WayneDV - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Rick And Morty on A=A (Score 3, Interesting) 310

by WayneDV on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:34AM (#58419396) Attached to: Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving

In those jurisdictions, is it then illegal for the hearing impaired to drive?

Comment Website app that populates from Facebook export? (Score 1) 310

by WayneDV on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:24AM (#57834698) Attached to: We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites

I see that you can now specify JSON as the export format for your Facebook data dump. So we just need a website app that uses that data as its source, and allows federation between all such sites.

Comment My childhood - Usborne books (Score 3, Insightful) 226

by WayneDV on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:09AM (#57548491) Attached to: Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work

This is where and how I started my love affair with computing.
Back in '84 my school library got a few Usborne books in stock - a year before we had access to a computer :-D That didn't stop me reading the cover-to-cover many times over :-D

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/07/usborne-releases-free-pdfs-of.html

Comment Terrible headline (Score 1) 311

by WayneDV on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:03PM (#52149907) Attached to: Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original

1. Fox does not produce Family Guy, they don't determine the content
2. The take down process is automated by spidering YouTube content and searching for matching digital signatures of images. The legal firm that Fox employees blindly listens to the algorithm and submits the requests

Comment Re:I just discovered NewRelic ... (Score 1) 137

by WayneDV on Saturday September 06, 2014 @04:03PM (#47842479) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution?

To that point ... I installed it on 11 servers in 14 day "Pro" trial period. Sales guy contacted me by email, we exchanged 3 emails since I will be subscribing in the future but when I told him that I'm happy with free tier for now, there was no further push from their side. Since then I'm up to 30 servers and loving it.

FYI: Server monitoring is a side product of theirs. Their main product is app stack monitoring - great for finding failures and bottlenecks in PHP, Ruby, Java apps etc

Comment I just discovered NewRelic ... (Score 4, Interesting) 137

by WayneDV on Saturday September 06, 2014 @12:58PM (#47841567) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution?

Check out www.newrelic.com - even their free service tier offers great features and it's easy to deploy on all servers

Researchers Develop "Tea Bag" Water Filter 119

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 05, 2010 @10:45AM from the steep-and-clean dept.

cybernanga writes "A group of researchers in South Africa has developed a filter that can purify water straight from the bottle. The filter sits inside a tube fitted on top of a bottle and purifies water as it is poured on a cup. From the article: 'The designer behind the filter, Dr Eugene Cloete, from the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, says the filter is only as big as an ordinary tea bag. He says the product is cost-effective and easy to use. "We are coming in here at the fraction of the cost of anything else that is currently on the market," says Dr Cloete on BBC World Service.'"

Comment Legal internet offerings are hamstrung ... (Score 1) 368

by WayneDV on Sunday February 15, 2009 @12:41PM (#26863837) Attached to: Internet Killed the Satellite Radio Star

.. by distribution rights.

I'm from South Africa and I could at least make use of Sirius for great programming. I try Pandora and I get a message telling me that it's not available outside of the USA.

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