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Comment Re:DESTROY! (Score 1) 709

by jyda on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @08:39AM (#38889887) Attached to: DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes

Now that DHS knows that, I bet tweeting words like "partying" and "getting drunk" is going to trigger a red flag as a synonyms to destroy.

Submission + - Linux 3D games run faster on PC-BSD (phoronix.com)

Submitted by koinu on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @02:12PM

koinu writes: Phoronix has published benchmarks comparing 3D games on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 and the FreeBSD Linux ABI emulation on the 8.2 release of PC-BSD, which is a desktop variant of FreeBSD. Most results show that the emulated Linux layer on FreeBSD performs better than Linux natively. It is pretty interesting, because most people would expect that an additional abstraction layer would generally slow down the execution of binaries.

Submission + - China Mobile Joins The Linux Foundation (linuxfoundation.org)

Submitted by eldavojohn on Thursday November 04, 2010 @08:17AM

eldavojohn writes: As a gold member, China Mobile has joined The Linux Foundation putting it next to AMD, Google, HP and Cisco in the roster of the foundation's gold members. This marks the very first time a Chinese enterprise has joined The Linux Foundation. Earlier this year, we saw the first Chinese company openly participate in open source and now China Mobile, ranked 77th in the world by Fortune with over half a billion customers, has joined the foundation that fosters the growth of Linux.

Comment Re:Rethink your approach, perhaps (Score 1) 690

by jyda on Thursday June 01, 2006 @04:24AM (#15442899) Attached to: Making an Argument Against Using Visual-Basic?

But honestly, there just aren't that many bugs left in VB6 that aren't already known.

I know what you mean, but how would you know? Couldn't this be said for all software?

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