Comment: Re:LED cost (Score 1) 196
I did it gradually once they wore out. Never looked back. But my tiny flat wasnt that much of an invest.
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Comment: Re:Get a Pre 3 (Score 1) 303
Wow, cat got my tongue: http://www.webosnation.com
Comment: Get a Pre 3 (Score 2) 303
It's got a hardware keyboard, Linux underneath, homebrew scene going strong and a bunch of apps that you might find useful, ymmv. Battery life is 3 days with powersaver and data switching on/off on demand. Really everything you could ask for if you want a decent specced/priced smartphone which is a bit newer than your n900, sports a great capacitive touchscreen and since obsolete ecosystems seem to be your thing, welcome on board: www.http://webosnation.com
Comment: Re:OpenWebOS is still around... (Score 1) 207
I wish I had modpoints. Kids today seem to forget about it and it could sure use some manpower.
Comment: DRM (Score 2) 103
They will also be the first to inplement DRM and prevent you on printing "copyrighted" or "unwanted" stuff...
Comment: Re:Does it improve coders? (Score 3, Insightful) 566
It's posts like that, that make me feel like an utterly completely useless techguy. I know nothing about the modern web and I don't even know it.
Comment: Re:Shoes are next! (Score 1) 260
I guess thats what Google wanted to achieve with that smartshoe last time.
Comment: Re:It's worse than that (Score 1) 564
Oh, and you can't change the battery or upgrade the HD/CPU/Ram. Thanks, but no thanks.
Comment: Re:It's worse than that (Score 1) 564
Not to mention you lose a lot of ports if you go the shiny Ultrabook road. You might gain the odd USB 3.0 port but you lose VGA, RJ45, serial, HDMI, Firewire, DVD Drive for watchting movies and so on.
Comment: Re:My computers always lasted a long time... (Score 1) 564
My Dell is a M1330 with a Core 2Duo. No upgrade needed, everything works fine. No dead pixels, even the DVD slotdrive is fine. Just saying, Dell ain't THAT bad.
Comment: Elementary OS... (Score 1) 267
...no need for Gnome 3.8 now that Elementary OS is coming along so nicely. It tends to be forgotten around here as an alternative, so I thought I'd mention it.
Comment: Re:This will lead to terrible books... (Score 1) 81
Slashdot comments. Theyre still the best.
Comment: This will lead to terrible books... (Score 4, Interesting) 81
....that just try to keep you turning pages just like soap operas. All the drama will be lost by an effectdriven style that resembles "keep tuned for the next page where he will get the girl....no really just read on a weee bit more."
+ - What's the cheapest elegant DLNA/UPNP Client? 1
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Lispy (136512) writes "I'm looking for a cheap DLNA/UPNP single-purpose solution that can stream audio from my NAS to my Hifi in the living room. I used to have an old G5 Mac with XBMC which died on me and now I am using my laptop to achieve this wich is less than elegant. Since there are no UPNP-Client applications for WebOS I can't use my phone to stream the audio. I would love to get a dirtcheap Android that can handle this or even an aging Palm Treo or anything. All it needs is Wifi and UPNP compatibility. How would the slashdot crowd tackle this? I do not want to use an old laptop, it should be really tiny, cheap and reasonaly easy to use."
Comment: Re:ownCloud (Score 1) 272
Owncloud is really great. I'd put it on a webhoster so you can reach it from everywhere.
For my home I use a NAS, an old one actually (Siemens AMS150). If you have already decent hardware (lots of drives and a PC) you could try FreeNAS, it does everything a dedicated NAS does and more but of course you won't get the great powersavings of the custom built ones. Setup is trivial and it comes with a HTML-based GUI.
