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In Formula 1 the FIA (rule-makers and enforcers) often seem to give penalties to ensure the title fight goes to the last race.

Hamilton in Spa 2008 and Alonso in Monza 2006 are examples which come to mind.

Pretty cool, but it needs the ability to pitch up/down to be useful.

Too late for me - I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 instead of an HTC Sensation precisely because of the locked bootloader.

mmap is how the Varnish web cache works - the cache files is mmaped in, and the kernel does the rest.

Given the awesome performance of Varnish, I am surprised more applications haven't taken this approach.

In the UK the liability of directors is limited to the nominal value originally invested (usually £100).

Manchester/Warrington borders here (Birchwood). Cheap office space + quick train journey to the centre of Manchester.

TLDR; It's marginally faster than the Boxster architecture, but slower than the Carrera architecture.

And no doubt the phishers are already cooking up emails to this effect too...

Interested to compare to http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3252277/demand-for-tech-staff-high... which suggests that the number of IT jobs in the UK is growing, and that growth will accelerate over the next year.

Rewards cards cost more to process. As I understand it though Mastercard and Visa T&Cs mean that if you either accept all cards or none.

Python 2.6. Also PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.

Nope, the CSS contains

-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; /* Stops the iPhone scalling type up */

which has the unfortunate side-effect of preventing text resize in webkit browsers.

Typing this on an 1810TZ and I agree. 3GB of RAM, reasonable processor, 1366x768 native resolution, 6-8 hours battery life depending on usage. Cost me £330, although I've swapped out the HD for an 80GB Intel X25M SSD which cost an extra £130 or so.

I use this as my primary machine, plugged into a 24" 1920x1200 monitor and a USB keyboard/mouse on my desk. It's easily fast enough for what I need.

I've worked on several servers of similar specs to this (64GB RAM, MySQL 5.0 or 5.1) and have never seen this issue.

All systems were running RHEL or CentOS, so perhaps Red Hat have fixed the problem.

You could if you put your money in Icelandic banks ;)

Who benefits from IE9 being available for other platforms?

Not users. What would the ability to run IE9 add to the Linux or Mac desktop? Another web browser? Do we really need one?

Not Microsoft, who would have to invest massive amounts of effort into porting it, and large parts of the Windows codebase too.

Honestly, I wonder if the author of this article was deliberately trying to think of something to criticise about IE9, and this was the best he could do.

For non-web developers who use non-Windows operating systems, IE9 is an irrelevance. For web developers who use any operating system, IE9 has to be a good thing, because it means more browsers out there that are closer to the standards.

Anyone got any ideas why the strangely specific size of 613MB RAM?

Anyone got any ideas why the strangely specific 613MB of RAM?

Yup, thenine.ca is blocking coral cache for .mp3 :(

Great, except for when your users DNS resolvers cache the DNS entry longer than they're supposed to (many resolvers ignore TTL), and are unable to reach your site.

I run a company that provides sysadmin consultancy, and we deal with problems like this on a pretty regular basis. We're not on your continent, but would still be happy to help.

http://bashton.com/

I very much doubt it would be possible to resolve the problem without actually logging onto the server and looking at what's happening.

I don't have Windows, but use KeePassX and KeePassDroid to share the password DB between Linux and my Android phone (via Dropbox) and it works great.

This doesn't sound like a loan to me - it sounds like a contract where the party buying equity is given priority on dividend payments, which as I understand it is reasonably common.

Of course, the money not actually appearing is a different matter.

We're currently using entp's tenderapp, and I'm not particularly impressed so I'll definitely be giving you a try.

Some of the problems we've had with tenderapp:

  * Customer's emails getting flagged as spam even though spam checking was supposed to be disabled
  * Customer's email just 'vanishing' (I've been unable to verify this one, on account of there being no traces of the emails whatsoever)
  * Attachments not working
  * Attachments taking forever to be acceessible when they are working

I think a per support staff user charge is a good idea - it's simple and straightforward.

Also they're using non-ECC RAM (the processors they use don't even support ECC), which is much cheaper and also a very bad idea for anything you care about. Data corruption isn't fun, especially when it's subtle and has existed long enough for even your 90 day old backups to have it.

I didn't find this at all. Plugged optical out on the motherboard into the optical in on the amp, set mythtv to let the amp decode dd/dts itself and everything worked fine.

I agree, nginx seems completely superfluous here. Actually, it's worse than superfluous - the way it's configured, nginx seems to be caching dynamic files but never expiring them.

A reasonable summary, but one that demonstrates some misunderstandings of the Linux world. To deal with the issues point by point:

* FreeBSD has better performance than Linux? This is, as you almost concede, no longer true.

* Lack of kernel modules an advantage? Hardly. Linux loadable kernel modules produce no extra performance overhead, but make life a lot simpler for everyone. The only extra 'bloat' is having ~100MB of drivers of which you probably only need 10% or so. If this an issue for you (ie, you're running an embedded system) you can of course cut down the modules to only those required, or even compile into the kernel just as with FreeBSD.

* The GCC compiler and toolchain aren't optimal, and I fully expect a major Linux distribution to switch to Clang/LLVM in the not too distant future. If this is a success (and I expect it to be), I wouldn't be at all surprised to see most/all Linux distros switch. This isn't a Linux vs FreeBSD issue, this is GCC vs Clang/LLVM - a battle I believe Clang/LLVM will win.

* As far as I'm aware TrustedBSD offers no more features than SELinux, and the Linux ACL system, but maybe I'm showing my lack of BSD knowledge here.

* Xen and VMWare virtualization is there but not 100% in FreeBSD. They're rock solid on Linux, which also has KVM, a very viable alternative to the two.

* The development branch/stable kernel approach is irrelevant - people don't use Linux, they use a Linux distribution (OK, OK, a GNU/Linux disitribution :)). In most distributions point releases are binary and API compatible with .0 releases (RHEL 5.5 binaries are guaranteed to run on RHEL 5.0).

In conclusion, is FreeBSD good? Undoubtedly. Is it better than Linux? It's hard to make a case for that. It has less device support, less software support and a massively smaller user base.

FreeBSD is nice to tinker with, but it doesn't offer enough benefits to justify putting production software on it. It's great to learn about the old school UNIX way of doing things, but that's not what I want to be doing on a live server.

Red Hat concentrated on the enterprise. They certainly haven't abandoned it - they bought Qumranet as much for their desktop virtualization solution as the KVM technology.

These numbers show that Red Hat did the right thing too - they're a highly profitable company, and they're bringing massive value to the community. I really don't understand why you seem so aggrieved at a company which contributes so much.

No, I've altered DNS and seen many thousands of connections continuing from these providers even after low value (300) TTL records have been changed several hours previously. I've observed this on a number of occasions.

In the case of Virgin Media, they have transparent proxy caching on some parts of the network I believe, so it's possible this caching was happening there rather than on the DNS servers themselves.