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Comment First? (Score 1) 380

by alexru on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:40PM (#44503499) Attached to: First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess

How is it a first alert, when just a few months ago there was one in San Jose area?

Comment Here you go (Score 1) 193

by alexru on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @01:37PM (#43656175) Attached to: Using YouTube For File Storage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid 2 Gb per VHS tape.

Comment Re:if they keep using unity.. (Score 2) 318

by alexru on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:48PM (#41697511) Attached to: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works

"Productivity" for 13 years old and for productivity for adults are different. Unity works as long you are 13 and the only thing you need is facebook.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 108

by alexru on Monday October 15, 2012 @05:05PM (#41663205) Attached to: Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business

It was not designed by Amazon, it was outsourced to the professional OEM.

Comment Re:Bbc micro comparison (Score 1) 133

by alexru on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:23PM (#41457525) Attached to: Why One Person Thinks Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable For Education

ARM publishes detailed manuals for their cores. There is no need to reverse engineer anything, just implement. There are few FPGA implementations more or less compatible, but there is no one that just works, because it is a lot of work to make one.

Comment Show your open source projects (Score 2) 186

by alexru on Saturday September 15, 2012 @02:02AM (#41344091) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Prove IT Knowledge Without Expensive Certificates?

Good project worth a lot and tells a lot about its author.

Comment Cancer? (Score 1) 639

by alexru on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @01:00PM (#40830493) Attached to: Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter

What father's cancer has to do with anything here?

Comment Re:Actually, cool! (Score 2) 361

by alexru on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:22PM (#39552887) Attached to: GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor

Question for Linux hackers: is there a reason why the Linux kernel would not be portable to an Atmel AVR microcontroller?

Linux requires MMU and AVRs don't have it. Memory limitations will kick in as well (the most powerful AVR has 256 kB of flash ans 32 kB of RAM, so external storage will be required)

Comment Re:How much more... (Score 1) 361

by alexru on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:18PM (#39552825) Attached to: GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor

Funny, but the same guy promised to release full-blown JVM running on the same platform :)

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