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Comment Re:It's change for the sake of change (Score 1) 1040

by chammy on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:08AM (#37996236) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs?

Wicd is a great little wifi manager with no X library dependencies.

Comment Re:WOW, LOL, WUT? (Score 1) 107

by chammy on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:03PM (#37707636) Attached to: AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows

The nvidia drivers are useless without xrandr support. Fglrx may be a mess but at least it doesn't reimplement standards on the linux desktop.

Comment Re:Too much dependence on drivers (Score 1) 149

by chammy on Friday August 12, 2011 @09:34PM (#37076364) Attached to: Carmack On 'Infinite Detail,' Integrated GPUs, and Future Gaming Tech

All flavours of NVIDIA cards run the same base OpenGL implementation

Nope, sorry. There is a reason why there exists a "legacy" Nvidia driver.

Comment Re:PS3 fully supported, QWERTY still buggy as shit (Score 1) 133

by chammy on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:06AM (#37020224) Attached to: PlayStation 3 Controller On Android Devices

I have Cyanogen 7 on my Droid and it can handle a bluetooth keyboard just fine - all I had to do was turn it on and sync like any other device. The only issue I've had is it doesn't rotate the arrow keys with the screen (not a big deal.)

Comment Re:64-bit is a misfeature (Score 1) 364

by chammy on Saturday July 16, 2011 @03:47PM (#36788110) Attached to: Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know

They don't do things in the source code that would break when you compile under 64bit, like cast pointers to ints or something.

Comment Re:Try it in Linux (Score 1) 364

by chammy on Monday June 27, 2011 @09:43PM (#36592016) Attached to: One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard

alt-f2 > gksu halt

Is probably easier

Comment Re:Sure, it's just harder (Score 1) 364

by chammy on Monday June 27, 2011 @08:54PM (#36591666) Attached to: One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard

Really? I can't think of any operation you can't do with just a keyboard in Linux, regardless of WM.

It's likely you just weren't aware of a shortcut/command to do what you wanted.

Comment Re:OK, now this is an example of good programming (Score 1) 132

by chammy on Saturday May 14, 2011 @04:15AM (#36125380) Attached to: New Bill Would Require US ISPs To Retain User Info

In his snip "bribe" isn't a class name. It could be a "Transaction" named "bribe" or something

Comment Re:Speech recognition (Score 1) 85

by chammy on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @06:20PM (#35812952) Attached to: Microsoft's Kinect SDK Can Track and Listen

Try Vlingo. You can set it up to listen for a key phrase like "hey vlingo!" and it will start listening for commands. It's really handy when you're driving. Note that your phone is definitely not idling while its processing audio input and waiting for a key phrase.

Comment Re:Pretty nice actually (Score 4, Informative) 469

by chammy on Monday April 11, 2011 @01:37PM (#35783508) Attached to: Sony's Case Against Geohot Has Been Settled

Sony didn't plug any leak. The ps3 master keys don't go away with a ruling by some court. Softmods, homebrew, etc will still continue coming out like they were prior to the settlement. Some people might be scared but others probably still have an axe to grind.

Comment Re:This will not rule the world (Score 1) 257

by chammy on Thursday April 07, 2011 @03:49AM (#35741990) Attached to: Mono Comes To Android

Or you could always use the NDK and code in C/C++. Only minimal bits have to be in Java to interface with the rest of Android.

Comment Re:FF 4 (Score 1) 554

by chammy on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @04:05PM (#35578320) Attached to: Firefox 4 Released!

Tabs STILL are not in their own processes like Chrome has done since day one

I'm not so sure this is a feature I want in Firefox. In Chrome if I have a certain number of tabs open Windows basically explodes and I have to kill Chrome. In FF4 I can have my unmanageable, huge number of tabs and it runs just fine.

Comment Re:I got one that works everywhere ... (Score 2) 110

by chammy on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:49AM (#35501214) Attached to: EvoMouse Turns Your Digits Digital

Logitech's marble mouse is indeed pretty nice. Especially if you bind a side button to scroll, the momentum feels excellent when web browsing. You don't really get the kind of tactile feedback a trackball has with a regular mouse or touchpad when you're moving over large distances.

Comment Re:Until.... (Score 1) 568

by chammy on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:33PM (#35437160) Attached to: How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date

Yep, and its absolutely crap. It only uses the PPC core so its horribly slow and the flash plugin basically locks the browser up.

Comment Re:Not only graphics (Score 1) 568

by chammy on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:32PM (#35435704) Attached to: How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date

His argument is about level playing field, nothing to do with options.

Patently false. There are plenty of hackers messing around on the PSN right now. At least on the PC we get real anti-cheat protection like VAC.

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