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Comment Oh, come on! HAL! (Score 1) 134

by BLBishop on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:46PM (#53732201) Attached to: Amazon Updates Echo, Echo Dot To Let You Address It As 'Computer'

Open the pod bay doors.

Then my garage opens...or not.

Comment Sure, blame FTDI (Score 2) 700

by BLBishop on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @03:21PM (#48206129) Attached to: FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips.

Wait - "FTDI has started an outright war?"

Ok, so the cloners copy the design (that FTDI paid for), steal the VID (that FTDI paid for), and then by clear intention, use the FTDI driver (that FTDI paid for), and you say FTDI started a war?

Really? Good for FTDI. The supply chain will get purged of the counterfeit material faster this way then any lawsuit could.

Seems like a clever solution to me.

Comment Re:More important (Score 1) 148

by BLBishop on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @03:44PM (#39648479) Attached to: Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon

Now we can refer to Eugene, OR as "Shelbyville."

New PS3 Firmware Causing HDD Upgrade Problems? 82

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 30, 2010 @09:28PM from the infirm-ware dept.

Channard writes "While there have been occasional reports of previous PS3 firmware upgrades causing system crashes and so forth, Sony's new firmware upgrade for the system, 3.41, is apparently stopping PS3 owners from upgrading their hard disks. This problem has been encountered by many users on Sony's forums and occurs when you try to put a new hard disk into a PS3 that already has the firmware upgrade installed. The general course of action for upgrading a PS3's drive is that you download the latest PS3 firmware onto a memory stick and, after swapping the hard drive in the PS3, plug the stick in, allowing the PS3 to properly prepare the disk for use. But as of upgrade 3.41, the PS3 fails to recognize the firmware on the stick, complaining that it can't proceed until you insert the correct firmware. Repeating the process and re-downloading the firmware does not fix the problem, as I can confirm, having encountered the problem myself. Users can put the old hard disk back in, provided they've not reformatted it for some other purpose, so all is not lost. Sony have apparently told gaming website CVG that 'The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41 update.' This seems to fly in the face of the currently available information — although whether or not this statement was issued by Kevin Butler is unclear. Either way, PS3 owners encountering this problem will likely have to wait a few days for a fix and use their old HDDs for now."

IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:30PM from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

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