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According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated" 639

mjasay writes "Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a somewhat surprising comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: 'Linux is bloated.' While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux 'huge and scary now,' according to Torvalds." TuxRadar provides a small capsule of his remarks as well, as does The Register.
Portables

Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics 200

theodp writes "What if automakers measured gas mileage by rolling their cars downhill with their engines idling? They might, Newsweek's Daniel Lyons suggests, if they took inspiration from the MobileMark 2007 notebook battery-life benchmark test, the creation of a consortium called BAPCo, whose members are — surprise — computer makers and other tech companies. Laptops score big numbers, Lyons explains, because they're tested with screens dimmed to 20%-30% of full brightness, Wi-Fi turned off, and the main processor chip running at 7.5% of capacity. Professional reviewers see company-generated battery-life claims as a joke. 'The rule of thumb is that in real-world use you get about 50 percent of rated battery life,' says a Gizmodo associate editor. Leading the call for reform is the not-necessarily-altruistic AMD, who gripes that MM07 was created in Intel's labs and rigged so Intel chips would outscore AMD chips, which draw more power when idle."

Comment Re:Google Squared? (Score 1) 171

I have access to it because I got GC a while ago when I found out Google bought them. I was very excited at first. But I overlooked the fact that your outgoing number wasn't your Google Voice number. It just doesn't work out right now. If I call someone or text someone, they are naturally going to return the call or text to the same number. So Google voice becomes totally out of the loop.

Comment Re:Slashdotted after 3 comments (Score 1) 195

Funny you would say that because I just recently deleted a snapshot that had a week and a half worth of school work on it. I thought that a snapshot was just basically a hibernation state that you could save and use later. When you close VBox you can save the "machine state" and when you save a snapshot it tells you it saves the "machine state". I was about to submit my work but thought i would do some cleaning up first so i deleted this old snapshot while i went off to do something else. To my horrible surprise when i came back to upload all my work it was all gone. I'm still re-writing the essay right now... I really don't recall it giving me any sort of warning when i was deleting the snapshot. I may not remember correctly though since i was really tired from all the work I had just done and didn't totally think it through when I was deleting it. Still, it was far too easy and not very clear.

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