Chazman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Private Car Cameras (Score 1) 480

by Chazman on Monday September 14, 2009 @02:41PM (#29417167) Attached to: Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?"

Spot on, and good work. Did you catch that last sentence in the writeup on DriveCam on the partners page you linked to?

DriveCam provides the technology and driving coaches for the Teen Safe Driver Program.

From an equipment and program delivery point of view, TeenSafeDriver is DriveCam.

Comment Oldest full machine in regular use (Score 1) 622

by Chazman on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:40PM (#28128777) Attached to: 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web

I've got a DNS server that's running on a Pentium-83 overdrive CPU in a 486/VLB mobo, with 32MB of RAM on 30-pin SIMMs. It connects to the network with a WD8013 10Mb Ethernet card, and 10base-2 cable. Disk? WD Caviar 340MB, baby. It's been serving DNS 24/7/365 for I can't even remember how many years straight (total downtime on the order of a day or two in several years), and still is doing so right now.

Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All 545

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:19PM from the this-comparison-is-not-like-the-others dept.

cremou brulee writes "Redmond's photocopiers have been unusually busy for the last couple of years, with the result that Windows 7 copies a lots of Mac OS X features. First and foremost among these is the Dock, which has been unceremoniously ripped off in Windows 7's new Taskbar. Or has it? Ars Technica has taken an in-depth look at the history and evolution of the Taskbar, and shows just how MS arrived at the Windows 7 'Superbar.' The differences between the Superbar and the Dock are analyzed in detail. The surprising conclusion? 'Ultimately, the new Taskbar is not Mac-like in any important way, and only the most facile of analyses would claim that it is.'"

Comment Sony and inventing new formats (Score 5, Insightful) 138

by Chazman on Monday September 15, 2008 @10:18PM (#25019629) Attached to: Sony CTO Starts New "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" Group

Let's take a quick walk back through the vault of previous Sony-invented media formats, shall we?

Betamax.
Mini-Disc.
Memory Stick.
ATRAX.

You'll pardon me if I ask why I should believe this will turn into anything other than another colossal flop.

Feed My Hybrid Saved Me Cash (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday December 04, 2006 @10:12PM

A Honda Civic Hybrid cost $3,000 less to operate for 3.5 years than a Mazda6 when considering trade-in value and the cost of gasoline. In Autopia.

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