Darf Bobo - Slashdot User

Comment original iGoogle engineer == artist (Score 1) 329

by Darf Bobo on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @11:45AM (#40542023) Attached to: Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle

I attended a workshop with the person who developed iGoogle. She's a fantastically interesting person who creates works of art that often incorporate computers and programming, like code that sings itself.

Comment Re:Invite? (Score 1) 1223

by Darf Bobo on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @02:49PM (#36738280) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

Many thanks Vlad - cheers

Comment Invite? (Score 1) 1223

by Darf Bobo on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @02:34PM (#36738000) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

mr.peepoo@gmail.com

Another Facebook holdout here. Many thanks!

Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year 183

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:17PM from the soon-we-can-expand-crysis-jokes-to-phones dept.

rocket97 writes "On Wednesday, at the Executives Club of Chicago, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly decided to chat about the relatively near future of the mobile landscape as he sees it — which, in part, includes the ultimate demise of mobile computers in favor of highly-capable smartphones. This being his vision, Jha discussed Motorola's plans for a smartphone with a 2GHz processor — by the end of this year. While Jha did not want to divulge any further information, Conceivably Tech cites another anonymous Motorola executive who was a little more chatty, talking up a device intended to 'incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smartphone today.'"

Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak 320

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @04:25PM from the like-it-when-windows-crashed-more dept.

MonsterTrimble writes "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 is experiencing a major memory leak due to patches for X.org. 'An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. ... In order to make the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS deadline, the developers are looking at just reverting three of the patches, which brings the GLX version back to 1.2. Ubuntu developers are now desperate for people willing to test out this updated X.Org Server package so they can determine by this Friday whether to ship it with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or doing an early SRU (Stable Release Update). Right now this X.Org Server that's being tested is living in the ubuntu-x-swat PPA.'"

VMware Promises Multiple OSs On One Cellphone 90

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 10, 2008 @01:28PM from the just-make-sure-i-can-strip-it-off-if-i-want dept.

superglaze writes to tell us that VMware has announced a large effort behind their Mobile Virtualization Platform, promising the possibility of multiple operating systems on mobile devices. "The company described MVP as a 'thin layer of software' that will be embedded in handsets and 'be optimized to run efficiently on low-power-consuming and memory-constrained mobile phones.' Asked whether MVP would offer something different from the abstraction already provided by mobile Java, VMware's European product director Fredrik Sjostedt told ZDNet UK that MVP would require less recoding. 'If you want to have an application run on a Java-specific appliance, you need to code it for Java,' Sjostedt said. 'What we're introducing with MVP is an [embedded] abstraction layer below that, between the physical hardware and the software layer.'"

Comment Re:yeah but does it embed in a browser? (Score 5, Informative) 301

by Darf Bobo on Sunday May 11, 2003 @08:31PM (#5933381) Attached to: Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding

In mozilla you can use 'View Page Info' and choose the 'Media' tab. URLs for video, etc have the 'Embed' type. Just pass the URL to mplayer if you have the bandwidth.

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