Posts by Kaal Alexander Rosser
9 posts • joined Wednesday 17th October 2007 13:56 GMT
We apologise for the inconvenience...
I guess he'll take up the story from where it finishes in the radio adaptation of Mostly Harmless. In order to be not quite so depressing, the ending changed - or, at least, extended... It was a bit deus ex machina, but it was a happier ending.
I'm in two minds about whether this is a good idea, I'm even more ambivalent about the choice of author (never read the Artemis Fowl books as they never appealed) but as I'm sure they'll go ahead despite the fan-base's reservations I'll reserve judgement until the piece is produced.
I just hope that they don't end up having to release a statement, post-publication, along the lines of the title...
Posted in El Reg salutes ultimate shed anthem
Well it's worked on me!
I'm definitely getting a shed from there now!
@Those asking if SCO can file for bankruptcy...
They did that just at the end of the last part of the Kimball trial (August last year). They're in Chapter 11 and have been very effectively spending Novell's money since then.
The bankruptcy court will determine how much of that 2.5m SCO will actually have to pay Novell and it's other creditors. There's a whole timeline & much comment on groklaw.net which is well worth a read if you want a factual round up of the whole shebang.
@Matt
I assume that with the decrease in disk image comes a decreased memory footprint as the OS/App will not be loading tonnes of redundant drivers/apps/modules into RAM. That is incredibly useful in the virtualisation arena; even on normal bare-tin boxes it'll mean the whole thing being more efficient.
That's the way I see it. From the blurb it also seems that it can deliver a defined subset of functionality to a particular server/blade/VM which would mean being able to run up a migration environment from the old bare-tin an app was on to a VM. Damned handy that.
Assuming the blurb is accurate. ;)
@Gregg Bond/kain preacher
Kelvin is an absolute scale. You don't talk about 'N degrees Kelvin', it's just 'N Kelvin'.
Posted in El Reg collectible pops up on eBay
@John Lettice
"So in principle I could find it and rebuild it. (-:"
Well, get to it, man! An eager public awaits!
The, er, full length leather, thank you so much...
FAST also exists...
@Dale Morgan: Yes there's a FACT, but there's also a FAST: http://www.fast.org.uk/
Posted in LHC@home gets new home
Migrated a little while ago...
LHC@Home moved to QMUL back in May but hasn't had any where near the amount of work units for many people. There's been quite a bit of controversy over the last few months down to lack of WUs and yet more at the moment due to the throttling of WUs. The website for the BOINC project is: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
