Comment Re:Well let me be the first to say... (Score 2) 721
Diesel is more expensive than petrol here in the UK : http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/index.html
Comment Re:They could disable the majority of botnets (Score 1) 94
Btw you don't have to completely "root" the system to be part of a botnet, but it helps, at least if you want your bot to keep running when the user reboots (though it could easily add itself to ~/.bash_profile to restart next time the user logs back in)
Or even just add a @reboot entry to that user's crontab, for execution post-boot.
Comment Re:Just For You Disgusting Fatbodies (Score 1) 132
Cool story, bro.
Comment Re:I love this (Score 1) 363
I wonder how much was paid on his behalf to have this orchestrated?
Comment Re:Lets look at it (Score 1) 292
You do realise that nvidia has had freebsd amd64 drivers for over a year and a half now? The latest of which is 270.4106
Comment Re:A better idea (Score 1) 562
That never stopped them from sanctioning military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just how much a day is it costing to keep those operations on-going?
Comment Re:Hackers, obviously... (Score 1) 1200
If you want to make fun of something, how about the fact that they NEVER made a Pentium Pro laptop.
Never say never! "PGI’s Condor Applique+ is a rugged, dual 200-MHz Pentium Pro notebook with 64M of RAM, expandable to 512M, and a 2.4G hard drive, in a removable, shock-resistant cartridge.The Condor has a detachable keyboard and a 10.4- or 12.1-inch touch-screen display that can be viewed in full sunlight." c/o http://gcn.com/articles/1998/08/31/army-finishes-tests-on-two-combat-notebooks.aspx
Comment Re:ClamAV is a big deal (Score 1) 127
And? MS Security Essentials is a zero-cost option as long as the OS isn't pirated.
It's a zero cost option even if the OS is pirated.
Comment Re:how (Score 4, Informative) 266
That's a show stopper for me.
Same here for quite a while - fortunately Status-4-Evar plugin showed up to remedy that particular ill.
Comment Re:Am I the only one who is confused... (Score 1) 140
So, you simply choose not to buy such a system in the first place - cuh.
Comment Re:There were some damn fine games in that era... (Score 1) 274
Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.
Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)
BZFlag works just fine here in OpenGL mode on Win 7 Ult x64 (w/ 8800GT and v258.96 drivers).
If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.
Every single modern game I've tried has worked perfectly well on 7 x64,
Comment Re:For ZFS alone it's worth it (Score 1) 161
Except that not all of the FreeBSD world prefers a compile-the-world approach, which is why there's a freebsd-update utility now in base for binary updates of the base OS.
Comment Re:Is it worth the effort? (Score 2, Informative) 161
FreeBSD jails are certainly no longer ill-supported second-rate tack-ons. Care for virtualised network stacks per Zone? ;)
Comment Re:Now What? (Score 5, Informative) 415
There's still a few manufacturers making C2D boards with a limited number of ISA slots : http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.htm and http://www.commell.com.tw/product/SBC/P4BWA.HTM are two examples.
Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? 437
Hugh Pickens writes "As electronic devices are made to perform more and more functions on smaller circuit chips, the systems become more sensitive and vulnerable to corruption from single event upsets. This is especially true of Toyota, which has led the auto industry in its widespread inclusion of electronic controls in the manufacture of their various car models. 'These circuit families store not just data, but their basic function electrically,' says Lloyd W. Massengill, director of engineering at the Vanderbilt Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt University. 'In the unfortunate event of a particle flipping just the right bit, a circuit configured to carry out a benign action may be reprogrammed to carry out some unintended action.' Denise Chow writes in Live Science that some scientists are pointing to cosmic ray radiation as a plausible mechanism behind the sudden, unexplained acceleration reported to have occurred with the late model Toyotas."
