AccUser - Slashdot User

Comment Re:One less "feature" (Score 1) 361

by AccUser on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @02:54AM (#28276191) Attached to: Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

I was really looking forward to a file system that never needed to be upgraded... I guess I'll keep on waiting.

Heck, if it really never needs to be upgrades, I would say hang on in there until it works. It will be worth the wait. ;-)

Submission + - Can I share ADSL connections? 1

Submitted by

AccUser

on Friday May 22, 2009 @05:19AM

AccUser writes: "I live in a rural area, with only two other houses near to me. We all have ADSL, and can achieve speeds of up to around 1.4Mbps, although it is usually lower than this. We are too far from the local exchange to get as much bandwidth as the residents in the next village (0.5km away), who report connection speeds of up to around 8Mbps (and I assume that they are not just saying this to wind us up). What I was wondering was this: can the three of us share our ADSL connections? What I would like to do is to be able to guarantee a minimum level of service for each of us, but if there is spare bandwidth on the other ADSL connections, then it becomes available. Is this possible? Is there hardware that supports this type of configuration? I know that there might be contractual issues with our ISPs, but putting that aside for the moment, can this be done?"

Comment Re:I have a PBX in my house (Score 1) 504

by AccUser on Friday January 30, 2009 @08:07AM (#26664723) Attached to: How many phones do you have? Count wired phone extensions, cell phones, smartphones, and installed VoIP apps on all computers th

I had a Nortel Meridian 1 a couple of years back, secreted in a cupboard in my study. Anyone who knows the Meridian 1 will know that that is a feat in itself...

Anyway, my company asked me to develop and integration between our call centre software and the Meridian 1, and so I signed up to get the API documentation. My boss thought that I would need access to the PBX for testing purposes, so ordered one and had it delivered to my house.

Honestly, you should have seen my wife's face when she saw that bit of kit. :-)

Submission + - Software engineering, or should we compromise?

Submitted by

AccUser

on Friday September 21, 2007 @07:47PM

AccUser writes: "I was recently engaged by a major logistics company to review a proprietary software system that had been developed over the past 5 years. The system had been developed in isolation to the industry, and contained a serious number of design flaws — basically, it was not fit for the company's future business plans. Having proposed a suitable solution to their problems, which has been accepted by the company, I am now faced with a contracted project manager who has no experience of software architecture or software engineering methodology, and who wants to compromise on the proposed solution in an effort to deliver a solution quicker and stay in his comfort zone. What would you do? Compromise, or stick to software engineering principals?"

Submission + - Maxis Developer says Wii "sucks ass"

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Toastercookie

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @06:05PM

Toastercookie writes: "During a session at GDC this morning titled 'Burning Mad — Game Publishers Rant,' time was taken about half way through to allow developers a chance to spew their own rants. One speaker, Chris Hecker, currently working on Spore at Maxis, took the opportunity to call out Nintendo for not taking games seriously."

Submission + - Tracking System to Nab Tor Pedophiles

Submitted by Huskies3565 on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:44PM

Huskies3565 writes: Amidst concerns that pedophiles are using public Tor (the Onion Router) servers to trade in child pornography, Metasploit founder HD Moore is building a tracking system capable of pinpointing specific workstations that searched for and downloaded sexual images and videos of kids. Moore has come up with a series of countermeasures that include using patched Tor servers and a decloaking engine to detect the exact location of a pedophile within an organization or residence.

Journal Journal: Slashdot is Crippleware 2

Journal by drinkypoo on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:10PM

I've never really had this thought before, but I was glancing over my user page and a comment I would have liked to track had JUST dropped off my comment history. So I look at the bottom of the page and see "Subscribers can view entire comment history for all users".

Now, I would already not pay for slashdot, because its employees don't do their jobs, but this just puts the icing on the cake. I have never paid for crippleware, and I never will.

Submission + - Where are the co-operative Wii games?

Submitted by Chuck Chunder on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @06:47PM

Chuck Chunder writes: I have bought a Wii (having previously owned an XBox and a Playstation) and am really enjoying it. It is a load of fun and I get a real kick out of seeing non gamers pick up a controller and enjoy themselves. However the fact remains that someone with general gaming experience will get to grips with a game a lot faster than someone without experience. This fact makes most of the "newbie friendliness" of the Wii moot when playing competative multiplayer games.

If my girlfriend and I play such a game (eg Sports, Rayman or Monkeyball) then it isn't much fun for either of us if I win all the time. The most fun we have had together with the Wii so far has been working through the single player part of Rayman, taking it in turns to face a challenge.

By doing that we both have some success and take part in the progression. Given that the Wii is reaching out to a broad range of people and multiple users on the same console I am thinking there should be plenty of collaborative (non FPS) games which players of varying skill levels can all play at once and have some success in. Am I missing some titles or is this a hole in the current Wii lineup?

Journal Journal: BBC iPlayer Not Just For Windows! 2

Journal by Thwomp on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @06:10PM

It seems that on various sites (and petitions!) people are making a big issue about the BBC's iPlayer being restricted to Windows DRM only. While it's true that it only works on Windows at the moment the BBC Trust has asked the BBC to investigate a platform antagonistic solution so it can also work on Macs and Linux. You can even see this conclusion in their

Submission + - CAD software on Vista up to 50 times slover

Submitted by stasike on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @05:40AM

stasike writes: The upFront.eZine reports that according to the article on Tom's Hardware many popular 3D CAD and modelling programs run 10 to 50 times slower on Vista than on XP. An average modelling program, like 3ds max, runs "only" 10 times slower. UGS NX, on the other hand runs more than 50 times slower. This is a direct result of killing an OpenGL and implementing god-only-knows-what protective features into the Vista for our own good.

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