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Comment Re:No CI? No version control? (Score 1) 362

by fatrat on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:30AM (#37687804) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments?

Exactly: "Never let a good crisis go to waste"

Comment Re:Content is keeping me away, not prices of reade (Score 1) 109

by fatrat on Saturday August 27, 2011 @03:34PM (#37229140) Attached to: Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall

If you buy Kindle books from Amazon, there's Calibre plugins that will automatically strip the DRM. All the O'Reilly books are available (directly from O'Reilly) DRM free. There's also other sources but, yes, there's no general DRM free store yet.

Comment Re:Google search worthless now (Score 1) 182

by fatrat on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:21PM (#37073308) Attached to: Why Google Needs Firefox

Google gives different results for different users, so if the OP is logged in they might well get a different set of results to you. Getting to a state where all the results are link spam is impressive though :)

Comment Re:It's symbiotic (Score 1) 182

by fatrat on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:18PM (#37073266) Attached to: Why Google Needs Firefox

It's not enough to exist - Opera doesn't have enough market share to really force change in the way FF does.

Comment Re:Happened once (Score 1) 352

by fatrat on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:52AM (#36718244) Attached to: IT Crises vs. Vacation: Sometimes It Isn't Pretty

He stared at the file for a few minutes (with #! /usr/bin/perl staring him right in the face) and asked, "What language is this written in?"

I often get that feeling looking at Perl code :)

The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design 242

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 26, 2010 @02:45AM from the how-to-pack-five-eggs dept.

I'm Not There (1956) writes "Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of the paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to study several sites, each more crowded than the last. 'It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, Web users and skilled Web design practitioners believe more is more.'"

Comment Re:Is really a bad, bad idea... (Score 1) 219

by fatrat on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:00AM (#29171177) Attached to: NASA May Outsource

The UK Post Office isn't privatised. Yet.

Comment Re:Not just assimilating information (Score 1) 468

by fatrat on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:25AM (#27937447) Attached to: Copyright Infringement of Books

Why are you ruining nice Scotch with ice and *shudder* soda?

Comment Re:Or in other words... (Score 1) 203

by fatrat on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:04PM (#27243663) Attached to: UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist

I believe that ACPO (the Association of Chief Police Officers) have written a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which they state that IT technicians investigating the matter will not be prosecuted...

http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/docs/mousexoffences.pdf

Comment Re:Maybe not. (Score 1) 596

by fatrat on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @06:33AM (#27222939) Attached to: What to Fight Over After Megapixels?

My Nikon D200 can do this, so I assume any more recent Nikon can also change the first three chars of the filename. I do as you want to and set the first three letters to my initials.

Comment Re:google running our government IT? (Score 1) 208

by fatrat on Friday March 06, 2009 @11:04AM (#27091455) Attached to: America's New CIO Loves Google

You do realize that Google also licenses out their applications for you to run internally right? erm. No. They don't. The only thing you can run internally is a Google search appliance. No gmail. No apps. No docs. No chat. In other words, shut the hell up because you don't know what you're talking about. hm.

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