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Submission + - Community-sourced news site, soylentnews.org, goes live 18

Submitted by umafuckit on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:57AM

umafuckit writes: soylentnews.org is the new way of taking the pulse of the nerd community. Soylentnews is a grassroots-based platform with the content feeds are powered by readers like you. The objective is to highlight news stories of general importance to everyone, but especially nerds. News about technology, art, science and politics: it's all there. Soylentnews is the new kid on the block and will adapt quickly to satisfy our community's needs and and push boundaries like never before. This is a real community site: no changes in format without a general consensus from the community. Stop by and see what you think of the freshly-launched site.

Submission + - Altslashdot.org becomes Soylentnews.org (soylentnews.org) 1

Submitted by rueger on Sunday February 09, 2014 @03:58PM

rueger writes: After the initial flurry of activity, especially in their forums, it appears that the rapidly growing altSlashdot community is moving to a new URL: http://soylentnews.org There's no confirmation yet, but the whiff of Dice lawyers seems to be in the air.

Meanwhile work continues apace to create a Slashdot fork for people that feel that the proposed Beta format won't serve their needs.

Submission + - The nmber of users that SLASHDOT will lose with new interface? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by jackb_guppy on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:37PM

jackb_guppy writes: SLASHDOT today started to push users from the old interface to the ugly, slow, new interface. Any guess on the number of users that will be leaving SLASHDOT. So much for market share.

Comment BYOD? Great! (Score 1) 381

by gostu on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:04AM (#43607673) Attached to: Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017

Here's my Nokia 3210. Of course it's good enough, I paid a lot for it back in 1999. What? You never said it HAS to be a smartphone...

Comment Orbiter (Score 5, Interesting) 64

by gostu on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @07:20PM (#42266799) Attached to: Learning Rocket Science With Video Games

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Realistic space flight simulator. The most fun way of learning orbital mechanics ever!

Comment Re:you get what you pay for (Score 1) 70

by gostu on Friday November 16, 2012 @04:32PM (#42005371) Attached to: Free Registrar co.cc Goes the Way of the Dodo

They also have double standards, since the scam site they redirected to was in itself violating their ToS. Anyway, the pdf you linked says that now they're no longer enforcing the "each domain must have a website" rule. I wonder if there's any truth in this.

Comment you get what you pay for (Score 1) 70

by gostu on Thursday November 15, 2012 @09:15PM (#41997797) Attached to: Free Registrar co.cc Goes the Way of the Dodo

I used to have a .tk domain for my website for several months, and I wouldn't recommend it. Everything was fine until a power outage forced my server to shutdown. As soon as the power was back up, I checked my .tk website only to find out that my domain was redirecting to a "you won a free ipad" scam site. I was certain that my dotTk account was hacked and so I wrote an email to the provider. Their response stated that this was in fact, a standard procedure: they have a script that every once in a while verifies that all .tk domains actually host a website. If it finds any domain without a website, and my domain registered as such because of the power outage, it is automatically redirected to a "sponsor" website. They said that the only way to avoid this is to upgrade to a premium account. They eventually restored my domain, but the damage was done. I had to personally call all my users (some of which are not very technical) to warn them about the scammers. Since then i moved to a paid domain (not .tk) and never looked back. You get what you pay for, and if you want a domain that actually works, a free .tk is not a good choice.

Notification UI Overhauled in KDE 4.10 (And a Plan For Modernized Notifications) 67

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 20, 2012 @08:31PM from the it's-the-little-things dept.

Via Planet KDE, some good news for people who hate the KDE 4 notifications applet (coming in KDE 4.10): "So, it seems it's that time of the year again... the plasmoid used in KDE Plasma Desktop to display notifications and the progress of transfer jobs started to really show its age, due to some bad limitations in the old QGraphicsview code to handle complex layouts, so it appeared quite buggy and not so smooth to use. ... The fact that there is some research/development being made to build a new backend for notifications that will support many new features, more 'modern' to be actually useful with the applications that are so heavily 'communication' oriented (both desktop clients and web stuff), that became essential part of out workflow. ... The story begins more than a year ago: we needed a way to display notifications on Plasma Active, and obviously the desktop applet used back then wasn't enough. ... Since we would have to rewrite it in QML anyways, we started it." The article has two videos: one of the new UI in Plasma Active on a tablet, and another of it on the desktop. They share basically the same code base, differing only by a couple hundred lines of QML. In addition to this, another KDE developer has been musing on a replacement for the freedesktop.org notification protocol designed to fix the deficiencies that have made themselves apparent over the last few years (parts one and two).

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