Slamtilt - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Better than Arch? (Score 2) 172

by Slamtilt on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:34PM (#41019617) Attached to: Happy Birthday, Debian!

. IMHO the best feature Debian has is the ability to upgrade-in-place -- so you never have to do a reinstall to keep it up-to-date unless you want to.

Indeed, I have installations of Debian that are 13 years old. They've been through multiple hardware revisions, and are now virtualized, but apt-get dist-upgrade has done the trick all this time.

However, technical achievements aside, it's Debian's policy that's the real star.

Comment: Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi (Score 1) 1521

by Slamtilt on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:54PM (#37209352) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Really, it's no big thang.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM
from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit 48

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 04, 2009 @07:14AM
from the how-it's-done dept.

As a follow-up to Epic Games' release of a free version of the Unreal Engine last month, the company has now posted over 160 video tutorials which demonstrate the various uses of the Unreal Development Kit. Roughly 20 hours of footage were created by technical education company 3D Buzz, with topics ranging from user interface to game physics to cinematics.

Comment: Re:ironically DMA mode on 3Com's never worked (Score 1) 304

by Slamtilt on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:54AM (#29808167) Attached to: Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents

I also have less than happy memories of 3com nics being more trouble than they were worth. Although my biggest gripe was the confusable 509/905 numbering. Who thought that was a good idea?