Comment Don't think so (Score 2) 223
Unless the wired and wireless infrastructure for broadband is made better and tougher.
Comment Not a piece of news since 10+ years (Score 1) 181
Comment Two years ago! (Score 1) 585
Haven't you noticed?
Comment It's nice (Score 1) 381
That Intel knows so much about MS plans and development policy.
Comment 1 in 14? (Score 1) 290
I think they also hacked the statistics system!
Comment Untraceable and unhackable? (Score 1) 858
Anything with such features will be banned by governments.
Trivial!
Trivial!
Comment too late (Score 1) 233
I think that Sony has lost a huge amount of psn customers. And also gaming networks did.
Confessions of a Computer Repairman 387
nk497 writes "What really happens to your PC when it's handed over to computer repair cowboys? We reveal the horror stories from computer repair shops — the dodgy technicians that install pirated software, steal personal photos, lie about hardware upgrades, upsell to the unsavvy, or simply steal your PC to sell on. Plus, we tell you how to avoid such dodgy fixers and find a trustworthy repairman."
Comment Copyright Infringement? (Score 1) 204
Has anyone typed "starwars"?
It's ... astounding!
Comment This will kill KDE (Score 1) 129
As kde developers will start thinking about and switching to kde5.
I see another wave of bugs and instability, the same that made me switch from kdev4.1 to xfce.
These architects get excited by new technologies and loose the focus on stability and usability.
Let's see what will happen.
Comment That's a trivial thing! (Score 1) 436
There's no secure energy source in the world.
Even your fire place and a match box are not secure.
As a rule of thumb, the more energy they produce, the more unsecure.
Then if you take into account the byproducts of a nuclear power plant these considerations rise even more issues.
Even solar panels have drawbacks and generate pollution during the fabrication and the disposal phases. Not to talk about the needed batteries which are not part of the panels, but are a needed part of the setup. And a polluting one.
Even your fire place and a match box are not secure.
As a rule of thumb, the more energy they produce, the more unsecure.
Then if you take into account the byproducts of a nuclear power plant these considerations rise even more issues.
Even solar panels have drawbacks and generate pollution during the fabrication and the disposal phases. Not to talk about the needed batteries which are not part of the panels, but are a needed part of the setup. And a polluting one.
Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? 427
Zubinix writes "I have a background in doing automation in a Unix/Linux environment using scripting languages such as perl and bash shell, as well as ssh for remote scripting. My next project will be in the Windows environment so what approach and methodology is best for developing, say, the automation required for a test system? I don't want to use things like Cygwin, as I need to integrate with Windows applications such as Exchange and Sharepoint. Is there a list of should and should not dos when it comes to Windows automation?"
Comment RS232 (Score 1) 428
RS232 communication will disappear soon (from January 1996, the birth of commercial USB).
And infact all major professional networking devices have a ... a ... RS232 console, packaged in some way!
And infact all major professional networking devices have a
Comment One more missing (Score 1) 428
Slashdot is doomed to the scrap heap.
Comment So you mean that ... (Score 1) 117
... Oracle funded the further development of MySQL?
And that they made MySQL better that it was?
Oracle, the leader od commercial DB put money in one of the most popular opensource DB?
That's possible of course, but it sounds quite weird as far as marketing and sales policies. Ha!
And that they made MySQL better that it was?
Oracle, the leader od commercial DB put money in one of the most popular opensource DB?
That's possible of course, but it sounds quite weird as far as marketing and sales policies. Ha!
