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Comment Re:4 hours commuting a day... (Score 1) 375

by eternalnyte on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @08:49PM (#23019548) Attached to: What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop?

>It's an AMD K6 with 6 gig hard drive and 96
> megabyte RAM.
> Is that enough room to run a dual 98/Linux OS?

I dual booted Win98/Linux with a Pentium 100Mhz with a 4 gig drive just fine back when I was first experimenting with Linux.

And recently I setup a old 486 Thinkpad with a 2 gig drive as Linux only - 2 gigs can feel pretty cramped nowadays, however.

So 3-4 gigs should feel pretty comfortable for a Linux Partition and Win98 can live on a gig easily (without apps, that is).

Submission + - Porn Industry gives users what they want to fight

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30, 2007 @07:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: In a novel form of piracy prevention the adult entertainment industry is giving user what they want. Live performances, user interaction and higher quality than can be found pirated. All of this available by subscription. From Cnet:"Like other online publishers, Kink.com has had to puzzle out ways to deal with the perennial problem of copyright infringement on peer-to-peer networks and Usenet. Kink.com's solution is live shows."

Feed California's $1.4bn IT boondoggle (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @06:52PM

More dollars than sense

California, with its booming computer industry and an economy that ranks among the world's top 10, has wasted almost $1.4bn over the past decade because it can't build a statewide network to administer child support payments.

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