gearloos - Slashdot User

+ - Western Digital Announces 2 GB HD 0

Submitted by gearloos on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @12:55PM

gearloos writes "Western Digital today announced the first 2 terabyte hard drive, becoming the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to the WD Caviar Green hard drive family. http://techfragments.com/news/321/Hardware/Western_Digital_Unveils_Worlds_First_2TB_Hard_Drive.html"

+ - Beta released as premium-what to do? 0

Submitted by gearloos on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:42AM

gearloos writes "I recently bought the much anticipated upgrade to Parallels.. Version 4. It has crashed every virtual machine I have, from xp, vista, ubuntu, solaris, Suse, etc... I have read some horror stories here http://howgoodisthat.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/parallels-version-4-not-what-weve-been-waiting-for/#comment-1809 but really, what can we do when a well respected company decides to outsource and the result of something you have used for years suddenly becomes fodder?"

+ - G1 phone found to be insecure already 0

Submitted by gearloos on Saturday October 25, 2008 @03:39PM

gearloos writes "NYTimes is running a story on the first vulnerability found in the G1 after only being on store shelves for 3 days. Link to the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/technology/internet/25phone.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin"

+ - Tomorrows big Macbook event rumors finalized-> 0

Submitted by gearloos on Monday October 13, 2008 @06:56PM

gearloos writes "Mac Rumors has posted what is believed to be the final edition of tomorrows rumor mill for the big Macbook Event. Among possibilities are an $800.00 notebook and a two-tone setup. It is believed that all the new Mac portables will be sporting Nvidia chipsets this time around. heres a link to the story. http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/13/apple-notebook-event-rumor-roundup/"
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+ - Blatant diablo I II ripoff yet nobod seems to care 0

Submitted by gearloos on Saturday September 20, 2008 @11:28PM

gearloos writes "In any other venue people scream at the slightest hint of a copyright violation yet in the gamer world it all seems to be "overlooked" because Diablo was the standard and set the measure that the genre was to be measured against. Well, I recently tried the demo version of Fate http://games.wildtangent.com/fate/ and WOW, what a blatant ripoff! You have to pick up items and then "identify" them, and use a "town portol". So I pose the question, what is the community feeling about intellectual property as it is posed as an idea? I know they probably made their own code base but what about the idea of a "town portol" etc... is that nothing to be worried about? Should the Diablo devs be concerned about this?"

+ - Circuit of the Future Keeps Blackouts Brief-> 0

Submitted by gearloos on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:23AM

gearloos writes "The blackouts that attract attention are the ones that hit entire cities. But most of the time, only a handful of homes and businesses are left in the dark because of a failure of a distribution circuit. Now Southern California Edison is trying a "circuit of the future," using technologies that the utility says will limit the size of the area affected and shorten the length of a power failure. Link to the NY Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/business/16electric.html?_r=1&ex=1350273600&en=aa60bc76202b05d3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"
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+ - Japan Quake causes nuke plant leak-> 0

Submitted by gearloos on Monday July 16, 2007 @03:30PM

gearloos writes "KASHIWAZAKI, Japan — A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast Monday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea — an accident not reported to the public for hours. Full story: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/49714 56.html"
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+ - Santa tracking only for IE users

Submitted by gearloos on Sunday December 24, 2006 @11:47PM

gearloos writes "Well, after trying to connect in vain to http://www.noradsanta.org/ for 1 hour I tried a windows box with IE7 and it came right up. I guess this means little penguins don't count? Or has Santa perhaps made a deal with Redmond?"

+ - Tracking Santa

Submitted by gearloos on Sunday December 24, 2006 @10:31PM

gearloos writes "just a reminder, Santa is now being tracked by Norad. This is not limited to north america. Grab the kids, before bedtime, and track where Santa is in real time."