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Comment: I see nothing about licensing. I see no promise. (Score 1) 126

by mrmeval (#43763347) Attached to: Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom

Yea it supports ARM, how is that support and how will it work out for you? Will the support it equally? What is the licensing of this confabulation? Do I have to pay anything if I make a commercial product other than the atom processor, support chips and sundry support components?

I've priced atom with all the needed support chips and compared to arm and it sucks balls on costs. I'm leery of hidden costs in this confabulation over the already sub par costs of atom.

Comment: Re:Oracle Java: Bad (Score 1) 102

by mrmeval (#43717015) Attached to: Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws

URL: is another one that forces us to have insecure crap on our system. We run a thin client which runs firefox which runs their crap.

This of course removes all the sales drone drooling about fixing the lost work time problem of everyone standing in line doing nothing.

The genius that chose these tards has departed the building for more pay or that's what we were told.

Cloud

The Eternal Mainframe 225

Posted by timothy
from the next-week-client-server-revisited dept.
theodp writes "In his latest essay, Rudolf Winestock argues that the movement to replace the mainframe has re-invented the mainframe, as well as the reason why people wanted to get rid of mainframes in the first place. 'The modern server farm looks like those first computer rooms,' Winestock writes. 'Row after row of metal frames (excuse me—racks) bearing computer modules in a room that's packed with cables and extra ventilation ducts. Just like mainframes. Server farms have multiple redundant CPUs, memory, disks, and network connections. Just like mainframes. The rooms that house these server farms are typically not open even to many people in the same organization, but only to dedicated operations teams. Just like mainframes.' And with terabytes of data sitting in servers begging to be monetized by business and scrutinized by government, Winestock warns that the New Boss is worse than the Old Boss. So, what does this mean for the future of fully functional, general purpose, standalone computers? 'Offline computer use frustrates the march of progress,' says Winestock. 'If offline use becomes uncommon, then the great and the good will ask: "What are [you] hiding? Are you making kiddie porn? Laundering money? Spreading hate? Do you want the terrorists to win?"'"

Comment: Re:Acceptance ritual under Belgian law (Score 3, Informative) 176

by mrmeval (#43448745) Attached to: Facebook's Android App Can Now Retrieve Data About What Apps You Use

It should be done by mail/phone with a credit card with credentials mailed to you. It worked very well to keep trolls and spam off of Fidonet and Rime forums and since netmail messages cost a $0.25 so I'd love to get all the spam they could send. ;) BTW netmail was a feature of both those networks and I could send electronic mail all over the world. Both networks were like the internet but far more decentralized.

United Kingdom

Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 539

Posted by samzenpus
from the rest-in-peace dept.
syngularyx writes "Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who became one of the most influential global leaders of the postwar period, died on Monday, three decades after her championing of free-market economics and individual choice transformed Britain's economy and her vigorous foreign policy played a key role in the end of the Cold War."
HP

HP Chairman Raymond Lane Steps Down 89

Posted by samzenpus
from the so-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye dept.
First time accepted submitter gkndivebum writes "The latest casualty from the ill-fated acquisition of British company Autonomy by HP appears to be Raymond Lane, who was recently re-elected by only 58.8% of shareholders. Mr. Lane will remain on the board with shareholder Ralph Whitworth as interim chairman. It will be interesting to see where the 'evolution' of the board as articulated by Mr. Whitworth leads."

Comment: Re:For the most part (Score 1) 197

by mrmeval (#43240975) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electrostatic Contamination?

I agree. I would add that a lot of consumer electronics makes no effort to allow the user to prevent dust and dirt contamination. I've installed heat exchanger boxes for PCs used in industrial environments. They have dry chilled filtered air pumped in though they may or may not have air flow or thermal monitoring they usually don't need it.

I've done something similar for a home theater server and equipment setup using a dedicated room which has a partition that holds an AC unit and hepafilter for incoming air. It works very well but it needs a temperature and airflow monitor which can shut things down and notify you of problems.

Monitors are harder and I have no good solution for those other than cleaning but newer ones can be of a destructive open type, the plastic is designed to be destroyed when opened and the maker would just replace it as it's cheap to them. Those require some ingenuity to reassemble but I usually can get them back together without either buying new plastic if available or creating an enclosure. I've cleaned and replaced the capacitors and backlights in a good 100 monitors and counting. I also have cleaned and replaced the capacitors on a pile of motherboards though fortunately for customers the quality of motherboards is getting somewhat better.

Comment: Re:life-long updates (Score 4, Insightful) 687

by mrmeval (#43228819) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy?

Whose life? ;)

I can't see someone supporting a game for more than a year or so unless they have a revenue stream from downloadable content.

An OS I can see security updates being a requirement for a decade.

Some software packages dealing with finance will most likely need update and I don't expect those to be free.

The simplest mentioned is check the serial on a new install which I won't fuss with bypassing. Let me play it without the serial with either level or time restriction for a game. Let me do enough with other programs to get an idea how they work.

And as always, Don't Suck.

Now I understand the meaning of "THE MOD SQUAD"!

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