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Comment Backed up in the cloud (Score 1) 498

I lost all my old C64 floppys when my parents moved to a new house. Felt a bit sad that every demo I ever made was gone.

Luckily I found them again when googling my own name! Turned out that someone I have never met had the time and devotion to find them, transfer them to a PC, read every scroll text and attribute every part to the correct person. They even found my real name, and my old address and phone number by dumping the memory at $3000. :-)

An important note here is that I am not a well known scener, nor was my group, and the demos were not very technically advanced or pretty. But if something ends up on the internet it seems like it will never go away.

Comment Re:UEFI has been around for years. (Score 1) 216

There will come a time when you get sick of having to worry about choosing between DDR2 or DDR3, different memory speeds and clock timings, CPU sockets, Graphic Cards, driver versions, registry tweaks and stuff like that. I know I was.

I built my own PC's for at least 12 years before I lost interest in harware configuration. I first switched to using different prebuilt PC brands like Dell and IBM (for work) to at least get a computer that was reasonably quiet. Yes I did try out watercooling, but while being more quiet, it was not exactly maintenance free.
The I switched to a MacPro and OS X as my primary workstation at work. Mostly because Visual Studio link times were horrible and also because I found out that OS X is a great developer platform with it's UNIX internals. I will never go back. I happily leave the hardware tuning to Apple so that I can spend my time developing instead.

BTW, my work desktop has 8 cores and can have at least 32 GB of RAM. It's very fast, and what Apple does well is that they don't cheap out when it comes to IO performance, which is what matters most when developing. It was probably really expensive, but it doesn't matter that much when it's company paid.
At home i use a 27" iMac with a quad core i7. Again, quite expensive, but worth every penny specifically because I don't have to worry about hardware configuration.

And just to point out - I don't consider myself a fanboy. I don't care at all about Steve Jobs, or Apple as a company. I just found out that they made great performing, quiet and nice looking computers with a very nice OS that lets me focus on what I do for a living.

Comment The test is vastly incomplete... (Score 5, Interesting) 382

...according to the test developers.

According to wired:

Run IE9 against other aspects of HTML5 and the browser would be decidedly behind its competitors. IE9 lacks support for Web Workers, drag-and-drop features, SVG animations and the File API, all of which are vital components for building useful web applications, and all of which enjoy considerable support in other browsers.

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W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser 382

GIL_Dude writes "The W3C posted results for their latest HTML5 compatibility tests and have found that, so far, IE 9 has the best overall results. 'The tests cover seven aspects of the spec: "attributes," "audio," "video," "canvas," "getElementsByClassName," "foreigncontent," and "xhtml5." The tests do not yet cover web workers, the file API, local storage, or other aspects of the spec. Not do they cover CSS or other standards that have nothing to do with HTML5 but are somehow lumped under HTML5 by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.'"

Comment Re:LibreOffice is painful to pronounce. (Score 1) 500

The funny thing about the umlauts is that danish doesn't even have them. They use å, æ and ø, while we swedes however use å, ä and ö for (almost) the same sounds. Metal band names with umlauts, like motörhead and mötley crüe really messes with our heads, and it took me a good 15 years before I found out that I had been pronouncing them wrong all the time...

Submission + - Dearest Slashdot overlords:

An anonymous reader writes: You assume in your home page layout that you know the size text that my browser is showing. You don't. (I have Firefox configured with minimum text size of 16, so I can actually read those little squiggles on /. pages.) In particular the quote of the day overlaps the dark grey box at the bottom of the page. This little example isn't too troublesome, but I don't want to see a trend starting. Yes, I know there are a million morons designing web pages who assume a particular size font; phooey on them. Don't you start, mister... :) See www.useit.com/ for priceless web page design info. Thanks a million for an otherwise truly GREAT web site. Ron Charlton

Submission + - Sweden rejects Assange residency application

Jazzbunny writes: Sweden's immigration authority on Monday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request for residency, a potential setback in his efforts to gain protection from Swedish press freedom laws. "His application has been denied," Migration Board spokeswoman Gunilla Wikstrom told The Associated Press. She declined to give the reason, saying it was confidential.

Comment Re:I Can Only Hope This Keeps Fumbling (Score 1) 535

Or even from iTunes Music Store. They haven't had DRM on their music since march 2009.

I buy all my music from eMusic. It's a subscription based service and they sell you music from all but the biggest labels for about half the price of iTunes's.
All music is in high quality MP3's and once you bought them, you can download them again and again on any number of computers.

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