elfleco - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I live in Argentina (Score 1) 152

by elfleco on Sunday August 22, 2010 @12:07PM (#33332172) Attached to: Argentine Government Orders Major ISP To Close

Do you really think that Fibertel was a decent ISP? They were practically the only ones doing bandwidth throttling in Argentina, they were operating with an illegal license since they are not transferable (it is heavily regulated) without the state's approval, and they were the ones that allowed the prosecution [In spanish] of their own customers for P2P downloads.

I do think that there should be a way to keep the company going because Telecom and Telefónica aren't much better and competition is always welcome but Fibertel only exists in big cities, so don't worry about small towns, they are doing fine with local cooperatives and local ISP until Fibertel arrives and uses Cablevision/Multicanal monopoly to drive them out of business.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 152

by elfleco on Sunday August 22, 2010 @12:47AM (#33329598) Attached to: Argentine Government Orders Major ISP To Close

They were by far the most restrictive ISP: See http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#Argentina

Novell Wins vs. SCO 380

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @04:20PM from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

Aim Here writes "According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO v. Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing ..." No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.

Comment Tiger Woods? (Score 1) 107

by elfleco on Saturday March 20, 2010 @12:31AM (#31547330) Attached to: Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide

No Tiger Woods related jokes yet? Is this slashdot or what?

Comment Re:What did you expect? (Score 1) 427

by elfleco on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @10:43AM (#30535052) Attached to: Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations

Typically, seizing the assets of the wealthy in order to redistribute them to the masses leads to majority unemployment and hyperinflation. Just like twentieth-century South America.

Or present-day Zimbabwe. You're right: uncontrolled, ad-hoc, and chaotic confiscation produces economic mayhem. Granted, in all these cases, the economic populism was also coupled with a thoroughly rotten political system (take, say, Peronism) which confuses the analysis somewhat.

What is this? Oh, just another uninformed slashdot post.

Comment Re:She was not the first woman to get the turring (Score 1) 187

by elfleco on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @08:40PM (#27143613) Attached to: Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award

of course she wasn't... she was the first woman "the first US woman to earn a PhD in computer science" RTFA, or at least the summary!

Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? 480

Posted by timothy on Friday March 06, 2009 @04:20PM from the real-world-odds dept.

hackingbear writes "I'm considering buying a current-generation SSD to replace my external hard disk drive for use in my day-to-day software development, especially to boost the IDE's performance. Size is not a great concern: 120GB is enough for me. Price is not much of a concern either, as my boss will pay. I do have concerns on the limitations of write cycles as well as write speeds. As I understand, the current SSDs overcome it by heuristically placing the writes randomly. That would be good enough for regular users, but in software development, one may have to update 10-30% of the source files from Subversion and recompile the whole project, several times a day. I wonder how SSDs will do in this usage pattern. What's your experience developing on SSDs?"

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