Posts by Laurent Somers
8 posts • joined Friday 6th June 2008 12:16 GMT
I *downgraded* to 4.6(iirc) to avoid the memory bloat
It's astonishing to see how bloated skype has become, memory- and resource-wise and how they keep on piling unnecessaryand untelated features.
Posted in Will Google regret the mega data center?
Google doesn't have *one* mega data center
Seems to me Google is doing *exactly* that, by having 40 datacenters, and not 1. Their datacenter-in-a-box is probably another tool in their strategy.
Divide, and conquer.
Would she have seen the cone?
Just wondering ...
You forgot to link the gay necrophiliac mallard duck article on El Reg!
Kees Moeliker's paper "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard anas platyrhynchos" ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/09/gay_duck_honour/
Posted in Intel's future Xeons to share sockets
Moving the memory controller off the CPU chip?
I'm curious, what do you think is the logic behind that move? I could imagine it might perhaps be advantageous for gaming machines, but for servers...?
Posted in Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered
Arctic ice vs. Arctic SEA Ice
Not quite the same thing, and the article seems to confuse the two.
Posted in EMC adds Mozy lifesaver to Iomega drives
Er, those without the IOMega drive and Retrospect can get it gratis, too
http://mozy.com/home
Free 2 gigs for home use. Quite handy, actually. I'd feel a bit sheepish if I'd buy the drive based on those factors only to find half of the bundle is free for anyone, no purchase required.
Paris, because, this sounds a wee stupid.
Posted in Dell's wee Eee-alike loses some keys
My money's on the Acer
My main gripes with the EEE were the awkward keyboard and the too narrow screen/resolution.
The Acer seems to fix both issues and at a better price, to boot.
The EEE's getting a wEEE too expensive.
