arigram - Slashdot User

Comment Open Source it! (Score 1) 127

by arigram on Monday August 23, 2010 @05:04AM (#33338426) Attached to: Non-Profit Space Rocket Launching In a Week

I suggest we launch a campaign to ask the design to become open sourced so we can do battle over the license and split it among many spacefaring distributions, thus have our own version of Star Wars

Comment Throw us a bone here (Score 1) 232

by arigram on Sunday August 30, 2009 @07:01PM (#29255295) Attached to: Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator

So, does that mean that the Linux community will be getting anything back or is it licenced in a way that we won't be seeing one line of code?

Comment Common objects (Score 1, Insightful) 69

by arigram on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:20PM (#28598253) Attached to: Sony Files Patent On "Any-Object" Motion Control

Other "common" objects that would be just asking to be used in a game: - Swords, knives - Batons, staves, nunchucks - Guns, rifles - insert lethal weapon of your choice here) I mean, you're playing an FPS or an RPG and you can use any item as a controller? Who can resist going overboard with realism!

Comment Re:I understand what you mean (Score 1) 338

by arigram on Thursday July 02, 2009 @02:40AM (#28554537) Attached to: Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome

To use the tab close button to clear the last tab open and not quit the whole browser, change this setting to false: browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab

Submission + - Governments warned about Office 2007 ODF support (odfalliance.org)

Submitted by omz on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @12:06PM

omz writes: The ODF Alliance has prepared a Fact Sheet for governments and others interested in how Microsoft's SP2 for Office 2007 handles ODF. The report revealed "serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding".

Slashdot's Disagree Mail 202

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 10, 2008 @01:58PM from the well-here's-your-problem dept.

Slashdot has one of the best discussion systems there is. It's grown and adapted over the years to meet various challenges and suit the needs of our users. A lot of time and effort has gone into it and we are always open to user input to help make it better. Some of our best ideas start as user suggestions and we appreciate the feedback. Of course they can't all be gems and sometimes the suggestions we get are unworkable or just bizarre. Here are a few of my favorite unhelpful, helpful suggestions.

Comment Meaning of the Hacker's text (Score 2, Informative) 445

by arigram on Friday September 12, 2008 @06:44PM (#24984977) Attached to: Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC

If you're interested to know, the text the hackers left is a childish rant against others that they claim pretend to be l33t but are not unlike them. Pretty stereotypical hacker/cracker message since the dawn of machines. Probably every hacking group in history has written such a message claiming superiority over lazy, unskilled pretenders. It actually has nothing to do with the LHC. The only reason they hacked this site was because as they state was going to be popular, thus a good place to advertise their rant and group.

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