tankenmate

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1801.
by tankenmate 16y ago
The problem here is that there is 20+ years of acquired "state" that allows this to happen. Also, think of the hiring process, weeding out potential programmers with "bad" "state"; i.e. they are crap programmers. If you want a machine with
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Hidden Debug Mode in AMD Processors(hardware.slashdot.org)
40 points by tankenmate 16y ago|7 comments
1803.
by tankenmate 16y ago
I would suggest that he should start out at a bare minimum of £150 a day, especially if he has web sites that he has done before that are public facing (i.e. he can demonstrate his work). It is easier to lower prices than to raise them. A s
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War-hit countries 'most corrupt'; US drops down the list(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tankenmate 16y ago|0 comments
1805.
by tankenmate 16y ago
Two points; 1) Most distributions will have patches for this in short order, so unless your customers are running on unsupported versions they will be fine once they update. If the aren't on supported versions, if you roll your own version,
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A Cell-Phone Network without a License(technologyreview.com)
6 points by tankenmate 16y ago|0 comments
1807.
Baby boomers to make the ultimate fix for future economic woes?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tankenmate 16y ago|0 comments
1808.
May the SandForce be with you(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by tankenmate 16y ago|0 comments
1809.
Will Atomic powered ships open up the Arctic?(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by tankenmate 16y ago|0 comments
1810.
by tankenmate 16y ago
They got the account details from BSkyB via a lawsuit. The problem is that BSkyB sent the details encrypted, but the problem seems to be that ACS:Law didn't encrypt it when they saved it to disk. Hence break in equals disclosure...
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Adult video-sharing list leaked from law firm(bbc.co.uk)
30 points by tankenmate 16y ago|14 comments
1812.
by tankenmate 16y ago
I guess I didn't elucidate my ideas properly. My point was _if_ you wanted to write an asm OS and learn from it, following in the steps of the masters might be more productive and enlightening. The PDP11 is sufficiently different from moder
1813.
by tankenmate 16y ago
Wow, from the queue presentation this OS looks even less usable than DOS (MS aka Q). Why would the CLI terminate when it runs a programme? How do you run more than one programme at once? If each core polls the run queue does that mean that
1814.
by tankenmate 16y ago
If you go with the weights on the floor model, then barrkel's comment a few below is correct.
1815.
by tankenmate 16y ago
I'm with Rider, if you view it as a "classic" physics class problem, ie weightless ropes and pulleys (and hence no angular inertia for the pulleys, and no inertia due to the ropes), and no friction, weight A would rise even without pulling