* Posts by Matt C.

2 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2011

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

Matt C.

Especially dangerous in modern systems...

... that use flash rather than true ROM for their BIOS.

And systems that have knowledge of that fact, along with a full driver implementation of said flash IC, will quite happily delete their BIOS if you ask them to.

As a friend of mine found out whilst working on an embedded system.

Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons

Matt C.
Unhappy

Stil no 64 bit Windows release

Come on Mozilla... Pull your finger out. 64 bit is here and it's real. We've got Flash, and everything else I need. There is a real performance benefit (at least on my setup) but still, I'm forced to use a Nightly build. There's nothing particularly wrong with Nightly, but it's not an official build.

Really, with this new faster release cycle, I was hoping for a 64 bit Windows release by now.