Roy Hobbs - Slashdot User

Comment SCAVENGER HUNT!!!! (Score 0) 609

by Roy Hobbs on Sunday April 05, 2009 @08:51PM (#27470163) Attached to: North Korea Missile Launch Fails

I'll draw a cool map

Comment Re:Access Point Wi-Fi? (Score 0) 265

by Roy Hobbs on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:40AM (#27310301) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released

Geez, Windows has supported using access points on a Wi-Fi network for quite a long time.

Lunix playing catch up yet again!

How is this offtopic? I disagree, but it's not offtopic.

Comment Firefox 3, Ubuntu 8.10, Pentium M 1.7 Ghz (Score 0) 234

by Roy Hobbs on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:19AM (#27255335) Attached to: Google's Amazing Browser Experiments

What's the big deal, works fine on my reliable 5 year old Latitude D800.

Comment Re:What are you trying to do? (Score 0) 904

by Roy Hobbs on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @12:09AM (#27130639) Attached to: Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise?

Oh please. He wasn't saying it can't be done. There are any number of ways to prevent users/groups from executing solitaire. We can start by not deploying systems with it installed.

Comment tomato firmware (Score 0) 451

by Roy Hobbs on Saturday January 17, 2009 @01:57PM (#26498341) Attached to: How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference?

The Tomato firmware lets you scan each channel and identifies all wireless networks (including hidden w/o ssid) before you pick the channel you will use. You can then pick the clearest looking channel. You can also try the Windsurfer http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/ which is an aluminum foil antenna you make to better direct your signal.

Comment Seems like a fair compromise a (Score 0) 693

by Roy Hobbs on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @04:02AM (#26429419) Attached to: iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info

I doubt it will take that long for a utility to come out to remove the info though.

Comment Nice, how long until we see this in Ubuntu? (Score 0) 95

by Roy Hobbs on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:31AM (#26406713) Attached to: Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless

Nice, how long until we see this in Ubuntu?

Comment Re:I am confused... (Score 1) 315

by Roy Hobbs on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:35AM (#26368871) Attached to: The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009

good idea red lights are nice too, less power, easier on the eye at night

Comment Re:Shocking (Score 0) 292

by Roy Hobbs on Saturday January 03, 2009 @12:53PM (#26312203) Attached to: India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society

bit by bit.... tit by tit... =(

Comment Better candidate == better coverage (Score 1) 1601

by Roy Hobbs on Monday November 10, 2008 @10:12AM (#25703141) Attached to: Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign

no surprise

Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved 77

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @01:44PM from the feather-in-their-cap dept.

Matt_dk writes "Scientists are now able to explain why Mars' residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft (the same probe running the 'Mars Webcam'). It turns out the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars — even though it is nowhere near the south pole. Like Earth, Mars has frozen polar caps, but unlike Earth, these caps are made of carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice. During the southern hemisphere's summer, much of the ice cap sublimates, a process in which the ice turns straight back into gas, leaving behind what is known as the residual polar cap. The mystery was that while the winter cap is symmetrical about the south pole, the residual cap was offset, and scientists couldn't figure out why."

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