Comment Re:Verizon bill increase? (Score 1) 169
Of course the bill is going go up!
Simply because today is a day that ends in 'y'
Comment Re:HTTP/2.0 support. (Score 1) 200
Linux crypto hackers open-sourced the BSD Microsoft monopoly.
Comment Re:Too big to care. (Score 1) 96
Does your credit union use Intuit's web platform for online banking access per chance?
My credit union (in RI) recently went through a similar upgrade (including adding an extra digit to accounts), but to their credit, it seemed to go much smoother.
Submission + - SourceForge assumes ownership of GIMP For Win, wraps installer in adware (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It appears that SourceForge is assuming control of all projects that appear "abandoned." In a blog update on their site, they responded saying in part "There has recently been some report that the GIMP-Win project on SourceForge has been hijacked; this project was actually abandoned over 18 months ago, and SourceForge has stepped-in to keep this project current. "
SourceForge is now offering "to establish a program to enable users and developers to help us remove misleading and confusing ads."
SourceForge is now offering "to establish a program to enable users and developers to help us remove misleading and confusing ads."
Comment This needs to go live. (Score 1) 11
More so than slashdot beta, crud like this is going to sink these once famous brands.
SlashdotMedia needs to post this, include a link to their lame-duck response if need be, and let the discussion go where it may.
It's one thing to keep these brands and sites going past their prime, it's another to *actively* tarnish the brands to extract what ad dollars they have left.
Submission + - Sourceforge staff takes over a user's account and wraps their software installer (arstechnica.com) 11
An anonymous reader writes: Sourceforge staff took over the account of the GIMP-for-Windows maintainer claiming it was abandoned and used this opportunity to wrap the installer in crapware. Quoting Ars:
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
Comment Re:How do buy it now? (Score 1) 63
If anyone has a way of contacting them, perhaps a gentle prod could get this classic made more widely available
Comment How do buy it now? (Score 1) 63
It seems that LORD is in a weird copyright state.
http://lord.lordlegacy.com/new...
Original developer sold the rights, but the company that holds those rights seems to have gone MIA. It seems he's tried reaching out to them, but they're not responding to him or anyone else, or even new sales. He still has the sources, but legally cannot release them.
All it would take is these guys:
http://www.gameport.com/contac...
to grant permission, and LORD *COULD* be ported to more modern systems, rather than trying to figure out bizzare ways to emulate a 16bit systems and expose them to the public internet.
(or waiting 70+ years)
Comment Re:Oh look (Score 1) 197
*You're* forgetting about Natalie Portman naked and petrified, with hot grits!
Comment Have you tried spamhaus? (Score 1) 405
Check here:
I've operated my own mail server on a VPS for years. Rackspace voluntarily lists their IP spaces to prevent spammers from just buying a vps for a few hrs, sending out spam and then trashing it. Occasionally I need to remove my IP from the blacklist.
Netcraft: Microsoft Closing In On Apache Web Server Lead 102
angry tapir sends this IDG report:
"After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft's Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of Internet infrastructure. May saw an additional 9 million sites using Microsoft Web server software, increasing the company's share of the Web by 0.37 percent. In the same period, Apache's market share fell by 0.18 percent, despite gaining an additional 4.3 million sites. Microsoft is now just 4.1 percentage points behind Apache, which, as the most popular Web server software on the Internet, now powers about 37.6 percent of all sites."
Comment Re:Comment view (Score 1) 2219
Yes, so much this
When I browse w/o signing in and get forced back to those annoying sliders, I get so frustrated with them i simply set them to show all. The old system of 'minimum' threshold was far better imho.
Comment Re:Replaceable computer (Score 1) 317
This is not an insurmountable problem -- so long as the 'head' is user-upgradeable, and offers all and any 'modern' connections.
The Interface to the car's electronics has largely been stable. IIRC the CAN/ODB/ODB2 bus are extensible. RS232 has been around since 1962. It would not take much effort to define a simple, *OPEN*, and extensible monitoring + control protocol over any of these connectors, but they seem to not want to.
Comment Re:Tech is commodified now (Score 3, Informative) 100
She's right here:
Comment Re:Cell phones are usually tied to a person (Score 2) 445
Grandstream is good for "cheap" phones of acceptable quality. They just recently announced this:
http://www.grandstream.com/index.php/products/ip-voice-telephony/enterprise-ip-phones/gxp2200
Although it might sound nice to have the whole interface be a touch screen, I think that the hard-keys for dedicated functions end up improving the usability of the device.
