Comment Re:celsius (Score 1) 1233
But don't forget about the Americans who prefer Celsius, I hear they do exist.
Do you really think both of them voted in this poll?
Comment Re:Better than GPX *how*? (Score 1) 177
Because any XML structure will be beyond terrible for efficiency. You want to know how to get to point B today, right?
Comment Twitter is fragile (Score 5, Insightful) 256
Twitter's infamous 'Fail Whale' was also called into action as servers at the micro-blogging site crashed as 66,000 Tweets were made within a 60-minute period.
That's it? That's all it takes to bring Twitter to its knees? A measily 18 tweets per second? Do they manually transcribe the messages after having read that an air gap was the most effective security you could get? Or is the article plain wrong.
Seriously confused here.
Comment Re:Gentoo Did This Years Ago (Score 5, Informative) 425
Gentoo managed to get this kind of setup working years ago, didn't they?
So did Debian. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as the port is poetically named has existed for a long time (see mailing list archives). This story is just about it being accepted as an official part of Debian. Who got there first? Who cares.
Comment Re:This shall do (Score 1) 353
You're welcome.
Comment Re:FFS NO NO NO!!!! (Score 1) 429
Do one job and do it well
That's UNIX mentality, but you're applying it where it makes no sense. It's fine when you can have as many little tools as you like, but I don't want to have to carry a phone, a gps, a camera, a texting device, a pda, a handheld gaming device, etc. when I can get it all in one phone. If you want a phone that's only a phone, get one. There are plenty out there, but the vast majority of people enjoy having multiple devices in one.
Submission + - Rockbox / iTunes Communicate for syncing (daniel.haxx.se)
DarkkOne writes: Though it won't be included in their upcoming 3.2 release (due in a week), Rockbox hackers have developed a patch to allow some players (those with software controlled USB) to answer the iTunes SCSI inquiries and convince it they're an iPod that can be synced with. Among other things, this currently allows Rockbox to tell iTunes we can support WAV files recorded at frequencies not normally able to be synced to an iPod. This comes on the heels of (and as an extension to) the new USB stack inside Rockbox. The image in the article may not prove anything, but the code is available on the Rockbox patch tracker for any to play with. This, among other things, allows iTunes to sync to players without specialized scripts. For those who wish to use the iTunes music store to buy their newly DRM-freed music but want a little more choice in the hardware department, this could soon be the answer.
Comment Re:Correlation is not causation (Score 1) 307
all a groups copyrighted work was suddenly available for download for free
I keep seeing this mentioned, yet Youtube only holds 47 shortish Monty Python clips. Where can I see the rest of their stuff then? Do people simply not care, and just assume that everyone else is right when they say that MP put all their stuff online?
Comment Re:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Score 1) 449
2) Rockbox's "talking menus" are nothing like the system Apple have patented
I'm sorry, but it's exactly like Rockbox' talking menus. Have you ever tried it? Knowing how it works, you couldn't tell from reading the patent application that it wasn't talking about Rockbox.
Journal Journal: Sun's ODF Plugin for MS Word 3
Sun recently released a free-as-in-beer plugin for microsoft Word which allows it to read and write (and therefore edit)
So, not only can OpenOffice.org read and write MS Word documents, but now those using Word can do the converse.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near 331
daria42 writes "Ubuntu developers are finalizing preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April. Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu's main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version ("Herd 5") of the next version of Ubuntu."
