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Comment Re:24 hour charge?? (Score 1) 196

by xSander on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @02:58AM (#28105847) Attached to: Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled

That's KERS... the Kinetic Energy Recovery System.

KERS is optional, however. And I didn't count, but I think there's no majority of the cars running it. At least not the team which won 5 of the 6 races run this season so far.

IIRC it'll be mandatory next year.

Comment Re:One of these things is not like the OOthers (Score 0) 307

by xSander on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @06:33PM (#27852523) Attached to: An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6

One of two ways to do it, yes. PHP is still very much of a procedural language, but PHP 5 is a step in the right direction.

Comment Re:no definite article needed (Score 1) 257

by xSander on Thursday April 23, 2009 @03:28AM (#27683981) Attached to: New Mega-Botnet Discovered

You know Ukraine was once part of Russia? That's where the article originally came from, I think.

Comment Re:Thinks like an os, eh? (Score 1) 380

by xSander on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @11:09AM (#27150723) Attached to: IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer

Don't give them ideas...

Comment Re:Thinks like an os, eh? (Score 5, Funny) 380

by xSander on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @04:32PM (#27140359) Attached to: IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer

Blue Page of Death

Comment Re:Vortalgate? (Score 4, Informative) 312

by xSander on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:35PM (#27055949) Attached to: Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding

Yes.

Comment Re:Why open is more secure than closed (Score 1) 674

by xSander on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @12:10PM (#26813659) Attached to: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?

It's the same thing as the Oyster card in London. It's been broken a few times as well. So, nothing new there.

Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel 585

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @10:24AM from the don't-ruin-perfect dept.

bowman9991 submitted a story that ought to make even the most stone-hearted amongst you cry. He says "Travis Wright, one of the writers behind Eagle Eye, has been working on a sequel to Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi classic Blade Runner. Script proposals have explored the nature of the off-world colonies, what happens to the Tyrell Corporation in the wake of its founder's death, and what would become of Rachel. Travis said he intends to write a script 'with or without anyone's blessings.' Director Ridley Scott appears interested in a sequel too. At Comic-Con in 2007 Ridley said, 'If you have any scripts, you know where to send them.' It's doubtful he'll have time anytime soon though. He's already stated his next two science fiction films will be an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New Word with Leonardo DiCaprio and an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War."

Comment Re:no DEB files? (Score 1) 387

by xSander on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @07:09PM (#26139099) Attached to: 64-Bit Java For Linux

3. Link my_java_path/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so into your Firefox plugins directory (forget where it is)

I followed the installation instructions but that didn't work. But symlinking libnpjp2.so did the trick. WTF?

By the way, the plugins directory usually is ~/.mozilla/plugins.

Comment Re:Netherlands blacklists? News to me. (Score 1) 193

by xSander on Saturday December 06, 2008 @01:31PM (#26013899) Attached to: Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme

Granted, not all Dutch ISPs are filtering. As far as I know, only KPN and UPC are. Here's a link to the investigation report of the WDOC, that's the most official thing I could find about Dutch internet filtering: http://www.wodc.nl/onderzoeksdatabase/internetfilters-tegen-kinderporno.aspx (links to PDFs on the right, two in Dutch, a summary in English)

Comment Re:10,000 URLs? (Score 5, Insightful) 193

by xSander on Friday December 05, 2008 @06:12AM (#26000717) Attached to: Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme

Didn't Finland move from step 1 to step 3 in just a month?

The Netherlands has a blacklist as well, just as ineffective as the Finnish one. Just don't use your ISP's DNS. Governments should concentrate on taking down sites rather than act like the three wise monkeys.

Comment Tail graph (Score 1) 201

by xSander on Thursday November 27, 2008 @10:20AM (#25908399) Attached to: Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software?

I stumbled onto a graph application once, which used tail -f on Apache access logs so you could see the activity in real time. I forgot what it was called.

Comment Re:Just tested it (Score 1) 329

by xSander on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @03:50AM (#25814477) Attached to: Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux

Tried it on my Debian testing (amd64) as well. Works perfectly with nfl.com and YouTube so far. BTW, no plugin regfile needed. I just removed swfdec and put the libflashplayer.so in my ~/.mozilla/plugins and restarted Iceweasel.

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