Ruach - Slashdot User

Comment: Long Long ago . . . (Score 1) 1521

by Ruach on Thursday August 25, @12:26PM (#37208834) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

I remember when you implemented user ids. I worried about online privacy way back then and resisted getting a log in until there were over 20k users signed up. (If that self could only see facebook, etc now . . .) Finally, I broke down -- I was tired of posting as an anonymous cow herd :-).
Thank you for all the years.
~Ruach

Comment: Testimony from a black church member (Score 1) 467

by Ruach on Tuesday June 15 2010, @04:35PM (#32583742) Attached to: The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud

Listening to the radio yesterday (here in SC) I heard a black man state that in his church, two of the other Democrat candidates for state wide office, whose last names both start with A, were passing out flyers instructing people to vote for the first name on the ballot. He also said that he knew of other black churches where the same thing happened.

Green came before Rawl, simple as that.

Alvin Green won, he should be allowed to run. (Not that he will beat Demint anyway).

Peace

Top 10 Disappointing Technologies 682

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 17 2009, @06:46PM
from the top-10-lists-are-a-disappointing-technology dept.

Slatterz writes "Every once in a while, a product comes along that everyone from the executives to the analysts to even the crusty old reporters thinks will change the IT world. Sadly, they are often misguided. This article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world, from the ludicrously priced Apple Lisa, to voice recognition, to Intel's ill-fated Itanium chip, and virtual reality, this article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world." But wait! Don't give up too quickly on the Itanium, says the Register.

Sci-Fi Writer John Ringo vs. Vista, Word, & DR

Submitted by Ruach on Thursday April 05 2007, @02:42PM

Ruach writes "Sci-Fi writer John Ringo writes a detailed description (almost a short story) of the PAIN of having to upgrade to Vista when his XP laptop died — hint he made a mistake "a BUNCH of my songs are from MSN Music, which has been closed down." It is so long his web master put it into a PDF. http://www.johnringo.com/Abyss/OMFG.pdf
If this is the future of DRM computing — Linux will take over the desktop. A quote from near the end of the article, "If anyone can set me up on Linux, I might as well switch over. But I'm going to need major hand-holding. I've been an MS slave for a long time. But Vista has broken me." — John Ringo
(Warning explicit language in article)."

A first look at Dolphin, the KDE 4 file manager

Submitted by Bottlenose on Thursday April 05 2007, @01:53PM

Bottlenose writes "Ars Technica has a an overview of Dolphin, the file manager which will supplant Konqueror as the default for KDE 4 (Konquerer will still be available). Dolphin focuses exclusively on file management, and appears to take several cues from Nautilus. 'Dolphin's navigation bar is a lot like the Thunar-inspired path bar found in the Nautilus browser, and Dolphin's bookmark system is a lot like the Nautilus Places sidebar. Like Nautilus, Dolphin also has icon and detail views as well as support for thumbnail previews.' But it's not a Nautilus clone. 'In some ways, Dolphin exceeds Nautilus and provides advanced features that simplify navigation and file management. The individual path elements in Dolphin's navigation bar act as menus that enable users to switch to sibling directories.'"