portablejim - Slashdot User

Comment freely available at a reasonable price (Score 1) 120

by portablejim on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @08:21AM (#42324175) Attached to: Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks

...and at the same time as the rest of the world. Social media is big enough that a delay is really noticeable.

Note: Please don't talk about the Hobbit film. It releases for us on the 26th December 2012. (thankfully not in December 2013)

Comment Re:Too many distros == confused users. (Score 1) 172

by portablejim on Thursday August 16, 2012 @06:44PM (#41017765) Attached to: Happy Birthday, Debian!

It would be nice if some of these distributions that are basically identical would merge together. Linux would likely be less confusing to Windows users if they didn't look and see 50 different versions of it.

Could http://xkcd.com/927/ apply to this as well?

Comment Re:Now you tell us. (Score 1) 284

by portablejim on Saturday June 30, 2012 @08:52PM (#40508069) Attached to: The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready?

*groan*

How stupid of me.

The occasion that I comment about missing something due to being several hours ahead is one of the few occasions where it does not matter.

Comment Now you tell us. (Score 1) 284

by portablejim on Saturday June 30, 2012 @07:52PM (#40507833) Attached to: The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready?

Being UTC+10 means that I read this story and get excited about watching the leap second, only to discover it happened last night. I guess because I didn't notice means that I was ready.

Submission + - Canonical releases Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin (extremetech.com)

Submitted by

MrSeb

on Thursday April 26, 2012 @07:56AM

MrSeb writes: "No one can accuse Canonical of sitting around during the first quarter of 2012. With no less than six different release announcements since January, it seems that everything that Mark Shuttleworth’s company has been working on for the past few years is crystallizing all at once. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS today, Canonical is looking to end the quarter on a high note by providing a stable release that is aimed directly at enterprise deployments. Precise Pangolin doesn’t offer any new functionality that fans of the Ubuntu platform haven’t already seen — but it will be the first time that enterprise users get to use the controversial Unity UI..."

Comment Allows mulitple monitors with rotation (Score 5, Interesting) 231

by portablejim on Friday April 13, 2012 @10:56PM (#39682397) Attached to: Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux

One thing which you cannot do with the official NVIDIA driver for GNU/Linux is have mixed rotation monitors. (I would like to be proven wrong - have even tried to prove myself wrong, but given up).

I currently have one monitor in portrait and one monitor in landscape and one monitor in landscape, with the ability to drag windows from one to the other. I have some acceleration, which allows me to see through terminal windows.

Nouveau works, official one does not work. Simple choice.

Comment Re:The Real Problem (Score 1) 274

by portablejim on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:42PM (#39610445) Attached to: OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru

Offtopic: Why is there no way to 'fix' moderations. I have several times modded someone 'offtopic' or 'overrated' when I meant to put 'insightful', 'funny' or 'interesting. I then have to post and I then cannot moderate an article as I cannot delete a comment.

Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 1) 154

by portablejim on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @07:16PM (#39420725) Attached to: The Risk of a Meltdown In the Cloud

Accedently modded down, ment to mod up.

Comment Wait till Apple gets a hold of this (Score 1) 284

by portablejim on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @09:34PM (#39040309) Attached to: Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication

Apple has made it increasingly hard to charge one of their devices without an Apple charger (see http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/icharge.html). Once they get a hold of this it will mean that all iDevices will only chage with authenticated Apple chargers.

Comment Re:a simple policy for a simple situation... (Score 2) 332

by portablejim on Monday January 16, 2012 @06:53AM (#38711990) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

+1. Also, with a DD-WRT (or Openwrt) you can easily* enable internet access only on Sunday. * In DD-WRT, it is under "Access Restrictions" => "Days"

Comment Re:a simple policy for a simple situation... (Score 1) 332

by portablejim on Monday January 16, 2012 @06:52AM (#38711986) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

Just realised I posted AC.

Comment Re:Freedoms (Score 1) 138

by portablejim on Monday September 13, 2010 @10:43PM (#33568710) Attached to: Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible

I am a Christian as well, and although the Bible should not be burned, it is his copy to do as he likes with it.

The reaction that I have towards what he has done, so it pray for him

Comment Re:It should be: 4+3+2=x+2 (Solve for x) (Score 1) 1268

by portablejim on Friday August 13, 2010 @07:25PM (#33247128) Attached to: US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign

As mentioned, you divide by 0, since step 5 "Remove cancelling values (a - b)" means "Divide both sides by (a - b)"
a = b therefore a-b = 0
The step now becomes "Divide both sides by 0"

Comment If that's all the info that collected (Score 1) 548

by portablejim on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:18AM (#33202180) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

It seems like they just want uniquely identify the computer (ie. for networks behind nat) plus version info. Is this not http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ and http://counter.li.org/ doing the same thing?

Comment Re:Find a new site (Score 1) 660

by portablejim on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @08:37AM (#31921236) Attached to: Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock

Just added it now to my adblock white-list.

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