Cyblob - Slashdot User

Comment Creative have gone to crap... (Score 1) 385

by Cyblob on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @06:58PM (#22935946) Attached to: Creative Goes After Driver Modder

and the have been heading there for a while now. Every "upgrade" I've ever bought has turned out to be a disappointment. Their drivers and firmware are crap, they have actually removed certain features from their Zen Vision:M series in the form of firmware "upgrades" (removing the ability to record from live radio is the first example that comes to mind) and the 2 players I've bought from them (a Zen Touch 20GB and Zen Vision:M 60GB) have both died within a year.

Lost the CD that comes with your Creative Player and want to reinstall Creative Media Explorer so you can start copying music to your player? Tough, you wont find it anywhere on their website, they don't offer it for download. (I even have the sneaking suspicion that while hunting for it I found them offering to ship it on CD for £8, although don't quote me on this being true or the price being anywhere near accurate).

I personally never plan on buying from them again, at least not until they pull their act together and start pushing updates that actually add features and drivers that work (Linux support would be lovely too, gnomad2 gets the job done but it's no where near perfect). I've always tried to avoid the iPod, but it's looking increasingly likely that my next mp3 player will be one.

Submission + - "Oops!" Those dumb mistakes we've all mad 9

Submitted by theotherbastard on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @02:06PM

theotherbastard writes: I've recently made the step up from Desktop Support to Systems Administration and in my first month on the job I made a change to a server that knocked one of our customer call centers offline for nearly 4 hours. It was the simple mistake of changing the duplex settings on 2 NIC's on 1 server. Needless to say I've learned my lesson on when and how to make even the smallest change to our sensitive systems. Another thing I've learned is that everyone on my team has a story about their first days supporting servers and the disastrous mistakes they've made. I'm curious what stories some fellow /.er's have.

Submission + - Common Tough Interview Questions (sunilb.com) 3

Submitted by

sunilbhatia79

on Saturday November 03, 2007 @11:33AM

sunilbhatia79 writes: "Here are some of the difficult questions that have been accumulated by experience. This article not only discusses what these questions are and how to answer them, but also provides information about why these questions are asked. http://www.sunilb.com/career-articles/common-tough-interview-questions"

Journal Journal: Writing for Wikipedia has its Perks 1

Journal by pickens on Saturday November 03, 2007 @10:01AM

There are many tasks on Wikipedia. Some people fact check. Some people control vandalism. Some people correct spelling and punctuation. The activity that I most enjoy is doing the research to write in-depth articles for Wikipedia. I like to find a musician, an actor, a politician, or a scientist that I am interested in learning more about and write their biography from scratch. Last week my wife and I went to a concert by one

Submission + - IBM Trying To Patent Making Money On Patents

Submitted by

harry666t

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @08:06AM

harry666t writes: "How many Slashdot jokes on patenting patents have you read in your life? Well, it seems that this time this is not a joke. IBM is actually trying to patent "[a] system and methods for extracting value from a portfolio of assets, for example a patent portfolio (...)". I'm speechless."

Submission + - Wikia busted purchasing FFXIClopedia for $200,000?

Submitted by on Sunday September 16, 2007 @12:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Final Fantasy XI (FFXI), Square-Enix's unique entry into the MMORPG
market, is not the most popular of the genre. Nonetheless, one of its
strengths lies in the broad community support that it inspires in its
fans. A number of unique metadata sites have sprung up around it,
including the groundbreaking FFXIAH (http://www.ffxiah.com) Auction
House tracking service.

One of the newer entries to this list is FFXIclopedia
(http://www.ffxiclopedia.org), an FFXI wiki. As with most wikis, the
content was provided principally by the users and the community. So
what happens when businesses notice such a grass-roots niche market?
Apparently, the answer is: a cover-up of misspent fund-raiser moneys,
and a sale of the content to Wikia for USD $200,000 in cash and stock
options. Source: http://euphidime.com/wp/?p=4

Submission + - 22,000 names and SSNs stolen at the U. of Missouri

Submitted by

Ardeaem

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:33AM

Ardeaem writes: "The University of Missouri is reporting that a security breach has allowed over 22,000 names and social security numbers to be stolen. It appears that an insecure application is to blame; used by the help desk to track issues, the application allowed the retrieval of names and SSNs. The "hacker" simply used the application to get the SSNs one by one. Of course, if the person's name is known, getting more information about them is possible through the school's directory, enabling the "hackers" to possibly compile a disturbing amount of information about each person. Why do organizations still use SSNs for identification, and can they be held liable for it? When will they learn?"

Submission + - Another DMCA Takedown Notice For Digg

Submitted by

ngottlieb

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:36PM

ngottlieb writes: "Digg has received another DMCA takedown notice for a post containing a number used to decrypt a copyrighted poem. The hosting of the key violates the DMCA's "ban on trafficking in circumvention devices" in the same way the hosting of the AACS key violated it. Will Digg.com comply with this takedown notice, or continue it's stand against the DMCA, supporting its users all the way?"

Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues 823

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:02AM from the striking-back dept.

gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the 'fired because of MySpace' stories, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But now one of the targets is fighting back. (The offending picture in this case was a snap from Halloween 2005 of the student in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup.)" From the article: "Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."

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