates over the original files.
No user programs here - interface-wise I wouldn't care that much - USB is everywhere and slow, but drop in SD or compactflash and I'm ok. More of purchase an OS on flash drop it in and nothing can touch it - if I need to wipe no big deal just rebuild the config files and clean out user data, and no more friggin programs writing files into c:\windows...
Comment Ohh - maybe they could take it to the next step... (Score 4, Interesting) 271
Now only if they could start following the server side folks and place an internal USB connector inside and then MS and others could give us the OS on its own usb drive (read only) and we could use the hard drive for updates and programs we could enhance the security as well...
Comment How did you configure it? (Score 1) 907
Perhaps you haven't configured your kernel or power settings fully even on my old Thinkpad 760 (Pentium 166) I got 50% more battery life out of Linux then Windows...
If you check your CPU freq via
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Submission + - Crashed Spacecraft Yields Data on Solar Wind
Hugh Pickens writes: "After the Genesis mission spent 27 months in space gathering tiny samples from different types of solar wind, Hollywood stunt pilots swooped in with a helicopter to catch the falling capsule when it returned to earth. Unfortunately the spacecraft's parachute did not open, and the spacecraft ploughed a hole into the desert. Now scientists are starting to recover data from the salvageable pieces of Genesis. Nature Magazine reports that an analysis of isotopes of neon and argon shows that the elements of main interest to the researchers have the same isotopic signature in the solar wind as in the Sun itself. Because dirt contains relatively little neon and argon, the current Science study wasn't affected too much by contamination and the the team remains hopeful that they will be able to get results on oxygen and nitrogen isotopes from the mission."
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