steeler359 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hardly noticeable if it impacted (Score 1) 289

by steeler359 on Thursday November 12, 2009 @06:36AM (#30070804) Attached to: Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth

Seven meters just isn't all that big.

This is correct, however, Slashdot being an American website, I clocked the "7m" and automatically took it to mean "7 miles". After a serious case of the cold sweats, and reading TFS, however, I calmly carried on with my breakfast.

FWIW, being a Brit, I use metric on paper, but Imperial units in real life.

Comment Re:Zune HD is a bizarre product (Score 1) 351

by steeler359 on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @09:07AM (#29438787) Attached to: No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD

I guess so that you can take your hi-def movie /TV series that you've just erm...acquired round to a mate's house and plug it directly into his telly/AV receiver.

There are obviously other uses...

Comment Re:I question the results. (Score 1) 641

by steeler359 on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:52AM (#26328407) Attached to: 32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP

I could be wrong, but I believe this has been the case since Win2k, and possibly NT4 before that. IIRC, it was only the DOS-based monstrosities that demanded reboots with everything..

Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode 326

Posted by timothy on Friday September 12, 2008 @07:11AM from the nothing-wrong-with-some-occasional-flattery dept.

CWmike writes "Mozilla will respond to Google's Chrome and Microsoft's IE8 with its own private-browsing, or 'porn' mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1, the version that will likely go beta next month."

DIY Laptop 178

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 05, 2007 @10:10AM from the from-the-ground-up dept.

Brietech writes "Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!"

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