Comment Re:Is that supposed to be news?? (Score 1) 202
With Ubuntu I have no way of doing that.
They took cron out of Ubuntu? That seems silly.
Submission + - Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Believe it or not, it wasn't iternet.com or dot.com that was purchased when the Internet was "born." Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first
to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com
Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm,
has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first purchased back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."
Comment Re:Because its a useles skill (Score 1) 921
You don't even need to know how to spell your own name in order to come up with a "Signature". Looking at mine you MIGHT be able to figure out my first initial and the first letter of my last name, but the rest is gibberish. Nobody cares what the signature actually says, as long as it matches whatever sample they happen to be looking at (e.g. back of credit card, drivers license, etc.)
Comment Re:26 years (Score 1) 921
If I'm trying to explain something while sitting on a terrace, I'm probably talking to the person I'm trying to explain the something to. The only use a pen and paper is going to be is drawing little diagrams to try and make the verbal explanation a little clearer. If I need to write something down to remember for later, I'll just jot it down on the smart phone that I "lug" everywhere with me anyway.
Besides, the prerequisite to explanations on terraces is usually copious amounts of alcohol. Drunk writing is usually as illegible as drunk texting.
Comment Re:Who in their right mind would want to use FAT? (Score 1) 272
and there are those who wonder why people don't use linux
How many "normal" users would know how to format a disk in Windows? I would hazard a guess that most people get their storage devices pre-formatted and have never used the disk management interface.
Comment Re:As usual with new Firefox releases... (Score 2, Informative) 436
The opera menu item at the top is much better than the "Open All in Tabs" at the bottom of the bookmark folder? Personally, I don't really see a difference, but I guess there could be an issue with someone not having the attention span to read all the way to the bottom of the menu. Middle clicking on the folder is just an interface shortcut.
Comment Re:You've bought the rhetoric. (Score 1) 440
In MD at least, the ticket does go to the car owner, and not the driver. The red light camera ticket I saw had only a picture of the rear of the car, and you could in no way identify the driver.
In BC the registered owner can nominate the driver if they were not driving. However, if you do that, the driver ends up with the same fine and penalty points on their driving record. If you loaned your car out to someone and you later get a ticket in the mail because they ran a red light, get them to reimburse you for the fine. It seems to work reasonably well for car rental companies.
Comment Re:Subscription services and auto-renewal are new? (Score 1) 194
I have a number of magazine subscriptions. One of them automatically renews but they will give a full refund for any remaining unmailed issues if I cancel the subscription. Would the "security" firms give a refund if someone cancelled before the automatically renewed subscription time had elapsed?
Comment Re:Why are they attacking him? (Score 1) 273
Shush. Don't confuse them with facts.
Comment Re:They got a refund (Score 1) 1002
Driving the moving van or rolled up in the carpet in back?
Comment Re:2009 (Score 5, Insightful) 305
The moderators are drunk on Christmas spirits.
Submission + - PS3 hits petaflop performance of Stanford computer
Stony Stevenson writes: PS3 owners who have linked the third-generation videogame console to the University's distributed computing project have driven the medial research system to a peak of one petaflop, Sony said Friday.
Since March 15, nearly 600,000 PS3 owners have joined Stanford's Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases. The PS3's computing power in conjunction with about 200,000 other computers on the network have pushed the system to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
"Thanks to PS3, we are now essentially able to fast-forward several aspects of our research by a decade, which will greatly help us make more discoveries and advancements in our studies of several different diseases," said Vijay Pande, associate professor at Stanford and Folding@home project.
Since March 15, nearly 600,000 PS3 owners have joined Stanford's Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases. The PS3's computing power in conjunction with about 200,000 other computers on the network have pushed the system to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
"Thanks to PS3, we are now essentially able to fast-forward several aspects of our research by a decade, which will greatly help us make more discoveries and advancements in our studies of several different diseases," said Vijay Pande, associate professor at Stanford and Folding@home project.
Submission + - Google changes its front page... a little
subdigit writes: After years of having a fairly consistent layout of their front page, Google has changed its front page.... just a little. It's not much of a change to most of us, but given Google's page design history, it's a big step.
More Moderation Madness 316
The quest for a better moderation system continues onward. In response to the huge amounts of feedback I've received in the last 24 hours, I've implemented a few changes to the system that you should note. Click the link below to read about some new features, include the upcoming system for "Meta Moderation".
