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Comment Re:Freedoms (Score 1) 138

by portablejim on Monday September 13, 2010 @10:43PM (#33568710) Attached to: Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible

I am a Christian as well, and although the Bible should not be burned, it is his copy to do as he likes with it.

The reaction that I have towards what he has done, so it pray for him

Comment Re:It should be: 4+3+2=x+2 (Solve for x) (Score 1) 1268

by portablejim on Friday August 13, 2010 @07:25PM (#33247128) Attached to: US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign

As mentioned, you divide by 0, since step 5 "Remove cancelling values (a - b)" means "Divide both sides by (a - b)"
a = b therefore a-b = 0
The step now becomes "Divide both sides by 0"

Comment If that's all the info that collected (Score 1) 548

by portablejim on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:18AM (#33202180) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

It seems like they just want uniquely identify the computer (ie. for networks behind nat) plus version info. Is this not http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ and http://counter.li.org/ doing the same thing?

Comment Re:Find a new site (Score 1) 660

by portablejim on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @08:37AM (#31921236) Attached to: Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock

Just added it now to my adblock white-list.

Submission + - Facebook retroactively makes more user data public (eff.org)

Submitted by

mjn

on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @03:17AM

mjn writes: "In yet another backtrack from their privacy policy, Facebook has decided to retroactively move more information into the public, indexable part of profiles. The new profile parts made public are: a list of things users have become "fans" of (now renamed to "likes"), their education and work histories, and what they list under "interests". Apparently there is neither any opt-out nor even notice to users, despite the fact that some of this information was entered by users at a time when Facebook's privacy policy explicitly promised that it wouldn't be part of the public profile."

Comment Yet another great product on the horizon... (Score 1) 187

by portablejim on Sunday June 07, 2009 @07:24PM (#28245189) Attached to: Printable, Rollable Solar Panels Could Go Anywhere

Tell me when it actually gets into stores. A few years ago the news came out about sliver cells. (site: http://www.originenergy.com.au/1257/Photos-of-SLIVER-modules)(story transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1865651.htm) They are bendable and even transparent, with a similar efficiency of traditional cells. (http://www.originenergy.com.au/1234/About-SLIVER - down near the bottom of the page). Could someone please tell me where to buy a sliver cell?

Comment IE6/7/8 testing is easy (Score 1) 2

by portablejim on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @02:42AM (#27918541) Attached to: Test a web site against many browser/OSes?

When using IE 8 you can easily switch between rendering modes (See third (and last) pic down on http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/07/improved-productivity-through-internet-explorer-8-developer-tools.aspx ) to test IE6 and IE7 rendering as well as the IE8 rendering (Windows only).

For Firefox, I think that multiple versions can co-exist on the computer. If that is not the case, then you can run Firefox Portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable) - for those that are ignorant about portable applications: applications that run from a folder. Portable versons of 2.x and 1.5.x are still available. (Windows / Linux - through wine).

I am not too sure about safari on Windows, however I am sure you can install at least one version of safari.

As for operating system I don't think the rendering should be any different between between operating systems (except for maybe IE6 for Mac). However you have been told to test multiple OSs, so try using a Mac (as it is the pickiest about hardware) then emulating Windows and Linux on top.

Submission + - McDonalds free wifi users soak up seating (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by bfire on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:13AM

bfire writes: McDonalds has earmarked potential changes to seating plans in some restaurants to prevent free wifi users from monopolising seating, particularly in peak periods. The availability of wifi means people are now spending 35 minutes in McDonalds — rather than the average 10 minutes that patrons used to spend eating there. But it appears not everyone is happy with the increased 'stickiness' of customers, with some licensees in Australia reporting that wifi users aren't turning over seats fast enough. The restaurant chain is considering options including space demarcation to deal with the problem.

Submission + - Test a web site against many browser/OSes? 2

Submitted by titou09 on Monday May 11, 2009 @10:49PM

titou09 writes: We have a small eCommerce site and and we, development team, have been requested to test the site against multiple browsers/OSes configurations to check for compatibility. Namely firefox 2.x/3.x, IE 6.x/7.x/8.x, Safari 3/4, on XP/Vista/Linux/Mac The tests may be conducted manually. following pre-established tests scenarios, or could be automated (from the scenarios). What is the best way to achieve this, given that having one machine per browser/OS is out of the question? We are thinking on building a "big dev machine" with many virtual PCs, each one including a browser/combination (what about Mac then), but are there better ideas? Are there some sort of "emulators" that could be installed and run on a simple Windows/Linux box? Would like to know how other companies are conducting such tests.

Comment Re:Answer: That's your job. (Score 1) 209

by portablejim on Monday April 27, 2009 @05:17PM (#27737013) Attached to: Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration?

[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]

I just wanted to politely point out that

easyer

is spelt "easier" (Definition: more easy)

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