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Comment Stock take... (Score 1) 115

by garf on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:08AM (#57579494) Attached to: Apple Launches Program To Repair Old Devices Like the iPhone 4S

Apple obvious done a stock take on parts and realised that they have parts on the shelves for vintage products. Think on a plan to make money on all those parts destined for the bin....yeah, sell 'em at high profits. Trebles all round.

I bet they won't sell the parts to third party repair shops.

Comment must be bust... (Score 2) 81

by garf on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:43AM (#48818817) Attached to: Washington DC's Public Library Will Teach People How To Avoid the NSA

NSA must have cracked Tor...

Comment Next? (Score 3, Funny) 97

by garf on Monday January 30, 2012 @06:53PM (#38870661) Attached to: Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego

RAM Pack?

Comment Final way out... (Score 1) 201

by garf on Friday November 04, 2011 @10:44AM (#37947546) Attached to: Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days

If is was psychological experiment did they have the ability to kill each other or press the air door and stop the whole mission by killing everyone? I mean it's not very realistic if there isn't a final 'way out'.

There is at least one recorded event on a Soviet Antarctic based of one guy killing another with an ice pick over a game of chess.

Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel 165

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, 2010 @12:25AM from the you'll-need-some-big-batteries dept.

angrytuna writes "The Economist is running a story about a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, who've found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through steel. The process enjoys advantages over both lasers, which take more time to bore the hole (0.2 vs. 1.4 seconds), and by metal presses, which can leave burrs that must be removed by hand."

Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks 157

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 15, 2010 @06:40PM from the flavor-of-the-moment dept.

Given that early benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx were less than encouraging, Phoronix decided to take the latest alpha out for a spin and has set it side-by-side with an early look at Fedora 13. "Overall, there are both positive and negative performance changes for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 in relation to Ubuntu 9.10. Most of the negative regressions are attributed to the EXT4 file-system losing some of its performance charm. With using a pre-alpha snapshot of Fedora 13 and the benchmark results just being provided for reference purposes, we will hold off on looking into greater detail at this next Red Hat Linux update until it matures."

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