Ju1es13 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Comic Books! (Score 1) 726

by Ju1es13 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @10:22PM (#40393705) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids?

My son (now 11) has loved the Dan Dare books since he was 4 and had to have us read the text bubbles to him. Also "Amulet" (and anything else from Kazu Kabuishi), the Bone series (Jeff Smith) and the recent adaptations of some of the Wizard of Oz books. Then chapter books, the Dragonslayers Academy ones are great, Tom Swift Jr if you can find them, the Secrets of Droon Series. It seems like most recent "speculative" fiction for kids centers on fantasy not science. If you can cope with delving into the past though there are more options (such as the Dan Dare books I mentioned). He's probably a bit old already for Franny K Stein but I have to give her honorable mention for pure adult-repelling grossness.

Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? 403

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 04, 2010 @05:11PM from the throttle-the-snot-instead dept.

whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."

US Supercomputer Lead Sparks Russian Govt's Competitive Drive 74

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @02:27PM from the ever-since-that-damn-satellite dept.

CWmike writes "Russia's launch of Sputnik in 1957 triggered a crisis of confidence in the US that helped drive the creation of a space program. Now, Russia is comparing the US's achievements in supercomputing with theirs, and they don't like what they see. In a speech on Tuesday, Russia's President, Dmitry Medvedev, criticized his country's IT industry almost to the point of sarcasm for failing to develop supercomputing technology, and urged a dramatic change in Russia's use of high-performance computing. Medvedev, at the opening address of a Security Council Meeting on Supercomputers in Moscow, told attendees that 476 out of the 500 supercomputers on the Top500 list were manufactured in the United States. 'Therefore, in general, our situation is very difficult,' he said."

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