cbowland - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Really good ideas... (Score 1) 282

by cbowland on Friday September 04, 2009 @04:10PM (#29316411) Attached to: New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative

Velo- commuters are definitely the minority in MO, but at least in St. Louis City and County, there are a fair number. I used to be one (and will again) until I dislocated my elbow last month. I commuted by bike (not everyday) about 4000 miles in the last 20 months. Not a huge amount as my ride is only 9 miles one way, but enough that I considered myself a commuter.

Comment Re:Traditional movie stores are dead (Score 1) 250

by cbowland on Sunday March 15, 2009 @09:46AM (#27199463) Attached to: Blockbuster Total Access Unannounced Policy Change

I love the "Reserve Online" bit from Redbox, particularly for new releases. Just a little bit of foresight and I don't have to wonder what I'm going to be watching that night.

Submission + - Upgrading CPUs of a Mac Pro to Quad Core Xeons

Submitted by

EB

on Monday February 12, 2007 @04:08PM

EB writes: "Macbidouille/HardMac just released a step-by-step procedure to replace original Dual Core Xeon CPUs of a Mac Pro 3.0GHz by Quad Core Xeon X5355 CPUs clocked at 2.66GHz. OSX can already handle all cores, so let's get a 8-Core Xeon-powered Mac Pro before Apple releases it. http://www.hardmac.com/articles/70/"

Submission + - Wanted: 160 Missing FBI Laptops

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:56PM

An anonymous reader writes: The FBI had at least 160 laptops lost or stolen over the past four years, including 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and at least one that held "personal identifying information" on FBI personnel, according to a report released today by a Justice Department oversight arm. The report found that 51 of the laptops reported lost or stolen may have contained classified data, but that FBI didn't have enough information to say conclusively. The Washington Post notes that only one of the cases documented in the report indicated that the data contained on the lost laptop was protected with encryption technology.

Accurate Browser Statistics? 137

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:25PM from the determining-browser-share dept.

zyl0x asks: "A co-worker of mine has been made responsible for a large web application for our software product, and he was having a hard time deciding what functionality to implement, and whether or not to sacrifice functionality for a larger user base. With Walmart's harsh stand on browser compatibility, we got to thinking, exactly how many users would we be alienating by using some IE-only functionality on our website? We tried crawling the internet to get some current, accurate browser usage statistics, but we could only find stats for specific websites. I thought I'd try sending Google a request, since we imagine they'd have the lowest-common-denominator in terms of types of users, but I received an email from their press department telling me that they 'don't make that kind of information available.' Where can one get a current, accurate, and un-biased measurement of browser usage? Is it even possible?"

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