t482 - Slashdot User

Comment: 2 OS goes to 3 OS.. (Score 1) 479

by t482 on Friday February 11 2011, @08:58AM (#35173254) Attached to: Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance

There is no way they can compete against Chinese OEM manufacturers - they will eat their lunch. Throw away current decent dev tools for new ones never makes sense This seems like an all out gamble that they can take on RIM in the corporate market with MS's backing They can't completely dump Symbian and Meego will continue without them.

Comment: Re:Try it safely on your PC with Firefox Portable (Score 2) 190

by t482 on Wednesday July 07 2010, @09:30AM (#32825976) Attached to: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

Fund that the directory is now \Data\plugins - copied over the files on the locked down pc and everything worked....

Comment: Re:Try it safely on your PC with Firefox Portable (Score 1) 190

by t482 on Wednesday July 07 2010, @09:24AM (#32825906) Attached to: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

Anyway of getting flash working? Normally you copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to \App\firefox\plugins\. However that directory no longer exists.. Any suggestions?

Comment: MaxDB? (Score 1) 207

by t482 on Tuesday October 20 2009, @01:00PM (#29811511) Attached to: MySQL Cofounder Says Oracle Should Sell Database To a Neutral 3d Party

My pet theory is that SAP is helping block the merger due to Mysql MAXDB. Which I believe used to be Adibas from SAP. If Oracle get it hands on that they could hurt SAP revenues and grab SAP customers. I don't believe the EU will back down. I wonder it that could kill the merger?

Comment: N900 vs iPhone v3 vs Palm Pre (Score 1) 484

by t482 on Friday August 28 2009, @01:43PM (#29234269) Attached to: Nokia Releases Linux Handset

In terms of hack-ability it seems like the ranking is Nokia Maemo(with slimmed down X.org), Pre (directfb - framebuffer driver), Android (java rendering), Apple (I don't know about Symbian). I have to hand it to Palm - their approach of porting webkit to run in directfb is a nice Idea. Personally I think the future of app development on these phones is simply to use HTML 5