Arctic Dragon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:DS Improvements a good thing (Score 1) 187

by Arctic Dragon on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @09:18AM (#29896023) Attached to: Can Nintendo Really Be Planning Another DS Variant?

Agreed. I own a DS Lite as well as a 'slim' PSP, but despite it's inferior specs, I enjoy the DS more. The problem is, many people think the DS has nothing more than My Little Pony and Dora the Explorer games, but if you dig past the kiddy games and shovelware, the system has a fantastic library. You have the excellent 2D games (Mega Man ZX, New Super Mario Bros, the 3 Castlevanias and Contra 4), old-school RPGs (Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Dark Spire, Ys, Black Sigil, the upcoming new Golden Sun), puzzlers (Professor Layton), and so on.

Comment Re:This is a bad bug, yes, but... (Score 1) 353

by Arctic Dragon on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @12:50AM (#29728605) Attached to: Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data

If the story's title was "Major Windows 7 Bug Said To Delete User Data", the story would have 1000+ comments by now, most of them bashing Microsoft.

Submission + - ESR Gives up on Fedora

Submitted by tmc4inphilly on Thursday February 22, 2007 @12:21PM

tmc4inphilly writes: Eric S. Raymond's frustration with Fedora reach a breaking point that resulted a letter that he sent to a number of Linux-related publications and mailing lists. "After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one package pitched me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system unusable."

Journal Journal: Apple and Cisco Make Nice on iPhone

Journal by gabosgab on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:51AM

Looks like the legal hounds were pulled back and Cisco and Apple agree to share rights on iPhone. More at the source

Submission + - Junk Faxes

Submitted by olddoc on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:31AM

olddoc writes: I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off. A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever! Does anyone know how to make them pay? What devious methods can I use to get even? Can I sign up for a phone number that will drive up their costs when I call the toll free removal number? What have other readers done?

Submission + - What's missing from Vista's "official apps"

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:18AM

PetManimal writes: "Microsoft has just released a list of 800 applications it says are "officially supported" on Windows Vista. What's special about this list, however, are the programs that are not included:

Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software, Symantec Corp.'s security products, as well as the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox Web browser, Skype Ltd.'s free voice-over-IP software and the OpenOffice.org alternative to Microsoft Office
Another area in which Vista has found to be lacking is gaming, as discussed earlier on Slashdot."

Submission + - Can we stop illegal sharing without DRM?

Submitted by

hrensgory

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @07:12PM

hrensgory writes: "It's clear that the DRM is more a plague than a solution. However, illegal copying of digital content is also a real problem. Other day I was thinking about if there are some ways of decreasing initiative of illegal sharing, without hindering any legal use of digital content. As result, I've put some of my thought in this blog post: http://www.harper.no/valery/PermaLink,guid,55481ae 6-1850-46e4-a9cb-8a72e6ea4ecf.aspx. May be it is a naïve or stupid idea... but I just thought that it could also be something interesting in there."

Submission + - First screenshot for Duke Nukem Forever!

Submitted by Verunks on Saturday January 27, 2007 @06:45PM

Verunks writes: After ten years of development, a screenshot of Duke Nukem Forever has appeared on Gamasutra's Job Seeker web site
The president of 3D Realms, one of the creator of Duke Nukem, confirmed that the screenshot was an in game real-time shot.

Submission + - Sony steals PGR3 images to promote Gran Turismo HD

Submitted by

greenrom

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @05:12PM

greenrom writes: "On Sony's PSP connect site there's an ad for Sony's new Gran Turismo HD trailer. Only the image Sony used for the ad is actually this one from Project Gotham Racing 3 — an exclusive title for the Xbox 360. It appears that Sony has corrected the mistake, but the original images can be found on Flickr. Xbox360fanboy has details of the screw-up."

Submission + - Swapping your video games

Submitted by

midjam

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @01:18PM

midjam writes: "How many of you have gone into a game store with your console games to trade them in? I know I have often, and every time I walk in the games store I walk out feeling like I've been ripped off. The trade price you get back from your games is a joke. They sell the games to you for say £49.99 but if you where to trade them in the next day you would probably get around £20.99. For this reason I have created a free video game swapping forum, you can add your unwanted games and see if anyone has a game you would like to swap. It is only in the UK as I hope to get enough people so you do not have to post your games, you could just find someone in your area and trade in person. It's been running for around 2 weeks now and things have been going great, 63 members and growing. The response I've had has been fantastic and some of the other members are also promoting it."

Submission + - Which domain name registrar do you recommend?

Submitted by

Futurepower(R)

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @12:09PM

Futurepower(R) writes: "GoDaddy.com, the domain name registrar, has been in the news a lot recently. Can you recommend a registrar that has better policies and fewer ads?"

Submission + - Proof Duke Nukem Forever Lives

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:29PM

Dr. Eggman writes: 1up.com is reporting a single in-game screenshot posted by 3D realms President George Broussard at the Shacknews message forums. The image in question was originally discovered on the 3D Realms Employer profile on Gamasutra along with their current unfilled Job position for Senior and Junior level progammers with expansive knowledge of C++, for PC and Xbox 360 platforms. Must have passion for making and playing over-the-top action games.

Submission + - New Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End Images

Submitted by on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Brand new images from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and Captain Sao Feng (Chow-Yun Fat) over at IESB.net. Click here to view!

Submission + - Dinosaur extinction - meteor not to blame?

Submitted by

The Fun Guy

on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:24PM

The Fun Guy writes: "Recent microfossil evidence casts fresh doubt as to whether an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Prof. Gerta Keller of Princeton University: "We now have evidence that the Chicxulub impact occurred about 300,000 years before the end of the Cretaceous and thus didn't cause the mass extinction and, in fact, didn't cause any species to go extinct." These findings were presented during the October 2006 meeting of the Geological Society of America."

Submission + - Daylight Savings time change in 2007

Submitted by goDzi7la on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:04PM

goDzi7la writes: In the United States & Canada the start and end of daylight savings times are being changed in 2007. Daylight savings time will now start on March 11, 2007 (rather than early April) and will end on November 4, 2007 (rather than late October). I've begun going through all my machines to apply the patches, but I want to make sure I don't miss anything. So besides OS patches or fixes, what other sofware needs updating? I've seen that some versions of Java SDK & JRE need to be updated. Whadda bout stuff like PHP? Perl? Oracle? MySQL? Anybody have a good list of what things need to be updated? What about the ramifications of not updating certain things?

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