D4rkn1ght - Slashdot User

Comment Re:more to the point, is this really necessary? (Score 1) 169

by D4rkn1ght on Friday December 18, 2009 @03:59AM (#30484462) Attached to: How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works

That's hard to do when people bitch and moan that the blue "e" is missing from the computer and then fidget whenever you open Firewhatever before they just ask you to just the "e" back in the upper left corner.

I'll tell then that the blue e changed their logo to the fox in the glove, or the red O, or the blue compass, or the Simon said game logo! lol ;-)

Comment Re:Age and quality. (Score 1) 443

by D4rkn1ght on Saturday December 12, 2009 @03:09AM (#30411772) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

My favorite news site always been /. because the attention it gives to stories and the research. It's a 100% better than the juvenile digg and the like.

Congratulation on the 100,000th stories. :-)

Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm 135

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 03, 2009 @08:19PM from the doing-one-thing-well dept.

Siker writes "In a world of giants such as Gmail and Rackspace, email service provider FastMail.fm is somehow doing great, with signups above the million mark and reliability above four 9s. Email Service Guide interviews Jeremy Howard, founder of FastMail.fm, to find out how. Also covered are the company's contributions to Open Source software such as Cyrus-IMAP and Thunderbird. Jeremy discusses the future of IMAP, how open protocols help FastMail.fm, and why he thinks SLAs from email providers are a con."

Comment Re:Slashdot Looks Like Shit in Opera (Score 1) 278

by D4rkn1ght on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @08:00PM (#28203893) Attached to: First Beta of Opera 10 Released

I cannot agree with you more. I've been using Opera for a while now as a default browser, and the new /. design its making the site harder to use.

Comment Re:Sounds familiar (Score 1) 67

by D4rkn1ght on Thursday April 24, 2008 @08:30PM (#23192358) Attached to: Yahoo! Expands Open Web Platform Plans

I miss the days when Yahoo had a silver background and not too many images. It was made with plain old HTML for faster loading and was more useful. Yahoo, like other so call Web 2.0 sites are a mess of excessive javascript and proprietary browser plugins like flash.

I'm not 100% against AJAX or Flash, it's the over use of it on situations that it's not requiered.

Yahoo need to keep their front and news page free of these requirements. If they want to change their look to myspace or facebook they should do it on their other pages.