FenwayFrank - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Pizza (Score 1) 197

by FenwayFrank on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:29PM (#44010903) Attached to: EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary

I need no sympathy

Comment Dang!! (Score 1) 299

by FenwayFrank on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:50PM (#33606650) Attached to: Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

And I had '1' in the pool!

Comment Trading "IP options" anyone? (Score 1) 282

by FenwayFrank on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @08:04AM (#32083382) Attached to: Black Market May Develop For IPv4 Addresses

eom

Comment Re:MAN/LAN (Score 0, Offtopic) 45

by FenwayFrank on Thursday March 11, 2010 @08:26AM (#31436382) Attached to: Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

You can always "man man", man

Comment Re:Watch list? (Score 1) 162

by FenwayFrank on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @02:32PM (#30597324) Attached to: 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open

All participants will also receive complimentary cavity-searches at airport checkpoints.

Second prize: two of them.

Comment Re:Good thing there's no IP (Score 1) 158

by FenwayFrank on Monday August 10, 2009 @09:42PM (#29018625) Attached to: First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Goes Live

And "Time To Live"

Comment Re:The reviewer - is he Mossad? (Score 2, Insightful) 157

by FenwayFrank on Monday March 09, 2009 @03:12PM (#27125093) Attached to: The Shadow Factory

the world's intellectual elite (slashdot)?

Man, we _are_ in trouble!

Comment Re:Easy Answer (Score 2, Insightful) 414

by FenwayFrank on Thursday September 27, 2007 @04:25PM (#20773757) Attached to: Why Do Commercial Offerings Use Linux, But Not Support Linux Users?

The software that runs in the device specifies an interface. The software that runs on the desktop makes use of the interface to interact with the device. How the device implements the interface is completely irrelevant.

I understand the business argument, but their developers are most likely using some kind of Linux desktop tool to download and test the software on actual boxes. Make that software available.

If that's not practical, do the same thing that makes it possible for my PDA to synch up with my Linux system: document enough of gadget's interface so that it's possible for an open-source version can be written. If what the developers are using is too primitive, they benefit by at least providing that amount of information.

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