Mazin07 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Yeah but... (Score 1) 268

by Mazin07 on Thursday July 31, 2008 @12:36AM (#24412327) Attached to: Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered

Congratulations for first post consistency.

Before it's repeated...

"It was designed by the famous Roman programmer Linicus Torivicus."

"Netcraft confirms it... Antikythera Mechanisms are dying!"

"Somewhat hard, given that it predates Beowulf by at least 600 years."

"Correct. Back then, they were called Hydra clusters, for obvious reasons."

"The Antikythera mechanism is *not* user friendly, and until it is Antikythera will stay with >1% marketshare..."

Submission + - MIT Dean Uses Fake Resume For 28 Years

Submitted by

Nick_Allain

on Friday April 27, 2007 @08:07AM

Nick_Allain writes: "Boston.com reports that MIT's Marilee Jones resigned "after acknowledging that she fabricated her academic credentials. Jones's fall from grace is full of irony. She made it her life's mission, speaking at schools and conferences around the country, to combat the rising admissions frenzy, telling high school students and their parents that it is more important to be happy than to get into the most famous college or to have the perfect resume". Her resume was a near complete fabrication: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials said yesterday, Jones said she had degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, and Albany Medical College, all in New York State. She does not have a degree from any of them"."

Feed Judge tosses Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Gawker Media (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:52AM

Blog: Video game foe had sued the blog publishing company for refusing to remove Kotaku comments that he deemed 'threatening.'

Multiple Desktop Users on a Single Machine? 106

Posted by Cliff on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:35AM from the multiple-heads-why-not-multiple-consoles dept.

_Sharp'r_ asks: "I'm trying to design the least expensive way to make OpenOffice, email, and a web browser available to students in a new charter elementary school. In my past experience working with charitable computer donations, I can usually get three to four working computers out of five donated 'broken' computer systems, usually with plenty of monitors, keyboards and mice left over. I'd like to use one computer for multiple students by attaching multiple monitors, USB keyboards and mice. What drivers/OS versions support multiple local input devices and monitors that can be attached to a specific login session? Will this require virtualization? Is there a config I haven't found that you can use to assign these devices to specific ttys? Have you done this before?"

Feed Tricky spelling drains the brain (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:32AM

It takes more brainpower to spell irregular words, brain scans reveal, which could influence how children are taught to read

Feed Canada announces monster solar plant (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:12AM

40MW from one million panels

Canada has announced it will build North America's biggest solar power plant - a 40MW project covering 365 hectares with around one million solar panels, Reuters reports.

Submission + - Review: Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27, 2007 @06:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek pits Ubuntu Linux versus Windows Vista in a detailed comparison. The results are unusual for this type of review because it straddles the fence. The verdict is: "a tie, but only because both platforms fall short in some ways. Vista's roster of backup features aren't available in every SKU of the product; Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system and its user-friendly backup tools are pretty rudimentary." Do you agree?

Submission + - New Pidgin pixmaps

Submitted by on Friday April 27, 2007 @06:54AM

An anonymous reader writes: Well, these days the Pidgin (former Gaim) team has come up with some new images to represent the IM app we all know and love. My anonymous opinion is that they suck... badly. What does the slashdot crowd think? Is it to late to help the Pidgin developers with some cool and web twooish ideas?

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