* Posts by Vonga

6 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jan 2009

Rogue sysadmin sues SF for $3m

Vonga

$1m for 7 months wages & benefits?

have to hope his employer had signed off on all of the benefits he was accustomed to...

Jacqui Smith cracks down on gangs via computers, closets

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Unhappy

Great idea!

It's about time that there were consequences for threatening someone with violence!

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oh, I see, it was already an offense under many statutes? hmmm, forget I spoke

Yes! It's the cardboard PC!

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Oh dear. Another designer who bunked off the physics class

So corrugated cardboard will help with ventillation? Only in the same way double glazing does - it's a few mm of air trapped in a long rough-sided tube. Go ask a tramp what they prefer for a winter night's doss: plastic sheeting or sturdy corrugated cardboard box.

And by the time you've dosed it with enough fire retardent & stiffening it'll probably be 100% unrecyclable too.

Exploding core counts: Heading for the buffers

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>> operating systems have an eight-bit field

"This can be changed, of course, but it has to be changed and it most likely will not be done as a patch to existing operating systems running in the data centers of the world."

So with the number of cores around 8 now & doubling every 2 years, we've got a decade to hit that limit. Nah, no chance of an OS patch in that timeframe...

Please Mr Gartner, can I get paid for this sort of shrewd analysis? If you fly me business class I promise to glean all the wisdom of the inflight mags enroute.

Spam volumes increase to pre-McColo takedown levels

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Spammers not getting replies or bounces?

Since when did they want either? Whenever I open a spam it either has a link in it or a dodgy binary; for the latter kind I guess the last thing they'd want is any obvious return-path to the puppeteer.

Steve Jobs dismisses death rumours

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@JS - he's just bulking up for the deathmatch with Steve B

Cage fight, with one chair each