FunWithKnives - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Doesn't work for all Linux users (Score 2, Insightful) 223

by FunWithKnives on Saturday February 14, 2009 @04:00AM (#26854151) Attached to: <em>World of Goo</em> Ported To Linux

Being a PPC Linux user, you should understand that unless a piece of software specifically offers a PPC download alongside the 'regular' (x86) one, well, it most likely ain't available for PPC. For some reason you seem not to.

Comment Nano (pico) for me. (Score 2, Insightful) 1131

by FunWithKnives on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:41PM (#26700137) Attached to: Favorite text editor?

Nano is as straightforward as it gets. The interface is basic, functional and unambiguous. We all know that Emacs is an operating system featuring a text editor, and while Vi may be powerful and save time once you know its ins and outs, I simply don't have the time to learn a bunch of arcane modes and commands. So for my needs, Nano does the job perfectly fine, and in an unobtrusive way.

Submission + - Opera 9.20 Released

Submitted by

FunWithKnives

on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @10:37PM

FunWithKnives writes: "When launching Opera today, I was greeted by the notification that version 9.20 has been released and is available for download. The Unix Changelog lists a multitude of upgrades and new features. The most interesting of these, in my opinion, is Speed Dial, which lets you set up to nine default websites in a "number pad" type of arrangement, which will then show up every time a new tab is opened, along with the search bar of your preferred search engine. This allows easier access to frequented sites and searches. Keyboard shortcuts have also been mapped for each Speed Dial entry (Ctrl + 0-9). Of course, if you dislike the new funtionality, Speed Dial can be hidden with the click of a link in the lower right-hand corner of the page. From a day's worth of use, 9.20 seems even snappier than earlier versions, and is probably well worth the upgrade."

Submission + - Print Messages on your Beer

Submitted by

Migraineman

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @01:09PM

Migraineman writes: "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge, and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the "print head" is your responsibility, but it leads to some interesting applications. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."

Submission + - No Change in Costco's Amazing Tech Return Policy

Submitted by

Marcus Yam

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @12:24PM

Marcus Yam writes: "Costco is well known for its amazingly lenient, time-unlimited, bring-it-back-whenever-you-want return policy. This has lead to some abuse of the program with some customers bringing back TVs that are years old and still getting their original purchase price refunded. During late December, the Consumerist ran an exclusive story claiming that, starting January 1, 2007, Costco will be limiting returns to 30 days due to abuse of its generous policies. After ringing in the New Year, we contacted Costco to get the real scoop on the possibility of a stricter policy. We placed calls nationwide to Costco locations inquiring about any chance in policy. According to every customer service counter that we contacted, none said that there was any change in the store's return policies. For now, it appears that all fears of Costco changing its lenient return policy can be put to rest. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5306"

Submission + - Pirate Bay plans to buy island

Submitted by Lirakis on Saturday January 13, 2007 @11:34AM

Lirakis writes: Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.

The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a 'micronation', and claims to be outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any other country.

Submission + - Creationism Promoted by the Park Service

Submitted by

nomadic

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @10:54AM

nomadic writes: "In a move that is extremely sad but not especially surprising, employees in Grand Canyon National Park have been prohibited from telling guests how old the Canyon actually is, presumably so as they won't offend creationist park guests and political appointees. Additionally, an inane book promoting a Young Earth creationist view of the Canyon has been sold in the park's gift shops for the past three years, despite a storm of criticism from scientists, and a promise by National Park Service administrators to review the matter."

Submission + - Famous music-producer steals from demoscene musici

Submitted by

gloom

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @10:16AM

gloom writes: "In 2000 the finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as Tempest) won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four channel Amiga .MOD entitled "Acid Jazzed Evening". A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip) which is what was stolen. The producers name is Timbaland, one of the hottest names in american music these days, and the track in question is called 'Do it' and is featured on the Nelly Furtado-album 'Loose'.

Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to he aid of Tempest, first by creating a stirr at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), and later at the news-site Digg.com as well as on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant rippoff.

Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?"

Submission + - Beryl Project hacked

Submitted by Thos on Saturday January 13, 2007 @09:42AM

Thos writes: On January 2nd, 2007 Beryl was the victim of an online attack directed at our MySQL server. This attack removed most entries for the past several weeks and will cost countless hours in repair and recovery. Logs of the attack have been salvaged and analyzed, and the likely origin of the attack identified. More info here.

Submission + - Senate bill S.256 aims to restrict internet radio

Submitted by JAFSlashdotter on Friday January 12, 2007 @08:17PM

JAFSlashdotter writes: If you enjoy MP3 or OGG streams of internet radio, it's time to pay attention. This week US Senators Lamar Alexander, Joseph Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and Lindsey Graham in their collective wisdom have decided to reintroduce the "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act". This ARS Technica article explains that PERFORM would restrict our rights to make non-commercial recordings under the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, and require satellite and internet broadcasters to use "technology to prevent music theft". That means goodbye to your favorite streaming audio formats, hello DRM. The EFF said pretty much the same when this bill last reared its ugly head in April of 2006. It's too soon to get the text of this year's version (S.256) online, but it likely to resemble last year's S.2644, which is available through Thomas. Last year's bill died in committee, but if at first you don't succeed...

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