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Comment Re: Why an Intel Mac PC to run linux? (Score 5, Informative) 130

by sl956 on Thursday August 23, 2012 @03:00PM (#41099461) Attached to: OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked

Also I'm kinda curious: Why would spend twice as much to buy an Intel Mac PC if they're just running linux? I'd buy a regular PC for 1/2 to 2/3rd the cost.

I looked for a silent small footprint linux pc. I was unable to find one. That's why I bought a Mac Mini. It runs Linux flawlessly... and silently thanks to the fanless design and SSD.

People wanting an HD screen on a laptop might also have to buy Apple hardware even though they plan to use only Linux.

Comment Re:Only early bugs are shallow (Score 1) 596

by sl956 on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @03:30AM (#31166106) Attached to: Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law

Some bugs are so deep the open source process can't fix them.

Some bugs are so deep that they are very difficult to fix. FTFY

Search Google for "prune_one_dentry oops". [...] nobody wants to take that on.

FUD. The fix is in the work for a long time. Christoph Lameter recently (01/29/2010) submitted the 15th iteration of the patch set. Hopefuly this time no unforeseen consequences will prevent it to be merged into the official kernel. You can read about it here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/29/332

Submission + - Google Search goes AJAX!

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday February 10, 2007 @11:01PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "ReadWriteWeb reports that Google's main property, Google Search got AJAXified. This was Google's most conservative property, so this is a very interesting development and is signaling that Google may start implementing SearchMash innovations into its core product very soon. One more step towards semantic web..."

Submission + - New eBay scam, without violating ebay policy

Submitted by

Bert64

on Saturday February 10, 2007 @08:15PM

Bert64 writes: "It seems that eBay allows you to say one thing about the location of an item in the auction description, but then if the item turns out to be defective to supply a completely different address, in another country, where the item can be returned at buyer's expense. No mention of this was in the original auction listing, in the hope of fooling those who would normally not buy from a foreign seller. Details on http://www.ev4.org/ of how i was stung by this, and how it can so easily be abused by anyone to profit by ripping off unsuspecting buyers while ebay sits back and does nothing about it. So anyone can ship defective items, and then make the returns process expensive enough that people won't bother."

Submission + - Groklaw's PJ takes a health break...

Submitted by on Saturday February 10, 2007 @04:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: PJ's announcement at Groklaw
We all wish her well and hope she is back soon... but not before she is well.

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