ben kohler - Slashdot User

Comment Re:SystemD (Score 1) 56

by ben kohler on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:34AM (#50263123) Attached to: KDE Plasma 5 Problem Traced To Bug In Intel Graphics Driver

The /etc/X11/ dir is optional on any recent Xorg versions, this is not related to systemd or the init system in any way. If/when you need to start making customizations to the default Xorg setup, you *can* do it in /etc/X11/ .

Comment Re:Licensed under the GPLv3 or later (Score 1) 269

by ben kohler on Friday March 22, 2013 @09:53PM (#43254025) Attached to: GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF

Comment Re:A travesty (Score 1) 83

by ben kohler on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @12:24AM (#39335581) Attached to: Brewing Beer With Free Software

these too: http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564896/ beersmith-2.0.60.ebuild (non-free, 21-day trial) http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564897/ qbrew-0.4.1.ebuild

Comment Re:A travesty (Score 1) 83

by ben kohler on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @12:22AM (#39335571) Attached to: Brewing Beer With Free Software

http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564895/ brewtarget-1.2.4-r1.ebuild

Comment Re:Do as you like (Score 1) 635

by ben kohler on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @12:08PM (#39111785) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software?

I don't think he made any such assumption: "Some of our potential paying customers are using it without paying, and some non-potential customers are using it without paying."

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 31, 2011 @07:59PM from the that-was-the-year-that-was dept.

Happy New Year! It's that time (as of now!) for the UK, and since the Slashdot backend operates in Greenwich Mean Time, that seems as good a reason as any to welcome 2012 now instead of local midnight for any of the various U.S. time zones. Everyone has a different take on how to rank the events of the last year; read on below for a few notes on some of the goings on of the past 31,536,000 seconds (give or take). The list is pretty arbitrary, drawn from the thousand-ish stories that hit the Slashdot page in that time; please say in the comments what news hit you the hardest this year.

Comment Re:Magnets? (Score 3, Informative) 111

by ben kohler on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:01PM (#35937032) Attached to: Razer Hydra Brings Motion Control To PC Gamers

TFA: "Razer says the magnetic field put out by the Hydra base station is 20 times weaker than the Earth's magnetic field, so it shouldn't affect objects such as credit cards, HDDs or speakers in the surrounding area."

Comment Re:Children are likely to get confused (Score 1) 212

by ben kohler on Thursday November 19, 2009 @05:12PM (#30163514) Attached to: New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks

Isn't this already happening with movies & tv?

Comment Re:2.5 inches? Are you sure? (Score 1) 252

by ben kohler on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:06PM (#28844477) Attached to: Western Digital Announces 1TB Mobile HD

2.5" refers to the platter size, the actual size of that form factor is 2.75" wide. And that passport is an external drive, which means even more outside casing, so 3.1" is reasonable.

Comment Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now (Score 5, Insightful) 133

by ben kohler on Friday January 11, 2008 @11:05AM (#21999078) Attached to: First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test

Finally, the bigger browsers are ACID2 compatible now. But suddenly those fuckers release a new ACID test. Now everybody's standard incompatible again. Let's see who succesfully implements ACID3 first.

these aren't new standards, just a new test that sheds some light on how standards-incompatible our beloved browsers still are

Submission + - General Motors: Driverless cars ready by 2018

Submitted by

Gregor Stipicic

on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:53AM

Gregor Stipicic writes: " Cars that drive themselves — even parking at their destination — could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say. "This is not science fiction," Larry Burns, GM's vice president for research and development, said in a recent interview. GM plans to use an inexpensive computer chip and an antenna to link vehicles equipped with driverless technologies. The first use likely would be on highways; people would have the option to choose a driverless mode while they still would control the vehicle on local streets, Burns said. He said the company plans to test driverless car technology by 2015 and have cars on the road around 2018. "

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