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Comment Re:Prime Computer (Score 1) 93

by mark0 on Friday October 25, 2013 @06:58PM (#45240995) Attached to: Computers and Doctor Who

BTW... I remember you. I was working in the compiler department when you were building that test suite management system. You had a minor run-in with a very young and somewhat dickish engineer. That would be me. In the ~25 years since I can certainly say I'm older and I hope I can say I'm less dickish.

Comment Re:Prime Computer (Score 1) 93

by mark0 on Friday October 25, 2013 @06:41PM (#45240827) Attached to: Computers and Doctor Who

IIRC, they aired in Australia and New Zealand.

Comment Re:Not sure if I feel old or just nostalgic (Score 1) 93

by mark0 on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:59PM (#45238371) Attached to: Computers and Doctor Who

Ah... to once again toggle the boot flags into the front panel of a P400...

Comment Prime Computer (Score 1) 93

by mark0 on Friday October 25, 2013 @01:30PM (#45236967) Attached to: Computers and Doctor Who

The fourth Doctor and his companion, Romana, did advertising my former employer, Prime Computer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJeu3LCo-6A

Comment Reason is... (Score 1) 1258

by mark0 on Friday April 27, 2012 @09:39AM (#39820047) Attached to: Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief

"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has [...]" -Martin Luther

Comment I heard someone say the other day... (Score 4, Funny) 348

by mark0 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:45PM (#37180236) Attached to: Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity

"Angry Birds has changed the way the world goes to the bathroom"

Comment Hanging ending (Score 3, Insightful) 99

by mark0 on Saturday October 09, 2010 @09:51AM (#33844826) Attached to: Ridley Scott Returns to PKD

Showbiz types generally hate hanging endings. I'll guess fans will be disappointed with it being "reimagined".

Submission + - Mobile Phone Sales Rise, iPhone and Android Grow (gartner.com)

Submitted by mark0 on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @02:48PM

mark0 writes: Gartner reports that mobile phone sales have risen in 1Q2010, up 17% year-on-year. That's good news for iPhone OS and Android, which saw their market shares grow to 15.4% and 9.6%, respectively. Other platforms slipped and ZDNet already proclaims the death of Windows Mobile. They suggest open-sourcing WM could have saved it, but that doesn't seem to be helping Symbian.

Comment Re:And CableCARD? (Score 1) 214

by mark0 on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @01:38PM (#32171906) Attached to: MythTV 0.23 Released

If I wanted to watch down-converted recordings, I wouldn't have FiOS.

Comment And CableCARD? (Score 1) 214

by mark0 on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @08:15AM (#32167628) Attached to: MythTV 0.23 Released

I have FiOS and until MythTV supports CableCARD, it's rather useless. A google of the site just turns up a dry wiki definition of CableCARD and a bunch of forum postings that degenerate into DRM-related poo flinging.

Comment Road Trip (Score 4, Funny) 90

by mark0 on Friday April 23, 2010 @09:08AM (#31954048) Attached to: IBM Creates World's Smallest 3-D Map

That's going to be a PITA to fold.

Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak 320

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @04:25PM from the like-it-when-windows-crashed-more dept.

MonsterTrimble writes "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 is experiencing a major memory leak due to patches for X.org. 'An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. ... In order to make the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS deadline, the developers are looking at just reverting three of the patches, which brings the GLX version back to 1.2. Ubuntu developers are now desperate for people willing to test out this updated X.Org Server package so they can determine by this Friday whether to ship it with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or doing an early SRU (Stable Release Update). Right now this X.Org Server that's being tested is living in the ubuntu-x-swat PPA.'"

California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry 404

Posted by timothy on Friday March 05, 2010 @09:18PM from the good-fences-make-good-neighbors dept.

An anonymous reader writes "California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this the slippery slope to further government mandated lists and registries?"

Comment Re:Pedantic, but... (Score 1) 324

by mark0 on Thursday December 31, 2009 @10:04AM (#30604736) Attached to: Sir Patrick Stewart

Indeed. As in, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them 233

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @10:20AM from the your-ethics-may-vary dept.

bckspc writes "The Committee to Protect Journalists has published their annual census of journalists in prison. Of the 136 reporters in prison around the world on December 1, 'At least 68 bloggers, Web-based reporters, and online editors are imprisoned, constituting half of all journalists now in jail.' Print was next with 51 cases. Also, 'Freelancers now make up nearly 45 percent of all journalists jailed worldwide, a dramatic recent increase that reflects the evolution of the global news business.' China, Iran, Cuba, Eritrea, and Burma were the top 5 jailers of journalists." rmdstudio writes, too, with word that after the last few days' protest there, largely organized online, the government of Iran is considering the death penalty for bloggers and webmasters whose reports offend it.

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