namgge - Slashdot User

Comment Next step.... (Score 0) 327

by namgge on Friday May 02, 2014 @10:27PM (#46905327) Attached to: Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard?

... they bribe the state to criminalize the use of url's and make it compulsory to access websites only via a licenced search engine.

Comment Re:Requires Javascript. (Score 2, Insightful) 57

by namgge on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:38AM (#46866177) Attached to: GNU Mailman 3 Enters Beta

It seems to work fine with JavaScript disabled. In fact, in my opinion it's better that way because it doesn't have the animated cr*p that the JavaScript-kiddies think is so kewl but is really rather pointless and distracting.

Comment Re:We're here to "help" you! (Score 2) 178

by namgge on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:41PM (#46854795) Attached to: DOJ Complains About Getting a Warrant To Search Mobile Phones

Surely the most likely outcome of your domestic security arrangements that you get shot by your wife?

Comment Re:Why not just... (Score 1) 18

by namgge on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:11AM (#46847087) Attached to: Making Graphene Work For Real-World Devices

Another advantage that silicon has is that its oxide is also easily formed and controlled in process and is an excellent electrical insulator.

Comment Good luck (Score 3, Interesting) 201

by namgge on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:34AM (#46823157) Attached to: You Can Now Run Beta Versions of OS X—For Free

Good luck with this Apple, but in my experience the bug reports and feedback you'll get from Joe Public will be next to worthless. Don't waste your time on them; concentrate on what paid-up developers are telling you about your betas and fix the issues they identify first, please.

Comment Hmm, I wonder... (Score 1) 50

by namgge on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @06:28AM (#46821417) Attached to: How Silk Road Bounced Back From Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack

Why would you bother to pay back millions of dollars when you could just disappear into the digital ether?

I'm just guessing, but I'd have thought that ripping off certain users of Silk Road could be extremely bad for your health.

Submission + - What is it that you want to learn about OpenBSD 5.5? (blogspot.ca)

Submitted by badger.foo on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:34AM

badger.foo writes: In the upcoming OpenBSD 5.5 release there will be a number of improvements, including a whole new traffic shaping system, automatic installer improvements and the switch to 64-bit time_t.

But OpenBSD has been the source of lots of innovation and improvements in BSD and Unix in general over the years, and in preparation for his two BSDCan tutorials, Peter Hansteen asks, What do you want to learn about OpenBSD 5.5 (and possibly future directions)?

Submission + - Lucas Nussbaum re-elected as Debian Project Leader

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: For the last 6 weeks the Debian developers have had an election to determine the new Debian Project Leader. The election is now over and Lucas Nussbaum was re-elected.

As always in Debian, the result of the voting was found using the Condorcet method.

Comment Re:User error? (Score 1) 36

by namgge on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:28AM (#46724357) Attached to: Fire Risk From Panasonic Batteries In Sony Vaio Laptops

A foreseeable user error, of the type you describe should not result in equipment catching fire.

Comment Do the right test (Score 2) 452

by namgge on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:02PM (#46716355) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace?

Instead I want to set up one test machine for users to try it and ask THEM if they like it.

I guarantee that in this form, the result of the test will be that THEY won't like it. People fear the new and unknown and need positive incentives to change.

So, offer THEM the choice of one person, to be drawn at random from a hat, being fired to pay for e cost of new PCs vs switching to Linux and everyone keeping their jobs. Then you'll find they like Linux lots.

Also, keep in mind that 'supporting' users takes much more time than you might naively guess. Make sure that your efforts to 'support Linux' don't turn you into the unproductive member of the office.

Comment And the answer is... (Score 1) 114

by namgge on Saturday March 15, 2014 @07:19AM (#46490959) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance?

a command line.

Comment Parents will do stupid things (Score 4, Insightful) 387

by namgge on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:47PM (#46382213) Attached to: Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000

There is only one way to keep something secret; don't tell anyone. And anyone includes your teenage daughter.

Comment Competitive Pressure (Score 1) 408

by namgge on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:50AM (#46025491) Attached to: Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access

This behaviour by LogMeIn makes me suspect that they have got wind of a serious competitor for their service. If so, they will want to get subscriptions off as many potential customers as possible without giving them time to search for alternatives.

The other possibility is that LogMeIn have a cash flow issue and need a some more money to stay in business.

Either way, I'm out.

Comment Before and after (Score 2) 51

by namgge on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:02AM (#45914919) Attached to: MIT Begins Offering For-Pay MOOC In Big Data

So roughly speaking they're moving from a 'free' model with an enrolment of say 300,000 a pass rate of 0.1%, and cost of $100K to a fee-paying model that will have an enrolment 300 a pass rate 100% and a profit of $1M.

Comment Re:Well, uh... (Score 3, Funny) 363

by namgge on Saturday January 04, 2014 @11:07AM (#45865069) Attached to: Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress

This is clearly a case where out-sourcing and off-shoring is the way to go. I suggest that MSS, the Chinese secret service, should be given preferred bidder status.

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