Comment who that individual would be (Score 1) 2987
An 8 year old child?
Or a teacher who goes to an elementary school with a gun under his belt?
Submission + - Slashdot and Hacker News raise $43,200 for the FreeBSD Foundation in three days! (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The FreeBSD Foundation has posted blog article article talking about the remarkable surge in donations they've received in the last three days following a recent Slashdot article reporting on weak fundraising this year. Deb Goodkin reports that the FreeBSD Foundation, as with many non-profits, receives more than 50% of its annual funds at the end of the US tax year, but that the Foundation has never seen this rate of donations before, and will hit a new record for unique donors this year. She comments that it was Slashdot readers that made the difference! She does, however, appeal for further donations noting that they have a long way to go on their full goal.
Comment Black Sea (Score 1) 412
So that's how the Black Sea came to be.
Submission + - Popular list archive Gmane stopped working (gmane.org)
avgapon writes: It seems that the popular web-archive (and NNTP interface) for many mailing lists stopped working some time yesterday.
The site and the NNTP interface keep working, but no new messages appear there.
The site and the NNTP interface keep working, but no new messages appear there.
Submission + - Cash-strapped Nokia to sell company headquarters 1
An anonymous reader writes: Amid reports of Microsoft creating its own smartphone and ever dwindling financial reserves, the once undisputed leader in smartphones who bet everything to Redmond, is now planning to sell its luxurious waterfront headquarters in Espoo, Finland.
Comment Re:Thin client is not a bad thing (Score 2) 121
Sorry, but I couldn't find Plex for FreeBSD or Plex Source Code on their download page.
Comment Re:Code reinvestment and positive feedback loops. (Score 1) 178
Are you quite sure of what you say here?
E.g. look at Andorid as an example of sharing back by mandate. Revealing some derived source-code and truly sharing it back (making it usable) is not the same thing.
Also, regrading the hardware support, GPL has nothing to do (in direct sense) with many companies providing linux drivers for their hardware. You know, much more companies provide windows drivers (and even certify them with ms) and that's not because of gpl. It's just that historically linux has achieved (a lot) more popularity than BSD-derivatives.
Comment fine grained? (Score 1) 311
You don't. The whole point of sudo is that it gives you fine-grained control over the privileges of each user.
I wouldn't call it fine grained.
Comment xf86-video-ati (Score 1) 65
Same as many people use on Linux.
Comment It's Ukraine, no "the" (Score 1) 57
It's Ukraine, no "the"
Comment Re:Java support (Score 2) 183
I use Eclipse 3.6 on FreeBSD without issues.
Installing Java (openjdk) from ports was trivial.
Combining Two Kinects To Make Better 3D Video 106
suraj.sun sends this quote from Engadget about improving the Kinect 3D video recordings we discussed recently:
"[Oliver Kreylos is] blowing minds and demonstrating that two Kinects can be paired and their output meshed — one basically filling in the gaps of the other. He found that the two do create some interference, the dotted IR pattern of one causing some holes and blotches in the other, but when the two are combined they basically help each other out and the results are quite impressive."
US Embassy Categorizes Beijing Air Quality As 'Crazy Bad' 270
digitaldc writes "Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the US embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was 'crazy bad.' The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an 'incorrect' description and it would revise the language to use when the air quality index goes above 500, its highest point and a level considered hazardous for all people by US standards. The hazardous haze has forced schools to stop outdoor exercises, and health experts asked residents, especially those with respiratory problems, the elderly and children, to stay indoors."
Comment hardware watch conditional watch (Score 0, Redundant) 154
It seems that the discovered functionality is about extending standard hardware watch feature with ability to match actual data being accessed, not only address.
