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Comment Depends on the environment and task at hand (Score 1) 1131

by dastrike (#26683947) Attached to: Favorite text editor?
Configuration file editing and such:
  • Windows: Notepad
  • Linux: vim

Coding and other such stuff:

  • Windows: Visual Studio 2008
  • Linux: I don't know anymore. I haven't coded that much in Linux in the past years. I have got stuck in a MS realm at work, and don't really have the inspiration to hack away at code at home in my Linux environment in the evenings.
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South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity Screenshot-sm 849

Posted by samzenpus from the f@#k-those-f@#king-f@#kers dept.
MBGMorden writes "It looks like in an act that defies common sense, a bill has been introduced in the South Carolina State Senate that seeks to outlaw the use of profanity. According to the bill it would become a felony (punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison) to 'publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.' I'm not sure if 'in writing' could be applied to the internet, but in any event this is scary stuff."

Comment Subway train (Score 2, Interesting) 887

by dastrike (#26424969) Attached to: How do you get to work?

Subway train for the predominant part of the work commute.

About 37 minutes from the apartment door to the office door, broken down roughly:

  • 4 minutes walk from the apartment door down to the subway station platform. Fairly easy to time it correctly so there will be no time over for waiting for the train.
  • 26 minutes sitting on the subway train. This is almost at the end of the line so it is almost assured that one can get a seat on the train.
  • 7 minutes walk from the subway station platform to the office.

This is in Stockholm, Sweden. A 30-day public transport pass goes for about $86 USD worth. Using the car would just be silly given the congestion charge and the general congestion despite the congestion charge, and the awful parking situation in the city centre. A motorcycle would possibly be the fastest choice though, blasting past the car queues and also being exempt from the congestion charge and much easier to park. A bicycle could work as well, but I am a bit hesitant about riding a bike in the inner-city traffic.
Censorship

Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China 87

Posted by timothy
DragonFire1024 writes with this story from Wikinews that says "access to the Chinese Wikinews website has been blocked in China. Wikinews can also confirm that the English version of the website is still available in China. ... Users using the social networking site called Twitter have reported that the site was "blockade[ed] today by the mainland" of China. Others, writing on the Wikimedia Foundation's mailing list also state that the Chinese version of Wikinews is blocked in major Chinese cities such as Beijing."

Comment Re:Why 32-bit? (Score 1) 848

by dastrike (#26401953) Attached to: Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay

Where I work, we developers are currently in the process of getting new workstations which have quad core processors and 8 GB of RAM. Quite a step up from the current 3+ year old low-end officeboxes that we have been stuck with. Single-core Pentium 4 or AMD Sempron in them, and 1.5 to 2 GB of RAM.

The operating system will be Vista 64-bit, and also XP 32-bit in a virtual machine to maintain all legacy cruft that doesn't like Vista and/or 64-bit.
Portables

Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard 312

Posted by timothy from the want-it-already dept.
El Lobo writes "Asus' success with its Eee line of netbooks might have come as a surprise, but the company is now determined to expand the Eee brand into every possible niche and form factor. Case in point: the insanely cool Eee Keyboard, which will surely bring a smile on the faces of those who remember the glory days of the home computer. Described as a fully functional PC with inset Qwerty key arrangement, the keyboard has a 5in touch screen that displays a suite of bespoke media controls or a Windows desktop."
Windows

32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP 641

Posted by kdawson from the getting-a-feel-for-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tested the latest Win7 build against XP and Vista and came to a surprising conclusion: Win7 performs better than the other 2 OSs in the vast majority of the 23 tasks tested. Even installation. 'Rather than publish a series of benchmark results for the three operating systems (something which Microsoft frowns upon for beta builds, not to mention the fact that the final numbers only really matter for the release candidate and RTM builds), I've decided to put Windows 7, Vista and XP head-to-head in a series of real-world tests...'" This review shows only a 1-2-3 ranking for each test, so there's no sense of the quantitative level of improvement.
The Media

Technocrat.net Shut Down 326

Posted by timothy from the best-wishes-good-luck-and-too-bad dept.
twitter writes "Bruce Perens has pulled the plug on Technocrat.net. 'The technocrat.net public discussion site is shut down. This has happened because the site never achieved the ability to financially sustain its editorial staff and system expenses with its revenues. When it became evident that Technocrat was un-viable as a business, I found that I did not wish to keep supporting the site as a hobby. Certain elements of the community that developed here, unfortunately, creep me out. At the end I faced the decision of asking for donations to keep the site running, or letting it die, and it became clear to me that I'd feel better if it would just die. I am very busy building a new software business, with some great new (and yet unannounced) Open Source software in development. I must focus on that for now. Best holiday wishes to you all.'"
Cellphones

Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone 115

Posted by Soulskill from the there's-no-iphone-in-team dept.
mhm was one of many readers to note that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the iPhone. "Planetbeing, one of the iPhone devteam members, has been working on porting Linux to the iPhone (along with a custom bootloader called OpeniBoot). Today they managed to boot the kernel! Video showing the boot process has been posted. Instructions and binaries are available on the project blog."
Space

Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 101

Posted by Soulskill from the that-atmosphere-had-it-coming dept.
IHateEverybody writes "Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The chunks are being ripped up along 'magnetic umbrellas,' which are bubbles of magnetic fields which rise from the ground and extend above the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising because scientists previously thought that these magnetic umbrellas protected the Martian atmosphere. Now it looks like exactly the opposite might be true."
The Military

Northrop Grumman Markets Weaponized Laser System 246

Posted by Soulskill from the hoping-for-a-bulk-discount dept.
stephencrane writes "Northrop Grumman is making available for sale the FIRESTRIKE weaponized laser system. The solid-state laser unit weighs over 400lbs, sends/receives instructions and data via an RJ-45 jack and can be synchronized with additional units to emit a 100 kW beam. It looks like some piece of stereophonic amplification equipment out of the '50s. Or Fallout 3. The press release suggests that FIRESTRIKE 'will form the backbone of future laser weapon systems.'"
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Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old Screenshot-sm 276

Posted by samzenpus from the he-prefers-kipping-on-his-back dept.
laejoh writes "Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot sketch' — which featured John Cleese — is some 1,600 years old. A classic scholar has proved the point, by unearthing a Greek version of the world-famous piece. A comedy duo called Hierocles and Philagrius told the original version, only rather than a parrot they used a slave. It concerns a man who complains to his friend that he was sold a slave who dies in his service. His companion replies: 'When he was with me, he never did any such thing!' The joke was discovered in a collection of 265 jokes called Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which dates from the fourth century AD. Hierocles had gone to meet his maker, and Philagrius had certainly ceased to be, long before John Cleese and Michael Palin reinvented the yarn in 1969."
Microsoft

Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 242

Posted by kdawson from the should-have-hired-stephen-king dept.
Preedit writes "The State of Maine is the latest organization to skip Windows Vista, which has been a near-disaster for Microsoft. An internal state document (dated September 15) uncovered by Infoweek reveals that Maine will not be upgrading its more than 11,000 personal computing devices from XP to Vista — ever. Instead, it's going to wait until Windows 7 ships in 2010 and hope for the best. The news is in line with a survey that shows only 4% of businesses in the UK have upgraded to Vista, the story notes. So much for that $300 million Seinfeld campaign." A commenter on the article makes the point that Maine's signing an enterprise software license with Microsoft means that Redmond doesn't really lose out on this deal; it simply allows the state to upgrade its equipment and software on its own time.

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