Comment Re:trivial, 99% effective fix (Score 1) 207
That's no good for for those of us who put our computers to sleep instead of shutting down.
Comment Re:With this frequency, I can't keep up! (Score 2) 182
With Mozilla's frequency of spitting out new and newer versions, I just can't keep up!
No problem, just turn automatic updates on.
Comment Re:at the risk of sounding stupid.. (Score 5, Informative) 228
FTFA:
"People illegally jam GPS for a number of reasons, Curry told the audience at the conference at the National Physical Laboratory. These include evasion of company-vehicle or covert tracking, and stealing high-value vehicles."
"People illegally jam GPS for a number of reasons, Curry told the audience at the conference at the National Physical Laboratory. These include evasion of company-vehicle or covert tracking, and stealing high-value vehicles."
Comment Re:NYC Subway (Score 0, Redundant) 276
In Soviet Moscow:
boss hurries you to work
Work hurries your boss.
&
wife calls you home
Home calls your wife.
OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source 270
First time accepted submitter para_droid writes "Version 1.3 of the popular open source notification system for Mac OS X, Growl has surprised its users by going closed-source and only available for purchase on the Mac App Store. Any users who provide links to bugfixes and source for the previous version 1.2 are being banned from the discussion group, and their messages deleted. Could it be time for the community to create an OpenGrowl fork?"
The linked post above about bugfixes and source ends "Hopefully the Growl 1.3 branch from the official Growl maintainers
will eventually become open source again and get straightened out so
that it works for most users, but if it doesn't, a fork of the project
will be able to provide a working Growl to Mac users."
Comment Re:Finding one (Score 1) 86
You can still get a brand new Touchpad for $220-240 for the 16 GB model. That's still cheap for a tablet like this.
Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006 100
astroengine writes "Early Tuesday morning, the Sun unleashed a powerful X-class flare. The X7 flare is the most energetic explosion to come from the Sun since December 2006. Although the flare was directed away from the Earth, a minor proton storm was detected and some radio communications have been disrupted due to higher-than-normal rates of ionization in the Earth's ionosphere. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the whole event, imaging the flaring site and multi-million degree post-flare plasma."
Comment Re:Tabs on top still broken (Score 2) 282
The only things that belong in the title bar are the close button, the dock button, and the zoom to max content size button on the left, the window title in the middle, and the toolbar button on the right.
Are you some kind of an Apple HIG fanboy? Is this a sub-cult of the Apple cult of some sort? The way Chrome does tabs halfway in the title bar makes perfect sense. This approach leaves more screen real estate for the content, while retaining the ability to grab the top of the window to move it around. Besides, Apple breaks it's own HIG quite often. iTunes, Mac App Store - those are the main culprits in the current version of OS X. And God forbid you from using the Address Book in Lion.
Comment Re:works in NYC (Score 1) 347
I'm in Europe, Poland to be exact, and Skype works fine, so no, it's not an OMG W0RdLWiDE OuTaGE (!!!!!!1!!!one!!!), as the title suggests.
Comment More like a ... (Score 1) 271
... facepalm.
Comment Re:My fox is on fire (Score 1) 378
Face the fact that the user base is too small for Microsoft to bother to port the code. Not that they didn't do it in the past - Internet Explorer for UNIX.
Submission + - Microsoft Website Promotes Upgrading From IE6 (ie6countdown.com)
Tarmas writes: "In a not very suprising move, Microsoft has launched a website intended to persuade people to upgrade their browsers from Internet Explorer 6. In Microsoft's words: "This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers". About time?"
Comment Re:Was hoping for a good alternative... (Score 1) 315
I bet he was. I'm using Opera on my Mac right now and it renders /. with no problems.
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 241
Microsoft managed to squash Netscape, BeOS
While I agree with you to some extent, the arguments you provided are flawed.
BeOS was really never anything more than a tech demo. At that time Apple was interested in buying it and using BeOS as the base for their next OS when the Copland project failed miserably. They bought Next instead, and used NextStep. Be Inc. just couldn't compete. Too bad, because it was the most advanced operating system at that time.
Netscape was squashed by Internet Explorer, but it was not because of Microsoft's evil voodoo practices. It happened because IE was a far better product on both Windows and Mac, and to some extent even UNIX (yes, there was a UNIX port of IE 4 and 5).
