TennCasey - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Standards (Score 1) 372

by TennCasey on Sunday March 03, 2013 @04:27AM (#43059621) Attached to: Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

You say all that, but it works just fine in Arch without any tinkering. There package's even available in the Community repo.

Comment: Obligatory xkcd (Score 4, Funny) 878

by TennCasey on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:42PM (#41920671) Attached to: Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?

http://xkcd.com/323/

Comment: Re:Ugh. (Score 1) 331

by TennCasey on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @08:12PM (#40023499) Attached to: Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans

Buy an unlocked phone like this one and get a sim card from a company like Straight Talk for about $50 a month.

Comment: Re:My long awaiting features (Score 1) 470

by TennCasey on Monday May 14, 2012 @12:30AM (#39991577) Attached to: The 30 Best Features of Windows

#5 Ease change of the desktop environments

I mean a complete change, not just like a theme. I really like to replace the whole Windows desktop with KDE.

You should know better than that. Also, here.

Comment: Photoshop Disasters (Score 1) 121

by TennCasey on Sunday May 06, 2012 @05:24PM (#39910399) Attached to: Biochemist Creates CO2-Eating Light That Runs On Algae

You have to love those awfully photoshopped pictures in the video!

Comment: Re:As a business owner (Score 1) 714

by TennCasey on Friday March 30, 2012 @12:07AM (#39519171) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics?

I take it you've never worked with an obsessive Christian who's always asking you to pray with him. Or an extremist from either end of the political spectrum who sarcastically criticizes anyone who disagrees with him.

Then wouldn't the reasonable thing to do be to fire the person in question for harassment?

Comment: Re:Survival not so good for TFA website: (Score 1) 284

by TennCasey on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:59AM (#39144209) Attached to: Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review

Yeah, seems like it nuked the fridge.

Comment: That's...strange (Score 1) 348

by TennCasey on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:51PM (#38974699) Attached to: US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags

The military decided on Android for phones but iOS on tablets? They should try being more consistent...

Comment: Re:Evil Monopoly (Score 4, Informative) 314

by TennCasey on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:11AM (#38431082) Attached to: Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices

They made their own version that was incompatible with Sun's that was intended to eventually be built into Windows to effectively wrestle the control of Java away from them.

Comment: Re:GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Aw (Score 2) 378

by TennCasey on Saturday December 10, 2011 @01:26AM (#38323210) Attached to: GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award

You're describing Unity, not Gnome 3.

Comment: Re:eBay (Score 1) 334

by TennCasey on Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:44PM (#38233732) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS?

Actually, you can recover the password. You just have to boot it into ROM Monitor and change the config register so it'll bypass the startup-config. Then load the config and change the password.

Comment: Re:Great (Score 1) 143

by TennCasey on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:16PM (#37826728) Attached to: Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders?

Nah, they'd probably just pay the fines and go about business as usual. It's not like the FCC would do anything about it.