Nomaxxx - Slashdot User

Comment 15,000 is too low (Score 1) 465

by Nomaxxx on Thursday February 18, 2010 @10:06AM (#31183768) Attached to: Distance, in multiples of my height, from my birthplace:

I'm born at 60 km from here and I end up with a 32,000+ figure... Am I doing something wrong or is this poll flawed?

Comment Hey! (Score 1) 354

by Nomaxxx on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:41AM (#31167070) Attached to: Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4

I still have a P4 you insensitive clod!

Comment CSIt's easy... (Score 5, Funny) 684

by Nomaxxx on Friday February 12, 2010 @09:17AM (#31111878) Attached to: How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS?

yep... easy to cheat in Counter Strike.

Comment I first misread title... (Score 1) 285

by Nomaxxx on Monday January 11, 2010 @03:13PM (#30726582) Attached to: CES Vendors Kicked Out of Hotels For Showcasing Wares in Room

as "Vendors Kicked Out of Hotels For Showcasing Whores in Room".

Comment Frankly... (Score 1) 420

by Nomaxxx on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @09:50AM (#30523024) Attached to: The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn

Who wants a web free of porn?

Comment Partial U turn? (Score 3, Funny) 160

by Nomaxxx on Friday December 18, 2009 @08:39AM (#30485726) Attached to: After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship

"leading Interior Minister Roberto Maroni to execute a partial U-turn." What's a partial U-turn? ...a L-turn?

Comment Indeed... (Score 1) 496

by Nomaxxx on Monday December 14, 2009 @06:26PM (#30436500) Attached to: Is Console Gaming Dying?

Console gaming is dying... arcades will come back!

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 06, 2009 @12:29PM from the changing-horses dept.

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Comment Re:You're accidentally correct (Score 1) 849

by Nomaxxx on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @04:56AM (#30141140) Attached to: Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3?

I buy music on vinyl too. But today's mixers are digital so when you plug in your turntable, sound is processed through a DSP at 24-bit 96kHz on mainstream club mixers (like the DJM-800) or 32-bit on high-end equipment. Many say that digital mixers sound better than analog ones but the truth is that records simply sound different, not better, it's an illusion. As for MP3, I can just tell that OGG sampled at the same bit rate sound better than MP3. Too bad most portable music players/car radios don't support it.

Comment Wait a minute... (Score 1) 219

by Nomaxxx on Thursday October 08, 2009 @05:50AM (#29678721) Attached to: Microsoft, EU Reach Antitrust Accord

"I think this is a trustful deal we are making." Wait a minute, he made a "trustful deal" with "Steve Ballmer" from "Microsoft"??? This guy doesn't seem to be tech savvy otherwise he would have known about some incompatibilities....

Comment Other people know about Linux user experience... (Score 1) 757

by Nomaxxx on Thursday September 24, 2009 @07:34PM (#29535051) Attached to: Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing

like this guy: http://mod.arcadebelgium.be/gfx/gallery/yodawgubuntu.jpg

Comment Happy (Score 1) 1124

by Nomaxxx on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @04:24PM (#29521159) Attached to: Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

Happy to keep on using SeaMonkey (even if I already miss the classic Netscape theme in future SM 2.0)...

Comment Couldn't happen here... (Score 5, Interesting) 319

by Nomaxxx on Friday September 18, 2009 @02:57AM (#29463275) Attached to: Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records

In Belgium, many of the hospitals have most of their computers running Linux...

Comment Re:NTFS (Score 1) 569

by Nomaxxx on Friday September 11, 2009 @02:54AM (#29386635) Attached to: Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?

I use NTFS for large mass storage external drives (more efficient than FAT32). I just tar everything to keep permissions.

Sega Dreamcast Turns 10 193

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @12:06PM from the keeps-on-ticking dept.

traycerb writes "It's been 10 years since 9/9/1999, when the Dreamcast launched on American shores. The hardware was ahead of its time; online capability, web browser, a visual memory unit, and a controller that anticipated the much-loved Xbox 360 controller. The games were amazing: Jet Set Radio (the first popular 3d cell-shaded game on a console), Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (still the apotheosis of 2-d fighting; just try finding a copy on ebay), Soul Calibur (still looks good compared to the recent Xbox/PS3 versions), NFL 2K (came out of nowhere, and was so good that it shook EA into spending tens of millions of dollars to seal up exclusivity for NFL rights), and many others. No doubt some of the reasons for the Dreamcast's demise lay with Sega, whose dubious hardware decisions (ahem, 32x) finally caught up to them, in the form of ambivalence from both developers and gamers, just as the console-making world was shifting to the multinationals with big pockets who were willing to spend it on pricey hardware design (or could absorb the cost of faulty hardware design). It was also one of the first consoles widely used for homebrew. In honor of the 10th anniversary, a new game is being released for the Dreamcast, called Rush Rush Rally Racing. The Dreamcast is dead! Long live the Dreamcast!"

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