Comment Epub is the standard for digital books (Score 4, Informative) 76
It makes me sad that Amazon don't support it natively.
Comment Re:There will be no GNOME 4. (Score 2) 378
the answer to your questions is extensions.gnome.org
I hated gnome shell until this site came online. Distros will fix the gnome usability issues as usual - give it some time.
Comment "and a Siri board member" (Score 5, Insightful) 800
Stopped reading after that
Comment Re:WebOS is staying on my TouchPad (Score 1) 96
and it will continue to do so until you update webos - 3.02 came with a lot of essential performance fixes, i hated it until i updated.
Comment Re:WebOS is staying on my TouchPad (Score 1) 96
Yeah, and the T&C screen didn't allow wifi connections via captive portal or enterprise-wpa with certificates. (webos does allow these once you get past the initial screen). i ended up making my android phone a wifi hotspot to get past the initial screen
Submission + - How MS may stop you from installing your own OS (dreamwidth.org) 1
EponymousCustard writes: Redhat developer Matthew Garrett provides details of how Microsoft require that UEFI secure boot is a requirement of conforming to the Windows 8 Logo program. The side effect is that "A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux" (or other unsigned operating system for that matter). I think he is right to suggest we should be concerned.
Comment Re:Finally (Score 2) 247
or...just in time for one raspberry pi per child!
Comment Option to connect to an old-school TV (Score 1) 349
First time I've heard this mentioned. This really is the successor to the BBC Micro!
FTA:
"Something we didn’t realize is that Raspberry Pi not only intend to make this PC work through a HDMI and DVI connection, they also want it plugged into old analog TVs just like kids managed with in the 80s. It also means you don’t need an up-to-date display in order to start playing with this device"
FTA:
"Something we didn’t realize is that Raspberry Pi not only intend to make this PC work through a HDMI and DVI connection, they also want it plugged into old analog TVs just like kids managed with in the 80s. It also means you don’t need an up-to-date display in order to start playing with this device"
Comment Here's his message to the mailing list (Score 3, Informative) 49
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1108&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&P=30820
Hi,
I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect for Scientific Linux, but it is time for me to move on. I have accepted a job offer from Red Hat to work on their new openshift project. ( https://www.redhat.com/openshift/ )
My last day working for Fermilab, and on the Scientific Linux project will be September 2, 2011.
Thank you to everyone who has encouraged, thanked, and helped me over the past 8 years that I have worked on Scientific Linux. I have said it before, and I'll say it now, The Scientific Linux community is one of the best communities there is.
Troy
Hi,
I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect for Scientific Linux, but it is time for me to move on. I have accepted a job offer from Red Hat to work on their new openshift project. ( https://www.redhat.com/openshift/ )
My last day working for Fermilab, and on the Scientific Linux project will be September 2, 2011.
Thank you to everyone who has encouraged, thanked, and helped me over the past 8 years that I have worked on Scientific Linux. I have said it before, and I'll say it now, The Scientific Linux community is one of the best communities there is.
Troy
Submission + - Scientific Linux's Troy Dawson leaves FermiLabs (fnal.gov)
EponymousCustard writes: On a day of big resignations, we also hear that Troy Dawson of the scientific linux project is joining redhat, and will no longer be working on Scientific Linux. It will be a big loss. thanks to troy for all the great work!
Comment "No ecosystem" (Score 5, Insightful) 280
HP have inadvertently discovered how to create huge demand and massive customer base overnight: find the right price point and lots of publicity
Comment Re:Rollback system changes (Score 4, Interesting) 198
Snapshot takes minimal disk space compared to a backup. Plus you would need to backup the entire / tree to rollback changes made by a yum update.
Comment Rollback system changes (Score 2) 198
Does this mean we are a step closer to the possibility of snapshotting system states and rolling back to before a bunch of updates were installed?
Comment Re:No buttons, no deal (Score 2) 93
wouldn't a bluetooth hand-held controller remedy that problem?
Comment ARM and AMD (Score 5, Informative) 70
Speaking to EE Times during a discussion of ARM's first quarter financial results CEO Warren East said: "AMD is a successful company selling microprocessors. ARM is in the business of licensing microprocessor designs. It is perfectly natural that we should have been trying to sell microprocessor designs to AMD for about the last ten years. Hitherto we haven't been successful."
East also said: "AMD has signaled they are going through a rethink of their strategy, and that must provide a heightened opportunity for ARM. They might use ARM microprocessors in the future and you've got to expect that we would be trying to persuade them of that."
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4215518/ARM-working-on-AMD-to-drop-x86
