speardane - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Tunespro - how to find out if it's genuine? (tunespro.com)

Submitted by speardane on Sunday November 22, 2009 @09:47AM

speardane writes: I pay £££s (or $$$s) YMMV for iTunes and eMusic — indeed frequently CDs are higher quality and lower price...

These people are much "cheaper" — almost too good to be true — if it's not true.. . both I and the record company lose

***AA could make themselves actually useful by telling me if they are genuinely licensed.
and if the ***AA are too busy harassing punters, how do we find out?

Comment MS Leaks Disambiguation (Score 2, Interesting) 179

by speardane on Monday October 26, 2009 @06:02AM (#29870499) Attached to: When Software Leaks (and What Really Goes Down)

I misunderstood....

I thought you were talking about "leaks" in products like Word (and other non-MS products) and XP "going down" - I find even with Word 2003 it was still safer to reboot every other weekend. Has this been fixed yet?

for the me the rest is all variations in marketing technique...

Comment iGo (Score 1) 696

by speardane on Thursday August 28, 2008 @02:00AM (#24775581) Attached to: What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers?

investigate the iGo system. 1 charger - multiple tips - certainly much more convenient when travelling

Submission + - UK increases surveillance

Submitted by speardane on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:30PM

speardane writes: The BBC reports that the Uk government plans to require the logging of all landline and phoneline calls to be stored for a year.

This has been signed off under previous legislation, effectively by passing debate in parliament. The justification for the change is to bring it into line with EU legislation.

Submission + - Sleep Apnea Symptoms (weebly.com)

Submitted by

fmjcie

on Monday September 24, 2007 @08:50PM

fmjcie writes: "After recognizing my Sleep Apnea symptoms I knew it was time to do something about my struggle to simply get a decent nights sleep, and not feel irritable and frustrated on a daily basis due to low sleep quality."

Submission + - Creative releases proprietary Linux X-FI drivers

Submitted by ichwillauchwassagen on Monday September 24, 2007 @07:50PM

ichwillauchwassagen writes: Creative Technology has finally released a (proprietary) Linux driver for a rather widespread piece of PC hardware: their X-FI series of soundcards. As Creative failed to work together with the ALSA team in this issue, these cards were useless for Linux users so far. The X-FI was releaed more than 2 years ago. These drivers have been announced for some time now but seem to have been delayed due to the efforts invested in Vista support. The driver is in beta stage and currently 64-bit only.

Submission + - Germany plans to email trojans (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by speardane on Saturday September 01, 2007 @07:06AM

speardane writes: The BBC is reporting that the German authorities are planning to send emails containing trojan horses to suspected terrorists. This is apparently supported by the German chancellor despite protests.

Apparently "the spyware would be used only in a few cases and for a limited time".

It seems to me that this is even more stupid than Sony.

Perhaps the Greman authorities have never heard of emails being forwarded...

Perhaps criminals and terrorists (no I didn't say hackers) won't re-use the weapons the German government have given them...

Submission + - Skypeout not working for many, Skype runaround

Submitted by Sherm77 on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @06:42PM

Sherm77 writes: Apparently many of us that use Skypeout lost functionality on May 11th. We pay $29 per year to be able to make free calls to the US and Canada, and are dependent on this service as we would normal landlines. There a few threads on the Skype forums, but we're getting the runaround. Skype supposedly knows about some problems, but they aren't acknowledging the problems or letting us know that they are working on it. I'm not sure how they can claim this service is anything but beta if they will take a week to solve a problem.

Skype to Skype calls work just great and we can also receive calls via Skypein. It's the Skypeout functionality that is lost. The customer service to this point has been non-existant and meaningless, as you can see from the posts. If I were an investor, I'd be asking eBay what they are doing about their company and the terrible customer service. We give them money, but have no recourse when problems develop.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=86053

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=85762

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=85737

Submission + - Hacker puts Flash Memory in 4G IPod

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07, 2007 @06:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: If you love hacks like we do here at the Lab, this last week has been a treat for you. Apple TV has been properly spread open and put on the slab with upgradeable hard drives and the like. Now it's its older brother's turn.

Not for the faint of heart or the sausage-fingered, Mark Hoekstra's flash memory mod for all generations of iPod takes out the spinning, battery draining hard drive and replaces it with Compact Flash. Sure, 16GB of solid state goodness isn't cheap, but what's money in the pursuit of glory?

Based on his previous iPod Mini flash-mod, this four day long marathon of a project involved hand soldering 88 connections, all of them in a tiny space. In true entrepreneur spirit, he's using this as a prototype to actually get the things to manufacture. No prices yet, but you can drop him an email if you're interested. Or just to say "Well done".

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/04/geek_techniq ue_.html

Submission + - One Step Closer to the Higgs Boson?

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday March 02, 2007 @10:38AM

eldavojohn writes: "New Scientist is running an article on the Higgs Boson and the very recent progress that's being made to prove/disprove the theory behind it. John Conway has been blogging about his work at CERN in December of last year and January of this year. While he is remaining skeptical, he has stated in his blog that "there was about a 2% chance that a random fluctuation could have given us a bump of the magnitude we saw." The current status of the supersymmetric Higgs theory is still unknown as we all await for another team to independently verify the findings or for more analysis to be done of the Fermilab experiment's data."

Submission + - The Wii's MEMS Inventor on Future Technology

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday March 02, 2007 @10:14AM

eldavojohn writes: "IEEE Spectrum is running an artcile on the inventor of the motion sensor that the Wii uses. The microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gives Wii it's core ability to sense motion in the controller and, arguably, a distinct advantage over the competition. But what's really interesting is where Benedetto Vigna wants to take this technology: 'First he wants to make the sensor even smaller, even cheaper, even tougher. "I want it to fit in all kinds of places — shoes and textiles, for instance, where it might be useful for medical monitoring," he says. "Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure rotation around three different axes. Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side. We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter cube, to serve as an image stabilizer in cameras and to track a person's position in the intervals when he can't get a GPS signal." Better still, he adds, would be to throw in a magnetic detector, freeing the navigator from GPS altogether. It would be yet another marvel from Lilliput — the smallest compass ever sold.'"

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