Journal Journal: After a 6 year hiatus...
The Apple Fanboy List is back!!!
Submission + - Developer creates DIY 8-bit CPU (wired.com) 1
MaizeMan writes: Not for the easily distracted. A Belmot software developer's hand built CPU was featured in wired recently. Starting with a $50 wire wrap board Chamberlin built his CPU with 1253 pieces of wire, each wire wrapped by hand at both ends. Salvaging parts from 70's and 80's era computers, the final result is an 8-bit processor with keyboard input, a USB connection and VGA graphical output. More details on the developer's blog
Submission + - Ext4: Stable for production systems? 1
dr_dracula writes: Earlier this year the ext4 filesystem was accepted into the Linux kernel. Shortly thereafter it was discovered that applications, such as KDE, were at risk of loosing files when used on top of ext4 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/19/1730247. This was diagnosed as a rift between the design of the ext4 filesystem and the design of applications running on top of ext4. The crux of the problem was that applications were relying on ext3 specific behavior for flushing data to disk, which ext4 was not following.
Recent kernel releases include patches to address these issues. My questions to the early adopters of ext4 is if the patches have performed as expected. What is your overall feeling about ext4? Do you think is solid enough for most users to trust it with their data? Did you find any significant performance improvements compared to ext3? Is there any incentive to move to ext4, other than sheer curiosity?
Comment Re:Of Course They Should (Score 1) 545
This post has many very good points.
As a high school senior right now... but mostly just as a high school student in general... I absolutely hate being given a research project to do, then time to go to the library to work on it during class, then finding out any good looking articles or possibly helpful sites I find are blocked.
Recently I had to research a pro-life group... but their main website was blocked because it was "inappropriate." I had to wait until I had time at home to finish the project due to the censorship at the school. That ticked me off that I couldn't even use time given to me to work on the project.
I think schools should just block everything... Make that internet connection 100% useless. Luckily their highly overpaid tech people seem to only know about http (not ssh, vnc, or any other services that can be used over the internet).
As a high school senior right now... but mostly just as a high school student in general... I absolutely hate being given a research project to do, then time to go to the library to work on it during class, then finding out any good looking articles or possibly helpful sites I find are blocked.
Recently I had to research a pro-life group... but their main website was blocked because it was "inappropriate." I had to wait until I had time at home to finish the project due to the censorship at the school. That ticked me off that I couldn't even use time given to me to work on the project.
I think schools should just block everything... Make that internet connection 100% useless. Luckily their highly overpaid tech people seem to only know about http (not ssh, vnc, or any other services that can be used over the internet).
Journal Journal: Apple Fanboy List 10
Hello fellow slashdotters!
Are you constantly bombarded with pro-Apple comments by Apple fanboys? Does your blood boil when you see an "APPLE IS SO GREAT AND THEY MAKE THE GREATEST STUFF WOO HOO!!!1!!1!!" rated +5 Informative? Are you sick of reading Slashdot comments at a high threshold, drowning in a sea of pro-Apple gibberish?
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