Comment MSI (Score 1) 352
So far I have not encountered any difficulties installing Ubuntu on MSI motherboards and they are not very expensive either. Of course YMMV.
Comment Webmail (Score 1) 464
Most people I know go the webmail route: Gmail, Hotmail etc. Personally I prefer Thunderbird with IMAP and because I run my own mailserver I also installed Zarafa for use on the road.
Comment Re:There goes the tablet experience (Score 3, Interesting) 69
I just bought a € 99 tablet with Android 4, 1 Gb internal memory, 1.2 Ghz ARM A8 processor and a usb keyboard in a sleeve. It does everything it needs to do and at reasonable pace. Truth is that you do not need a Ipad to do basic things as browsing (Opera Mobile works perfect), email and some nice to have apps or casual gaming. Of course a Ipad is wonderfull but at a price I do not want to pay.
Comment Re:source (Score 1) 241
FBI saying the opposite is hardly more credible then Kim Dotcom, I do not trust both of them.
It would be newsworthy if they found a trustworthy government agency or a trustworthy politican or laywer.
Comment When Hostess closes.. (Score 2) 674
what happens to those pensions? They will be cutted anyway I suppose? Does not sound like the Bakers Union have a clue.
Comment This judge is a idiot! (Score 4, Insightful) 584
The whole purpose of a paper ballot is to keep your vote secret. If that was not the case you could far more easily went in and say your choice aloud.
Comment Re:Why is "easy to install" for "newbies"? (Score 1) 120
I agree to that. I just installed both Arch and Manjaro to compare them with each other and with Ubuntu with Mate. And I like the speed but I have a job to do and do not want to tweak that last bit: it should just work. Manjaro does a good job to ease installation but you still have to do a lot yourself without a graphical packagemanager. And yes I know how to get along without it but why should I? Computers should make my life easier not harder.
Comment Re:No, seriously (Score 1) 235
You should take a look at Cinnamon or Mate both can be installed without Mint if you want a LTS distro.
Comment Fix the most urgent problem first (Score 1) 236
Look at what the software is supposed to do and what it does not do at the moment. Fix this first and after that document the main functions and start replacing them one by one in an orderly fashion and document them this time. It will take time but at the end you 'll have eaten the spaghetti and your project is saved. The biggest problem in software usually is that there is no time to do it right but there is always time to do it over again.
Comment Re:well (Score 4, Insightful) 177
Not really a surprise indeed, organisations like IFPI and the MAFIAA solely purpose is to earn money for the big media corps not for any artist they own.
Submission + - OAuth 2.0 standard editor quits, takes name off spec (theregister.co.uk) 1
tramp writes: Eran Hammer, who helped create the OAuth 1.0 spec, has been editing the evolving 2.0 spec for the last three years. He resigned from his role in June but only went public with his reasons in a blog post on Thursday."
"At the end, I reached the conclusion that OAuth 2.0 is a bad protocol," Hammer writes. "WS-* bad. It is bad enough that I no longer want to be associated with it."
And he ends with "I think the OAuth brand is in decline," he writes. "This framework will live for a while, and given the lack of alternatives, it will gain widespread adoption. But we are also likely to see major security failures in the next couple of years and the slow but steady devaluation of the brand. It will be another hated protocol you are stuck with."
"At the end, I reached the conclusion that OAuth 2.0 is a bad protocol," Hammer writes. "WS-* bad. It is bad enough that I no longer want to be associated with it."
And he ends with "I think the OAuth brand is in decline," he writes. "This framework will live for a while, and given the lack of alternatives, it will gain widespread adoption. But we are also likely to see major security failures in the next couple of years and the slow but steady devaluation of the brand. It will be another hated protocol you are stuck with."
Comment Where is the beef? (Score 1) 897
Microsoft is critized because a developer had been dreaming about what he is missing in his life? Come on!
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Cheap Android Tablets - Are they worth it? (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: With the tablet market rising steeply, companies across the globe are trying to cash in on the new trend. Apple, being the front runner in this race, has had impressive sales since the launch of first generation iPad. Then came Android based tablets, which started eating up iPad’s share to some extent. Samsung, Motorola, Acer and scores of other companies threw in their creations in the tablet pile. What did we, as consumers, end up getting? A mix of low and high priced tablets with iPad at the top of the summit and the highly talked about, hyped Indian Aakash tablet. Pricing seems to have dominated the marketing strategy in tablet market with every other company trying to come up with a variant of a tablet that is cheap. Internationally, even companies like Google with its Nexus 7 and Amazon with its Kindle Fire are trying to be on the lower end of the pricing scale. It is understandable though from the perspective of Google and Amazon that despite selling their tablets with either very less margins or no margins at all, they have a huge collection of services that they can rely on to make their profits. And, considering that these giants haven’t put any road side out of date components in their tablets, consumers will not have to compromise on performance. But, when it comes to other cheap tablets; oh my! They are just an utter waste of money. The tablets are just dull and poor, if I may, when it comes to performance.
Submission + - Great Open Source Map Tools For Web Developers (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner surveys the rich ecosystem of free maps, free data, and free libraries that give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps. 'The options are expanding quickly as companies are building their own databases for holding geographical data, their own rendering tools for building maps, and their own software for embedding the maps in websites. ... Working with these tools can be a bit more complex than working with a big provider like Google. Some of these companies make JavaScript tools for displaying the maps, and others just deliver the raw tiles that the browsers use to assemble the maps. Working with the code means making decisions about how you want to assemble the pieces — now within your control. You can stick with one simple library or combine someone else's library with tiles you produce yourself.'"
Comment Good news! (Score 3, Insightful) 113
And a showstopper for those other graphic card makers (AMD/NVIDIA) with their halfbaked support for Linux.
