Rowan_u - Slashdot User

Comment Don't do it. (Score 2, Insightful) 229

by Rowan_u on Sunday June 15, 2008 @08:39AM (#23799491) Attached to: Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse?

Save yourself the pain and suffering of input lag, dropped connections, battery swapping, and start up time (as the wireless device pops out of standby), and just get yourself a good ole usb extension cable and repeater. This goes double or triple if you intend to play any games at all on the TV. For just clicking on an mkv file, a wireless device will do you. But it will do you poorly.

Submission + - Longhorn reloaded

Submitted by

notrandom

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @10:36AM

notrandom writes: "Somebody else besides Microsoft makes a Windows operating system !
As you can see on their website — longhorn-reloaded.org — a bunch of developers released for download ... Windows Longhorn.
We're did not install the thing yet because we're still discussing what method of torture will Microsoft use against these guys."

Submission + - wifi slurpr multiplexes wifi connections

Submitted by

bprice20

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @10:29AM

bprice20 writes: "The new slurpr can take up to 6 wifi connections and merge them into one fat pipe. Fully automatic WEP cracking, coming soon."

Submission + - Music CD, I'm just not that into you

Submitted by

bytor4232

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @10:14AM

bytor4232 writes: "There's a fascinating if flawed story in the WSJ about the decline in sales of music CDs. There's much to and fro about what's behind the drop. The industry as always wants to blame piracy. Critics want to blame poor quality of product, bad marketing tactics and digital rights restricting technologies. There's even some far-sighted commentary about changing business models. But this article, and similar ones you've no doubt read a thousand times in recent years over declines in music sales and movie attendance, miss the boat. And it's a pretty big and obvious boat at that. There are only so many hours in a day for each of us to consume entertainment. Various new forms of entertainment that catch on have to displace some of the time we spent on our former diversions."

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