Pinchiukas - Slashdot User

Comment Re:In the land of the free... (Score 1) 554

by Pinchiukas on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:20PM (#37059880) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives?

And, this may just be personal perception, but I swear that all mail servers are coded to be suicidal.

Yeah, no shit. This is what I found in the logs some day:
dovecot: Time just moved backwards (1173189603 -> 1173189602)! This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.

Comment Re:This gives the impression that 2.6.40 is more (Score 1) 378

by Pinchiukas on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:59AM (#36309088) Attached to: Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate

So is this.

Comment Re:you are kidding me (Score 1) 278

by Pinchiukas on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @04:26PM (#34769094) Attached to: Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage

If you are Skype you are too cheap to implement offline messages and are too busy outsourcing the development of your next-generation spam-delivering crapware.

Comment Re:So the solution is to doom everyone to the slow (Score 1) 223

by Pinchiukas on Friday October 15, 2010 @09:25AM (#33907126) Attached to: Lawrence Lessig Reviews <em>The Social Network</em>

There's no need for everyone to have a 30/10 Internet connection.

Oh but there is. It's beneficial for ISPs to make everybody need the most expensive plan. Want to view the news, fine. Want to check email? Sorry, that's only on the most expensive plan. You don't use it a lot but you pay top dolla'!

Comment Re:Google home page? (Score 1) 212

by Pinchiukas on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @01:28AM (#33645826) Attached to: Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search?

The default search engine on their browser is bing, amirite? :)

Comment The first time I read the headline I thought... (Score 1) 301

by Pinchiukas on Friday September 17, 2010 @07:39AM (#33609332) Attached to: HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle

...GNU Hurd joined Oracle? WTF is that supposed to mean?

Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 317

by Pinchiukas on Friday August 27, 2010 @04:40AM (#33390040) Attached to: Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy

Would you think of the KIDS puh-leeze!

Comment Re:Best password ever. (Score 1) 563

by Pinchiukas on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:17AM (#33083384) Attached to: Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?)

Liar!

Comment Well I can see one flaw in it... (Score 1) 292

by Pinchiukas on Sunday July 18, 2010 @06:38PM (#32945580) Attached to: The Mouse Vanishes

the physical mouse also acts as a palm/hand-rest. Just moving your hand on the table would be less comfortable I think...

Comment Re:For the patent FUDsters sure to follow.... (Score 1) 337

by Pinchiukas on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @06:28AM (#32333732) Attached to: H.264 and VP8 Compared

Don't you have to prove that you're the first one to ever do what you're patenting?

Comment UTF-8 in console/ssh (Score 1) 143

by Pinchiukas on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:54PM (#32272148) Attached to: OpenBSD 4.7 Released

Does it support UTF-8 out-of-the-box yet?

Comment Re:Depends what you do. (Score 1) 361

by Pinchiukas on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:19AM (#32127388) Attached to: AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs

If a bittorrent client uses up an entire core, you're doing something wrong.

Comment Re:Gee, didn't someone get lynched for saying that (Score 1) 310

by Pinchiukas on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:11AM (#32127244) Attached to: Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo

I guess there should be an option on /. to mod down stories.

Comment Re:That's certainly... (Score 1) 302

by Pinchiukas on Thursday May 06, 2010 @04:47PM (#32117080) Attached to: Convert a SIM To a MicroSIM, With a Meat Cleaver

Why wouldn't you?

Comment Re:Who reads the manual? (Score 1) 457

by Pinchiukas on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @03:39AM (#32082396) Attached to: The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture

That would be like selling your software to businesses for one price and to individuals for another, total nonsense!

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