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IIRC, OpenBSD officially runs on 24 different platforms, so the build farm would have around 40-50 servers/pc's (avg 2 per architecture), plus web servers, source control servers, etc.... So a $20K bill for 50+ servers is a proper installation (air-con/heating, UPS, etc) is that not...

PS. My boss is leaning towards the MacBook Pro, he personally has other Apple products at home, and most of the software we use is cross platform (Win/Mac/Linux).

This is more about getting some opinions on support for laptops, and not laptop's per se. My boss, has a 3 yr old Lenovo X201 that the wireless card just died on Monday (7 days before the warranty ran out). The laptop was purchased with 3yr next business day onsite warranty. Calls up Lenovo...

Nope, ZFS on Solaris or ext4 on Linux here...

I personally don't care about the government "spying" on me, they already know everything about me... As for foreign governments, well if their respective intelligence agencies are not sucking up every bit of unencrypted traffic for analysis, one could argue very successfully that they are not...

Timely discussion on slashdot about misdirected emails... http://ask.slashdot.org/story/14/01/11/1753223/ask-slashdot-what-to-do-with-misdirected-email Since I have an rather uncommon surname that my ISP and gmail accounts are registered, I don't have any on gmail, etc. But for my handle, so...

Umm, I could rephrase this as: Just saying... ;)

IIRC, it's "e4defrag" and it comes with the system... Now, unless you are doing a lot of torrenting, from experience, the most likely time you'll see fragmented files a ext4 filesystem, is when it's over 80% full... Keep it under 70% full, and you should see less than 0.01% of files have any...

Actually, since the heat last week, Brisbane (and surrounds) has had severe storms, some hail, and today is a cool 27-29C with very high humidity... (It's been raining on and off for the last few days).

The few HP Envy's I've seen in the wild seem to be well respected by their users... But don't have anough of a sample size to make a meaningful judgement.

I'm seeing intermittent slowness irrespective of the actions being performed... 1 minute it's slow, the next it's back to what it normally is...

Toshiba demos laptop with 4K display at CES: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/its-not-just-for-tvs-and-monitors-toshibas-laptops-are-going-4k-too/ If enough 15" and 17" laptops get them, then expect prices to drop significantly in the 20"-27" sizes...

Yep, back in those days, you had to recompile your own kernel to get things like networking and sound to work... And heaven forbid, you had to bring down custom patches to get sound (OSS patches, this was before ALSA even existed) and 3D working (eg 3Dfx Voodoo2's needed a patch for a while in...

Speaking of vBulletin exploits, OpenSUSE forums (which run vBullentin 4.2.1 - the same as here) was broken into... http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/01/08/1656231/opensuse-forums-defaced-email-addresses-leaked FYI

SpeedSteep always the OS to change the CPU frequency/speed depending on work completed and thermal effects. The more work the CPU is doing, the higher it will clock itself. The less work, it'll underclock itself to reduce power consumption and thus reduce heat output. PS. If you need further...

I just realised I wrote Sony 4 times in my last post... Sorry Merc. ;)

I think he is refering to how Merc writes Sony. Merc's dislikes Sony so much, her can't even get to write Sony as Sony... Exactly.... The most notable differences are: 1. All Xeon's are able to utilise Reg ECC RAM (for robustness). 2. Chipsets designed for Xeons can allow you to use your system...

Also looks like the driver was never updated for KMS as well... Which means it'll be essentially unsupported very soon as well... (eg no Wayland/Mir support, and IIRC recent XOrg versions have pretty much dropped anything that can't do KMS as well). On that note, let me rephrase what I said...

Just to add to what Merc said, be careful with the Pavillions, as HP will often limit Windows support to only the latest version of Windows is at the time of it's release. IIRC, the only supported version of Windows on current model Pavillions is Windows 8, therefore the support area won't have...

IIRC, Yes. The Intel graphics drivers support everything from the i810e chipset and above. IIRC, The SoundMax integrated audio was first supported in IIRC Ubuntu 10.04... Windows 7 will work, but will be very slow due to only having 1GB of RAM. (I've personally seen many GX270's running Win7...

@Merc, My wife loved the pics, especially the first one!

Luckily, we: 1, have a really good air con unit, so we experienced about the same temps as you indoors, and 2, went to the cinemas and saw Frozen (which as a cool 22C/71F indoors)... Surprisingly the cinemas weren't that crowded... (like they are in summer). Besides the record temperatures...

Actually I wonder how Time is doing in the heat?

