Comment Re:Stupid Floating Headers (Score 1) 2254
Agreed. I hate floating bars on top or bottom. Maybe if I had a screen with a larger resolution then I wouldn't hate them so much.
Comment Re:Good online content? (Score 1) 315
My current newspaper is charging an extra 2$/month to its subscribers to get the electronic full copy, not the website access which is free. I believe this is a very bad idea. Why would I want to pay an extra 2$/month when I am receiving the paper copy anyway? It should be included in the subscription or there should be an option to subscribe without the paper copy at a reduce fee. After all, no printing costs and distribution costs for an electronic copy. This should be reflected in the pricing structure.
That $2 is a sucker cost that those of us who can't turn newspaper pages without the whole thing falling apart will pay.
Comment Re:Tutorials :) (Score 2) 95
Good one. Here's another comic: http://www.hiwiller.com/2010/04/29/if-mario-was-designed-in-2010/
Comment Re:The only question I have is (Score 1) 385
There's more to a browser than rendering and Javascript performance. Firefox has become a hard disk hog. It almost continually writes to disk, which can be very slow, for example on netbooks with first generation SSDs or when you keep your profile on a USB stick (portable Firefox). Worst of all, when it does write to disk, the whole browser locks up. It's barely usable on netbooks for that single reason. You'd think that nothing a browser does could justify writing or reading megabytes of data almost every minute. That's still what happens. (No, extensions or plugins are not involved.)
I'm running the latest update from the firefox 4 daily build ppa on my netbook and it runs nicely. Here is a screenshot of my current workspace: http://i55.tinypic.com/2qa5tn6.png. The only lag that I suffer is when a slashdot page initially loads. Scrolling becomes impossible during that time but once the page is loaded there are no more problems.
I will note that Firefox 4 still uses a lot of memory at times. Right now, I have 13 tabs open, firefox has been running for 44:58 and is using up 16% of my 2 GB of memory.
Also, my netbook does not have a ssd but a slow hard drive.
Comment We can all help them (Score 3, Funny) 185
Everyone on Slashdot should download as many copies as they can and then delete them (Shift + Delete only!). That way the world will run out of copies and everyone will be safe.
Submission + - US Government spying on T-Mobile VOIP subscribers?
stavrica writes: I found a new entry in my T-Mobile @Home Linksys routing table I hadn't seen before:
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.3.4.186 / WAN (Internet)
Strange routes showing up uninvited in static routing tables is definitely a BAD THING, particularly on a firewall. An ARIN lookup on 7.3.4.186 shows it's owned by the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
The T-Mobile @Home router at my church routing table likewise shows the following similar entries:
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.145.46 ppp0
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.130.7 / ppp0
There is no way to remove these routes. Suddenly, re-flashing the Linksys firmware was beginning to seem like a really good idea. If only... It turns out that T-Mobile has been auto-updating the firmware on all their @Home routers, first to version 1.00.20 --and then to 1.00.21, prompting one poster to even beg:
Please for the love of GOD stop the auto updating, udnp completely fails making my whole pc run snail like... on .15 it's fine like it has been for ages, but i can only keep that on for about 5-10 minutes before it's updated again......
To mitigate this invasion of privacy, I split the 10.160.18.0 network into two subnets, and routed them to an unused private address:
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)
10.160.18.128 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)>
Can anyone else with a T-Mobile @Home Linksys VOIP router corroborate my observations? Both T-Mobile @Home routers are registered to my account. It's possible that I'm being monitored, but I doubt it.
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.3.4.186 / WAN (Internet)
Strange routes showing up uninvited in static routing tables is definitely a BAD THING, particularly on a firewall. An ARIN lookup on 7.3.4.186 shows it's owned by the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
The T-Mobile @Home router at my church routing table likewise shows the following similar entries:
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.145.46 ppp0
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.130.7 / ppp0
There is no way to remove these routes. Suddenly, re-flashing the Linksys firmware was beginning to seem like a really good idea. If only... It turns out that T-Mobile has been auto-updating the firmware on all their @Home routers, first to version 1.00.20 --and then to 1.00.21, prompting one poster to even beg:
Please for the love of GOD stop the auto updating, udnp completely fails making my whole pc run snail like... on
To mitigate this invasion of privacy, I split the 10.160.18.0 network into two subnets, and routed them to an unused private address:
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)
10.160.18.128 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)>
Can anyone else with a T-Mobile @Home Linksys VOIP router corroborate my observations? Both T-Mobile @Home routers are registered to my account. It's possible that I'm being monitored, but I doubt it.
