mikemol

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   by mikemol 16y ago

   Hm. For truly niche software, I suppose I can see that, but for anything with more than even a few hundred customers, I don't think it'd last. Someone (like me, for example) would smell an opportunity and sell for less. I suppose it's not a
2. 62.▲
   by mikemol 16y ago

   Wouldn't that only work until a competitor with a sufficient product crops up with a cost+ price?
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   by mikemol 16y ago

   It's the mode switch that's frustrating. It interrupts my concentration when I discover I need the mouse, when all I'm trying to do is code. I use a mouse when I have to, but I'd probably use it more if I could get one of those nubbin-mice
4. 64.▲
   by mikemol 16y ago

   You're thinking of 2nd Gig.
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   by mikemol 16y ago

   It's very much a case-by-case thing. On my quad-core Phenom 9650, with 8GB of RAM, I tried building FFMPEG using -j1 through -j10. Build times dropped until I got to -j9, which meant that, for my system, the fastest build occured when I ra
6. 66.▲
   by mikemol 16y ago

   It helps that they lock in sweet contracts with DSL providers like SBC to provide email services.
7. 67.▲
   by mikemol 16y ago

   And much appreciated. I don't know when I'd have had the stones to switch to VPS (I still don't think of myself as a sysadmin all that much) if you hadn't helped us jump over to Slicehost. I've got a 2GB RAM node over at prgmr.com, now; mor