PouletFou - Slashdot User

Comment Re:True that (Score 1) 551

by PouletFou on Friday September 25, 2009 @12:18PM (#29540651) Attached to: The Duct Tape Programmer

More like: no wonder Windows is more popular than Windows.

Is windows really more popular than windows? I always thought that windows was clearly left behind by windows not the opposite. Gee, the it world is so confusing, but as they say : windows is to windows what windows is to windows.

Comment Re:speed (Score 4, Informative) 354

by PouletFou on Monday September 07, 2009 @10:01AM (#29339801) Attached to: Chrome 4.0 Vs Opera 10 Vs Firefox 3.5

You can use chromium on linux. I prefer it to firefox now because when flashplugin crashes (often on x86_64), chromium does not have to be restarted, a simple refresh works.

Comment Re:Stay classy (Score 1) 290

by PouletFou on Thursday August 27, 2009 @10:31PM (#29226293) Attached to: Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync

There is probably no hell.

Comment Re:Ditch Linux (Score 2, Funny) 907

by PouletFou on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @01:04PM (#29188981) Attached to: Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor?

Stop feeding the trollfeeders, you trollfeederfeeder!

Comment Re:Sure, but... (Score 1) 404

by PouletFou on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:47AM (#29185833) Attached to: One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras

[...] total abolishment of privacy could indeed be a good thing.

If you do not see the relation between this sentence and 1984, no wonder you replied this.

Comment Re:Sure, but... (Score 1) 404

by PouletFou on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:03AM (#29185293) Attached to: One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras

Total abolishment of privacy could indeed be a good thing

Did you ever read George's Orwell 1984?

Comment Re:Flash-based... (Score 1) 233

by PouletFou on Saturday August 22, 2009 @10:27AM (#29155273) Attached to: Google Brings SVG Support To IE

At least, web developers can now use SVG without worrying about browser support for IE. If the page is viewed with a svg supporting browser, the svg rendering will be done by the browser, otherwise it will be done by flash. It's up to anyone to choose his browser.

Comment Re:Slideshow (Score 4, Funny) 321

by PouletFou on Thursday August 06, 2009 @08:37AM (#28970533) Attached to: HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come

Runs fine here on my pentium 3 with windows ME and netscape 4.

Comment Re:making progress (Score 1) 432

by PouletFou on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:03PM (#28948313) Attached to: KDE 4.3 Released

Being a KDE fan, when kubuntu switched from 3.5 to 4.0, I tried GNOME on one machine. But since the release of kubuntu jaunty with KDE 4.2, I happily came back without any problems. Can't wait to try 4.3. Kudos to the KDE team for that.

Comment Re:Analog hole (Score 1) 275

by PouletFou on Saturday June 06, 2009 @03:14PM (#28235337) Attached to: The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die

working link for analog hole : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Hole

Comment Re:KDE 4 looks promising (Score 1) 153

by PouletFou on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @11:54PM (#28205537) Attached to: KDE 4.2.4 Released

Can you specify what in KDE 4.2 doesn't work at all? I've been a KDE user for years, kept KDE 3.5 on my laptop while switching to gnome on the desktop until kubuntu 9.04 and I honestly find KDE 4.2.2 very impressive and efficient.

Comment Poor documentation? (Score 1) 1365

by PouletFou on Monday May 18, 2009 @09:00AM (#27994427) Attached to: Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop

From TFA : >11. (Being slowly resolved) Poor documentation. well it must have been a long time since I have used windows since I don't remember where was the good docs.

OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 274

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @02:36PM from the just-make-it-faster dept.

angry tapir writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "One Laptop Per Child is set to dump x86 processors, instead opting to put low-power Arm-based processors in its next-generation XO-2 laptop with the aim of improving battery life. The nonprofit is 'almost' committed to putting the Arm-based chip in the next-generation XO-2 laptop, which is due for release in 18 months, according to Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC. The XO-1 laptop currently ships with Advanced Micro Devices' aging Geode chip, which is based on an x86 design."

Inside Factory China 135

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 13, 2009 @09:59AM from the making-it dept.

blackbearnh writes "While China is attempting to pull its industry up out of mere manufacturing mode, for now the country is the production workhorse of the consumer electronics industry. Almost anything you pick up at a Best Buy first breathed life across the Pacific Ocean. But what is it like to shepherd a product through the design and production process? Andrew 'bunnie' Huang has done just that with the Chumby, a new Internet appliance. In an interview with O'Reilly Radar, he talks about the logistical and moral issues involved with manufacturing in China, as well as his take on the consumer's right to hack the hardware they purchase."

Microsoft To Open Retail Stores 535

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 13, 2009 @09:16AM from the world-class-shopping-experience dept.

chaz373 writes "CNET reports that Microsoft is going retail. In the 'Beyond Binary' blog Ina Fried reports, 'After years of brushing off the notion, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will open up its own line of retail stores. Without detailing the plans, Microsoft said it has hired David Porter, a 25-year Wal-Mart veteran, to lead the effort. Sources say that Porter's mission will be to develop the company's retail plans and that the effort is likely to start small with just a few locations.'"

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