Comment Re:Offensive (Score 1) 172
Welcome to the Internet, where October 2007 was "years ago" and being over 40 and able to program assembly makes you a "greybeard". I am sure those guys at Mozilla are referring to their own grandmother's generation, however, the distinction would be subtle to them.
Dude, I don't even remember 2007 anymore. There's no need for the double quotes around years ago.
The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead 422
Pickens writes "The Xbox 360 recently turned five years old, and with no known successor on the horizon for the 360, PlayStation 3 or Wii, Cnet reports on the death of the 5-year console cycle — one of the video game industry's most longstanding truisms. For example, the Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1985, followed by the Super NES in 1991, the Nintendo 64 in 1996, the GameCube in 2001, and the Wii in 2006. But now, why should console makers upgrade their offerings? Consumers are still buying their machines by the hundreds of thousands each month, and ramped-up online initiatives are breathing new life into the systems. A lot of it has to do with the fact that with the current generation of consoles, each company found a way to maximize either the technology behind the devices, or the utility to a wide range of new gamers."
Comment Interesting but... (Score 5, Insightful) 480
The test is interesting but in my opinion the data set is too small to draw any real conclusions. It would be nice to see this test done at least a few times per mail carrier.
Comment Re:Doubt it (Score 1) 266
Exactly.
Comment Re:Captain Obvious (Score 1) 412
[snip]
(Or maybe I need to look harder?)
I agree with most of your points but there are some very good games for the Wii. Red Steel 2 is an incredibly fun game. I played that game shortly after finishing the campaign in Modern Warfare 2 and I have to admit that I had more fun with Red Steel 2. Monster Hunter for the Wii is another incredibly well made game and pretty much the only RPG on the Wii.
However, both of these games are outliers to the typical games released for the Wii. I recommend them if you own a Wii.
Comment Re:Doubt it (Score 2, Insightful) 266
It's more open than Facebook.
Facebook's selling point was its exclusivity - you originally joined Facebook because only college kids were on it, and no one else. You stayed on it for the clean interface.
There's no incentive to join Diaspora.
There is at least one very good reason to join quickly. By being on of the first to join I get my pick of pretty much any username. I signed up for an invite purely to grab my username before someone else takes it. My username is pretty lame but dang it, it's mine. So, if against all odds Diaspora becomes popular then I'll be prepared.
AMD Joins Intel's MeeGo OS Effort 117
angry tapir writes "In an effort to expand software compatibility for its upcoming Fusion chips, AMD has joined rival Intel's efforts to develop the open-source MeeGo OS. AMD 'will provide engineering expertise intended to help establish the technical foundations for next-generation mobile platforms and embedded devices,' the company said in a blog post on its website."
Comment Re:WOT (Waste of time) (Score 1) 245
because it's WOT (Waste of time)
WOT is already taken for Wheel of Time. You'll have to find yourself a new acronym.
Comment Re:A bit big for their britches? (Score 1) 640
I'm wondering if the Ubuntu crowd isn't letting their success go to their heads just a tad. Just because they're the most popular distribution doesn't mean that they can start changing everything around and have everyone else follow their lead. It's one thing to make some incremental changes that you think are best for the distribution or for Linux as an operating system. [...]
Being the most popular distribution has nothing to do with it. Of course they can do what they want. We've known for a long time now that Canonical isn't a democratic company.
I don't think this should be as shocking to people as it seems to be. Meego is moving to Wayland. We've had numerous articles on how the X.org spec is outdated. And don't forget how Canonical couldn't get their multitouch code in where they wanted it.
