Archive For February 6th, 2004

Linux 2.6 again!

Yay! I’m in Linux 2.6 land again. I couldn’t use it on my last PC as it would freeze for some reason (the machine wouldn’t shut down properly either when using 2.4 so blame the h/w somewhere!) Anyway, this article apparently is all about how fast 2.6 is, I haven’t read it, but it’s an [...]

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NZ – the source of your news?

It seems that when Americans want breaking news coverage they go east, all the way to New Zealand. (Of course it could be west as well, but run with it and humour me!) When Janet Jackson revealed (almost) all, Internet traffic to some of New Zealand’s online newspapers increased rapidly, the majority of it coming [...]

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Computer Science, what is it?

A long thread on Computer Science was started by Niall O Broin earlier today. It went through the usual arguments about what constituted CS and what was important. Some argued that low lever languages were a waste of time as most developers won’t ever touch that aspect of programming, but I tend to agree with [...]

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*grrr* more on hard disk failures

This timely /. article discusses a reason why several Fujitsu drives broke down in the last year. They used a different flame retardent compound in the controller chips! Doesn’t make the loss of my photos any easier to take however.

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