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Misc Slashdot Anniversary: Nashville, TN, US 2

Submitted by wduffee on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:44PM

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Comment Cancelling (Score 1) 1

by wduffee on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:22PM (#41697129) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Asheville, NC, US

Hello everyone,

I think the expected turnout is low, let's go on and cancel this one. Maybe we'll get together in 10 years!

Misc Slashdot Anniversary: Asheville, NC, US 1

Submitted by wduffee on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @03:27PM

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What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? 310

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:07PM from the does-soda-count-as-a-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a free software developer; I maintain one relatively simple project written in C, targeted at end users, but I feel that I could contribute something more to the FLOSS community than my project. Instead of focusing on another project targeted at end users, I thought that I could spend my time working on something FLOSS developers need ('Developers, developers, developers, developers!'). The question is: what more do FLOSS developers need from existing development tools? What would attract new developers to existing FLOSS development tools? Which existing development tools need more attention? I can contribute code in C, Python and bash, but I can also write documentation, do testing and translate to my native language. Any hints?"

Comment Achewood was rather forward looking (Score 1) 313

by wduffee on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @03:20PM (#28626933) Attached to: Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?

From August 28 2006: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08282006

Anyone else read this comic?

Submission + - All Solid State Drives Suffer Performance Drop-off (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:12PM

Lucas123 writes: "The recent revelation that Intel's consumer X25-M solid state drive had a firmware bug that drastically affected its performance lead Computerworld to question whether all SSDs can suffer performance degradation due to fragmentation issues. It seems vendors are well aware that the specifications they list on drive packaging represent burst speeds when only sequential writes are being recorded, but after use performance drops markedly over time. The drives with better controllers tend to level out, but others appear to be able to suffer performance problems. Still not fully baked are benchmarking standards that are expected out later this year from several industry organizations that will eventually compel manufacturers to list actual performance with regard to sequential and random reads and writes as well as the drive's expected lifespan under typical conditions."

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