Comment: Re:Deliberately causing panic (Score 1) 604
Maybe everyone else already had it and thus were too sicki to respond.
Comment: Re:It's done right in Ubuntu (Score 1) 429
and then when I'm done with the second one I'll put the first one back in 'cause I don't know where the case is. The fact that I put that first CD back in the drive doesn't mean I want to run it...
Maybe Ubuntu should prompt you you to go find the case then...
Comment: Re:Mac OS Pre-9 (Score 1) 233
That's awesome, I didn't know about that one. Thanks!!
Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library 96
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from the you-and-you-and-definitely-not-you dept.
from the you-and-you-and-definitely-not-you dept.
f0rk writes "Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has just recently released libspotify. An official, binary-only, only for subscribers, library to 'enable and inspire you to build some really cool stuff.' The first release only has support for x86-32 Linux, the only major platform Spotify does not run on. It looks like the Spotify team is trying to be nice to the Linux community and hope someone will use their restricted binary-only library to write a Linux client."
Comment: Re:"Collaboration"? "More than chat"? (Score 1) 108
LOL. Got it, thanks for clarification!
FWIW I really like Openfire. Except for the memory footprint but that's due to its Java implementation...
Comment: What about TWC Business Class (Score 1) 479
Anyone know if / how this affects Time Warner business Class? Could that be a way around these restrictions? (Then again, what is the price of TWCBC?)
Comment: Re:OMFG (Score 1) 233
But she comes back!!!! (Not that I care, it's a minor distraction and pretty funny)
Comment: Mac OS Pre-9 (Score 4, Informative) 233
In Mac OS 7.5 - 8.5, you could get easter eggs by typing the text "secret about box" into any text editor that supported drag & drop and text clippings, selecting the text and dragging it to the desktop. In one OS, it would start a "brick-out" type game with the developer's names.
Comment: Re:How To's are so 90s.. (Score 4, Interesting) 108
I love Virtual Appliances. But HOWTOS are still necessary because I, for one, always question the security/authenticity of 3rd party VMware images. I use them to eval software and, if I like it, create my own appliance so I have full control and know there are no rootkits/backdoors installed...
Comment: "Collaboration"? "More than chat"? (Score 1) 108
TFA states, "[openfire is] an extremely capable collaboration system [...] able to do much more than simple chat". I use Openfire, and am not aware of it's collaboration system. Can anyone explain? SInce TFA doesn't seem to...
Comment: Re:In my case (Score 1) 357
FWIW Many years ago a friend of mine dropped my digital camera into the ocean, when I handed it to her to hold while I exited a kayak. (She replaced the camera and the card inside). The card inside, a 256MB CF card, continued to work for almost 2 years after that. I never trusted it and only used it for things I didn't care about, expecting it to die at any moment... but it held out for longer than expected. And that was with salt water...
+ - Apple Counter and Contest to One Billion Apps
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An anonymous reader writes "Apple has posted a counter of App Store downloads. The lucky billionth gets to walk away with a stash consisting of a MacBook Pro, 32GB iPod Touch, Time Capsule and $10,000 iTunes gift certificate. The App Store now has over 30,000 applications."
+ - Time Warner to Offer Unlimited Bandwidth for $150 -> 1
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unr3a1 writes "In response to a slew of criticism over its plan to cap customers' bandwidth allowance, Time Warner Cable announced new price tiers for a three-state trial. On top of a 5, 10, 20, and 40-gigabyte (GB) caps, the company said this week that it would offer an additional 100GB tier for heavy users. Prices (so far) would range from $29.95 to $75.00 a month, with users charged an extra dollar for every GB more they download, although that charge is also capped at $75. An "unlimited" bandwidth plan, therefore, tops out at $150."
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+ - Conficker meltdown, ten days later...->
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KingofGnG writes "More than a week after the 1st of April, the day when the Internet stood still because according to the press the Conficker worm could have destroyed the net, the infrastructures, civilized mankind and the entire planet things are going more or less as usual: Internet remains a dangerous place but it hasn't exploded like a supernova, and bit are flowing quickly from a part to another one of the planet. The true novelty is that the botnet built up by one of the most complex malware ever finally shows what its true purpose is."
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How Does Flash Media Fail? 357
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from the in-the-pan dept.
from the in-the-pan dept.
bhodge writes "Aside from the obvious 'it stops working' answer, how does flash media — such as USB, SD, and CF — fail? Unlike with traditional hard drive, where anyone who's worked with computers for a while knows what a drive failure looks like, I don't know anyone who has experienced such a failure with flash. I've haven't been able to find more than scant evidence of what such failures look like at the OS level. The one account I have found detailed using a small USB drive for /var/log storage; it failed very quickly, and then utterly (0 byte unformatted device), after five years of service in the role. This runs contrary to other anecdotal claims that you should still be able to read the media after you can no longer write to it. So my question is: what have you seen of the nature of flash media failure, if anything?"