jmusits - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Benchmarks (Score 1) 487

by jmusits on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @02:19PM (#37987950) Attached to: In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop

As for stability, I can't find any definite stats on this. Personally, haven't seen a Linux crash since 1997, and that's a pretty damn long time.

You're doin it wrong. :^)

Comment Re:Why not... (Score 1) 526

by jmusits on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:39PM (#37864166) Attached to: Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source

From what I understand (I haven't looked at the source yet) is that the main difference between ALAC and FLAC is the byte order, which makes it cheaper to hardware decode ALAC. This probably made more of a difference 10 years ago when the processing power on iPods was lower.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 4, Informative) 175

by jmusits on Monday December 01, 2008 @03:20PM (#25949435) Attached to: MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par

.... Things like "SHOW TABLES" are either considerably more difficult in Postgres or harder to find out. ....

More difficult? Harder to find out? Consult help by typing \? and you will see this:
[snip]
Informational
\d [NAME] describe table, index, sequence, or view
\d{t|i|s|v|S} [PATTERN] (add "+" for more detail)
list tables/indexes/sequences/views/system tables
[snip]

Then type \dt to show the tables. To me that does not present it seld as more difficult or hard to find out.

10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked 359

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @11:01AM from the replace-all-leds-with-cfls dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld examines 10 power-saving assumptions IT has been operating under in its quest to rein in energy costs vs. the permanent energy crisis. Under scrutiny, most such assumptions wither. From true CPU efficiency, to the life span effect of power-down frequency on servers, to SSD power consumption, to switching to DC in the datacenter, get the facts before setting your IT energy strategy."

Marvin Minsky On AI 231

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:18AM from the dreaming-of-electric-sheep dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a three-part Dr. Dobbs podcast, AI pioneer and MIT professor Marvin Minsky examines the failures of AI research and lays out directions for future developments in the field. In part 1, 'It's 2001. Where's HAL?' he looks at the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence. In part 2 and in part 3 he offers hope that real progress is in the offing. With this talk from Minsky, Congressional testimony on the digital future from Tim Berners-Lee, life-extension evangelization from Ray Kurzweil, and Stephen Hawking planning to go into space, it seems like we may be on the verge of another AI or future-science bubble."

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