Recent content by jardows

Or, the ARM ISA has limits to scalability, and incrementally improving the performance without drastically increasing cost or power usage is much harder than it is with AM64 ISA, meaning that Apple got most of the low-hanging fruit with the M1, and there just isn't room without a drastic...

Someone who wants to learn really should stay with major or base systems. If you want easy - Ubuntu If you want to learn for professional use - Fedora/RedHat (or SUSE if you live in Germany) If you want to learn the inner workings of a Linux distribution - Slackware If you want to learn how an...

Just remember "Net Neutrality" is not "net neutrality."

It's good, but make sure you do all the side quests, as the main quest/story is way too short. Definitely worth $7 though!

That's a pretty big risk to take for a potential product. If the AppleVR is designed to be working with the Apple ecosystem, then this all makes sense. But there is no Apple ecosystem for VR, and may never be one. Would Apple invest heavily in a system that is used to develop products that...

Wow, some people need to go get a sense of humor.

Pfft. Youngsters. I remember when you didn't even need a fan or a heatsink to cool your CPU! This is a real problem with modern technology though, and shows that lack of low-level innovation for performance. The only thing that really is going on lately is throwing more electricity at the...

Thanks for the glabels tip. I've been looking for a program like that for a while.

May have to give this a try. Lots of old pictures taken on cheap 35mm cameras that could definitely use some touchup. It's available as a port for FreeBSD, though currently at a slightly older version (1.1.2). It doesn't look like it would be too hard to manually install or update the existing...

Honestly, how many times are users needing to utilize a CPU warranty? I've been working in computer repair for over 25 years, and can only think of one or two genuinely failing CPUs I've encountered. I'd say, if you don't break your CPU with the process, don't sweat it.

When it comes to the performance, wow is really the only appropriate word. If these really do sell for the ~30 euro mentioned in the article, it will be hard to purchase any of the other fans. Looking specifically at the comparison to the Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM, the Alphacool gets up to about...

I would ask first, what are you wanting to accomplish by encrypting the folders? Whole drive encryption tools like bitlocker protect against physical access to the hard drive. It does not protect against remote attacks. If you are logged into the computer, anyone who has access to your...

Do you need to run Ubuntu? If you are set on using ZFS, with 14.0 about to release, it might be worth looking into switching to FreeBSD, since it has full native support of ZFS.

All that uproar about an insider build. I mean, that's what insider builds are for - to try out new features and sometimes radical changes, and get feedback. The feedback was quite negative to the changes, so Microsoft reverted them. Seems like the system is working as it is meant to here...

I've been building and maintaining a Linux boot utility USB drive for our Helpdesk office for a couple of years, using Ubuntu as a base. I really don't like Ubuntu for multiple reasons, and would like to find a good alternative. We use the utility drive primarily for data recovery, drive...