JoeyBlaze - Slashdot User

Comment: My wishlist for the taskbar (Score 2, Interesting) 545

by JoeyBlaze on Thursday January 22 2009, @10:43PM (#26569689) Attached to: Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All

For as long as I remember now, I've wanted a way to do the following with the Windows Taskbar:

1. Reorganize the order of what windows I have open

2. Send windows to background taskbars (desktops), so I could be using different sets of apps at once

Hopefully they could add some minor usability features like this; I feel like I'm regularly working against the taskbar to get things done.

Comment: Re:Thank Big Tel/Cable (Score 2, Insightful) 302

by JoeyBlaze on Saturday November 03 2007, @08:15AM (#21222891) Attached to: Netflix May Already Be Killing Blockbuster?

That's funny, I was just telling someone how I couldn't tell the difference in regular TV and Netflix's Watch Instantly (on a 42" set)...Granted I wasn't expecting it to be great quality, I am still impressed with the service.

Apart from a limited selection (~5K titles), and the fact it only wants to run in IE (but has a simple full-screen interface), it is everything I would expect from the company's early approach at on demand streaming video.

I guess YMMV, but they do include it at no additional cost. At least we are seeing some entry into this market; it's only going to get better over time.

The end for XROST ?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday February 22 2007, @10:36PM

Anonymous Coward writes "Looks grim for XROST, the payment system many have been using to recharge theer ALLOFMP3 accounts; pointing a browser to the www.xrost.biz address has stopped displaying the '48 hour maintenance' message, and instead now shows a far more foreboding screen stating that the account is suspended and to please contact the billing/support department of one vienna.hostforweb.net http://www.xrost.biz/"

Colossal Squid caught

Submitted by Bryan on Thursday February 22 2007, @10:30PM

Bryan writes "Meet colossus squid. Ten metres long. Two massive eyes, each half a metre in diameter. And a penis longer than all but the tallest of men.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,2127 3840-948,00.html"

OCaml Summer Project

Submitted by

Yaron

on Thursday February 22 2007, @10:25PM

Yaron writes "The OCaml Summer Project (funded by the company where I work, Jane Street Capital) is aimed at encouraging the use of OCaml by funding students over the summer to work on open-source projects in the language. The project has started accepting submissions, with the final date being March 15th. It's a new approach to promoting the use of minority languages. It will be interesting to see if it catches on."

Disabled People Online - A New Portal

Submitted by

Kineticartist

on Thursday February 22 2007, @09:39PM

Kineticartist writes "You go around the web you search, you surf, You have lovely portal sites, like yahoo, google, msn and slash dot and others but as a disabled person who spends most of his time online Jay Cohen is a guy who has a dream... Create a portal for the disabled community. http://www.disabledonline.com/ is just such a place. You can find links to websites that cater to the disabled person and their family and friends. A place where disabled individuals can get together in a forum and share experiences and chat online in a safe environment. A one stop shopping site where you can go through extensive products and services (over 60,000 at the time of this writing) that are targeted towards disabled users looking for anything from wheelchairs and assistive/adaptive devices to gourmet chocolates. Disabled ONLINE is just such a place.

Jay, who has muscular dystrophy (which he doesn't let slow him down) spent the last 3 years making this dream a realization with little to no money to spend on site development. Jay took on the task himself and put together a fairly comprehensive site and understand this Jay is unable to use a keyboard but rather uses voice recognition software and a trackball mouse to get anything done on the computer . But it still lacked a professional 508 Accessible framework. Then comes Geek On Wheels who believed in Jay and his dream and garnered a deal with him to build a site that would use the latest in php and opensource e-commerce systems along with a forum, chat and a classifieds ad system so Disabled Online users can post their items for sale and sell them without ever giving a nod to ebay...

So whether you are looking for baseball or football or hockey jerseys, or gourmet chocolates to send your lady friend(s) or need information on arts and entertainment for the disabled to government websites and disabled accessible websites to get information on laws and statues regarding disabled users and their rights. or whether you yourself are disabled or not or friends or family of a disabled person or persons or just want to chat or get an account on his forum, making Disabled Online a favorite in your browsers is well worth it.

Don't believe me? then check it for yourselves!!!"

Firewall Recommendations

Submitted by

anomalous cohort

on Thursday February 22 2007, @07:34PM

anomalous cohort writes "The company that I work for is looking at upgrading to a proper firewall (sadly, we use only the MS-ISA server now). Our I.T. guy is ready to recommend Fortigate [45]00a. Ours is a small company with about a dozen employees and about 400 customers. Does anybody have any experiences, good or bad, with these two products or with the Fortinet company? Are there any recommended firewalls (outside of Cisco's) that we should seriously look at?"