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Comment Re:And ST is being picked on.... (Score 1) 809

by fincan on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @05:33PM (#29737571) Attached to: Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek

Fortunately BSG for BSG fans, the show got more viewers and lasted longer than Firefly - though I think it owed Firefly a huge debt for the look, tone, etc.

No my friend, it owed that to Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. God bless Cylons (but not the male ones)

Comment Re:Cars??? (Score 2, Insightful) 444

by fincan on Friday October 09, 2009 @10:27AM (#29692601) Attached to: Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed

So lets scale these up and replace the power pakcs on cars!

I would love to be able to drive for a few hundred years between recharges!

Screw the car, I want this on my next laptop.

Comment wacom support (Score 1) 871

by fincan on Friday April 24, 2009 @12:24PM (#27703177) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

And still my tablet pc works as a standart laptop. I wonder when (or if) will they fix the wacom drivers.

Comment Re:ReadyNAS (Score 1) 517

by fincan on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @12:46AM (#26141917) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

For NV+ they released a new firmware which also fixes FF3 compatibility issues. Probably they did it for 1100 too. We were trying to build a backup server in the company I am working for and bought NV+ and ended up rolling our own linux server with Amanda (www.amanda.org). It is much faster than Netgear stuff and we used leftover computer parts, only new thing in it was 2x 750GB SATA disks in RAID 1 configuration (mirroring) and it has a write speed of ~50MB, which is limited by hard drive sustained write speed but it is more than enough for us.

Comment Re:clean the screen (Score 1) 663

by fincan on Monday April 14, 2008 @05:48PM (#23070130) Attached to: Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte?

I honestly think that there should be laws against touching someones monitor, i.e. sexual harassment. Put them in a jail and register as "screen touchers" in a public database so they cannot live close to me! Uhm, sorry I've lost it for a second.

Submission + - HTC TyTN II PDA Phone lacks video performance 3

Submitted by

Anton Nilsson

on Thursday January 03, 2008 @08:07AM

Anton Nilsson writes: "Taiwaneese PDA giant HTC released their latest flagship PDA phone called HTC TyTN II (also known as Kaiser, Tilt and MDA Vario III) but recent discoveries show that maybe it's not so much a powerhouse after all. Due to lack of proper driver support for the video part of the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset users are left with a seriously handicapped unit with very poor support for gaming, video and photo. Granted, the phone is mostly intended for business users who will rarely see the effects of these issues but it's still leaving thousands of customers who want to fully utilize the phone with a slightly bitter taste in their mouths.

A petition for driver support has been posted and almost 4000 people have signed it. It has been sent to HTC on numerous occasions yet when contacted HTC still claims to be unaware of any such issues.

You can check out the petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/tytn2vid/

Potential buyers of this much hyped set beware until these issues are resolved."

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