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Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 1) 583

by prozaker (#29926247) Attached to: Who Installs the Most Crapware?

i bought an acer earlier this year, one thing that struck me as curious was the fact that the preinstalled software on acer was in its majority games, some full version (like chess, or maybe chess is the only one thats full, I'm unsure...) and others trial like puzzles and other kind of 20$ games bejeweled clones.

i kept some games (like chess) and others that were trials, when i go to my friends house, who doesn't have internet, i browse around for those games and play some.

is it crapware if people use them? or all preinstalled software is crapware?
Space

Submission + - 32 New Exoplanets Found

Submitted by prozaker
prozaker writes: The HARPS spectrometer has recently discovered 32 new exoplanets

Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS's position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter. This result also increases the number of known low-mass planets by an impressive 30%. Over the past five years HARPS has spotted more than 75 of the roughly 400 or so exoplanets now known.

Comment Re:Solution looking for a problem (Score 1) 412

by prozaker (#29771847) Attached to: Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99
Performing abdominal thrusts involves a rescuer standing behind a patient and using their hands to exert pressure on the bottom of the diaphragm. This compresses the lungs and exerts pressure on any object lodged in the trachea, hopefully expelling it. This amounts to an artificial cough.
its right there on choking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking. but don't let facts get in your way.
Bug

Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data 353

Posted by kdawson from the clean-as-the-driven-snow dept.
inglishmayjer was one of several readers to send in the news of a major bug in Apple's new OS, 10.6 Snow Leopard, that can wipe out all user data for the administrator account. It is said to be triggered — not every time — by logging in to the Guest account and then back in to the admin account. Some users are reporting that all settings have been reset and most data is gone. The article links to a number of Apple forum threads up to a month old bemoaning the problem. MacFixIt suggests disabling login on the Guest account and, if you need that functionality, creating a non-administrative account named something like Visitor. (The Guest account is special in that its settings are wiped clean after logout.) CNet reports that Apple has acknowledged the bug and is working on a fix.

Comment Re:ahh good times (Score 1) 193

by prozaker (#29370579) Attached to: Sega Dreamcast Turns 10
then its just funny how they tried to do the nintendont campaign a few years back, that kind of shady marketing came back to bite them.
its sad that even now dreamcast has more enjoyable games than the ps2. i had both consoles and the ps2 is plaged with jrpg's and 1 player games. :(
wish there was gem fighter, powerstone, bombermans, decent kart game, a nice port of quake 3 arena on the ps2.

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