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16 Nov 2007

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:26:47 GMT

etbe: Neither. One should use ZFS (>> RAID).

13 Nov 2007

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:45:25 GMT

Signs of the Apocalypse:

Via Jos Kirps's Popular Science and Technology Blog, we learn that complete source code for the final release of Multics has been released by Bull Technologies and made available by MIT.

7 Oct 2007

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:02:09 GMT

bradfitz: What was scarier than the text of the article - let's face it, we have known for years the man is a moron - was the photo accompanying it. A pile of sycophants, clutching their cameras for a chance to photograph the most potent symbol of their country's failure in every sphere. Not what he's earned: A lynch mob.

17 Sep 2007

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:08:04 GMT

salimma: "once" anti-GPL?!

24 May 2007

Thu, 24 May 2007 19:07:16 GMT

trs80: Yep, swapping controller boards can work. I did it successfully last year to a Samsung 80GB that failed. Of course, I then had two working chassis and only one working controller, so I should have been able to organise a warranty replacement (which never happened for various reasons). It was obviously a dead controller: one of the ASICs had a matchhead sized explosive divot in it.

15 May 2007

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:17:16 GMT

mikal, right! after all, where'd you think we^W they got the idea? :/

10 May 2007

Thu, 10 May 2007 05:56:58 GMT

mikal, I think everyone in a position to make a comparison knows by now that United are utter crap...

21 Apr 2007

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:27:44 GMT

louie: Yes, the "pathetic commentary" on low expectations due to Microsoft is indeed sad.

But when you wrote,

No wonder everyone wants to move to web apps.

I initially thought you were being sarcastic: Because of course then, "this application may from time to time act like the web application it really is, and have unpredictable latencies or unreliable operation, ..."

But perhaps you were earnest, and were saying that people perceive web applications to be more reliable. Well, perhaps they can be a smooth experience, where your connection (and server) is fast, low latency and reliable. But in general it's not going to make the issue go away... Firefox is one of the few applications that crashes for me on OS X. :)

20 Apr 2007

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:22:46 GMT

Ankh,

f/1.8, which means the shutter of the camera can open very wide, letting in a lot of light but at the same time giving a narrow "depth of field", so that someone's face can be in sharp focus but the background be entirely blurred.

Well, an f/1.8 lens wide open allows you to maximise shutter speed, so presumably you're talking about very low light/slow film situations. (N.B. you have a typo, s/shutter/aperture/).

18 Apr 2007

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:27:05 GMT

lmb, you might be interested in this talk: Torture, Secrecy and the Bush Administration given by Prof. Scott Horton.