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Warning to those of you who are not using a BIOS-level boot-loader:  Vista will refuse to run on Ultimate and Enterprise versions if you have a dual boot scenario, to the point that SP1 will reject the user’s system and not even install.  Wise move, Micro$oft. . . .

Usually I would link the slashdot article and summarize myself, but this says it all:

goombah99 writes “After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the year, Sun has recently released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL open source x86 Virtual Macine. It can host 32- or 64-bit Linux, Windows XP Vista and 98, OpenSolaris and DOS. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms. The download is just 27MB. A review of it on MacWorld, showing HD movies playing inside windows XP on a mac, demonstrates performance visually indistinguishable from VMware. Like its competition, it can run other OSes in rootless, rooted, or seemless modes display modes (where all the applications have their windows mixed at the same time). Each VM instance can only run single core (though I/O is multi-core), and it does not yet support advanced windows graphics libraries however, so some gamers may be disappointed. Slashdot discussed the InnoTek acquisition earlier.

/. link:

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/to/~3/350897852/article.pl

Learned how to make gyros and pasta salad today, the last 2 things on the menu. Now I get to learn how to be fast.

Character Name: The Space Kittens

Likes: Cheesecake, Fish, Milk, Vanilla Coke, Doritos
Hobbies: Hunting cheesecake, Flying in their UFO
Favorite video games: Legend of Zelda: Four Swords and Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures

The Space Kittens fly around in their UFO on an unknown mission. They recently crash landed on Earth, where Nekowabaka found them somewhere near Area 51. The Space Kittens are quite playful and they’ll often check out strange and unusual objects. No one knows which planet they came from.

http://www.nekowabaka.com/characters.html

http://www.nekowabaka.com/

I have re-enabled comments, because I think they are a good idea, and have put in place a couple hundred spam filters, so let’s see what this does.

Thank you for visiting.

:Orb

Ripped from /.:

Antiglobalism writes “Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath O’Driscoll in SCI’s Chemistry & Industry magazine published today.”

Alright.  Seems that defining the variables didn’t take care of the problem as I hoped it would.  So what I have done now is disable the warnings for uninitialized variables using:

no warnings ‘uninitialized’;

This makes the server respond to requests MUCH faster, not spitting out 850 warnings everytime a user pulls up the track list in their browser.  So far no ill-affects.  We’ll keep ya posted.

:Orb

I was getting the notice: “Use of uninitialized value in pattern match on line (121 and 127) in sorting.pm”

I attempted to solve the problem by defining the values $one and $two as follows:

my $one = “”;
my $two = “”;

I put these definitions on lines 54 and 55 of the sorting.pm file but I am still getting the notices (800 of them, which slows the beginning of the play down.  More to come as I continue to research this issue.

-Orb