TennCasey - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Standards (Score 1) 372

by TennCasey on Sunday March 03, 2013 @04:27AM (#43059621) Attached to: Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

You say all that, but it works just fine in Arch without any tinkering. There package's even available in the Community repo.

Comment Obligatory xkcd (Score 4, Funny) 878

by TennCasey on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:42PM (#41920671) Attached to: Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?

http://xkcd.com/323/

Comment Re:Ugh. (Score 1) 331

by TennCasey on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @08:12PM (#40023499) Attached to: Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans

Buy an unlocked phone like this one and get a sim card from a company like Straight Talk for about $50 a month.

Comment Re:My long awaiting features (Score 1) 470

by TennCasey on Monday May 14, 2012 @12:30AM (#39991577) Attached to: The 30 Best Features of Windows

#5 Ease change of the desktop environments

I mean a complete change, not just like a theme. I really like to replace the whole Windows desktop with KDE.

You should know better than that. Also, here.

Comment Photoshop Disasters (Score 1) 121

by TennCasey on Sunday May 06, 2012 @05:24PM (#39910399) Attached to: Biochemist Creates CO2-Eating Light That Runs On Algae

You have to love those awfully photoshopped pictures in the video!

Comment Re:As a business owner (Score 1) 714

by TennCasey on Friday March 30, 2012 @12:07AM (#39519171) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics?

I take it you've never worked with an obsessive Christian who's always asking you to pray with him. Or an extremist from either end of the political spectrum who sarcastically criticizes anyone who disagrees with him.

Then wouldn't the reasonable thing to do be to fire the person in question for harassment?

Comment Re:Survival not so good for TFA website: (Score 1) 284

by TennCasey on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:59AM (#39144209) Attached to: Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review

Yeah, seems like it nuked the fridge.

Comment That's...strange (Score 1) 348

by TennCasey on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:51PM (#38974699) Attached to: US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags

The military decided on Android for phones but iOS on tablets? They should try being more consistent...

Comment Re:Evil Monopoly (Score 4, Informative) 314

by TennCasey on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:11AM (#38431082) Attached to: Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices

They made their own version that was incompatible with Sun's that was intended to eventually be built into Windows to effectively wrestle the control of Java away from them.

Comment Re:GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Aw (Score 2) 378

by TennCasey on Saturday December 10, 2011 @01:26AM (#38323210) Attached to: GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award

You're describing Unity, not Gnome 3.

Comment Re:eBay (Score 1) 334

by TennCasey on Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:44PM (#38233732) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS?

Actually, you can recover the password. You just have to boot it into ROM Monitor and change the config register so it'll bypass the startup-config. Then load the config and change the password.

Comment Wow (Score 4, Insightful) 235

by TennCasey on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:31AM (#38056556) Attached to: Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015

It never ceases to amaze me just how accurate George Orwell was about where England was going.

Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 2) 205

by TennCasey on Friday November 11, 2011 @02:00AM (#38020194) Attached to: DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection

The main problem with that is that if it became normal practice, you could bet that password tools like John the Ripper and Medusa would add support for combining arbitrary dictionary words, thus making it not take that long to crack.

Comment Re:It's change for the sake of change (Score 1) 1040

by TennCasey on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @01:22AM (#37995792) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs?

You forgot to tell us to get off your lawn.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 143

by TennCasey on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:16PM (#37826728) Attached to: Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders?

Nah, they'd probably just pay the fines and go about business as usual. It's not like the FCC would do anything about it.

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