Comment HI (Score 3, Funny) 625
billy mays here. would you mind turning up the volume?
Comment Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks (Score 5, Insightful) 281
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
To be fair, the automobiles have 15 days to comply with publishing who is in the car and coordinates of all travel.
Comment Re:Slower and slower (Score 2, Interesting) 112
I recall this being Firefox's defense arguement (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/14/2154224).
I have not analyzed Gmail's code, so I am not, with confidence, to state that Gmail is increasing memory usage to cache data.
However, I have not noticed any, significant or insignificant, performance boost from Gmail at 300% memory usage at +4 hours versus Gmail at 100% memory usage at +0.25 hours. I am currently attempting to debug my issue by disabling individual labs, and comparing memory usage results after a significant time has passed with the Gmail tab open. This is by no means a proper scientific study, but I do have hope that the leaker(s) will be identified.
Comment Re:Slower and slower (Score 2, Informative) 112
Agreed. With over 35 labs enabled, my gmail tab in the latest version of Chrome steadily increases its memory usage. I have repeatedly experienced a 300% increase in memory usage over a 4 hour period.
Comment Re:Thats not new (Score 4, Informative) 112
There is a Gmail Lab for this feature:
Inserting images
by Kent T
Allows you to insert images into a message body. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs. This lab will not work if you have offline enabled.
Comment Unlike the majority of companies in IT... (Score 1) 72
Does this mean they are hiring?
Comment Re:Please let me use the same password (Score 1) 497
American Express & Macy's online statement credit card charge both mandate a maximum of 8 characters.
I take my frustration out at login with a 7 letter password phrase. They don't allow spaces.
Please Do Not Change Your Password 497
cxbrx writes "Mark Pothier's Boston Globe article, 'Please do not change your password,' covers a paper by Microsoft Researcher Cormac Herley, 'So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users,' from the 2009 New Security Paradigms Workshop. Herley argues 'that user's rejection of the security advice they receive is entirely rational from an economic perspective.' Herley discusses 'password rules,' 'teaching users to recognize phishing sites by reading URLs,' and 'certificate errors.' Users obviously choose bad passwords, but does password aging actually help? There was some discussion on TechRepublic. I'm especially interested in hearing about studies about password aging."
Comment Evince to the rescue (Score 1) 234
Evince does not open cmd.exe. Evince runs on Windows.
Submission + - EDS mainframe goes titsup, crashes RBS cheque syst (theregister.co.uk)
tugfoigel writes: HP managers are reaping the harvest of their deep cost-cutting at EDS, in the form of a massive mainframe failure that crippled some very large clients, including the taxpayer-owned bank RBS.
An IBM Z10 at EDS's Stockley Park site, west of London, fell over this week after vital microcode fixes* had not been applied, because all the qualified staff had been fired.
Previously the updates would have been applied by the Stockley Park hardware team, who have all been made redundant.
When EDS' disaster recovery plan kicked in, switching processes to another Z10 at Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, a similar lack of maintenance scuppered the stand-in machine.
An IBM Z10 at EDS's Stockley Park site, west of London, fell over this week after vital microcode fixes* had not been applied, because all the qualified staff had been fired.
Previously the updates would have been applied by the Stockley Park hardware team, who have all been made redundant.
When EDS' disaster recovery plan kicked in, switching processes to another Z10 at Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, a similar lack of maintenance scuppered the stand-in machine.
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Submission + - EFI-X violates LPGL and apparently uses community (osnews.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: There are several options out there if you wan to run Mac OS X on your non-Apple labelled computer, but one of them appears to be in serious trouble. It has been uncovered that the EFI-X module is nothing more than a USB stick with a DRM chip, with code from the hackintosh community on it — without attribution. On top of that, its firmware update utility uses LGPL code — again, without attribution.
Comment Re:Winamp (Score 1) 321
We're both right! From archive.org's capture of Winamp's FAQ:
What happened to Winamp 4?
You're not imagining things. Yes, we skipped a version number for the following reasons:
- Winamp 5 combines the best aspects of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 into one player. Hence Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5!
- Who the hell wants to see a Winamp 4 Skin
- We think that a Fibonacci sequence for versioning might be pretty damn cool.
- We improved so much in Winamp 5 that we figured it warranted skipping a version.
Comment Winamp (Score 1) 321
My favorite version # memory is Winamp 5. The best of Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 combined.
Comment Re:Ztetris port available? (Score 1) 177
I have Tetris WiiWare! I could not find an option for garbage that truly sends scrambled lines with multiple holes.
Would you mind spelling out where I can enable that option?
