Krokz - Slashdot User

Comment Get less data greedy browser (Score 2, Interesting) 441

by Krokz on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @06:17PM (#30381884) Attached to: AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data

Well I tested Opera mini against symbian browser in my Nokia, but still:

BBC main mobile page:
Operi Mini: 7kB (!); 3 good q thumbnails
Symbina in build browser: 26kB; one thumbnail more - commercial

CNN main mobile page:
Opera mini: 13kB
Symbian in build browser: 68kB; one thumbnail more - local weather

Engadget main page, tested several times, couldn't bealive the results:
Opera Mini: 177kB
Symbian in build browser: 2.50MB (!)

Ofc, App store would never allow Opera ;)
Even dough Opera uses their proxy servers, for compressing the data and sending it to clients, the loading of pages is still faster because of the good compression and add-blocking.

Submission + - BlizzCon 2009 starting

Submitted by Krokz on Thursday August 20, 2009 @01:55PM

Krokz writes: BlizzCon 2009 (press release and official site), an annual convention of the game giant Blizzard, is starting today. This years opening ceremony announcement is to be another World of Warcraft expension called Cataclysm. Guys at MMO champion collected some data on it and posted it on their forum. This years BlizzCon will be separated into several areas where a two day schedule will cover WoW and incoming Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2. Tournaments will take place in Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and WoW arena as well as scheduled live raids from top guilds on the convention itself. Ozzy Osbourne, the only mortal to openly challenge the Lich King's claim to the title "Prince of Darkness" and survive, will take the stage live at Anaheim Convention Center to rock the closing ceremonies. Although tickets to the convention sold out in minutes, you can still join in with the 'BlizzCon Virtual Ticket' live Internet stream or via DIRECTV Pay Per View. The Virtual Ticket will feature 18 hours of BlizzCon coverage, including Ozzy's live performance.

Submission + - Major growth of Wi-Fi devices in US

Submitted by Krokz on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @03:07PM

Krokz writes: Network company Meraki has conducted an interesting census about recent changes in Wi-Fi area. Here is 9to5mac article about it:

"The census compared activity seen by a single set of 10,000 randomly selected Meraki wireless access points in North America in 2008 and 2009 in order to understand macro-level traffic and end-user device trends. The number of Apple devices observed, including laptops, iPhones and iPods, grew by an impressive 221%. Apple devices now represent 32% of all the devices seen by this set of Meraki networks in North America, compared to just 14% in 2008. The number of Research In Motion (RIM) devices observed in North America grew by 419% from 2008 to 2009, and Nokia devices grew by 114%. In 2008, RIM devices represented just 2% of all devices observed, but grew dramatically to 8% for 2009. In 2008 and 2009, Nokia represented 1% and 2% of all devices, respectively.

Comment Penn & Teller say Bullshi! (Score 1) 202

by Krokz on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @02:15PM (#29108953) Attached to: Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports

Bullshit covers this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiDfwsphVs 6:15 onwards. Makes you loose hope in humanity.

Comment lOld (Score 1) 105

by Krokz on Thursday August 13, 2009 @03:05PM (#29055935) Attached to: Joachim De Posada Talks About Delayed Gratification

Does a clip have to get on YouTube to get posted on /.? Its been on TEDs for months now... several speeches emphasized these theme in the past and like someone said, was widely distributed more then a decade ago in Goleman's bestseller Emotional intelligence.

Comment Does it really matter what the study sais? (Score 1) 921

by Krokz on Thursday July 30, 2009 @05:53AM (#28879269) Attached to: UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food

What is the point of a study if everyone thinks it was corporate sponsored? I am a cynic person myself but if the study said that organic is healthier then everyone would say it was paid by the green/organic industry corps. btw, I know farmers that just fill out the state forms and get federal subvention for being 'organic', but what they do on the field is something different. Of course they don't spray the shit out of it but its certainly not organic or else the harvest is halved.

Submission + - Facebook uses pictures without permission. (latimes.com)

Submitted by Krokz on Saturday July 25, 2009 @06:10AM

Krokz writes: : A warning is bouncing through cyberspace today, landing on the Facebook statuses of many of the social networking site's users. The message: "Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission." It continues with a prescription of how you can protect your photos. LA Times link.

Getting Beyond the Helldesk 474

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, 2009 @12:19AM from the through-the-perly-gates dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've been working as a helpdesk monkey for over a year in a small-medium sized law firm of around 200 users and I don't know if my patience and sanity can last much longer. I'd like to remain in IT, but in less of a front-line role where I can actually get some work done without being interrupted every five minutes by a jamming printer or frozen instance of Outlook. There isn't really any room for progression at my current employer, and with the weak job market it seems I can only move sideways into another support role. I've been considering a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it. Do any Slashdotters who have made it beyond the helpdesk have any knowledge or wisdom to impart? Is formal education a good avenue, or would I better off moving back home, getting a mindless but low-stress job, and teaching myself technologies in my free time?"

Comment Try first, then diss (Score 1) 278

by Krokz on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @02:18PM (#28198881) Attached to: First Beta of Opera 10 Released

I use Opera since way back and I convinced a lot of my more computer educated friends to use it to... but last years was a pain. A lot of sites did not render well on Opera 9.x and I had to use snail FireFox for them. Opera 10 Alpha worked well dough, last half a year I used it instead of Firefox for sites that did not render correctly. 99.99% of sites I tried were rendered well and now that its status is beta I officially switched beta for my main browser. It works surprisingly good, integrated spell check is amazing and some of the old features that I had to enable/change them with editing .ini files are configurable now via GUI. And I have no idea why you folks diss Opera add-block, it works for long time as someone already mentioned, and it works good. The only other browser I tried and was as good as Opera was Chrome, mainly because of it amazing speed and Opera failed on some Google Aps (no way of using spreadsheets with Opera 9.x). Short story, stop dissing Opera, most of the critics here are gone with version 10 so try it first.

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