daves - Slashdot User

Comment: what space is there for the Fire?" (Score 3, Interesting) 381

by daves on Monday November 14, @12:53PM (#38050130) Attached to: Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag

If an E Ink Kindle or Nook is better for reading books, and a smartphone or iPad is better for watching movies or listening to music, what space is there for the Fire?

A $200 device that will do both.

Comment: Don't lament them too much (Score 1) 578

by daves on Monday August 15 2011, @11:57AM (#37096166) Attached to: Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill

I remember thinking the same thing in the 80's, when Motorola sold off their television business. They have a history of finding the next big thing.

Thumbak v0.5 - Initial Release-> 0

Submitted by SF:daves on Sunday September 20 2009, @08:48PM

SF:daves writes "Thumbak automates backup for USB drives. It runs on Gnome, and manages background incremental backups for selected USB disks and thumb drives. This is the initial public release of Thumbak. The Thumbak home page is at http://thumbak.sourceforge.net/"
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Comment: See display of all of the old Air Force One planes (Score 5, Interesting) 640

by daves on Saturday January 10 2009, @11:04AM (#26398719) Attached to: USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement

For anyone in the Dayton Ohio area, the Air Force One display at the Air Force Museum near Wright Patterson is recommended. They have all of the old planes their, complete with FDR's Sacred Cow, with custom wheelchair elevator, and Kennedy's plane.

GMail POST Mortem: Can You Handle CSRF?-> 0

Submitted by

Giorgio Maone

on Wednesday September 26 2007, @12:34PM

Giorgio Maone writes "This week couldn't be worse for Google and GMail: four distinct vulnerabilities disclosed in the past few days, plus a Google Docs weakness by Rios/McFeters allowing for easy Flash-based XSS, and now another GMail hijacking technique half-disclosed (!) by Petko H. Petkov (AKA pdp).

GMail POST Mortem analyzes the details published by Petko under his ambiguous "semi-disclosure" policy, and it shows how this is in facts a 0 day full disclosure, since building a working exploit from it is pretty trivial. Finally, countermeasures against the CSRF (the class of vulnerabilities which this one belongs to) are provided, both for developers and for users.

BTW, the GMail hole is still unpatched (tested 1 minute ago)."
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NRG Submits Application for New Nuclear Plants 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2007, @04:20PM

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in 30 years, a U.S. utility company has formally applied for a license to build and operate new nuclear power plants. Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy is seeking to add two new reactors to an existing facility in Bay City, Texas. The company is hoping to have both units online between 2014 and 2015."

What's hot on Wikipedia-> 0

Submitted by

Craig

on Tuesday September 25 2007, @04:18PM

Craig writes "WikiRage lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomenon."
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BigDog's little brother tackles tough terrain 0

Submitted by

willatnewscientist

on Tuesday September 25 2007, @02:34PM

willatnewscientist writes "The company that that brought us BigDog has a new robotic pooch. LittleDog is a smaller, more nimble version of the larger robot and was developed for DARPA to test competing adaptive approaches to crossing a highly irregular piece of terrain. Six different research groups — MIT, CMU, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, USC and IHMC — have each been given one LittleDog and are developing their own walking algorithms. Once a month, DARPA tests these algorithms on its own LittleDog to see which shows the most promise. Ultimately, the program could help robots like BigDog cross rocky ground without breaking a robot leg."

Microsoft Expression Web - Is it All that?

Submitted by

erica_ann

on Tuesday January 16 2007, @09:33AM

erica_ann writes "I am a Dreamweaver lover and die-hard fan. When I hear / see a website was made with Front Page, I cringe and shrudder. I have spent too many sleepless nights correcting the mangled code from Front Page so it would be cross-browser complaint as well as W3C and even CSS compliant — not to mention meet accessibility standards.

Now, I read that Microsoft has dropped Front Page and is now touting Microsoft Expression Web. From what I have read, it seems to be one of the few (or the only one) WYSIWYG editor that lets you drag and drop — say even an image — and creates a CSS style for it... not using HTML to place it.

I have also seen that it will not work with PHP — which is one of the reasons I love Dreamweaver so much — since it will.

Supposedly the new Microsoft Expression Web will be a rival for Dreamweaver and other top name Editors.. but can Microsoft really make a comeback from Front Page? I plan on downloading it and trying the trial out — but you have to uninstall the Office trail first which I am still crunching through to do a review on.

Have any ./ readers tried out the new Microsoft Expression Web? Is the code produced really that much better than the older Front Page? I would like to hear what others who have tried this have to say about it."

Solar Powered Car Breaks Record by 3 Days

Submitted by Walking The Walk on Tuesday January 16 2007, @03:38AM

Walking The Walk writes "Jaycar Sunswift III broke the Transcontinental World Record today, by an incredible 3 days! As previously mentioned on slashdot, the UNSW Solar Racing Team started their 4000km journey across Australia 6 days ago. Cloudy weather the first two days couldn't slow them down, and they raced into Sydney in 5.5 days, surpassing the previous record of 8.5 days with ease. Several news agencies were on hand to meet the team on their triumphant arival. Read about the team's history and previous attempts on their site, www.sunswift.com"