After takin' a swig o' grog, unix_fan belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> You can't believe what a joy it was to see the DVD light on solid, rather
> than the stumbling sometimes on, sometimes off that happened under Linux.

Hey, here's a guy who glories in small data buffers!

> Some details to the task/test:
>
> The Linux test was from my desktop which has SuSE 10 running on an
> approximately 1GHz cpu and about 256 MB memory.

Ha aha hah ha ha !

> The Solaris (10) test was from my laptop with about a 1 GHz cpu and about
> 512 MB memory.

> I also have Linux on my USB disk (which is much less graceful than the
> Solaris instance, because I haven't gone through the trouble of creating
> an initrd file for it yet, so I have to boot Linux by first starting a CD
> install and then aborting it. Solaris doesn't seem to have any special
> problem booting from the USB disk (except for the day I lost because it
> never occurred to me that it matters what USB socket you plug it into!!))

Nor does he know how to rebuild a kernel with his USB disk support
included at boot time.

> In an attempt to isolate things a bit - frustrated and angry after the 36
> hour wait - and before I tried with Solaris - I did the decompress first
> and then ran the cpio separately under Linux booted from the USB onto my
> laptop. Maybe it was something about my desktop configuration.
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't get the time data, because after again about 36
> hours of chugging away, the job descended into a hang and had to be power
> cycled.

This is about the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard a troll
state.

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.