Rtech - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Making the most of it. (Score 1) 240

by Rtech on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @09:34AM (#29731033) Attached to: New Jersey Outshines Most Others In Solar Energy

Sunnier? Down here it's rained more or less constantly for the past 30 days, with maybe two or three days of sunshine mixed in. And it's supposed to keep raining all week. Bah. At least it's stayed cool enough that the humidity hasn't sucked.

Comment Re:Lots of usable tech hitting the dumpster.... (Score 1) 157

by Rtech on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:32PM (#29094745) Attached to: 88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped

I second this-- I have a computer that I built back in late 01-02 that's 2.26 GHz that's chugging right along. Does just about any kind of processing a business or home would need and since I didn't skimp on the graphics card it even handles Compiz with ease. Nice case on it, running Ubuntu, and people think it's almost brand-new instead of ancient. Granted, I have had more computers since then but the point remains that old hardware isn't necessarily junk.

Comment Re:Fatal flaw: No BIOS reset (Score 1) 396

by Rtech on Monday March 23, 2009 @11:23AM (#27298713) Attached to: Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes

This won't be necessarily be a problem with me as I just bought a new Asus motherboard that has a backup BIOS! I don't know if this is a shameless plug or not as I don't work for Asus but the board is an ASUS M3A78 Pro... now that I look online(I don't have the manual with me) I don't see the feature but I'm 99% sure I saw it. Call it 100% but I don't have the manual. I did think it was relevant to the article so I figured I'd mention it.

Comment Re:Lasers^wGold (Score 1) 465

by Rtech on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @04:17AM (#25798895) Attached to: Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore

Is there anything it can't do?

Comment Re:Apologies to Douglas Adams (Score 1) 211

by Rtech on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @04:56PM (#25649141) Attached to: Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs

Damn right you owe apologies to DNA, they invented the aerosol deodorant first, not personal. Bah.

Microsoft's 'Men in Black' Kill Florida Open Standards Legislation 320

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:43PM from the venus-was-at-its-peak-brilliance-last-night dept.

A NewsForge article was handed to us talking about pressure Microsoft recently brought to bear on a piece of Florida legislation. A few short paragraphs in Senate bill 1974 added by Rep. Ed Homan discussed the need for open data formats, but Microsoft's men in black responded by pressuring legislators and staff employees about the bill's language. "A legislative staff employee who would lose his job if he were quoted here by name said, 'By the time those lobbyists were done talking, it sounded like ODF (Open Document Format, the free and open format used by OpenOffice.org and other free software) was proprietary and the Microsoft format was the open and free one.' Two other legislative employees (who must also remain anonymous) told Linux.com that the Microsoft lobbyists implied that elected representatives who voted against Microsoft's interests might have a little more trouble raising campaign funds than they would if they helped the IT giant achieve its Florida goals. Note that lobbyists for IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Novell -- the only three companies with a major interest in open source who have registered lobbyists in Florida -- did not weigh in on this matter." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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