Comment Re:Speaking as a chemist (Score 1) 229
Out of curiosity, where did you go to school that you ended up calling college "University"?
Comment Re:About time! (Score 1) 551
Looks like you're correct. Perhaps Buster from Arrested Development was hired as their cartographer.
Comment Re:About time! (Score 1, Insightful) 551
Zoom in a bit and it starts to look not so good.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 2, Insightful) 270
Yes, because Linux has put Microsoft out of business.
Submission + - How to get around ISP port blocks? 1
casualsax3 writes: I'm going to be moving soon, and my new apartment comes with Optimum Online. I have a share on a Windows server that I need to get to over the Internet occasionally, and I just found out that Optimum blocks port 445 across their entire network in New York City (and perhaps elsewhere?). I have two laptops that run Linux, and one always-on desktop that runs Windows. What's the best way to get around the block and get to the share in Linux and in Windows?
Comment Fedora 8? (Score 4, Funny) 283
Please let me know if it syncs with your Windows 95 PC as well. It's the one thing that's kept me from buying one on launch day.
Comment Re:Ubuntu is not up to scratch (Score 1) 710
No, you're not being dumb. There's a known bug in network-manager that prevents it from remembering a static IP after reboot.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-set-a-static-ip-address-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html
I'm not sure if it still exists in 9.04.
Comment Re:Vacuum your case out... (Score 2, Informative) 618
That actually sounds more like a power issue. The 8x AGP cards were notoriously sensitive to fluctuations in one of the rails (I want to say 5v, but it's been forever...)
Newer PCIe cards are better, but if you're running cool and your computer reboots for no reason (particularly during games) I'd put money on a poor quality or faulty PSU.
Comment Re:Tax Free NH (Score 1) 784
Yes but then you have to live in New Hampshire...
Comment Re:I never thought I'd say this with a straight fa (Score 5, Funny) 180
The best of the best posts (the ones where someone drops a paragraph of science that just ends the argument, or blows you away) are still here at Slashdot, but the signal to noise ratio has been fading fast lately.
Overall I find Reddit's comments are better and certainly more entertaining than Slashdot these days. The first 20 posts top level posts here are always a mixture of Off Topic, Troll, or +5 Funnies that aren't actually funny.
Comment Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score 1) 1582
Have you submitted any content that's been accepted?
Comment Not a bug (Score 5, Informative) 830
It's a consequence of not writing software properly.
Relevant links later in the same comment thread for those who don't might otherwise miss them:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/45
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/54
Comment Re:What about the Firefox I get with Ubuntu? (Score 2, Informative) 827
If Ubuntu shipped on the vast majority of personal computers, then yes it might.
Comment Vagrant Story 2 (Score 1) 381
Give it to me. Or give me Vagrant Story 1 at a higher resolution. That game was godly.
Comment Re:ask a 12 year old (Score 1) 381
MegaMan 9 is ok. I think they made it just a bit too hard though. After failing to defeat a single stage in my first playthrough (tried all of them once) I put on MegaMan 2 and 3, and they're tough, but nowhere near as difficult.
