Comment Why Drupal? (Score 1) 88
There must be something compelling about Drupal, but I've found it really confusing and troublesome to work with as compared to, say, Wordpress. Why is it chosen for big projects like this?
Submission + - India's Graduates Not Suitable for Call Centers (wsj.com) 1
hawkeyeMI writes: "There's a story today in the Wall Street Journal about a problem faced by India's outsourcing industry; while there are many graduates from high school and college, most of them lack the critical thinking and English speaking skills needed for work in call centers, and for more skilled labor. The problem is especially keen where communication with the English-speaking world is most needed. This mirrors my own experiences with various firms on Elance, and with GetFriday and AskSunday. Maybe the outsourcing 'threat' espoused by many in IT is hitting its limits?"
Submission + - Full Disk Encryption For Android (whispersys.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Android, which has been lagging behind other devices in the security area, now has the ability to run with full disk encryption. This comes thanks to Whisper Systems, the startup founded by well-known hacker Moxie Marlinspike, which has begun developing a free hardened version of Android. In the last two days they've open sourced their encrypted flash filesystem solution and added support for the Nexus One. The results should be interesting.
Submission + - Anonymous DDOS attacks Sony, brings website down (gamersmint.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous who warned about cyber attacks against Sony has made many of Sony’s sites down, currently. The sites include Playstation, PSN, PS Blogs and Sony (which is partially accessible) and it looks probable that more sites from its stable are going to get attacked.
Comment Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! (Score 0) 153
Mod parent funny.
Comment Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! (Score 2) 153
Usually if you're putting more than *5* words on a slide, you really better be able to justify it.
Comment Missing Link (Score 1) 1
I forgot the link, you can see the value at http://bitcoinwatch.com./
Submission + - Bitcoin Economy Exceeds US$1M 1
hawkeyeMI writes: "Just this morning, the Bitcoin economy exceeded a value of US$1M. It's come a long way since Beta version 0.3 was announced on Slashdot."
Comment Re:sometimes, you have to ask yourself... (Score 4, Informative) 280
Someone already has. Google is your friend. I actually didn't buy more than 2 or 3 Kindle books until I figured that out. Now that I have, I buy a lot more. I also don't spread them all over the internet, I just know that I can always switch readers down the line.
Kind of like what happened with iTunes/MP3s. Funny, eh? Meanwhile, the pirates continue to pirate, DRM or no.
Comment Re:Change your I/O scheduler (Score 1) 472
It is because of things like this that I am sticking with the 10.04 LTE for a while. I've become really disillusioned with the rapid changes in Ubuntu between releases. I guess it's good, but I don't have the time to screw around 'fixing' everything after an upgrade very often.
One of the things I miss about Gentoo is that you can keep your system in a state of rolling update, for the most part.
Comment Change your I/O scheduler (Score 1) 472
If you just change your I/O scheduler to anticipatory this should go away. I think the simplest in Ubuntu is to add "elevator=anticipatory" to your kernel command line arguments. This is done differently in GRUB and GRUB2, so fgi.
Comment I love Firefox, but... (Score 1) 128
I love Firefox and Android, but unfortunately FF for Android is still huge and slow. I hope this improves over time, and it probably will, but I thought that maybe since the nightly builds they might have made some kind of breakthrough that warranted Beta status. Not so.
Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 228
Good question, I don't know. I'll have to check out one of those devices, I can't (when first thinking about it) believe they would have managed to strip out all of the Google search stuff.
Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 228
Exactly, you can take Android and do with it what you like. Google's requiring that if you want to sell a device and use all of their proprietary stuff (build stock Android -- it won't include Market, Gmail, etc...), you need to use *all* of their proprietary stuff. A fair tradeoff, I think.
Comment And they only get 20% of the internet? (Score 5, Funny) 110
Or something like that.
