Comment Re:I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Da (Score 1) 646
Then you remember that you have knowledge and it is protected with ZFS and scrubbing. Thank God.
Muahaha, priceless. Hooray for FreeBSD
Comment Had the same problem - WNR3500L (Score 1) 334
I had the same issue, I wanted Gigabit Ethernet and stumbled upon tomatousb during my research. It works really well together with the Netgear WNR3500L.
It can share a USB HDD via SMB has really good 802.11n tuning and loads of other special features (like VPN and DLNA).
http://tomatousb.org/
It can share a USB HDD via SMB has really good 802.11n tuning and loads of other special features (like VPN and DLNA).
http://tomatousb.org/
Comment Netgear WNR3500L (Score 1) 398
I would definetly recommend the Netgear WNR3500L (http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/work-and-play/WNR3500L.aspx)
I just bought it myself and installed a tomato mod on it (http://tomatousb.org/). To flash it, you first need to install a mini version of DD-WRT on it (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNR3500L).
I am thoroughly impressed by the featureset you get with it.
- USB port that can be used for a file share, usb printer and all other kinds of stuff
- Great user friendly interface
- QOS
- 2 openVPN servers
- Bandwidth throttling for different clients
- Monitoring of clients and bandwidth usage
- All kinds of wireless tweaking
- And lots of other stuff
Comment Re:Great for speed demons (Score 1) 436
What!?! How the hell do you figure that?
Comment Re:He's late to the party (Score 2) 150
hmpf.... friggin side effects. Functional programming ftw!
Comment Re:I don't Git it.... (Score 1) 442
Yep, except when you're on windows. That would be the escape character in the commandline.
Friggin idiot who invented that stupid windows cli.
"Hmmm, yes, let's not use POSIX! How about we invent our own standard and make it really crappy, and let's only follow it half of the time!"
Friggin idiot who invented that stupid windows cli.
"Hmmm, yes, let's not use POSIX! How about we invent our own standard and make it really crappy, and let's only follow it half of the time!"
Comment Shitty article (Score 3, Insightful) 518
Wow, this was one hell of a crap article. Who does this guy think he is, trying to guilt trip working americans in silicon valley because they are, well... working. I mean WTF?!
Comment Uncool man (Score 1) 471
"I wonder what the toilet version of The Blue Screen of Death is."
That was uncalled for.
That was uncalled for.
Comment "or other definable concepts" (Score 1) 114
... or other definable concepts
They just couldn't keep themselves from taking a piss on the patent system, haha.
They just couldn't keep themselves from taking a piss on the patent system, haha.
Comment bullshit (Score 5, Insightful) 577
This is total linkbait. Just like the one from pcworld asking whether OS X Lion could be Apples Vista.
This article has no research behind it whatsoever, I do not understand how this trash can get on slashdot, it annoys me.
A single quote: "iOS is mainstream: Mac OS X isn’t and likely never will be."
Based on what research?!?! Just yesterday at the keynote, they announced that the OS X platform has risen to new heights and the PC market has shrunk.
Android is gaining on the smartphone market. Why the hell would they bet everything on one horse if they have two that perform perfectly well?!
Comment Crappiest analogies ever (Score 1) 606
"[...] who argues the up-or-out, one-size-fits-all rigid pace approach to learning set by teachers and administrators is as absurd as telling a toddler, 'You have ten weeks to walk'"
" I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks"
Jesus Christ, how long did it take them to make up those analogies?!?! They seriously suck!
Yes of course. Lets give every CS student as much attention as a toddler, that sounds practical. We can have individual courses for every single student.
And yes, joining the university orchestra is entirely on par with being expected to program well, WTF?
15 weeks is a _lot_ of time to learn the basics in programming. Come on, they are not expected to be able to design they most beautiful architectures or code extremely efficient. This sounds like a lot of exaggeration.
Oh and he mentions BlueJ. Why the hell are they not using that already? I mean, *duh, of course BlueJ/Greenfoot is the best way to learn OO, you cannot teach a CS introductory course without a tool like that.
Submission + - Mozy removes unlimited data plan (mozy.com)
andsens writes: For the first time since 2006, we're adjusting the price of our MozyHome service and wanted to give you a heads up. As part of this change, we’re replacing our MozyHome Unlimited backup plan and introducing the following tiered storage plans:
50 GB for $5.99 per month
125 GB for $9.99 per month
I guess this means my 1,8 TB data will go somewhere else, oh the joy of backup.
50 GB for $5.99 per month
125 GB for $9.99 per month
I guess this means my 1,8 TB data will go somewhere else, oh the joy of backup.
Comment What's the use, beyond scaring people. (Score 1) 183
I mean seriously. What the hell is this good for anyways?
Chip Allows Blind People To See 231
crabel writes "3 blind people have been implanted with a retinal chip that allowed them to see shapes and objects within days of the procedure. From the article: 'One of the patients surprised researchers by identifying and locating objects on a table; he was also able to walk around a room unaided, approach specific people, tell the time from a clock face, and describe seven different shades of gray in front of him.'"
Mexico Will Shut Down 25.9 Million Cell Phones 370
Several months ago, as a way to prevent the use of cellular phones in criminal activities, the government of Mexico started a program to require all phone owners to register cell phones in their own names. The registry associates each phone with the listed owner's Clave Unica de Registro de Poblacion (CURP) [CURP, in English], which is supposed to be a unique ID for every Mexican citizen. Now, as nanahuatzin writes,
Yesterday the timeline to register the cell phones expired, and there are
[approx 26] million cell phones yet unregistered (English translation of the Spanish original). While the procedure is simple, sending a text message with the CURP to a special number, most people do not want to register: some are wary of the uses to which the government will put the data; others did not understand or did not know the procedure. So far, only 69% have registered, most of them in the last few days, while the system to register has been oversaturated. So in an unprecedented move for any country, the Mexican government is announcing the shutdown of 25.9 million cell phone lines. Meanwhile, as a measure of protest, hundreds of people have registered their cell phones in the name of the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, to show how pointless is the registry."
