Comment Re:What I'd Like to Know (Score 1) 389
Cmd+shift+4 (gives you cross hairs you can drag for any region). Then hit the space bar to toggle window mode. It will capture the window you are hovering over when you click.
Comment Re:Does it explain the sucky battery life? (Score 2, Interesting) 248
Sonds like the firmware got corrupted. My wife took her 3GS (1 year old to the day) in to the apple store last night. A tech looked at it, found it reported ~8 hours of battery life but 700 days of standby time. Obviously this was not right, found the firmware was corrupted and asked if she would permit a wipe and restore. Apparently this caused some errors in the back and a few min later he came back with a new phone for her.
As it was the last day of the included warranty it only cost us a few minutes of our time. Note that as it was the firmware that was the problem she could not do a full restore from her computer. Just reinstalled apps, some restored data some did not. And had to re-setup to her liking.
Comment Re:7 hours easy, 8 should even be possible (Score 4, Informative) 454
Over 50% of Apples hardware sales are laptops, has been for many years now. Apple still only represents some 5-10% of the market though. I got a MBP (the first sealed battery model) last year and was ecstatic when my first charge lasted for over 10 hours. No tricks, wi-fi on, installing apps, applying patches etc. Of course now after a year I see 5-7 hours in my day-day usage.
Comment Re:Sony Timer (Score 1) 147
Some trophy enabled games failed to init properly (Heavy Rain is one such game) and would quit. While others would load and play fine. I played Fallout 3 sunday evening but the catch was it zero'd out my local trophy data, as if I had never played the game. Not sure what would have happened if I earned one during my playtime that night. If anyone is curious now that everything working again I restored my trophies by launching the game (init to 0%) then quit and re-synced my trophy data with the PSN servers. This restored all the missing data.
Also there were reports of some fat PS3's that were not effected by the bug at all. Just like the new slim models.
Comment Re:Like many people... (Score 1) 425
Its actually a deamon called "Growl". Transmission is simply pushing the notification out to it which in turn is making the bubble pop up and display for the user. So while it sorta is locked in to a Mac OS specific feature, I know there are other notification demaons for linux (ie Libnotify). I see no reason why the transmission team couldn't push the notification on linux if a demon is present.
Shuttle SDXi Water-Cooled SFF PC 74
MojoKid writes "Shuttle Computer single-handedly invented the SFF PC or Small Form-Factor PC a few years back. Their line of XPC mini-PC systems, no bigger than a toaster oven, has evolved nicely over the years. This article takes a look at the features and performance of a new XPC from Shuttle that is built on a i975X/Core 2 Duo platform and is designed with the PC enthusiast in mind. The SDXi features a number of unique features like a built-in water-cooler for Radeon GPU-based graphics cards and a slick, flamed-out paint job that you've just got to see." Update: 07/08 23:53 GMT by KD : Here is a link to the version split over 12 pages, in which the images are clickable thumbnails.
Submission + - Crucial PC2-8500 CL5 Ballistix DDR2 RAM (benchmarkreviews.com)
Benchmark Reviews writes: "Everyone always wants good stable system memory, but not everyone wants to pay the price. When computer enthusiasts build or upgrade a system, RAM purchases are often relegated to the cheapest parts available, saving money at the expense of performance. Benchmark Reviews has tested the 2GB set of Crucial PC2-8500 CL5 Ballistix BL12864AA1065 DDR2 RAM against the rest of the competition, and the results may just be enough to sway your opinion away from discount memory."
Submission + - Anatomy of a shake-to-charge flashlight (electronicsweekly.com)
Techwriterchick writes: "Those shake-to-charge flashlights seem like a good idea, but how well do they really work? Author Dave Johnson did what any self-respecting engineer would do: He took one apart and found monkeys had been busy designing the circuit. The culprit? Cheap diodes, for starters."
Submission + - Elderly Woman Jailed for Not Watering Lawn
i_like_spam writes: BBC news is running a story about Betty Perry, a 70-year-old resident of Orem, Utah. Betty was cited and sent to jail for not watering her lawn. Like many other communities around the country, Orem (aka 'Family City USA') has rules mandating that residents maintain and water their lawns. In terms of privacy, is it right for communities to enforce lawn maintenance? And, in this day and age of energy and water conservation, shouldn't well-manicured lawns be a thing of the past?
Submission + - How to read 20,000 tech articles a month (cnet.co.uk)
jeffery holmes writes: An interesting and amusing article at CNet explains how it's possible to read over 20,000 technology articles a month, with analogies about using RSS readers to work like 'Magic Eye' images. Obviously, it's different for a journalist than for those with time-demanding jobs, but the article explains intricacies that the average Slashdot reader could employ to gain a much broader intellect from the technology world around them.
Submission + - Put eyeballs on the code
An anonymous reader writes: "Eyeballs on the code" means having plenty of peer review — through pair programming, inspection, or other techniques. The aim is that all artifacts that contribute to a program — all the source, all the build procedures, and so on — should be read. Segments that compile and link successfully and do not appear to cause any obvious problems often receive the benefit of the doubt. They shouldn't. Learn how shifting your habits a bit can put an end to memory defects.
Submission + - How to Create Many to Many Relationships in Ruby o (thembid.com)
thinkingserious writes: "This quick guide will make it easy for you to create many-to-many relationships between tables."
Submission + - Aggregate Computing and Linux Community
ess writes: "I'm looking for a way to get involved in figuring out a way to get individual casual users involved in some aspect of Linux development. I don't have anything but the most remedial coding abilities, but I do want to be able to contribute to the cause. Is there any discussion of a way to get users like me involved in something more than helping design theme ideas? How about collecting statistics voluntarily based on my daily habits for the greater good? This is something I know many Linux users would gladly do if they thought the information would be used some way that benefits them. It just seems like in this day and age, when Window and Google are the kings of discreet information, we can go further than a wiki or a message board, especially with a voluntary force that wants to help."
Submission + - Have Linux, Will Travel? 1
qw0ntum writes: Next week I'm traveling to the Middle East, and this time I'm planning on bringing my Ubuntu-running laptop with me. However, this will be the first time my laptop will have traveled with me outside the country. I hope everything will work fine; my biggest concern is that I won't be able to get an internet connection, since the last time I was there pretty much all that was available was dialup access, which I've never had occasion to test here in the states. My question to the /. community is, have you ever experienced any unpleasant surprises with your computers while traveling abroad? Any tips for ensuring a smooth trip with a working laptop?
Submission + - Want to be a computer scientist? Forget maths (itwire.com.au)
Coryoth writes: "A new book is trying to claim that computer science is better off without maths. The author claims that early computing pioneers such as Von Neumann and Alan Turing imposed their pure mathematics background on the field, and that this has hobbled computer science ever since. He rejects the idea of algorithms as a good way to think about software. Can you really do computer science well without mathematics? And would you want to?"
