Comment Close the farm? (Score 1) 377
Cry moar. If only they would shut down Farmville; there would be riots in the streets.
Comment Re:Yes, this is amazing (Score 1) 183
Works pretty well with Xfce4 on Linux Mint 14. But I used the AMD Catalyst Control Centre to setup my dual screens. This does need to be built into the distributions though with some sort of utility.
Comment Re:Impressive (Score 1) 106
And GEOS for DOS as well. That was pretty good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)
Submission + - NASA discovers most distant galaxy in known universe (www.cbc.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: From cbc.ca: "NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes (not to be outdone by the Kepler Space Telescope) have discovered the most distant galaxy identified so far in the universe... the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years away and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Due to the time it takes light to travel through space, the images seen from Earth now show what the galaxy looked like when the universe was just 420 million years old, according to a press statement released from NASA. The newly discovered galaxy (is) named MACS0647-JD"
Submission + - New Malware Uses Google Docs As A Proxy Server To Phone Home
An anonymous reader writes: A new Trojan variant, detected as Backdoor.Makadocs and spread via RTF and Microsoft Word document marked as Trojan.Dropper, has been discovered that not only adds a clause to target Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Yet the more interesting part is the Google Docs addition. Backdoor.Makadocs gathers information from the compromised computer (such as host name and OS type) and then receives and executes commands from a C&C server to do further damage. In order to do so, the malware authors have decided to leverage Google Docs to ensure crystal clear communications.
Comment New York will re-build. (Score 1) 107
Hopefully the suffering people of this unfortunate city will finally get some help; they seem to going through quite a lot and it is time they got some help to get things back on track. First 9/11 and now this. Have they not suffered enough?
Comment Simpsons did it. (Score 1) 208
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they had an oil well at the school...
Comment Re:Can I Fund Unity a Negative Amount? (Score 1) 280
There are Virtualbox guest additions available in the Ubuntu 12.10 repositories that allow integration with Virtualbox. But Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity is very slow in Virtualbox compared to Linux Mint 13 or Windows 7/8. Better to run Xubuntu instead.
Comment Hackable devices. (Score 1) 51
Long may they live. It is good to be able to hack devices and make them do things they were not intended to do. That is the hacker spirit living on in 2012.
Comment Re:Let's qualify that sentence just a bit... (Score 1) 144
But what if you build the computer outside the Universe so it is not part of the Universe. The AC was in hyperspace... BTW, is the One in the Last Answer story the cosmic AC?
Comment How long until... (Score 2, Interesting) 144
How long will it be until we can build a supercomputer that can span the Universe and if the Universe suffers a heat death it could just remake the whole Universe as it stored the state of everything within? Therefore humanity could survive even the end of the whole Universe in 100,000,000,000,000 years time. The short story the Last Question made quite an impression on me and surely with the current evolution in technology we could create a God computer eventually that would exist outside of anything we could comprehend. That would be mind-blowing.
Comment Support for Access databases on Linux. (Score 1, Insightful) 349
Libreoffice can open the *.docx format just fine; I just wish there was a way to work on Access databases in Libreoffice as you can in Access. That is my only gripe.
Comment MATE desktop on Linux Mint 13. (Score 1) 371
The MATE desktop on Linux Mint 13 suits me just fine, I see no need to move to something like a giant Windows Phone styled interface.
Comment Re:Excellent News! (Score 4, Insightful) 504
And the Windows Server 2012 operating system also has the Metro interface, although once you are logged in it is straight to a command-line interface, but why does a server OS need a fancy GUI for logging in?
Comment HDMI Sound works better. (Score 1) 245
I use a large screen with HDMI input and I can output sound over the HDMI cable as well, this removes a lot of the noise that the integrated sound suffers from on my machine.
