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I've actually played with KVM, Vmware and Virtualbox before I built my last system, to see how each worked.

The command line junky in me loved KVM and could live with Virtualbox. I hated vmware on that account, at least on the products I could try then. But in the end, the one thing that impressed me the most about KVM was the number on my UPS that indicated energy usage in Watts.

KVM was easilly the most awesome one on that account. On the same machine, at idle, the machine would consume a consistant 20 watts less energy then with either of the other 2, making it drain 115W instead of 135W with the other 2.

Doing a performance benchmark in the VMs afterward showed the footprint of the virtualisation layer was also very different. KVM would cause around 5% overhead and was extremely consistent, compared to between 8% and 15% with the other 2, with a lot of fluctuation, not always for obvious reasons, or any I could find really.

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Karma

I must admit, seeing microsoft complaining about secret API that aren't documents and not made available to competitors as such a sweet smell of karma it's hard to resist. I'm sure the people who worked at netscape or Corelin the 90s are having a fit of laughter right now.

As was pointed out earlier, any credibility the Ambassador add vanished the instant he said anything about the Lannisters. After all, claiming moral high ground in this way means condoning stealing of power (the crown), murder, rape, child abuse ( poor Sansa ) and a host of other wrongs.

O wait, he works for the entertainment industry. That's normal then I guess.

Soooo, let me get this strait. It only works on 32bit windows 7 installs. Wow ... that's like 1% of machines or something? Probably less actually. I'd say it's useless, but there will be like 10 people in the world who will both have a use for it and actually get to know about it, so not 100% useless ...

" Instead, these types of laws are designed to give prosecutors a strong negotiation position with which to threaten suspects and avoid all the expense and hassle of actually holding trials."

So let me get this strait. It's too much trouble to find out if HE ACTUALLY DID IT, so let's just make him so scare shitless his life is over, regardless of actual guild, that he admits to having done it. Last time I checked, that's called torture.

Over the pond in the cold north

Here in Canada, this was a huge problem a while back., as there wasn't even a limit to the term of the contract and it got abused badly. Here is how it was fixed.

1: Fixed term contracts are now more or less a thing of the past. The operator is flat out no longer allowed to lock you in.

2: IF they finance the phone for you, they have to be upfront about how much it the phone costs and how much of it is payed each month on your bill, as well as letting you know what the balance on said phone is. They are not allowed to charge interests on this I believe. (My provider doesn't anyway)

3: If you decide to walk out, you have to pay off the rest of your phone and they have to give you a way to unlock it so you can use it on another carrier.

Paris, cause she as no fixed contract.

What do you mean?

"I have to be responsible for the consequences of the work I did? What am I, a salary worker???"

What struck me is this. How can they tell what hum is what?

Let's have a look at my own home computer. It's connected to a cheap UPS, is connected to the television and the sound system. Now imagine all those slightly out of phase 60 Hz frequencies all fudging together and trying to figure out what is what? How about taking into consideration the slight differences in frequency that might arrise in the CPU as I record ? Or how about a cheap recorder that doesn't work exactly 100% correctly as far as recording actual frequencies. Not enough to be distinguishable by human ears, but enough that they might not even keep it accuratly compared to themselves. Think cheap clock that isn't 100% stable in a digital recorder.

That's more like trying to tell who died and when by looking at the blood patterns in sea waves if you ask me. Or maybe they just believe the bullshit the guy with the fat commission told them.

WHAT!!!!!

You mean the stars and the moon aren't just images printed on the giant glass dome around the earth??? I'm all confused now ...

Soooo this is pretty much another idiot with an overly broad/non-original patent trying to sue the world plus dog?

I really hope one of those days, those people get what they deserve ...

Not sure what's worst

That the admin panel was real and not properly secured or that a mock-up somehow made it's way into production. Both show an equally bad capability of handling a live, open to the public, system.

Ah Oracle

Quite right to say they dumped it on Apache. It was rather hard for them to figure out what to do with it and having tried to turn it into a free money machine and failed, they found someone to throw it at. No one, ever, wants to have Oracle making decisions on a project they make, if only because that's like letting a blind idiot help you cross the street.

Libreoffice is the rightfull sucessor to OpenOffice.org

The new openoffice is just another Oracle poisoned product.

I don't know about China, but here ...

the problem isn't the law prohibiting people from talking/texting while driving. It's that it's not enforced. Just driving to the supermarket I will be lucky if I don't cross 2 or 3 drivers talking on the cell, even when it's perfectly illegal. See a cop along the way? They are more likely to bust you for a tal light then cellphone.

As for texting ... words just fail me, so I'll settle for a nuclear explosion.

Makes you wonder if the efforts of Steam to bring games out of Windows and onto a more open platform won't kill the last thing that keps it on a lot of home PCs, gaming ...

Minimum IT knowledge for El'Reg?

"The NAS could then either be accessed online via a password-protected HTML IP address"

What's an HTML IP address exactly? And here I was sure that elreg had writers that at least had a basic grasp of IT.