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Comment Re:Save to PDF (Score 1) 302

by hcs_$reboot (#48872653) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch?
Creating a PDF sounds very static. How do you generate dynamic pages? Even a small change like displaying the time would require a new PDF generation. While it's doble to automatically generate PDFs on the fly, doing so for all clients is likely to be a slow, resource eater process. Even for static pages, some browsers/configurations do save the PDF as a file / download, or open the doc in a separate tab/window. Pretty inconvenient for the end user.

Comment CSS (Score 2) 302

by hcs_$reboot (#48872481) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch?
Using a framework would really make sense for the client side, imo - ie CSS, Javascript, HTML, to cope with browsers differences and other language peculiarities, the result is usually immediately visible, tangible. The server side otoh may require more attention to detail if data from client is checked / analyzed / processed / stored - leaving that responsability to a framework will likely produce a lot of spaghetti code doing only approximately what you want, and any manual maintenance (ie modify the resulting code directly) is hard and cut the consistency links with the FM.

Submission + - Microsoft reveals Windows 10 will be a free upgrade (mashable.com)

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: Microsoft just took another big step toward the release of Windows 10 and revealed it will be free for many current Windows users.

The company unveiled the Windows 10 consumer preview on Wednesday, showcasing some of the new features in the latest version of the operating system that powers the vast majority of the world's desktop PCs. The developer preview has been available since Microsoft first announced Windows 10 in the fall, but it was buggy, limited in scope and very light on new features.

Importantly, Windows 10 will be free for existing Windows users running versions of Windows back to Windows 7. That includes Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows Phone. Microsoft specified it would only be free for the first year, indicating Windows would be software that users subscribe to, rather than buy outright.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President of the Operating Systems Group Joe Belfiore showed off some of the new features in Windows 10. While Microsoft had already announced it would bring back the much-missed Start Menu, Belfiore revealed it would also have a full-screen mode that includes more of the Windows 8 Start screen. He said Windows machines would go back and forth between to two menus in a way that wouldn't confuse people.

Belfiore also showed a new notification center for Windows, which puts a user's notifications in an Action Center menu that can appear along the right side, similar to how notifications work in Apple OS X.

Microsoft Executive Vice President of Operating Systems Terry Myerson revealed that 1.7 million people had downloaded the Windows 10 developer preview, giving Microsoft over 800,000 individual piece of feedback.

Myerson explained that Windows 10 has several main intents: the give users a mobility of experience from device to device, instill a sense of trust in users, and provide the most natural ways to interact with devices.

Submission + - France's Hollande sees popularity jump after attacks

Submitted by hcs_$reboot
hcs_$reboot writes: French President Francois Hollande's popularity has surged to its highest level in nearly a year and a half after the deadly Islamist attacks in Paris. Hollande's ratings have leapt by a record 21 percentage points to 40 per cent, according to an opinion poll published on Monday. Hollande rushed to the site of the first attack, and then a few days later he led a march with other world leaders in Paris. Prior to the attacks, Mr Hollande's ratings had fallen to historic lows in the face of record French unemployment and sluggish growth.

Submission + - Microsoft researchers use light beams to charge smartphones (computerworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by angry tapir
angry tapir writes: A group of Microsoft researchers has built a prototype charger for smartphones that can scan a room until it locates a mobile device compatible with the system and then charge the handset using a light beam. The researchers say they can achieve efficiency comparable to conventional wired phone chargers. The biggest barrier? Smartphones don't (yet) come with solar panels attached.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot : How do I backup a Mac System disk that can be used as a backup? 1

Submitted by Yankee Echo
Yankee Echo writes: There are a couple of well known apps like Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper that make bootable images for a Mac System disk.

While that's peachy, when your main system disk dies when you're out traveling, and you try to use the backup, you can indeed boot up from it, but several apps refuse to run or bitch that their "installation is broken" (yeah, you Adobe). Clearly these apps are pathologically coupled to something like the serial number of the original system disk...

Is there *really* no way to make a backup of a Mac System disk that really is a, err....backup?

Even if you're not out traveling and you swap out the HDD or SSD in the Mac, now what? It appears you are going to have the same problem — so how can one actually make a viable backup of a Mac system disk that doesn't require app reinstallation and/or major groveling at vendors to permit re-authorization of the apps?

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