When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook 104

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:59PM from the faint-of-heart-attack dept.

Benz145 writes "The famous Sony VAIO UX UMPC may have been cancelled a few years back by Sony, but the community at Micro PC Talk won't let it die. Modder Anh has carefully removed the relatively slow 1.33Ghz Core Solo CPU and installed a much faster Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 (a process which involves reballing the entire CPU). On top of this, he managed to install an incredibly small 4-port USB hub into the unit which allowed for the further instillation of a Huawei E172 modem for 3G data/voice/SMS, a GPS receiver, and a Pinnacle HD TV receiver. All of this was done without modifying the device's tiny external case. Great high-res pictures of the motherboard with the modded hardware can be seen through the link."

Comment Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar (Score 1) 489

by false1 on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:42AM (#33054528) Attached to: Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks

"Every American should hang their heads in shame over what we've allowed ourselves to become. Global assholes!"

America hasn't turned into global assholes, we started out that way. The country was founded on chattle slavery and continued as genocidal land grabbers. This was all done in the name of capitalism to benefit the wealthy same as it is now.

Licensing an Abandonware Game? 148

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 13, 2010 @03:37AM from the rolling-the-dice dept.

WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away."

Comment Re:How do we KNOW that.. (Score 1) 274

by false1 on Friday July 17, 2009 @10:10AM (#28729339) Attached to: New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage

Now THAT'S funny!

Comment Re:And yet this is what gets censored. (Score 2, Insightful) 574

by false1 on Friday July 03, 2009 @11:02AM (#28571855) Attached to: US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity

I understand your point and have said similar things myself. We're not talking about "two people making love" though, we're talking about men slapping, gagging, raping and whipping women gang style. I'm willing to bet George Carlin wouldn't approve of that for his kids. Would you approve of that for yours?

Comment Re:Precious Snowflakes (Score 1) 1316

by false1 on Monday March 16, 2009 @06:58AM (#27208279) Attached to: Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace?

I'm with you. Get ready for the big Baccalaureate bubble to burst in another 5-6 years when all the grads with $120,000 dollars in debt and low paying "salary" jobs decide to walk away from that albatross.

Comment Re:Just as bad as microsoft (Score 1) 448

by false1 on Thursday January 24, 2008 @02:09PM (#22170182) Attached to: Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps

Apple fanboi here.

Yeah this stuff sucks. The idea of being able to update your computer over the internet was great for about a month, but it's become obvious that what's not broken shouldn't be fixed. This reminds me that I need to turn off the auto updater for all my Macs. I'll check the updater now and then and just download the security patches (if they've been out for a couple of weeks). To tell the truth, I've never noticed any software update, that I didn't specifically seek out, giving me any positive results.

BTW: I'm using QT 7.1 ...and loving it.

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