GerbilSoft - Slashdot User

Comment Re:1440p? (Score 2, Informative) 109

by GerbilSoft on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @09:26AM (#35220062) Attached to: Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU

1440 is a version of 1080p. It still has 1080 lines of horizontal resolution, but only 1440 vertical lines instead of the standard1920. This format uses non-square pixels to fill a 16x9 aspect.

This right here is why "HD" is a joke. You've got 1366x768 "720p" displays that are only capable of showing 1280x720 signals, and now there's "1440p" displays that are non-square 1440x1080 instead of the expected 2560x1440. Either that or you're mistaken, since the slides in TFA mention 2560x1600.

Comment Apps are crap. (Score 1) 353

by GerbilSoft on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:39PM (#35094286) Attached to: App — the Most Abused Word In Tech?

My definition of "app" is a program that merely functions as a frontend to a website, and provides no additional functionality whatsoever outside of perhaps a few fancy images. Look at the iPhone App Store and you'll find thousands of these "apps" for different websites, all of which are nothing more than Safari wrappers hard-coded for a specific website.

Comment Drexel University has had this for years! (Score 2, Informative) 107

by GerbilSoft on Thursday October 21, 2010 @06:03PM (#33980380) Attached to: Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls

I'm currently a student at Drexel University, and they've had gigabit Internet links for several years. It was initially implemented in the main buildings, but then extended to dorms around two years ago. I regularly download files from public Internet servers at over 20 MB/s, and the connection's mostly limited by my laptop's hard drive.

Comment Re:Of course they don't have plans. (Score 1) 123

by GerbilSoft on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @06:57PM (#23411308) Attached to: Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009

"It's possible you'll be able to purchase a USB accessory to connect Gamecube devices to."

Nintendo can't even emulate N64 memory cards. What makes you think they'll be able to emulate GameCube memory cards and controllers over USB? (Also the fact that the Wii doesn't support use of e.g. the Classic Controller in GC mode.)

Submission + - Hushmail giving 'The Man' your private PGP keys 1

Submitted by

teknopurge

on Friday November 16, 2007 @01:26PM

teknopurge writes: "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. Yet another reason to use private hosting."

Submission + - Samsung Linux Drivers Have Major Security Hole

Submitted by GerbilSoft on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:46PM

GerbilSoft writes: It seems as though Samsung's proprietary Linux printer drivers have a major security hole. From the Ubuntu Forums:

Just to inform you about a recent post on the french Ubuntu forum about Samsung drivers (sorry, in french). It appears that Samsung unified drivers change rights on some parts of the system: After installing the drivers, applications may launch using root rights, without asking any password.

What is more, you may be able to kill your system, by deleting system components, generally modifiable only by using sudo.
Among the programs that it sets as setuid-root are OpenOffice, xsane, and xscanimage.

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