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Comment Re:Burn them (Score 3, Funny) 301

by kspn78 on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:27AM (#41106103) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?

I am using one of my older 7" tablets as a bedside clock at the moment, always synched and accurate

Comment Re:CDs? (Score 2, Insightful) 334

by kspn78 on Thursday July 30, 2009 @02:07AM (#28878081) Attached to: EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On

A CD is a funky mirror (at least according to my workmates)

I can't imagine that this is going to do EMI much long term good!

Comment Oh dear! (Score 1) 202

by kspn78 on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @07:59PM (#28875693) Attached to: Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting"

I can't imagine this going well :|

Although I would have thought that this would have been covered under 'prior art'?

Comment Re:You don't get better by not doing (Score 2, Informative) 315

by kspn78 on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @07:51PM (#28875617) Attached to: Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants

I agree, I would rather not be 'inside' a crash, but it is a fact that Nuclear technology has not been able to develop due to fears that people have about radioactivity ect.
Coal vs Nuclear (Take your pick of these articles)
Coal evil: http://www.restoringeden.org/community/CreationVoice/january2009/coalash
Nuclear evil: http://www.cejournal.net/?p=410
There are issues (primarily with the Radioactive waste) but we still have what amounts to cira 1970/1980 Nuclear technology. pity that.

Comment Interesting (Score 2, Funny) 361

by kspn78 on Monday June 01, 2009 @09:55PM (#28176681) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

I wonder if this would help me, I am running 2 VMWare servers on an older box and it is a little lethargic at the moment. If I could ever get to the story I might be able to find out :|

Comment Re:Primary? (Score 1) 596

by kspn78 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:36AM (#27948163) Attached to: How often do you reboot your primary computer?

That process sounds rather familiar to me :)

Comment Re:Good Writeup! (Score 1) 368

by kspn78 on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @02:59AM (#19646471) Attached to: Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder

I think that if they had all the answers then they would be building the Space Elevator now rather than a planned finish date of around 25 years!

Submission + - ZFS on Linux: It's alive! (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by lymeca on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:30AM

lymeca writes: LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer.

Submission + - Videogame Unites Republicans and Democrats (gamepolitics.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18, 2007 @11:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: This is a cool game that was launched out of the capitol building in Washington DC last week. It was created by the USC Game Innovation Lab and has been getting lots of press. It's about time someone took on a tough issue like redistricting reform using the power of the internet. The game is fun and well made.

Submission + - Female Astronaut Sets Space Record (thestar.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Sunday June 17, 2007 @11:16PM

Raver32 writes: "U.S. astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams set a record for the longest single spaceflight by any woman. Williams, who has lived at the space station since December, surpassed the record of 188 days set by astronaut Shannon Lucid at the Mir space station in 1996. "It's just that I'm in the right place at the right time," Williams, 41, said when Mission Control in Houston congratulated her on the record. "Even when the station has little problems, it's just a beautiful, wonderful place to live.""

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