Comment RColorBrewer (Score 3, Informative) 28
For R users, see the RColorBrewer package for an easy way to use these palettes in maps and charts.
Comment Office Version ? (Score 1) 91
At first read I thought that Facebook was developing a spreadsheet and a word processor...
Comment Seafile (Score 4, Informative) 200
I've found Seafile to be quite good and reliable. It's a multiplatform, free software, self-hosted Dropbox alternative that provides file syncing, sharing, a web interface, and tools for team work. Libraries can be encrypted server-side.
I use it for several months now and it is both fast and reliable (much more than the owncloud versions I tested previously). It handles my whole pictures collection (about 90GB) very easily. You can install your own Seafile server (there's even a raspberry pi version), or buy storage space from them. Clients are multiplatform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad).
I use it for several months now and it is both fast and reliable (much more than the owncloud versions I tested previously). It handles my whole pictures collection (about 90GB) very easily. You can install your own Seafile server (there's even a raspberry pi version), or buy storage space from them. Clients are multiplatform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad).
Comment Re:Actions to take (Score 1) 337
It's evidence that bathroom surveillance is not what it should be (or at least not used properly).
Yep. I think the NSA should do much more bathroom surveillance.
Comment Re:iPhone 4s? (Score 5, Insightful) 348
How did the GSIII fare against the iPhone 4s plus the iPhone 5 numbers? Seems to me to be a more fair comparison....
And many people postponed an iPhone 4S purchase because they knew the iPhone 5 was going to be shipped. So it doesn't seem a pertinent period of time to do such a comparison.
Comment Re:Duplicate story from Oct 31 (Score 2) 47
It's not a dupe. In an incredible technical breakthrough, Slashdot just managed to half the power required to operate its website by posting every story twice.
Comment Re:Dreadful name (Score 2) 45
Next services they're going to offer : "rubberized wheelbarrow" to help you migrate from one cloud to another, and "ducttaped showerhose" to ease communication between several cloud-deplyed load-balanced webapps.
Comment Re:Why not wait? (Score 1) 481
Did you try the notscripts chrome extension ? Not as complete and efficient as noscript, but it allows to control javascript on a domain based level...
Comment How many times will we have to tell you ? (Score 1) 233
The name is not "Hurd". It is "GNU/Hurd".
And I think we should not be too harsh with someone whose kernel is quite small and who is permanently surrounded by daemons...
And I think we should not be too harsh with someone whose kernel is quite small and who is permanently surrounded by daemons...
Comment For those who may ask... (Score 4, Funny) 95
The webapp is written in Python.
Submission + - Google Launches Public DNS Resolver (blogspot.com)
AdmiralXyz writes: Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses- hopefully making the service faster- and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google's true motivations behind knowing every site you visit...
Comment Re:How many bits does it take to kill a human? (Score 1) 300
640 bits ought to be enough for anyone...
Comment Re:party like it's 1997! (Score 3, Funny) 636
Bah... you must be new here. I'm sure you missed at least one.
Slashdot Top Deals
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
