Comment Re:That is the modus operandi (Score 1) 373
... 2 bit encryption. There is only two keys. 1 and 0.
Wouldn't that be 1-bit encryption?
More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."
Comment Re:I looked into this problem recently (Score 1) 5
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
I meant to say - the hardware acceleration in the flash settings, which is one of the more extreme measures you can take to workaround the problem. Apparently that's the only workaround for 64-bit builds.
Comment I looked into this problem recently (Score 1) 5
Problem is Firefox, has been fixed in latest builds (not yet officially released). It's fixed in 3.5.3 apparently, there's a patch you can apply to the source on the bugzilla somewhere. There's a workaround in the meantime, if you want to wait for the fix to make it to the stable releases, you need to set the environment variable LD_PRELOAD to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
There's a few ways to do this, I put "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" into my .bashrc as a quick hack; prior to that (because I couldn't be bothered restarting X) I modified the .desktop file so that it ran "env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/libGL.so.1 firefox %s" instead of "firefox %s".
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
There's a few ways to do this, I put "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" into my
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
Comment Re:Chrome OS? (Score 1) 278
Pretty easy to comprehend 10^6. A googol is of course 10^100, which is a lot harder since that is twenty orders of magnitude larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Comment Re:Let's get this straight... (Score 1) 278
That's not a bug, its a feature - for a long time the bit the supplied "uninstaller" didn't uninstall was the same bit they relied on to stop users from getting new trial subscriptions by simply uninstalling and reinstalling (just some stuff sitting under %userprofile%\application data)
Comment Chrome is the new Emacs? (Score 5, Funny) 1089
Chrome is a nice operating system, but it could do with a decent web browser.
Comment My two favourites (Score 1) 655
1. Call of Duty 4 would crash in Vista with a certain on-board soundcard unless you plugged something into the microphone port (headphones would do).
2. Visual Studio has this bug where occasionally Find in Files keeps returning zero results unless you press Ctrl-ScrollLock or Alt-ScrollLock (depending on which version of VS you have)
2. Visual Studio has this bug where occasionally Find in Files keeps returning zero results unless you press Ctrl-ScrollLock or Alt-ScrollLock (depending on which version of VS you have)
Comment Body 2.0? Oblig. (Score 1) 330
I'm holding out for Body 3.11 for Workgroups.
Comment Re:ha! (Score 1) 544
Heh, I put Ubuntu on my eee 900 but found the ~40 sec boot time way too slow for me :) Firefox would keep freezing and greying out which made it feel very bloaty.
So I put Arch on and it boots in around 20. Firefox problems almost gone, a lot better than before. eduke3d runs better too, but still keep running out of RAM after playing for a bit though. :( Probably should stick it to those SSD lifetime naysayers and have some swap...
So I put Arch on and it boots in around 20. Firefox problems almost gone, a lot better than before. eduke3d runs better too, but still keep running out of RAM after playing for a bit though.
"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe 583
DynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The material is pulling clusters of galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient matter to create the effect. They can only speculate on what the material is and how space might differ there: 'In these regions, space-time might be very different, and likely doesn't contain stars and galaxies (which only formed because of the particular density pattern of mass in our bubble). It could include giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe. These structures are what researchers suspect are tugging on the galaxy clusters, causing the dark flow.'"
