damagemanual - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Taking control of multiple screens.

Submitted by shift on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:16PM

shift writes: I've used multiple monitors for years (currently 3) and find that Linux is lacking in power tools for such setups. Even Windows 7 has added the feature to move a window from screen to screen with keyboard shortcuts. Are any of the major desktop environments adding such features? I'm still stuck on FVWM and have define functions to swap the contents of screens as well as move windows from screen to screen and so on. But this just seems like such basic functionality people would want in multi-screen setups that I'm surprised I don't find any of these features in our latest desktop environments!

Submission + - Google Voice Transcribes "Night Before Christmas" (appscout.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Friday December 04, 2009 @10:28AM

SkinnyGuy writes: Google Voice's transcription technology is OK, but it can mangle some of the simplest phrases. Here, someone asks it to transcribe a voicemail of the entire "'Twas the Night before Christmas." With prhases like "so up to the house tops of course is a flu...with the sleigh full of toys in Saint Nicholas 2" the result is hilarious.

Submission + - LHC gearing up to restart this weekend (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Godskitchen on Thursday November 19, 2009 @10:47PM

Godskitchen writes: The world's largest atom smasher – a giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but was broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird. – has been repaired and scientists hope to restart it this weekend.

Submission + - Microsoft leaks details of 128-bit Windows 8 (pcpro.co.uk) 11

Submitted by Barence on Thursday October 08, 2009 @06:48AM

Barence writes: Microsoft is planning to make Windows 8 an 128-bit operating system, according to details leaked from the software giant's Research department. The discovery came to light after Microsoft Research employee, Robert Morgan, carelessly left details of his work on the social-networking site, LinkedIn. His page read: "Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM." It has since been removed.

Submission + - Guide to Seeing the LCROSS Lunar Impact (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by Matt_dk on Thursday October 08, 2009 @06:03AM

Matt_dk writes: The LCROSS spacecraft is going to impact the Moon tomorrow, and here's your chance to watch the action, either just for fun, or to contribute to scientific observations. Whether you want to observe with your own equipment or watch the event on television or a webcast, here you'll find all the information and links you should need to be a part of history. Amateur astronomers need a 10-inch or bigger telescope to make observations.

Submission + - Where's the command-line web?

Submitted by

shovas

on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:26PM

shovas writes: "As *nix enthusiasts, sysadmins, programmers and hobbyists, we all know the great value of the many command-line tools at our disposal on a *nix system. Sometimes you don't have access to your favourite utilities, though. Where's the command-line web when you need it? Where's that traceroute app I can wget with my server's IP address as the query string? Where's that sed app I can post my document to and process a complex regular expression substitution? Where's the simple ping command that I can call and see the plain-text response times as output? Imagine if all the GNU utilities were webified and available and just a telnet away... Is anyone doing this already?"

Submission + - Palm Developer Relations Co-Leader Responds to JZW (pre101.com) 1

Submitted by

El Royo

on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @06:48PM

El Royo writes: "Recently Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian.com and Bespin fame) joined Palm to lead developer relations. They faced their first crisis with Jamie Zawinski's well-publicized complaint about Palm's app approval process. Ben has posted an early response to the community on his blog."

Submission + - Leaked: Sony's Motion Control Plans, PS2 Emulator

Submitted by

daggar phoenix

on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @04:57PM

daggar phoenix writes: "A leaked document appearing to contain confidential notes from an August 5 meeting between Sega and Sony Computer Entertainment America may have revealed a release date for the platform holderâ(TM)s motion sensing controller, as well as plans to launch a PS2 emulator for PS3."

Comment Out of This World (Score 1) 1120

by damagemanual on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @08:21PM (#28860861) Attached to: Which Game Series Would You Reboot?

I would love to see a reboot of Out of This World

Submission + - World's oldest tattoo written in soot (newscientist.com)

Submitted by ewenc on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @02:31PM

ewenc writes: A series of tattoos belonging to Otzi the 5300 year-old Tyrolean Iceman are made of soot, reports New Scientist. Mountain climbers discovered Otzi's mummified body in the Austrian-Italian alps in 1991. What's left of his skin was littered with simple cross and line markings.

Electron microscopy and spectroscopy now show that Otzi's tats are made of double-bonded carbon indicative of soot, as well as silicate crystals that probably came from rocks surrounding a fire pit. Full disclosure: I work for New Scientist.

Comment Re:They Have A Point (Score 1) 1161

by damagemanual on Friday March 06, 2009 @04:24PM (#27096471) Attached to: Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution

One can carry on an interveiw and not look like an ass, even when it's been edited.

Comment Re:They Have A Point (Score 2, Interesting) 1161

by damagemanual on Friday March 06, 2009 @02:33PM (#27094293) Attached to: Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution

I totally agree with you. I just finished watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last night. As an atheist, I was embarrassed after watching the final interview with him. He came off as pompous and ignorant.

Norwegian Websites Declare War On IE 6 349

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 20, 2009 @05:32PM from the we-just-quit-testing-on-ie6 dept.

Eyvind A. Larre writes "A large and rapidly growing campaign to get users to stop using IE6 is being implemented throughout Europe. 'Leading the charge is Finn.no, an eBay-like site that is apparently the largest site for buying and selling goods in all of Norway (Finn is Norwegian for "Find"). Earlier this week, Finn.no posted a warning on its web page for visitors running IE 6. The banner, seen at right, urges them to ditch IE 6 and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.' The campaign is now spreading like fire on Twitter (#IE6), and starting to become an amazing effort by big media companies to get rid of IE6! The campaign also hit Wired some hours ago."

Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala 305

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 20, 2009 @04:02PM from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Mark Shuttleworth has announced the next release in the horribly alliterative Ubuntu family, "Karmic Koala." The new version hopes to include a newer, shinier, faster startup, better small screen support, a spruced-up desktop look (no more brown), and many minor tweaks and updates. "A newborn Koala spends about six months in the family before it heads off into the wild alone. Sounds about perfect for an Ubuntu release plan! I'm looking forward to seeing many of you in Barcelona, and before that, at a Jaunty release party. Till then, cheers."

UK Proposes Broadband Expansion, Plus a Music and Film Tax 262

Posted by timothy on Friday January 30, 2009 @04:11AM from the delicious-candy-with-a-sweet-poison-center dept.

Wowsers writes "First the tech illiterates in the UK government want to extend broadband internet connections to every home, whether it makes sense or not, then at the same time they propose a £20 per year (approx $29US) broadband tax which they claim will pay the record and film industries for their failed business models. Coincidence the two proposals are linked? And why should people be forced to pay for the failed film and music industries?"

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