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Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score 1) 312

Not the same spec.
When it was first announced, I was delighted. The detachable keyboard made it the perfect combination of tablet and netbook for me.
When it went on sale, there was no mention of it's mobile capabilities. Dual band, quad band, locked? No problem I thought, I'll go down to the local JB store and have a fondle, the spec will be on the box.
No, it wasn't. This wonderful device, thoughtfully designed to fit ALL my needs is WiFi only.
So, after I confirmed there was no 3G model coming, I bought a Xoom, and I've been perfectly happy with it.

Comment Re:Crayon Physics (Score 1) 158

Yes, I was running ./crayon in the correct directory. The issue is that they included several libraries in the lib32 directory but relied on most of the libraries being loaded from the host system. Run "ldd crayon" and "ldd launcher" to see that.

Unfortunately, they only included *some* of the libraries. For the most part it's not a problem, as things like libm and libcurl are fairly standalone. When they included Qt libraries, however, they didn't include *all* the Qt libraries, and the ones they included have a different version to the ones in most other systems, including mine. Qt is smart enough to detect this and complain because it's likely that the two libraries will be slightly incompatible.

This problem is due to the developer making assumptions about the target host system or not doing basic testing. Compiling a static binary is a possible solution but is sometimes not practical or technically possible.

In the end, the fix was (for me) simple and now one person has worked it out it's simple for everyone with the same problem.

Comment Re:Linux users the least cheap? (Score 3, Informative) 158

I paid US$30 (AU$28.xx), twice as much as I paid for HB2 as I intend to play all of these games - the FPS in HB2 don't interest me.

BTW, Crayon Physics fails on Debian Squeeze. My fix was to move the bundled lib32 directory to lib32.o and apt-get the standard system packages for the few libraries it then complains are missing, which are mostly SDL related. All that was left was an incompatible system libstdc++, so I re-created lib32 and copied the old version from lib32.o back. So far, it runs fine and is great fun.

Comment Re:Now all I need... (Score 1) 171

Yeah, the new servers I just received to upgrade our vmware cluster have 128G with only half the slots filled. Still 16 cores (2 x 8) per host, our limiting factor is having enough free RAM available for failover. The linux guests share ram nicely, but the windows guests are pigs.

Comment Re:Gah, Mixed Units! (Score 2) 167

No assumptions necessary. 9V is not enough to pass through skin, so the headline is obviously a throwaway line added later.

We know the power: 1/500 of 100W is 0.2W

We know the current: 0.002A

The voltage can be calculated as E = P/I = 0.2/0.002 = 100V

100V is enough to pass through some skin, especially that of the scalp.

Comment Re:Multiple issues getting bunched together. (Score 1) 203

I can buy unbranded ipod compatible 4 conductor headphones (with mic/switch) for AU$1.50 delivered from Hong Kong.

I can buy functionally identical apple branded headphones from jbhifi for $39 in store.

They're both made in China, and if China can leverage that $1.50(less postage) into jb going bankrupt, then they deserve to do so.

On the other hand, the fridge I bought this afternoon is (mostly) Australian made.

Comment Micro-USB is not popular (Score 2) 302

In fact, I'd not seen a device which had one before a few months ago when a couple of phones started to use it. Mini-USB has been the standard for years and is only fractionally larger whilst being much stronger.

I would suggest that that has been the primary reason for this choice - to continue the decades old tradition of delicate connectors to facilitate the upgrade path.

Comment Re:Ah yes. (Score 1) 99

We had just installed some new racks, which came with vertically mounted power strips. About eight sockets on a long aluminium box with a 10A circuit breaker at the end. Everything was fine until I was putting in some more patch cables and one brushed against the breaker. That was enough to trip it's hair trigger and take out half a rack of servers.

All those breakers soon found themselves with paperclip-based trip preventers, and we've since transitioned to much better APC strips.

Comment Re:The battle is ON! (Score 1) 580

fsm@universe:~$ su - root
Password:
root@universe:~# apt-get purge theodp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
    theodp*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7563182347329836458723 not upgraded.
After this operation, 73.7kt string space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 87236572613241828286749857962983 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing theodp ...
root@universe:~# logout
fsm@universe:~$ WorldOfGoo &
fsm@universe:~$

Comment Re:Reqd car insurance is for liability, not the ca (Score 1) 2058

Here in Australia, the car has to have third-party liability insurance. It is part of the yearly car registration, and while you have choice of insurers, it is not optional. This covers the case where the car is stolen and causes damage, or an unlicensed or uninsured driver causes damage.

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