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I have personal dislikes of Ramsay (I'm a fucking vegan) but, shit, he can do the business when it comes to shifting food. His advice always seems kind of obvious once you've heard…

Moore's law doesn't say anything about speed or power. It says manufacturing costs will lower from technological improvements such that the transistor count in an IC will double ev…

there are other models http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread

n.b. : I hit reply on the wrong post and only noticed after hitting submit While not doomed, if you have the poor primitives you will have a bad time. All the talk if it being so h…

It's only hard if you have the wrong primitives http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread

Are you sure ? "I just went to google for news and nothing from any of the News International outlets was there, I'm off to Bing!"

Shoplifting

whereby advanced means basic

There's only one thing to say "Into the eyes, not around the eyes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZ2bdnG97A

no need to bloat the shell echo stop > /proc/$pid/ctl echo start > /proc/$pid/ctl

bash is an awful shell. Significant whitespace, multiple ways of doing the same thing, 3 levels of nested escapes, horrific bloat (how often do you do binary arithmetic ?). It is a…

bash <- there's your problem

> While XP ... is relatively weak in ... security, networking and other features more important today than when XP was designed around 1999. Yeah, when I was installing Novell netw…

All Hail Linux Package Management - as though FreeBSD /usr/ports was never invented

> What's in the core of a unix system is pretty much what needs to be there. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=linux+bloat

It gets plenty of attention. IBM runs it on Blue Gene. LANL run it on their cluster. There's about 50 active posters to the 9fans mailing list. Features are regularly poorly copied…

I'm holding out for these : http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/09/16/ARMCortexA9SMPDe...

exec /usr/local/plan9/bin/rc

That's partly my fault, when I was a wee lad fiddling with display computers in shops was a Saturday hobby. As time went by it got harder and harder to fuck with them. Changing the…

> didn’t leave until three hours later—after spending $1,053.88 Yeah, I needed one of those pointlessly notched USB extension cables too, as the one on the kb is 6" long and the no…

threat by headline

oh it was in his rectum, I thought the had been really creative and opened up his abdomen and sewn him back up. We are one step closer to the bombdogs http://www.youtube.com/watch?…

the answer is Walk

cripple fight!

Does plan9 support 15 different archs with all of their quirks and subarchitectures? no. only 11 WiFi stack? yes, and bluetooth Support for different power modes? yes, I think so, …