Jephir - Slashdot User

Comment In my experience... (Score 2) 1231

by Jephir on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @09:38PM (#29972208) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

... Ubuntu 9.10 was actually less buggy than previous releases. Before my system would crash whenever put into suspend mode, audio would stop working after resuming from suspend, Flash would constantly crash Firefox, etc. None of which are a problem in the current release.

Comment Re:You can't knock Kalypso Media (Score 4, Informative) 68

by Jephir on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @05:51PM (#25475105) Attached to: Four Add-ons Planned For <em>Sins of a Solar Empire</em>

As far as I know, Impulse does not contain any DRM. You can install Sins of a Solar Empire from Impulse, then uninstall Impulse and Sins will continue to work fine.

Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack 275

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 18, 2008 @11:19AM from the may-xenu-protect-you dept.

lbwbl writes with news that a New Jersey man will plead guilty to one felony count of 'unauthorized impairment of a protected computer' for his distributed denial of service attacks on Scientology websites as part of 'Anonymous' earlier this year. From Wired: "He faces a likely sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison based on stipulations in his plea agreement, which also obliges him to pay $37,500 in restitution. ... Friday's case, in US District Court in Los Angeles, marks the first prosecution of an Anonymous member for a series of attacks against the Church of Scientology that began in mid-January. The secretive religious group strayed into Anonymous' sights after trying to suppress the publication of a creepy Tom Cruise video produced for Scientology members."

Do Software Versions Really Matter? 693

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @05:45PM from the blame-patrick-volkerding dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I work for a rather large software company and I am currently working on a completely new product. So new in fact, that the official name has not even been decided. I had assumed that the version number for this product would be 1.0 (at most). However recently I learned that the Product Managers want to release this NEW product with a version number somewhere between 5.0 and 8.0 because 'there is a stigma about buying 1.0 products. People assume it's no good.' This latest Dilbert-esque comedy routine nearly sent me over the edge. So to gauge my sanity against that of the upper Product Management, I ask the community: Do version numbers play a role in software decisions, or have product version numbers lost all credibility and meaning? Would the community feel comfortable buying version '6.3' software (and paying tens of thousands of dollars for it) knowing that it was the first release of the product?"

99.8% of Gamers Don't Care About DRM, Says EA 554

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @12:15PM from the they-also-don't-understand-it dept.

arcticstoat writes "If you thought that EA might have been humbled by the massive Internet backlash against its use of SecuROM in its recent games, then you'd be wrong. Speaking at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference, EA's CEO John Riccitiello claimed that the whole issue had been blown out of all proportion. 'We implemented a form of DRM and it's something that 99.8 per cent of users wouldn't notice,' claimed Riccitiello, 'but for the other 0.2 percent, it became an issue and a number of them launched a cabal online to protest against it.'"

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