H.G.Blob - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Dull surprise (Score 1) 213

by H.G.Blob on Friday May 28 2010, @09:04AM (#32374906) Attached to: XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support

Actually it runs on the beagleboard too

Comment: Re:I thought Europe didn't allow software patents? (Score 2, Informative) 113

by H.G.Blob on Friday April 23 2010, @02:00PM (#31958064) Attached to: Microsoft Gets Back Its FAT Patent In Germany

The European Patent Office usually does not grant software only patents but that doesn't mean that each country can't have a diverging policy. If you RTFA, the original decision was in part motivated by the EU policy on software patents.

Comment: Re:I'm surprised (Score 2, Informative) 271

by H.G.Blob on Friday December 18 2009, @12:09PM (#30488274) Attached to: EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law

The summary is terrible, there is no DMCA style legislation in the EU. The article says:

The U.S. has proposed provisions that would mandate a DMCA-style implementation for the WIPO Internet treaties and encourage the adoption of a three-strikes and you're out system to cut off access where there are repeated allegations of infringement.

Comment: Re:Why switch to openSuse? (Score 1) 207

by H.G.Blob on Thursday November 12 2009, @02:22PM (#30076148) Attached to: openSUSE 11.2 Released

IMHO openSuse is the by far the most polished KDE distro out there and yast is a very useful tool if you don't like editing config files.

Comment: Re:Two way street (Score 3, Informative) 367

by H.G.Blob on Thursday October 22 2009, @01:48PM (#29837755) Attached to: Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone

Two things:
1)Nokia N900 hasn't been released yet
2)All Nokia smarphones have had the ability to sync with exchange for a long time.

Comment: Re:Whatever comes out... (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Monday June 01 2009, @01:45PM (#28170455) Attached to: Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities

Symbian has about 49% market share and linux another 8%(source).

Comment: Re:Ye (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Monday June 01 2009, @10:28AM (#28167797) Attached to: Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems?

Yup, running the experimental Kubuntu 9.04. Never had a problem with the stock kernel.

Comment: Re:Ye (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Sunday May 31 2009, @12:51AM (#28155651) Attached to: Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems?

I did it like that too until the last fsck took more than 15 minutes, then I switched /home too. No problems at all.

Comment: troll maybe? (Score 1) 644

by H.G.Blob on Thursday May 28 2009, @08:06AM (#28121783) Attached to: Asus Slaps Linux In the Face

The story broke on reddit a few days ago and someone pointed to the whois for the domain, which kinda looks like a troll. At least the hotmail address looks strange.

Michael Sharp 12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd. Box 238 Kent, Washington 98030 United States Administrative Contact: Sharp, Michael rdcpro@hotmail.com 12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd. Box 238 Kent, Washington 98030 United States (877) 788-8066 Fax --

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 315

by H.G.Blob on Thursday May 28 2009, @08:02AM (#28121731) Attached to: EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention

Well, every power can be abused, this is why they need a warrant to access the data. I'm not saying it's a perfect law but at least they aren't doing it behind your back(NSA style) and they do require the ISPs to anonymize the logs.