Ibn al-Hazardous - Slashdot User

Submission + - Pirate Bay guilty verdict

Submitted by frank_abacus on Friday April 17, 2009 @06:26AM

frank_abacus writes: http://www.thelocal.se/18908.html

not news really, just the first round.

"All four men were sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) in damages."

Comment Re:I never thought I'd see the day. (Score 1) 262

by Ibn al-Hazardous on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @11:08AM (#26709573) Attached to: New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE

Probably from the fact that the TCP/IP driver used to say it did. It was under BSD license with the advertizing clause.

I'm not sure exactly when they wrote their own, but I think it was after Win2k. So, I would think Vista or Server 2k3 might be it. (Gut feeling says Vista - but I haven't used Windows after 2k, so I haven't checked.)

Comment It is pitch dark... (Score 1) 108

by Ibn al-Hazardous on Friday January 16, 2009 @07:03AM (#26480191) Attached to: <em>Zork</em> Returning As a Browser MMO

...and you are likely to be spammed by a Grue!

(Joke stolen from Silly friend - couldn't resist... ;)

Comment Re:Slashdotism (Score 2, Funny) 672

by Ibn al-Hazardous on Thursday January 08, 2009 @07:26PM (#26379311) Attached to: Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES

I prefer using animals...

Comment Re:Slashdotism (Score 2, Informative) 672

by Ibn al-Hazardous on Thursday January 08, 2009 @07:24PM (#26379285) Attached to: Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES

Whoosh!

(The "sic" meant that he knew what he was doing, and reflected on the loser <=> looser error with the shocks <=> shock's error; similarly to writing "greengrocers apostrophe's" as mentioned in the link.)

Submission + - Greatest Widget Toolkit for C/C++

Submitted by

Twinbee

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @08:17AM

Twinbee writes: "I'm a C/C++ programmer looking to expand into the world of the GUI. The ideal widget toolkit should be cross-platform, but adhere to the native widgets where possible. It should also be simple to use with the shortest code possible, yet flexible and mature to suit large-scale projects. Finally, the applications should all run like greased lightning and have decent WYSIWYG GUI editors if possible.

After a cursory look, it would seem there are so many; wxWidgets, Ultimate++, JUCE, GTK, QT, V, Fox, Lgi, WTL, ZooLib, and SmartWin. After experiencing some of the horrors with the Win32 API, which of these are worth trying out?"

Submission + - Trying to defy the law of gravity (youtube.com)

Submitted by SamWon on Thursday October 18, 2007 @07:40AM

SamWon writes: Armed with a paddling pool, an umbrella and some crappy cardboard thing, the Human Guinea Pigs take on the law of gravity. A new TV series from the UK where 5 regular guys, with the guidance of Professor Milligan, probe the big questions of life and the universe... and touch things they shouldn't. http://www.five.tv/humanguineapigs

Submission + - Facebook to Crash the Online Ad Party (eweek.com)

Submitted by eweekhickins on Thursday October 18, 2007 @07:09AM

eweekhickins writes: Mort Zuckerberg, the sandal-wearing Facebook CEO, was cagey during his spotlight moment at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference. He was clearly more comfortable talking about the company as a development platform to tether social connections, saying the platform is just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of how far it can go. But he did admit to John Battelle that the company will look to online ads for growth and hinted at more announcements about that issue in the next three months. Social graphs. Online ads. Apps tethered my social maps? Was he talking about his users, his business model or the developer community when he said, "It might take 30 years before this is a really mature platform"?

Submission + - Linux and its identity crisis 2

Submitted by Jayze Calrtini on Monday September 24, 2007 @08:03AM

Jayze Calrtini writes: From an article from ZDNet:"If you've been following the current rift in the Linux community between Linus Torvalds and his minions squaring off against Con Kolivas and the mainstream Linux fanatics, you probably know that it's getting quite heated. You also probably know that these two entirely different ideas could create three possible paths Linux can take for the future: stay geeky and appeal to the advanced tech guru in all of us; go mainstream and leave the advanced functionality and reliable kernel behind to compete with Microsoft and Apple; or face a "civil war" that could lead to total Linux annihilation.

AMD Releases Register Specs For R5xx And R6xx 121

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 24, 2007 @04:12AM from the have-fun-storming-the-castle dept.

ianare writes "AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This will (theoretically) allow the OSS community to develop drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver."

Submission + - Sun CEO says NetApp lied in fear of open source (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @04:43PM

Lucas123 writes: "In reaction to NetApp's patent infringement lawsuit against Sun, CEO Jonathan Schwartz today said in his blog that NetApp basically lied in its legal filing when it said Sun asked them for licensing fees for use of their ZFS file system technology. In a separate statement, Sun said NetApp's lawsuit is about fear over open-source ZFS technology as a competitive threat. "The rise of the open-source community cannot be stifled by proprietary vendors. I guess not everyone's learned that lesson," Schwartz wrote in his blog."

Submission + - Xorg releases 7.3 (freedesktop.org)

Submitted by mccaffer on Thursday September 06, 2007 @08:45AM

mccaffer writes: Finally X.Org have released the latest version which promises to drastically improve hotplug and on-the-fly output reconfiguration. See the list of latest features: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.3

Submission + - Swedes drive Europe's biofuel usage (reportbuyer.com)

Submitted by chillysoya on Thursday September 06, 2007 @07:58AM

chillysoya writes: http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/sweden-drive-europ e-biofuel-usage/

Submission + - Bad Game Design, No Twinkie, Part 8

Submitted by

simoniker

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @04:01PM

simoniker writes: "Veteran game designer Ernest Adams has posted the 8th yearly edition of his 'Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie' column, running down things game designers absolutely should not do. The first (of many) is 'wildly atypical game levels', described by a submitter as: "Optional mini-games are fun, and can be a refreshing change of pace, but optional is the key word here. Levels where a player must complete a game that uses a completely different skill set in order to continue back to a point that uses the original skill set can be irritating as hell." Adams adds: "Bullfrog was often guilty of this — I remember some wildly atypical levels in Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet, and Populous: The Beginning. They padded out the game, but because they made just about everything you had learned useless, they were very annoying." There's also now a No Twinkie Database on Adams' site, collecting all of the submissions so far."

Submission + - AMD Linux Driver Interview Opportunity

Submitted by

Sarah Vella

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @12:32PM

Sarah Vella writes: "AMD would like to set up an interview with Slashdot.org for September 4th or 5th to discuss a major development on their open source drivers. AMD would like to share this news first with the Slashdot community.

Let me know if Slashdot is open to having an interview with Chris Schlaeger our resident Linux guru and Pat Moorhead, VP, Marketing.

Cheers,
Sarah Vella
High Road Communications
416 644-2270"

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