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Submission + - Report on fragmentation of Android and iOS (opensignal.com)

Submitted by tearmeapart on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @02:11PM

tearmeapart writes: A report from OpenSignal, a wireless coverage company, shows in detail just how much Android is fragmented, especially when compared with iOS.

Submission + - 700 first issues of new and classics Marvel series for free on Marvel #1 app (marvel.com)

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tearmeapart

on Monday March 11, 2013 @01:38PM

tearmeapart writes: "From the article: "Marvel Comics unleashes Marvel #1, an offering of over 700 first issues from the length and breadth of the company’s history at no charge. This special promotion begins Sunday March 10 and runs until 11PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 12 as free downloads via the Marvel Comics app and Marvel Comics Digital Comics Shop."
Several of the first issues, like Captain America #1 and Hawkeye #1, are very well written and may get you hooked, or at least make you have more respect for the comic book culture."

Submission + - FreeBSD 9.1 released (freebsd.org)

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tearmeapart

on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:04PM

tearmeapart writes: "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system.
Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade Freebsd from a mirror. Unforunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident."

Submission + - Major OpenSSL security issue found (and fixed within hours) (openssl.org)

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tearmeapart

on Thursday April 19, 2012 @09:33AM

tearmeapart writes: "A major security issue has been found in all OpenSSL packages. You probably want to download your preferred OpenSSL package as soon as possible.
Changes to the CVS repository are detailed on the OpenSSL timeline."

Submission + - Apple approves the first legal tethering applicati (tether.com)

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tearmeapart

on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @11:02AM

tearmeapart writes: "Apple has approved the first legal tethering application for the iPhone. Interestingly, it can tether even Wifi, but it has several pitfalls as it goes through USB and requires special software on the PC or Mac. (Sorry, no Linux client.) Speed is pretty good, but the $29.95 USD price is not.
Good cache link, comments on ycombinator."

Submission + - What's keeping you on Windows? (slashdot.org) 11

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Thursday November 10, 2011 @02:55PM

tearmeapart writes: "It may be time again for another discussion/flamewar on the reasons why a lot of us are (still) using Microsoft. The last big discussion on Slashdot was close to 10 years ago, and a lot has changed since then:

Windows XP and 7 have proven to be stable (and memories of Windows ME are mostly gone)

There are many more distributions for Linux, esepecially commercial options

Distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS have made GNU/Linux more friendly

Options for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. have grown

Apple and their products have changed considerably. However, their philosophy has not seemed to changed.

Microsoft Silverlight came and is on the way out.

Wine and solutions like Transgaming have matured.

However, many things have not changed, like the Microsoft FUD war, the BSDs' installation UI, and the sky is the limit for Linux (except when it comes to the year of the Linux desktop).

So... why are a lot of us still using Windows? What would it take for us to switch?"

Submission + - OpenBSD 5.0 (openbsd.org)

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @12:02PM

tearmeapart writes: "A new version of the operating system that most of us would love to love, but probably hardly ever directly use, has been released. As scheduled, release 5.0 brings support for more hardware, network improvements, and OpenSSH 5.9.
The links: changelog, download, main 5.0 page, and order your OpenBSD products!"

Submission + - Network Admin gets so mad he writes a haiku (gmane.org)

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tearmeapart

on Friday January 09, 2009 @05:34PM

tearmeapart writes: "NANOG (North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes/North American Network Operators Group) has a mailing list where network admins usually discuss networking issues and ask for contact to other companies to help assist with networking issues. However, at some point, failures happen, and it leads to the ultimate end: A Haiku. (And no, not the Operating System.) The archive of his post is at gmane."

Submission + - How was the tenth anniversary party?

Submitted by tearmeapart on Friday October 19, 2007 @07:36AM

tearmeapart writes: How was the tenth anniversary party?
1. I do not remember. Too drunk.
2. All the people were n00bs.
3. The person with the 3-digit UID is a demi-god.
4. No swag = Not fun.
5. I got swag, I am happy.
6. It was Nealicious.

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