Nope, just lying on the ground for 10 minutes in the sun. It was above 45C in the shade... Even for us it was hot.

Speaking of cold, anyone want to swap? (That's outside at 2pm today). PS. We don't need a hot water unit today, the water from the cold water pipes is piping hot... (We need to run it for a few minutes to get the cold water).

Replying to self... Have had F-Secure installed for just over 2 months and have removed it due to DNS client issues. From what I can tell, F-Secure hooks into the DNS client and on occasion will cause DNS lookups to fail for no apparent reason, but only for a single domain. eg, for 24 hours, my...

How is the premise flawed? He initially suspected the OCZ units were failing due to power loss, however through testing found the real root cause for their failure. He continued to test his initial suspicion on further units to ensure that they actually did what they were supposed to do... The...

Agree 100%, and most Enterprise targeted models already do... but most consumer orientated SSDs do not (eg the ones that most people purchase), all to save a few dollars per unit and/or to justify the higher price on enterprise models.

Having had more time more time to read the report over (and a few similar reports/papers on the IEEE/ACM websites), there appears to be a fundamental issue with some SSD designs, in that they make no guarantee that the underlying storage will remain consistent in the event of a power failure...

IIRC, Write cache was disabled, and Linux

Saw this on ./ , so thought others would be interested... Might explain a good number of data loss failures in SSDs that have been seen... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/27/208249/power-loss-protected-ssds-tested-only-intel-s3500-passes

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day PS. Apologies if I missed a holiday...

Nuking them from orbit is obviously the only way to be sure... But I think you certainly highlighted the points of failure... 1. Users with admin rights... 2. Code can execute from %AppData% (This is were Flash has read/write access to in it's default setting)... And this probably wasn't even...

@Merc, so where is the failure? 1. Yet another Flash exploit? 2. The web-browser sandbox didn't exist? Or was easily bypassed? 3. The user were running with admin privileges? (eg needed to create user accounts, registry modification (to avoid the login screen), install a JVM, start services). Or...

While I can't speak for others, my main desktop runs Solaris 11.1 and my netbook runs Arch Linux (32bit). Both of these systems in their default configurations have a very-very small attack surface... I also run Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery. The only plugin for Firefox I have...

Have you contacted AVG Technical support regarding your issues? I haven't used AVG for over 8 years, dropped it when memory/CPU resources requirements went silly there for a while. (It was at the same time, they introduced the safe-link scan in IE/Firefox that would download and scan content...

I hear Bora Bora is nice this time of year... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_Bora ) Everyone complains about Global Warming, yet few ever mention Nuclear Winter...

Sorry did miss the sarcasm I remember when the Amiga came out, that was drool worthy. (and some of my friends had Amiga 500s, and one even had an original model 2000, and later getting the 4000T).

I'm a little surprised, no Trash-80's, Amstrad CPC's, Acorn's, BBC Micro's, Amiga's? Or even shock, horror, a Macintosh. (later called the Macintosh 128K or Mac Classic).

And how much time did it actually run CP/M or even in it's native mode? (most C128 owners I know spent about 95% of their time in C64 mode).

Yes, Ikea, but avoid them... (at the ones we get in Oz are not the best).

Digging through some notes, the Amstrad PC3286 also had a SoundBlaster 2.0, and the HDD was a Miniscribe 8051A (40MB)... Thinking about HDDs in the old systems, I basically had: 1. 286 - Miniscribe 8051A 40MB, 2. Cyrix P120 - Maxtor 120MB (can't remember the exact model, but 100% sure it was a...

I was a good little geek yesterday, I stripped and cleaned my keyboard.... It's all nice and clean now... (and if I knew how bad it was before I started, I would have thrown it out and purchased a new one, it was that yucky).

Same, that and Civilization and Dune 2... sooo many lost hours...

Like Doug, my first "family" computer was a Commodore 64 with tape drive, later getting the floppy drive. What fun times those were, especially all the hours lost to F-15 Strike Eagle. Second "family" computer was an Amstrad PC-3286 (i286@16MHz, 1MB RAM, 40MB Type 17 HDD, 14" monitor) later...

FYI, rdesktop 1.8 and FreeRDP both support NLA...

Also, try FreeRDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRDP) as it supports newer RDP protocol features than rdesktop...

I use rdesktop with server '08 and server '12 quite a bit... All I did was make sure I was on the latest version... Otherwise check the security policy re RDP on the server, it may have something enabled that your client doesn't like. A quick google shows rdesktop is not installed by default on...

Umm... http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/11/1819227/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram

@Merc, very well said...