phoxix - Slashdot User

Comment While most here are going to rag on Geocities ... (Score 5, Insightful) 427

by phoxix on Thursday April 23, 2009 @08:06PM (#27696359) Attached to: Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities

I'd like to thank 'em giving even the tiniest bit of free webspace when nobody else did.

The reason we cann all remember Geocities was because there was neat stuff on it!!! Geocities was home to all the quirky people who had all sorts of goodies to post on the web, and no other means to do so.

Comment They may be spending $25mil ... (Score 2, Insightful) 159

by phoxix on Thursday April 02, 2009 @08:57AM (#27428839) Attached to: Rackable Buying SGI Assets For $25M?

... But SGI is $500+ mil in the hole.

Comment Whatever your age is ... (Score 1) 918

by phoxix on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:42PM (#27352261) Attached to: With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35?

... going to school and getting your degree is nothing short of an awesome experience. Best of luck to you!

Comment Simple solution ... (Score 5, Insightful) 229

by phoxix on Saturday January 24, 2009 @11:13AM (#26588785) Attached to: Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List

The CRTC should create a series honey-pot numbers, and give different combinations to those who purchase the lists. Scammers and those-who-sell-to-scammers would not be aware of which numbers are honey-pot numbers, and would call them anyways.

The CRTC could use this to easily weed out the bad from the good.

Comment Mandriva (Score 4, Informative) 367

by phoxix on Sunday January 04, 2009 @12:08PM (#26320407) Attached to: Stallman On the State of Free Software 25 Years On

Mandriva comes in two flavors: One, and Free. The Free version is just what it sounds like: 100% free software. No proprietary browser plugins, drivers, apps, etc.

Submission + - AMD releases register specs for R5xx and R6xx (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by ianare on Sunday September 23, 2007 @11:05AM

ianare writes: AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This allows the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver.

Submission + - NYT & Economist articles on Algorithms (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Soylent Mauve on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:59AM

Soylent Mauve writes: The trend toward data- and algorithm-driven tuning of business operations has gotten a lot of attention recently — check out the recent articles in the New York Times and the Economist. It looks like computer scientists, especially those with machine learning training, are getting their day in the sun.

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