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It's unfortunately also very CPU intensive which is a big problem for IRC networks which handle stupid numbers of connections at the same time.

Yes. Lego, computers, electronic bits and kits to make, chemistry set, things to take apart, piles of technical books plus my father was a major clone PC importer and manufacturer …

It's not all that bad now and wasn't when I was at school (in the UK). During my time, we had the Acorn BBC Micro to start with, then the Archimedes. These were both programmers dr…

Not particularly excited. After spending a number of years with embedded systems, my tolerance has faded a little. We tried the "follow the instructions" and no help thing to start…

I agree. The point was slightly sarcastic. However they're just the foundations on which you teach. Programming languages, tools and software packages are the important bits. Which…

I don't wish to hijack this thread but tying the Raspberry Pi to education is terrible if you ask me. I agreed about the Raspberry Pi being the best device for education right from…

Windows should be a part of School Education! MacOS should be a part of School Education! It's primitive tribalism. People should learn "computing" as part of a school education as…

I've had similar experiences with everything Samsung I've used apart from their SSDs. They just don't seem to put much engineering effort into their products. Acer knock out some g…

I thought that when I bought my Bravia EX but it's a pain in the ass. iPlayer is poorly maintained and it barely plays anything on a good day, the thing is impossibly slow for the …

They can start by starting again. EL is a stinking shitpile of horribleness and always has been. It's the result of the P&P team who obviously wrote the whole thing in a silo whils…

This isn't actually all that secret. It's been published for over 4 years before it even managed a test flight. Having worked in that sector, the interesting shit is always what yo…

Politics, politics, politics. Like the last 50 decades at least...

Not really. They barely support it, it's half integrated into RPM and is impossibly difficult to persuade a lot of stuff to work with it due to system dependencies on certain jars.…

Yeah agree. Not going past the T420!

No. I complain that Red Hat support a bastardised version of Java (and Eclipse) that ships with their OS meaning that for the sake of sanity you have to deal with Oracle and RH to …

Well I'm stockpiling T-series ThinkPads :)

That really doesn't surprise me. I was given a brand new Sony Vaio VPC-J1 all in one. Had a niceish 20" 1920x1080 screen and an i5 so decided to try and use it for dev work. Came s…

A million times this. We had a small division of our company using Basecamp for a bit but it got canned after some changes and they went crawling back to Salesforce. It stinks but …

You're right. But Windows has CLR which is integrated in Microsoft's support offerings.

There are no supported versions by RedHat other than that which ships with the OS distribution. To get a recent JDK we then have to deal with Oracle as well and the cost goes right…

Depends on what you mean by data. Google/Facebook mean social and crudely document shaped data. Wikipedia means data that looks like encylopedia pages. Microsoft mean ANY data you …

Actually no. We get 13-14 years out of Microsoft offerings which is enough lead time for test, provisioning and an 8-10 year lifecycle. Plus due to overlap we have enough time to t…

Not suggesting Bing. I'm only suggesting "not Google". Times change. Google's core business doesn't.

Yes because it is instantly replaceable with nothing more than a meh on the part of the user.

I did the opposite. I was a Unix/netware guy for years. Netware fell off a cliff and so did commercial Unix. Left me with Linux and FreeBSD. Whilst I rather like FreeBSD, when I ha…