Comment Gee (Score 3, Funny) 398

by the_archer666 on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:06AM (#57552987) Attached to: IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion

Here I was, trying out some new stuff which didn't work on my Ubuntu test system. Manager looks over my shoulder and asked what it takes to get the thing running, to which I replied "we need to buy Redhat". Guess I should have added "licences".

Comment Chinese calendar year (Score 1) 194

by the_archer666 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:48PM (#56942640) Attached to: China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles

Okay, the chines calendar year is different from what "the west" has agreed upon. This awfully sounds like an april's fools joke.

Comment Re:We must stay competitive! (Score 1) 194

by the_archer666 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:46PM (#56942618) Attached to: China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles

It is vital that NATO understands the implications of Quantum Radar technology on gender and feelings that emerge in the autoethnographic self of top level quantum radar LGBTQ*X scientists.

Comment Re:A Real Porker (Score 1) 148

by the_archer666 on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:11AM (#56826936) Attached to: Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant

There's an X Files episode made like a black mirror episode which features a robot restaurant: https://www.geek.com/televisio...

Comment Great! (Score 2) 216

by the_archer666 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:53AM (#56691436) Attached to: Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More

A big step towards running systemd on Windows!

Comment History acceleratingly repeating itself (Score 1) 257

by the_archer666 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:12AM (#54962939) Attached to: Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered

http://www.natureasia.com/en/n...

Submission + - TechBeacon Article is Making a Breakthrough in Smalltalk Advocacy 3

Submitted by horrido on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:24PM

horrido writes: This TechBeacon article is poised to break through the 20,000 views barrier in a matter of weeks. It has done more for Smalltalk advocacy than any other article in memory. TechBeacon says it's the second most popular app dev article of 2016. And Smalltalk evangelist, Richard Eng (aka "Mr. Smalltalk"), has been making a great deal of hay out of it on Twitter (#MakeSmalltalkGreatAgain). Can we expect great things from Smalltalk in 2017?

Comment Re:native sdk - its about time. (Score 2, Informative) 49

by the_archer666 on Monday January 04, 2010 @04:31PM (#30645618) Attached to: Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming

apple started off with "web" only development - then finally released a native SDK. google utilized it's Java like language (dalvik) - then finally released a native SDK (NDK).. there has been a native SDK since day one available for the Palm Pre

The Android NDK is different from the Palm Pre SDK - NDK can only be used for number crunching. Front end still has to be implemented in Java. So no "recompile, deploy" as in the Palm Pre SDK.

Comment Not all Vista bashing is ignorant... (Score 2, Insightful) 378

by the_archer666 on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @05:05PM (#30528944) Attached to: The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade

But I don't really get the Vista bashing in the article. It is a good OS. It had its problems at launch, but those were mostly caused by driver issues. Its also a lot better with security. I would take Vista over XP anytime.

I bashed, bash and will bash Vista for one thing which Microsoft ignored deliberately:

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it!".

Prefetch - adds no performance to my daily usage pattern
Multmedia Priority Rescheduling - I never had trouble playing MP3s or movies
Constand HD activity - makes me wonder "what the hell" is optimized when & why
and so on and so on.

Plus it takes double the time to wake up from hibernate then to boot (oh well, 4 (3.5) GiBs of RAM to be loaded)

Comment Austria... (Score 1) 450

by the_archer666 on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:17PM (#12617273) Attached to: Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached

I heard, that in Austria, phonebooks have a 'bogus record' inside them. Well, maybe banks should create such bogus records an give them to Choicepoint and Co. to at least find out where such leaks are? Kind of 'Honeypot account project'.