Etylowy - Slashdot User

You're making apps for iPhone? You're screwed.-> 0

Submitted by Etylowy on Thursday March 11 2010, @11:07AM

Etylowy writes "EFF finally laid it's hands on iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. If you accepted it you grant Apple the right to reject your app for any reason (even if it meets all the guidelines) and at any time (even if they have accepted it before), If the app is rejected you can't sell it elsewhere (if it is accepted you can't sell it elsewhere as well), if Apple is liable for any damages the most you can get is $50, you can't speak publicly about the agreement content. Basically they own you and if you look at them funny they'll pull plug on all your hard work so you won't see a penny. All hail Apple."
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MacOSX has 100% market share. On Antarctica.-> 0

Submitted by Etylowy on Wednesday December 16 2009, @07:29AM

Etylowy writes "It seems that Macs have gained not only a dominant market position, but a 100% market share on one continent. It's a real bugger it's Antarctica"
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Software to diagnose faulty computer hardware? 1

Submitted by Etylowy on Saturday October 10 2009, @11:21AM

Etylowy writes "Over the years I have repaired my own, family and friends PCs many, many times. While in most cases it turned out to be restoring system after malware/user/windows made a mess or simple cases of "follow the smell of smoke and molten plastic", there were some nasty ones where computer mostly works. By mostly I mean: you can boot it up, it might even work for a while but will crash way too often to blame it all on Microsoft — what do you do then? Once you strip it off any extra hardware (which with todays motherboards with pretty much everything integrated might not be an option) you are left with CPU, motherboard, graphics card, RAM and HDD. You can test HDD, you can run memtest86+ to check RAM, but how do you go about testing CPU, motherboard and graphics card trio to find which is to blame? Replacing it one by one isn't really an option. Do you know any software that would help the way memtest helps with RAM?"

Laptop for a nomad coder? 0

Submitted by Etylowy on Saturday June 21 2008, @05:11PM

Etylowy writes "I travel a lot, it's a part of my job. I spend about 20 hours a week in planes, trains and buses, and would like to spent that time polishing my own projects — long story short I would like a laptop for a nomad coder, one with 14" screen or less, with just enough power to work comfortably with Eclipse and enough battery life to allow 6-8 hours of normal work? Oh, and the 10" ultra portable ones are a total disaster — you really can't use them comfortably for 6 hours straight."

Synchronizing file servers - heavy duty solution 0

Submitted by Etylowy on Friday May 02 2008, @06:38PM

Etylowy writes "There are numerous solutions for file backups and file synchronization, but none of them seem to be enough to sync files across load balancing file servers. Imagine you've got to almost immediately (a few seconds delay tops) serve user uploaded files — be it blogging site, some kind of web 2.0 website or anything of that sorts. The software you've got to run the site was not built for multi file server configuration — you have to do it on your own and you really don't want to/can't modify site's code. What do you do? Rsync would chew your servers and spit out little pieces if run on 50 000 000 files every 5 seconds, mounted nfs for files would be risky.. Is there a solution that does not require you to buy expensive hardware, is secure and is sane performancewise?"