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Comment Re:Peter Wayner (Score 1) 256

by Nadir on Friday July 09, 2010 @12:17AM (#32847534) Attached to: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5

> * the media player on Unix-like systems

This is being replaced with GStreamer: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-use-gstreamer-multimedia

Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 1) 361

by Nadir on Monday June 14, 2010 @03:43AM (#32562074) Attached to: Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell

Comment Re:"decent gains"? (Score 1) 165

by Nadir on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:03PM (#30515312) Attached to: Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor

I have built an atom-based htpc with a zotac ion motherboard and it does exactly what I want: fanless h264 decoding. A bit more than a cash register can do.

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 0) 117

by Nadir on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @08:56AM (#29668699) Attached to: Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame

You are all youngsters :)

Until today I hadn't realized I had such a low user id...

I have been reading Slashdot for far too long.

Comment Re:Announced on Twitter (Score 5, Funny) 325

by Nadir on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @08:35AM (#29272399) Attached to: Opera 10.0 Released

Oh my ${deity}, six hours !!! That's like AGES ago !

Comment Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score 0) 341

by Nadir on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @10:11AM (#28279127) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released

Most of these are experimenting in new directions. And ext4 is backwards compatibile with ext3 which is backwards compatible with ext2 (the reverse is not true: i.e. you can't mount an ext4 filesystem with ext3).

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