Posts by Ramazan

Re: YAY

With prices for GTX590 or 2xGTX680 exceeding $1200, this 100 quid more on WinSomething isn't really relevant IMO.

re: USB boot, Welcome to five(?) years ago Microsoft

I booted live Debian from USB at least 11 years ago, and this wasn't rocket science even then, though it had to be manually adapted for the purpose using some package from "main" repo

Re: OS/2 v2.x was certainly better

Probably that's why everybody at Microsoft was so excited when they divorced with IBM so that they didn't have to accept "crappy IBM code" anymore

Re: Re: LTE with 500Mb fair use

Much funnier is when you're roaming in LTE network, you can download 100Mb per minute and 1Mb costs say $1. This results in you being able to burn money with speed of $100 per minute.

Intel CPU not crappy?

Sheeple, wake up! (http://xkcd.com/1013/) How could you do hard realtime OS on any x86 since 386SL when SMM (http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jan97/Jan97.html) kicks in completely invisibly to OS (and it can't be disabled by OS) and steals CPU cycles? GSM (and later) have strict requirements about timing by the way, and while they are an order of magnitude longer than max allowed execution time of SMM handler, there are other problems like lost clock ticks.

up to the purchaser to sue ... for his money back

So Apple would get their £35,000 back from Proview Taiwan in that case, right?

Do not use PITA anymore, try pwgen -s -1 instead.

Re: Que?

BTW, "The original Hammerhead computer was a 486 design that was first delivered in June of 1995". Thus, what Yang talks about, "there were practically no LCD screens" is bullshit.

@stuff and nonsense

OK, IBM PC's architecture was open and maybe free of both h/w and s/w patents (I cannot say it for sure but IBM didn't take anybody in court for IBM PC patent issues AFAIK). The story was different for IBM PS/2 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture):

"IBM had patents on MCA system features and required MCA system manufacturers to pay a license fee - and actively pursued patents to block third parties from selling unlicensed implementations of it. The PC clone market did not want to pay royalties to IBM in order to use this new technology, and for desktop machines vendors of PC-compatibles stayed largely with the 16-bit AT bus"

IMHO it's clear that IBM could pull the same stunt earlier with ISA bus to prevent "unlicensed" cloning of original IBM PC. So it's not really about s/w vs h/w patents, but about corporate strategy. If IBM wanted to screw us, they could do it without ever resorting to s/w patents. Why they didn't put any locks on PC architecture, remains a question. I think they just wanted to create a market for add-on cards ASAP but didn't think about possibility of cloning PC itself at all.

@Grease Monkey

"The Iranians initially claimed to have shot the drone down" [citation needed]

@so, was it in Iranian airspace or not?

Of course it wasn't, at least from drone's point of view. Obviously, it was flying over American military base in Pakistan spotting beercan garbage and helping base's janitors to keep it clean and landed there without any doubts, and GPS data confirmed that.