Comment Re:First Post! (Score 1) 114
What's wrong with Rick Astley? I've heard worse songs.
Submission + - Raise a glass: time(2) turns 40 tonight! (indiegameproducer.com)
ddt writes: "Raise your glasses of champagne in a toast at midnight. The time(2) system call turns 40 tonight, and is now officially "over the hill". It's dutifully keeping track of time for clueful operating systems since January 1, 1970."
Comment Re:If they do this.. (Score 1) 539
Seems like a lot of replies to this comment forget that it's possible to get business DSL, cable, and fiber-optic Ethernet from a residence. I've heard many success stories of people on FiOS switching to Business FiOS.
CherryPal's $99 "Odd Lots" Netbook 234
Robotech_Master writes "CherryPal, which Slashdot last covered back in 2008, has released a $99 netbook, the Africa, aimed at the developing world but (unlike the OLPC) available for sale to the consumer. But unlike most netbooks, the Africa is not actually made to a set design. Instead, it uses a hacker-like approach similar to the way home PC builders build their cheap beige boxes. CherryPal purchases odd lots of whatever components are available most inexpensively, builds netbooks out of them, and calls them Africas. The resulting machines will at least meet and may exceed the minimum specs given on CherryPal's website, and may be built around an ARM, MIPS, or X86-based CPU depending on what parts CherryPal has on hand at the time. The device ships with 'at least' Windows CE or CherryPal's custom 'Green Maraschino' Debian-based Linux distro."
Comment Re:Browser down. (Score 2, Funny) 422
Why would you want to create a Linux plugin for Firefox when you can run Firefox on Linux instead?
Comment Re:Some apps break at high DPI (Score 2, Informative) 496
And if you lower the screen resolution, you have to deal with blurriness on LCDs (non-native resolutions) that may make it even harder to look at.
I know I get headaches if I'm using anything more than a VGA console at a non-native resolution on LCDs.
Comment Re:What nonsense! (Score 2, Informative) 496
Ever tried using a 15" laptop with 1600x1200 resolution? The text is impossible to read. Most people run these at much lower resolutions than the hardware is capable of running at. The same is true of people with poor eyesight.
It's called increasing the font DPI. I do that on my 15" laptop which has a screen resolution of 1920x1200, and my eyesight is terrible. If you aren't using bitmap fonts, it should work just fine.
Comment Re:Such a what? (Score 1) 427
Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!
Comment Re:Of course being in China, (Score 1) 315
I was merely criticizing the sentiment that denial of being brainwashed is somehow proof of brainwashing.
What about when the brainwashers want you to think that you haven't been brainwashed?
Comment Re:I've had this for years - Nokia N800 (Score 1) 275
A lot of wireless carriers impose restrictions and/or higher charges on tethering.
Comment Re:Won't Switch From Safari Yet (Score 1) 197
Or you can switch to this instead, which makes more sense: Uzbl
Comment Re:Pointless hype (Score 1) 275
DNNSEC, anybody?
Comment Re:Stupid NaviBitch (Score 1) 14
I wouldn't depend on that map in all cases, though. There may be some false information on it.
Comment Re:bandwidth limiting per process (Score 1) 497
Most Bittorrent clients support throttling without any external means. rtorrent, for example, has a maximum bandwidth use setting that is by default disabled, but can be set fairly low.
Comment Re:The "bandwidth hogs" aren't using TCP (Score 1) 497
Why do you think they are using UDP?
It's called DNS, and it definitely uses UDP. Our connection is terrible because DNS times out most of the time unless it's tunneled to a machine somewhere outside of our home network. Thank goodness for public recursive DNS servers!
