wild_oscar - Slashdot User

Comment Boot time vs resume from suspend (Score 1) 221

by wild_oscar on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @04:42AM (#36881062) Attached to: Ubuntu 11.10 Down To 12-Second Boot

The boot time of my Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop is 2-3 seconds. True, it's not boot from scratch, it is resume from suspend. But I've wondered: wouldn't it be better to focus on making the OS suspend/resume compatible with the majority of computers instead? I asked myself this because boot time will only be so fast. And for the end user, if you suspend and the machine goes to a no-energy spent mode and he then turns it on and it takes 3 seconds to resume where he left off...it seems better than a 12 second boot.

Comment Re:Stupid Zuckerberg (Score 1) 350

by wild_oscar on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @05:00AM (#35805196) Attached to: Ceglia Sues For 50% Facebook, Old Emails as Evidence

I did! Do you want to know how? I will be glad to tell you. Just transfer me 20 euro through paypal and I'll tell you the secret.

Comment Re:Buy Only What You Want (Score 1) 313

by wild_oscar on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:47PM (#34997704) Attached to: Italian Consumer Watchdog Sues Microsoft Over 'Windows Tax'

>I don't expect a refund on the skin of an onion that gets peeled and promptly thrown away. How about when you go to the restaurant and you buy a burger ($5, extra onion $2). You ask the waiter for the plain burger and pay with $10. How much change do you expect to get?

Comment Re:Predicted future news: (Score 1) 184

by wild_oscar on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:03AM (#34752830) Attached to: Why Digital Newsstands Stink

Whats the optical difference between "reading" wireds app, and "cruising the web" by jaywalking over to www.wired.com? Does the app suck, more than the website, I mean?

Also, why is it no good for reading, other than some marketing guy says e-ink is better and some stockholm syndrome victims repeat it?

I have no problem reading on my ipad. I'm told I'm supposed to, but the dang thing just works.

Two reasons: a) The difference is between a physical magazine and the digital counterpart, not between reading a magazine or surfing the web b) Reading a magazine just seems better than reading from a screen. It's the whole experience, not just what text is printed, that counts.

Comment Re:Overhead wires (Score 1) 168

by wild_oscar on Thursday December 30, 2010 @11:16AM (#34710790) Attached to: South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet

The electrical bus fleet at Shanghai's 2010 expo had something smarter: charging stations at the bus stops.

Comment Safer with CCTV (Score 1) 280

by wild_oscar on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @07:37AM (#34684820) Attached to: London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day

Having traveled to London recently, more than helping solve crimes, I believe the main advantage is *preventing* crimes. With its maze of tunnels, the truth is that one feels pretty safe walking on a deserted Underground tunnel when you know there's a CCTV camera dissuading criminals from acting. And this clearly surpasses any pseudo-discomfort from a "Big Brother effect": hey, I've got nothing to hide. If you want to film me, go ahead.

Comment Re:Sadly (Score 1) 360

by wild_oscar on Thursday April 08, 2010 @04:42AM (#31773050) Attached to: Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid

I tried Ubuntu, But I just can't.

I wanted to install my favorite niche physics package. I couldn't even figure out how to set the files to 777 through the GUI, I had to 'sudo chmod' them.

Oh and no 'su'? really? I mean 'sudo bash' isn't that hard but jeez I don't know if this is more secure, but it sure is harder to use. I think I'll install centos before going back to fedora.

you can tell ubuntu is getting pretty good when the trolls have to try this hard to criticize it.

or did I miss a whoosh somewhere?

Why don't you create a root account so you can su all you like? Also interesting: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1415&tag=nl.e011

Comment Flood Israel (Score 1) 460

by wild_oscar on Friday March 26, 2010 @02:20PM (#31629982) Attached to: Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea

Now, if only Israel and Palestine could be submerged...

Comment Re:Why not just buy a motorcycle? (Score 1) 494

by wild_oscar on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @05:42AM (#30817430) Attached to: The Year of the E-Bicycle

At $2,300, you better offer me something that work without pedaling! Why charging the price of a motorbike for a bicycle?

Comment Re:The beating heart... (Score 1) 207

by wild_oscar on Friday November 13, 2009 @11:19AM (#30087046) Attached to: openSUSE 11.2 Released

Probably because when somebody is using Linux, odds are good they're running Ubuntu (according to distro watch, for example). Ubuntu is as good as any other distro, and Canonical is making a remarkable work making the adoption of Linux work. Please, don't ruin that with elitist comments.

Comment The same for Microsoft (Score 1) 280

by wild_oscar on Thursday April 30, 2009 @01:49PM (#27775863) Attached to: Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe

I'd like to see the day where the EU will do the same for Microsoft. I would like to see the day where I could buy a computer and either a) didn't have any OS installed (meaning I'd have to buy a Windows license if I wanted to buy it with windows) b) Force stores to give me the cashback if it came with a Windows OS and I didn't want to use it

Comment Re:Faster than Vista! (Score 1) 689

by wild_oscar on Friday October 31, 2008 @03:04PM (#25587621) Attached to: Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista

People who use actually have used Ubuntu have long been aware that it outperforms XP. Not sure why we have the non-story about it outperforming Vista though...

Not true. I seem to remember XP was probably faster on my old PC than the Ubuntu version I used then (Feisty, if I'm not mistaken).

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