Sascha J. - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Linux support (Score 1) 520

by Sascha J. on Friday August 21, 2009 @03:22PM (#29149855) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

It has been asked before. I'm not sure if Slashdot already had an interview with some of their staff where this question was asked already, but I think there was.

Also, a german Starcraft fansite I read asked this question.

In both cases, Blizzard denied plans to support Linux - for the current (upcoming) roster of games at least. That's also why I added a "Did you change your mind about [...]" in my original question in this thread ;)

Comment Linux support (Score 5, Interesting) 520

by Sascha J. on Friday August 21, 2009 @11:33AM (#29146805) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

Obligatory question: Did you change your mind about Linux support for any of your existing or announced games? Are new, upcoming games going to be playable on Linux natively?

Comment Re:Will it run linux? (Score 1) 504

by Sascha J. on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @01:33PM (#25289017) Attached to: Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

Not playing any serious games on Linux boxes, but pretending to know everything about cutting edge gfx drivers and their functionality and APIs... Humm. You should maybe dive a bit deeper into Linux gaming and rethink your statements.

Submission + - Questionable Data Mining concerns IRC community (vorratsdatenspeicherung.de)

Submitted by

jessekeys

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @10:44AM

jessekeys writes: "Two days ago, through an article on TechCrunch, it came to the attention of the community that a service logs conversations of public IRC channels and put them into a database. I'm talking about IRSeeK.com, a Full-Text IRC Search Engine.

What is especially shocking for the community is that the logging bots are very hard to identify. They have human-like nicks, connect via anonymous Tor nodes and authenticate as mIRC clients. IRSeeK never asked for permission and violates the privacy terms of networks and users. A lot of chatters we're deeply disturbed finding themselves on the search engine in logs which could date back to 2005.

As a result, Freenode, the largest FOSS IRC network in existence, immediately banned all tor connections while the community gathered and set up a public wiki page to share knowledge and news about IRSeeK. The demands are clear: remove all existing logs and stop covert operations in our channels and networks.

Right now, the IRSeeK search is unavaible as there are talks talking place with Freenode Staff."

Submission + - New Hydrogen Storage Technique

Submitted by pwp on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @09:02AM

pwp writes: Researchers at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton have made a breakthrough in hydrogen storage. They have successfully condensed hydrogen gas into a usable solid under mild conditions.
http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1223

Submission + - 802.11n Draft 2.0 Finaly Approved by Working Group

Submitted by

[Geeks Are Sexy]

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @08:48AM

[Geeks Are Sexy] writes: "Yes folks, the 802.11 Working Group has finally approved Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec, brigning us a step closer to its final form. From the article: "With the positive vote from the 802.11n Working Group, the Wi-Fi Alliance will now begin officially certifying equipment as being compliant with Draft 2.0. That's an important step, as official Draft 2.0-compliant gear is guaranteed to be fully compatible with the final 802.11n standard.""

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