galenoftheshadows - Slashdot User

Submission + - OLPC lawsuit-bringer has past fraud conviction? (boston.com)

Submitted by d0ida on Saturday December 01, 2007 @06:51PM

d0ida writes: The Boston Globe posted an article online about LANCOR's lawsuit over the keyboard design: see http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/12/01/one_laptop_per_child_orders_surge/ "Negroponte said the lawsuit is without merit, because OLPC uses a keyboard programming technique developed in 1996, long before the Nigerian patent was filed. The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court."

Comment Re:Denver /.ers come on out! (Score 1) 46

by galenoftheshadows on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @07:45PM (#20919307) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Denver, CO, US

Anyone from Saudi Aurora is welcome for a ride, I'll have 2 or 3 seats available in my Blazer. (No, shotgun is not available, the girl will be with me.)

Submission + - Linux on HP/Compaq? I don't think so!

Submitted by bigpat7 on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:47PM

bigpat7 writes: I just experienced a week long argument in email with Compaq support over a hardware failure I'd like corrected under warranty service. It seems they are willing to honor warranty repair, if needed, but to resolve a hardware failure they'll need to restore the OS to Windows XP (I currently run PCLinuxOS on it).

Not acceptable to me, especially when I had a prior commitment 6 or 8 months back (after another week long email exchange) that my operating system would be touched, it was purely a hardware problem.

They currently won't discuss the prior commitment I had, All they want to discuss is for me to backup everything as they'll revert it back to Windows XP if I didn't do that before shipping it back to them. Guess I'll need to live with this hardware failure, of fix it myself, I'm not going to submit my cute little laptop to this sort of punishment!

This hardware failure is somewhat minor:
. when mini-jack headset is connected, onboard speakers don't disable.
. when USB headset is connected, you can hear some audible clicks, but sound doesn't switch over to headset.

Laptop is a Compaq v6110us.

I'll point you to the 1 page PDF I authored on this, though I'm not all that sure my service can handle being Slashdotted...
http://borderline.gotdns.org/linux_on_a_compaq.pdf

For Linux users, this seems to be a brand worthy of avoiding! I'm certainly rather disgruntled! And guess we must be way beyond the days on live CDs and DVDs...

-Pat
Lake Balboa, CA

Submission + - Don't swim: Brain-eating bug cases on the rise! (indystar.com)

Submitted by zahl2 on Sunday September 30, 2007 @02:19AM

zahl2 writes: It sounds like science fiction, but there really is a brain-eating amoeba you can catch from swimming in warm freshwater lakes, entering your body through the nose. There is treatment, but you have to get it fast, and most people die. Global warming is expected to increase cases. Watch those noseplug sales increase!

Submission + - Student Attacked After Dropping Cake (infowars.net) 17

Submitted by on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:49AM

An anonymous reader writes: "School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up. The girl, Pleajhai Mervin, told Fox News LA that she was bumped while queuing for lunch and dropped the cake. After being ordered to clean it up and then re-clean the spot three times, she attempted to leave the area out of embarrassment but was jumped on by security who forced her onto a table, breaking her wrist in the process."

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