filmorris - Slashdot User

Comment: So you're saying... (Score 5, Insightful) 89

by filmorris on Friday May 03, 2013 @08:14AM (#43618877) Attached to: Living In a Virtual World Requires Less Brain Power

...that by using half the senses you use half the neurons? Next thing you'll be telling me water is wet and earth is round!

Comment: They got it all wrong. (Score 1) 402

by filmorris on Monday April 08, 2013 @05:27PM (#43395247) Attached to: Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014

The suggested way to deploy a laser is this .

Comment: Once upon a time... (Score 2, Interesting) 299

by filmorris on Monday April 08, 2013 @04:00PM (#43394457) Attached to: Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down

there was Arch. And Gentoo. And LFS. And long strings of 0s and 1s. Then a rock and a piece of wood.

Comment: Not sure if april fools'... (Score 2, Insightful) 261

by filmorris on Monday April 01, 2013 @08:14AM (#43329651) Attached to: A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative

...or actual ad spamming. Naah, april fools'

Comment: Seriously? (Score -1, Offtopic) 187

by filmorris on Sunday March 31, 2013 @10:59AM (#43324331) Attached to: NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty

This was on Arstechnica like 3 days ago. This site is increasingly feeding on news carrion.

Comment: But... (Score 0) 72

by filmorris on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:56AM (#42462531) Attached to: Quad-Core Stick PC Runs Ubuntu

...does it run Linux?

2013

2012

Comment: What if... (Score 2, Insightful) 175

by filmorris on Saturday December 29, 2012 @01:27PM (#42420415) Attached to: Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth

the temperature in Libya was in Celsius?

Comment: Re:Next news articles: (Score 1) 95

by filmorris on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @06:20AM (#42335127) Attached to: New Malware Wiping Data On Computers In Iran

Wish I had mod points.

Comment: Julian Assange runs for... (Score 3, Funny) 192

by filmorris on Thursday December 13, 2012 @06:43AM (#42270811) Attached to: Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia

's/Office/His Ass/'

Comment: How do they know? (Score 1) 107

by filmorris on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:56AM (#41779111) Attached to: Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive

They asked it and it said yes.

Comment: Re:Missing option (Score 1) 405

by filmorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @11:07AM (#41576655) Attached to: If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, I'd rather:

Whoops, why wasn't I logged in?

+ - Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Rids Ubuntu 0

Submitted by jones_supa on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:03AM

jones_supa writes "The current long-term support version of Ubuntu (12.04) has been experiencing a remarkably tough-to-crack and widely affecting bug related to laptops using an Intel graphics solution. When the lid is closed, every now and then the desktop freezes and only the mouse cursor can be moved. Compiz is usually found hung in the process, switching to a VT afterwards works. The Freedesktop guys are also informed. Have slashdotters been bitten by this bug and possibly could offer some detective work to help the OSS community to find and apply the correct fix?"

+ - How young is too young for Linux? 2

Submitted by entt on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:09AM

entt writes "I have an 8 year old son who is fond of computers, mainly because of games, naturally. Last week when I got home, I saw that my xubuntu laptop is open. I asked my son who opened it. He replied, he did. Once I defined a user for him on xubuntu, so that he can google his homework and print related stuff. It seems he remembered the user name and password, logged on, opened Chrome, and listened to music via Youtube all by himself. For basic stuff like this, Ubuntu is simple enough for a small kid like him.
I wanted to share this, for those who think Linux is only for geeks. If you intend to do it, and approach with no prejudice, it is just a few clicks away."