Alter_3d - Slashdot User

Comment Re:migration paths per distribution (Score 1) 77

by Alter_3d on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:41AM (#53139107) Attached to: Linux Kernel 4.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.8

What command do I use to upgrade the kernel? I use Windows Vista. Thanks

Comment Re:Corporate focus is wrong... (Score 1) 114

by Alter_3d on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:23PM (#52099359) Attached to: Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead

Google is your friend.

http://www.carbontesla.com/201...

Of course, i am not responsible for lost data, emoticons, spyware or your phone playing Justin Bieber nonstop. Use at your own risk.

Comment Re:Bad (Score 1) 48

by Alter_3d on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:29PM (#51718969) Attached to: Millions of Android Devices Vulnerable To New Stagefright Exploit

I believe that this has been repeated incessantly, but if you want complete freedom over your phone, get a Nexus.Samsung phones are great for average users, but thats it.

Comment Re:For once I agree (Score 1) 267

by Alter_3d on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:51PM (#50918125) Attached to: Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes

I don't have any mod points so I will just say thank you. I hate video autoplay but never thought to google a way to disable it.

Comment Re:Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? (Score 1) 136

by Alter_3d on Thursday February 26, 2015 @07:09PM (#49142577) Attached to: Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're welcome

Comment Re:I remember Doom 3. (Score 1) 108

by Alter_3d on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:40PM (#46291105) Attached to: New <em>DOOM</em> Game Not Dead: Beta Comes With <em>Wolfenstein</em> Pre-Order

that was completely intentional.. the goal was to build mood and suspense through the lack of visibility.. they accomplished this. things like the 'duct-tape' mod kind of ruined the atmosphere :(

If that is the case, then why did they made the "duct tape" permanent in the BFG Edition?. I think there are better ways to create suspense.

Comment Re:This is why (Score 1) 234

by Alter_3d on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:20PM (#45577473) Attached to: Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders

Fucking cats are illegal in most states Not true

Meeeoooowwwwhooooosh!

Comment What? (Score 1) 136

by Alter_3d on Thursday September 12, 2013 @06:55PM (#44835491) Attached to: First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature

No car analogy?

Comment Re:From the ashes into the fire? (Score 4, Interesting) 253

by Alter_3d on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:25AM (#44519983) Attached to: Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook

Unless of course, they keep running with their blinders on.

Like refusing to reinstate the start menu on Windows 8.1 and forcing that metro crap instead of listening to their customers?

Comment Re:win8 and UEFI (Score 1) 385

by Alter_3d on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:41PM (#44254329) Attached to: PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History

2 different purchases, and subsequent returns. 1 Toshiba, 1 Lenovo 64 bit bios on both

Do you have the models? I still do not believe that Secure Boot cannot be turned off.

Comment Re:win8 and UEFI (Score 1) 385

by Alter_3d on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:06AM (#44250801) Attached to: PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History

WTF are you talking about? Every Win8 branded system I have seen has the option to disable Secure Boot. IIRC Microsoft requires that the computer has the ability to switch it off to grant the Win8-Certified Logo. That is of course, except Windows RT devices, which have nothing to do with what we are talking about.

Comment Proposed name (Score 4, Funny) 117

by Alter_3d on Thursday May 30, 2013 @08:44PM (#43867963) Attached to: Motorola Building "Self-Aware" Smartphone

The Motorola Skynet?

Comment Fishing URLs? (Score 1, Funny) 275

by Alter_3d on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @11:42AM (#43720661) Attached to: Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages

Damn you Microsoft, what is wrong with fishing?? after this probably hunting URLs will be frowned upon by skype

Comment Re:Correlation vs Causation? (Score 1) 863

by Alter_3d on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:01PM (#43463481) Attached to: ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over"

Your "every 2nd Windows OS sucks" logic is flawed, since your list is incomplete. Here is, in my opinion, a more complete list:

Windows 3.0 - Kind of sucked
Windows 3.1 - Great
Windows 95 - Sucked until OSR2. Then it was pretty good.
Windows 98 - Sucked
Windows 98 SE - Great
Windows 2000 - Awesome
Windows ME - Im not even going to comment on this one
Window XP - Sucked until SP2. Then it was awesome
Windows Vista - Sucked and still sucks after 2 service packs
Windows 7 - Awesome
Windows 8 - Great OS underneath a nearly unusable UI

Comment Re:A contrived test: old phone, old operating syst (Score 4, Informative) 155

by Alter_3d on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:07PM (#43342149) Attached to: Wiping a Smartphone Still Leaves Data Behind

The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test. An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.

Sorry, but the iPhone 3G tops out at version 4.1.2. The 3GS, on the other hand, does have support for iOS 6, if I remember correctly.

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