ArkiMage - Slashdot User

Comment: Lost Fleet (Score 1) 892

by ArkiMage on Monday February 20, @05:15PM (#39103451) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like?

Just read Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Fleet

Comment: Re:Interesting they only tested /w Android devices (Score 1) 174

by ArkiMage on Friday August 26 2011, @04:39PM (#37222664) Attached to: Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones

Well they did have 400 test subjects remember... So they did need a user base greater than 400 to start with I presume.

Comment: Re:Mossberg is an Apple fanboi, valid point though (Score 1) 568

by ArkiMage on Tuesday January 05 2010, @06:56PM (#30662152) Attached to: Google's Nexus One Phone Launches

I have 168 applications/games installed on my Droid. The internal RAM shows as having 27MB still free. I've not put many photos/videos/audio files on the SD card yet so it has 14GB (out of the stock 16GB included card's total) still free.

Comment: Re:Better Exchange Support = WinMob death (Score 1) 445

by ArkiMage on Monday January 04 2010, @11:07PM (#30650572) Attached to: Android Phone Demand Up 250%, iPhone Down

Psssst... ActiveSync is stock in Android 2.0 Using it now on my Droid for push email, calendars, etc... Mine isn't talking to an Exchange server however, even though that's how it's defined in the phone. Mine talks to a Zimbra Communications Suite server (which also supports ActiveSync)...

Comment: Symphony vs OO (Score 0, Redundant) 331

by ArkiMage on Sunday September 13 2009, @04:47PM (#29407459) Attached to: IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o

According to this article Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/IBM-Throws-Out-Microsoft-Office

Comment: Blu-Ray Player Streaming (Score 1) 575

by ArkiMage on Sunday March 01 2009, @10:35PM (#27035547) Attached to: Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer

Samsung and a few others have Blu-Ray players with built-in NF streaming ability. I bet few if any of them run an MS OS internally. So, wonder what stream they use? I've only watched a couple of things on mine but they were good quality and very consistent.

Oh and what OS does the Roku use?

Comment: Re:I'm guessing VMWare isn't that worried (Score 1) 259

by ArkiMage on Monday February 23 2009, @11:10PM (#26965251) Attached to: Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free

Umm.. You don't run VMWare ESX or XenServer either one *on* Windows or *on* Linux. They're considered "bare-metal" hypervisors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

I have multiple Win2k8 Server installs running happily on XenServer5 now. Works very well.

Journal: Linux 2

Journal by spellraiser on Saturday February 10 2007, @03:22PM

I came to Linux relatively late. It is now only around 3 years ago that I decided to give it a try. There are a number of reasons why I didn't do it earlier. I was living with my parents and thus shared a machine with the rest of the family; I was into gaming and thus 'needed' Windows, etc. Well, better late than never I guess.

Custom Built Computers

Submitted by the eric conspiracy on Saturday February 10 2007, @01:06PM

the eric conspiracy writes "For several years I've been buying custom barebones systems from Monarch Computer based on a recommendation I found on slashdot, and have been happy with the result. However in 2006 they really went downhill, and now appear to be out of business. So I am looking for suppliers whom I can go to for a computer where I can specify the motherboard, case, power supply, memory on a piece by piece basis, get feedback from the supplier as to whether these items would be a reliable combination, and have the supplier assemble the custom system and test it. The system may just be a motherboard and CPU, or it might be all the way to a complete package. Any suggestions?"

Journal: No legal relief from spammers spoofing my domain name? 3

Journal by Artifex on Saturday February 10 2007, @11:12AM

For a few years, spammers have been sending out spam pretending to be from my personal, vanity domain. I haven't seen many complaints recently, but it now costs me a considerable amount of time daily to delete hundreds of bounces from mail servers that don't recognized forged headers, etc. The recipients' mail filters are probably also down-rating my domain name as a result, too, further degrading the value of my domain name if I ever want to use it for a commercial venture. I am also concern