Comment Re:Realtime typing? (Score 1) 336
$ which talk
which: no talk in (/usr/lib/colorgcc/bin:/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/games/bin)
I guess a replacement was needed.
Comment Re:Fine print (Score 1) 277
Anybody know how to confine the mouse cursor movement to a window (ie like VirtualBox) in Ubuntu 9.04?
Xlib has XGrabPointer(). GTK+ has gdk_pointer_grab(). SDL has SDL_WM_GrabInput(). Don't know about QT.
Comment Fourth reason (Score 2, Insightful) 371
Fourth reason:
The BSA does not sue you for millions of dollars if you're infringing.
Submission + - Tested: Five Web browsers you've never heard of 1
An anonymous reader writes: Whether you consider Opera an underdog browser or not, it came out on top in a feature on CNet this weekend. It was up against "underdog Web browsers" Camino, K-Meleon, Shiira and Arora in a piece loosely aimed at determining whether these browsers are yet ready to steal significant numbers of users from Firefox, Safari, IE etc. Interesting most to me, however, is that it transpires that Shiira, the Mac browser from Japan, is one of the fastest browsers on the planet, beating the original Chrome v1.0, Firefox 3.5 and more in its benchmark tests.
Submission + - Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard (cnet.com)
bonch writes: On Friday, Microsoft posted to a mailing list that IE developers are reviewing the HTML5 standard for future versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft is dragging its feet, however, saying that they "have more questions than answers" and criticizing many of HTML5's new tags like HEADER, FOOTER, and ASIDE, calling them "arbitrary" or unnecessary. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft waited too long to try to influence basic parts of the spec that most of their competitors have already adopted.
Comment Re:Worth the wait. (Score 1) 453
Completely agree with parent. The game is done, now they just need more time to implement corporate requirements like anti-piracy-does-not-work software and "dynamic ads" engines. Or something. Anyway, to me, no LAN, no buy.
Comment Re:This is how it always goes down (Score 1) 119
Congratulations. The ad worked perfectly. It managed to catch your eye and intrigue you during a boss battle (which in itself is no small feat) and had you get back to the level to figure it out. Rogers is now forever associated with this game in your mind, and probably also in the mind of a fraction of readers of your post.
Ads are social engineering. Ads work. It was money well-spent by Rogers. You're proof.
Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31
Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."
White Knight Two Unveiled 144
xanthos writes "Sir Richard Branson was at the annual Experimental Aircraft Assoc Fly-in to show off EVE (previously known as White Knight Two), the launch vehicle for Virgin Galactic's commercial space operation. Test flights for the vehicle are slated for next year with the first paying passengers going up in 2011. What surprised me was the following from the article: 'So many people have signed up already, Whitehorn said, that the company has collected $40 million in deposits with orders to build five spaceships to meet the demand.' Will this mean that the $200k price tag may be dropping?"
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions 646
Stupified writes "High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (complaint, PDF), because doing so destroyed the annotations he'd created to the text for class. The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.' The suit, which is seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages for those affected by the deletion. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit."
Comment Re:So sad... (Score 1) 383
You do not have to use multiple threads in order to wait for the network without locking your UI. select(2) has existed since the dawn of time, and there are other ways now to achieve the same thing. Multithreading only spans better to multiple cores and is a little easier to write.
Comment Re:*now* you pull the trigger on the story.. (Score 1) 387
They did not want to add the Slashdot effect to the Jackson effect...
Submission + - Rapidshare Fined $34M Over Content Filtering
adeelarshad82 writes: File uploading service Rapidshare was fined $34 Million by the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany after a request by royalty collection group GEMA. The site has also been required to block and delete all of the 5,000 tracks represented by that group.
Submission + - 15 Year Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System (inhabitat.com)
Mike writes: "Signaling a bright future for sustainable energy, 15-year old Javier Fernandez-Han has created a remarkable algae-powered energy system that is capable of producing food and fuel, treating waste, containing greenhouse gases, and releasing oxygen. Dubbed the VERSATILE system, the project recently netted him a $20,000 scholarship for winning this year's Invent Your World Challenge."
Submission + - SPAM: Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers
FiReaNGeL writes: "Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. First observed following a close flyby by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in July 2005, the jets were found to consist of both water vapor and icy particles, said Professor Nicholas Schneider of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The jets inspired speculation by planetary scientists that they were geysers — violent explosions of water out of a vent caused by expanding bubbles of water vapor emanating from an ocean beneath the icy crust of Enceladus."
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