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that's some shit hot software 

Posted Monday 27th August 2007 08:51 GMT

Does it really work as well as it says it does? I suspect I'll never get the chance to use it and generally that kind of kit doesnt pop up on juarez.com :(

Double take 

Posted Monday 27th August 2007 19:42 GMT

"We're also often able to run out of memory, so we don't have the overhead of I/O from going to hard disks."

That sentence gave me a laugh - after I figured out what it was supposed to say. Having a double meaning is one thing, but having two completely opposite meanings is quite an accomplishment!

this won't work 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 01:50 GMT

there are reasons those applications are there

this won't be a picnic to maintain every month

more patched versions more problems without

the support of those applications you will have

a mess soon. You have to know your rooted to

reimage where is the security software not included

what else is borked you won't know till you fail

at some minor task and all hell breaks loose.

This is the road to madness try to understand

there are no unlikely events. I would also like

to remind you that just because you have 3

GB of possible programs to run doesn't really

have much to do with if your currently running

them or not and really won't mean much with

storage being cheaper than dirt.

RE: Double take 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 06:47 GMT

Oh it runs IN memory. Now I get it. Thanks Daniel.

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