MathiasRav - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Roboticus Superioritis (Score 1) 54

by MathiasRav on Friday August 06, 2010 @11:12AM (#33162406) Attached to: Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing

I no longer login because I feel that while attacking a company's products is fair game (specifically Apple), having stories singling out their users as "selfish" and unkind is not "news for nerds stuff that matters". Am I an Apple fanboi? Let's just say I've used NIX for decades (yes I'm old) and I'm not talking OS X.

You know, registered users can have signatures.

Comment Pacman (Score 1) 118

by MathiasRav on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @08:11AM (#33121678) Attached to: Tracking the Harm Games Do

If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music.

Comment Re:Emperor is Naked (Score 3, Funny) 878

by MathiasRav on Friday July 23, 2010 @05:26PM (#33007976) Attached to: Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++

We need a new OS too. There hasn't been a decent OS since CP/M.

There's Emacs.

Comment Re:Unsuccessful download? (Score 1) 133

by MathiasRav on Thursday July 22, 2010 @05:09PM (#32996094) Attached to: Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs

Did you try wget? See what error it reports, or try with wget --continue (shorthand -c).

Comment Ipredator (Score 1) 356

by MathiasRav on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:01PM (#32971380) Attached to: Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP

Cool, reminds me of Ipredator. (Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month, Mar 27, 2009)

Comment Re:In other news (Score 1, Insightful) 514

by MathiasRav on Saturday July 03, 2010 @10:42AM (#32785678) Attached to: Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power

Bill Gates doesn't care about US corporate IP rights anymore, he cares about his legacy as a philanthropist.

Comment Re:This is going to be about as useful as 300+dpi (Score 1) 183

by MathiasRav on Friday June 11, 2010 @03:01PM (#32539826) Attached to: Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year

Yes, surely 1 GHz ought to be enough for everyone.

Comment Re:Having actually READ the novel (Score 1) 179

by MathiasRav on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:55PM (#32538628) Attached to: Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM

Being halfway through the novel now, thanks for not spoiling the ending.

Comment Useless (Score 1) 150

by MathiasRav on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:36PM (#32350020) Attached to: Secure Communication Comes To Android

Encrypted voice is US only, so that's no good for the rest of the world. Also, searching for TextSecure on Market doesn't yield any results on my Android 1.5 device (although the FAQ claims it works on all versions of Android), though 2.2 is fine. Sending encrypted texts to myself didn't work either, it says "Bad encrypted message..." but that might just be me doing something wrong.

Comment Re:what a waste of research (Score 1) 344

by MathiasRav on Saturday May 22, 2010 @05:39PM (#32308878) Attached to: Why Overheard Cell Phone Chats Are Annoying

So you don't mind hearing 1/3rd of the conversation? Fascinating.

FTFY (1/2 of the conversation is 3/2 of what he's interested in)

Journal Journal: Steam on Linux

Journal by MathiasRav on Thursday May 13, 2010 @03:02PM

I, for one, cannot wait to play Valve's games on Linux.

Comment Re:Dirty Unix Joke (Score 2, Informative) 295

by MathiasRav on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @04:52PM (#32186596) Attached to: Creating a Better Facebook

They photoshopped it away, the original is at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about_CA0/12about_CA0-articleLarge.jpg (mirrored at http://f.lolwh.at/eggy/12about_CA0-articleLarge.jpg in case they remove it).

Comment Re:Dirty Unix Joke (Score 2, Funny) 295

by MathiasRav on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @10:22AM (#32182158) Attached to: Creating a Better Facebook

But... you can't fsck when the drive is mounted! That's all wrong!

Comment Re:Please, please, (Score 1) 570

by MathiasRav on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @10:57AM (#32169384) Attached to: Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans

The bookmarks I need the most, I put on the bookmarks bar. The bookmarks I don't need as often, I name and access from the address bar (Enter title of bookmark, pick from suggestions), and to back up my bookmarks, it's Ctrl+shift+B, Tools -> Export Bookmarks. All I've ever needed.

Comment Re:"You keep using that word" (Score 2, Funny) 97

by MathiasRav on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @01:48PM (#32088208) Attached to: Martian Gullies Explained By ... Sand

They're definitely doing it on purpose.

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