fewnorms - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Dealextreme has the equivalent of these... (Score 1) 202

by fewnorms on Friday August 24, 2012 @07:23PM (#41116883) Attached to: Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi

Sounds good in theory for what I need it to do. Got a link to this stuff?
No idea how big this thing is though, the Raspberry Pi is a very attractive size for what it is...

Comment Re:No ethernet... (Score 1) 133

by fewnorms on Monday May 14, 2012 @02:29PM (#39997505) Attached to: Geekbench Confirms Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac

Right here, if the rumors are true of course. I don't really doubt it, it seems to be in line with Apple's way of thinking these days.
Then again, for now these are indeed all rumors. Here's hoping they do actually include a port.

Comment No ethernet... (Score 3, Insightful) 133

by fewnorms on Monday May 14, 2012 @12:59PM (#39996393) Attached to: Geekbench Confirms Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac

Which is a major downside to all of this news for us in companies.

Comment Re:Too bad (Score 1) 279

by fewnorms on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:00AM (#39779541) Attached to: Asteroid the 'Size of a Minivan' Exploded Over California

I see you have not yet watched Fox News...

Comment Re:Easier ways (Score 2, Funny) 135

by fewnorms on Thursday September 16, 2010 @02:19PM (#33602402) Attached to: Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna

Be happy they didn't call this 'Sensor Nodes Utilizing Conductive Infrastructure' ... the short version of that would not be pretty. Come to think of it, the short version IS not that pretty :)

Comment Poor guy... (Score 1) 268

by fewnorms on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:43AM (#32741436) Attached to: 36-Hour <em>Lemmings</em> Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist

Linking to his poor server twice in as many days. The slashdot hordes make their presence felt yet again!

More on topic though, very honestly, what did he expect submitting it to the Apple and Android app stores? That Sony would just let that happen? Then again, with all the copies already downloaded (did anyone actually get to download it?) it'll be very hard for Sony to prevent this from spreading...

Comment Re:Not about $ (Score 1) 147

by fewnorms on Monday June 21, 2010 @06:04PM (#32646730) Attached to: Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case

Don't forget that having a ridiculously high sum in judgement would most likely act more as a deterrent to current and potential 'pirates' than a reasonable one would. Or so they think. Or not. Heavens knows what these guys are thinking.

Comment Re:Just a step... (Score 1) 94

by fewnorms on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @01:11AM (#32492586) Attached to: Masten and Armadillo Perform First VTVL Restarts

Sounds to me like this would be perfect for the deployment method the Mars Science Lab has planned. Only drawback I can think of is that Armadillo's rockets may not have been tested and built to full NASA specs?

By the way, everyone's talking about Armadillo here. Now I'm not saying they didn't do an awesome job and yes, I think Carmack is at least a demi-god, but let's not forget it was two teams that made it. Congrats to both Masten Aerospace and Armadillo on achieving this pretty impressive milestone!

Comment Re:will they pay ? (Score 5, Informative) 365

by fewnorms on Sunday May 23, 2010 @04:45PM (#32316798) Attached to: BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well

They will and are already paying.
As they should....

Comment Really... (Score 1) 365

by fewnorms on Sunday May 23, 2010 @04:38PM (#32316728) Attached to: BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well

What could go wrong? All that can happen is that it doesn't work, and then they'll not be much worse off than they are now, besides having exhausted yet another option.
Or in the case of success with the pipes actually plugged, all that might happen is that the part of the riser (or part of the pipe lower down even) NOT plugged could rupture from built up pressure lower down ...
Oh wait ...

Comment Re:Sad that this is even being considered (Score 1) 1238

by fewnorms on Monday May 17, 2010 @02:39AM (#32234118) Attached to: Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History

Well, technically there is no basis for this myth of Texas having the right to secede from the rest of the Nation at will. It's not mentioned anywhere in the Texas constitution nor is there a provision for it in the US constitution. Now some folks would claim that because there is no mention of it, that doesn't mean it's not possible. Check to the FAQ at this site, which seems to promote the idea.
Snopes briefly mentions this myth as well in the last sentence of this page, and also mentions that there is no such clause in any official documentation.
More proof

Comment Re:60 percent? Really? (Score 2, Funny) 264

by fewnorms on Sunday May 16, 2010 @06:38PM (#32230794) Attached to: LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon

Lies! Just admit it, it was your little brother slurping up all the bandwidth. Right?
Slashdot posters with a girlfriend, there ain't no such thing!

Comment Re:Please appeal, (Score 5, Funny) 982

by fewnorms on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @07:08PM (#32005896) Attached to: Terry Childs Found Guilty

...holding a city's computer systems random...

Yes, I see where that might be an issue... ;)

Submission + - Rutland Village Installs Own Broadband Service (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @10:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: A village in England's smallest historic country, Rutland, has installed its own fibre to get 23Mbps broadband to its 200 home and offices. Community-financed installations, allowed under "subloop unbundling" may be the only way for many rural areas to get their own fast broadband links, as a Government report has shown plans by commercial operators will leave 30 percent of the company without fast broadband. Government plans to fund rural broadband with a tax on all phone lines were abandoned in the run-up to the UK's General Election.

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

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