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Comment Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS (Score 1) 319

Do you have Steam auto starting at powerup, and do you know how many games are attempting to synchronise their cloud backup data at startup?
My router has fits and sometimes reboots after powering up my win7 PC. Trying to eliminate what could be flooding it, and so far Steam appears to be the only likely candidate.

Comment Re:without decent drivers (Score 1) 188

... CCC's problems have nothing to do with the development environment, language, and framework used ...

Well I seem to remember repeated faults with mismatched .Net library dependencies and somehow ending up with a CCC installation that would not load up its user interface and could not be fixed by uninstall/re-install and wasted many days of effort. But I guess you are right, it takes a special kind of developer to make such a poor hash-up of a user interface.

Comment Re:without decent drivers (Score 3, Informative) 188

Yeah I feel the same way about their driver support, couldn't trust them with too much of my limited gaming hardware budget.
Also, would it be really really difficult for them to hire some decent programmers and produce a new version of Catalyst control center that doesn't have to run on .Net?
Whatever happened to C++ and fast reliable software?

Comment Re:The bacterial excretions (Score 0) 149

I recall an "alternative" medicine article I read recently (but didn't take too seriously) which insisted that raising the body's overall pH level above a certain point would pretty much give protection against cancer. This would seem to agree, if the acid excreted by these bacteria is the link, as suggested.
Hopefully these avenues are being investigated.

Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 1) 289

I found a hacked version of cyanogen that some lad put together, camera drivers were a bit suspect from all accounts, just haven't built up the courage to try it yet.
I guess my real gripe is with the LG support - if some teenager hobbiest can get cyanogen to work on the phone then LG must have technical people who could do something similar.
(and to the other dude, this is New Zealand, there are no cheap phones here. I think it was at least $200 when I bought it)

Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 4, Informative) 289

Thing is, he's not wrong. Most consumers won't notice.

I certainly noticed when Google Chrome would not install on my android 2.3 phone, which LG refuse to provide any further updates for.
In fact Google seem to be the most inclined to produce apps which will only run on the latest version of android and bugger anybody who hasn't thrown out last years tech and bought something new.

Comment Re:Never a serious activity (Score 2) 112

People who are investigating this process on their own are much further a long the path of truth then those who just repeat wrote memorized lessons from official sources of information provided by your exalted overlords.

If he wrote the meaning of the word rote enough times, maybe he would remember how to spell it.

Comment Re:Decade long dearth? (Score 1) 312

Eureka! is for idiots too stupid for Sci Fi that want to pretend to be Sci Fi fans.

How can you say that? At least 50% of the events/effects in each episode are caused by electromagnetic field fluctuations, 25% are something to do with sonic resonance, the remainder of the problems and/or solutions involve the word "quantum", and occasionally they even threw in the word "gravity". Ok, so there was lots of fiction... maybe it should be called Sigh Fi.

Comment Rely on packaging? not really (Score 1) 138

"Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system."

Recently I thought I would try the latest Qt IDE on Ubuntu 12.04. Did the apt installs and tried to use the IDE, got strange error messages and a crashing app just from trying to access some of the tools. After going thru all the obvious steps and finally ending up on the forums with the appropriate authorities on Qt, I get advised that I should uninstall the Ubuntu packages and download and build it all myself, cos the Ubuntu packages are usually borked.

And this after I had just spent several months trying to convince myself that Linux had come a long way towards being a reliable click-and-go desktop solution.
Not a hater, I have been used Linux for fun and a little programming for well over 10 years, I just feel disappointed every time I have to sift thru the crap and read the discussions across several eras of a library or app's evolution to find the solution to a problem, cos I relied on the packaging system of the distro I am using at the time. Its fun and all, at first, but eventually gets tedious. Perhaps I should ditch Ubuntu, but its not like this is the ONLY distro I ever encountered this with.

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