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Comment Re:Lollipop killed my Nexus 7 (Score 1) 437

by brainiac on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:08AM (#48764149) Attached to: Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake?

Lollipop killed my nexus 7 too. I was going to give up and throw it in the garbage and decided to do a factory reset on it. Now it is marginally usuable, I don't feel like throwing it at a wall or smashing it under my boots any more. But it still sucks pretty bad. It worked the best with 4.1 on it. Every upgrade has brought worse performance to it.

Try a factory reset.

Comment Re:Oblig (Score 1) 466

by brainiac on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @02:44PM (#41377509) Attached to: Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Dice Overlords !

(slow day)

Comment Theodore Ts'o yay (Score 5, Interesting) 192

by brainiac on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:23PM (#39447315) Attached to: GCC Turns 25

Linux started on usenet, and what really made it blow up was the ability to use gcc to write software. The first version of linux everyone was running didn't have a login, you just got root. Soon the login program came, (i think getty). But anyway it was Theodore Ts'o who did the heavy lifting. Every new program needed something new in the C library and Theodore somehow got it done.

Thanks Theodore !!

Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper 111

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:25PM from the math-is-for-the-birds dept.

ananyo writes "Even in death, the world's most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot trained to count objects – have just been published (abstract). They show that Alex could accurately add together Arabic numerals to a sum of eight, and correctly add three small sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates."

AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 24, 2010 @01:34PM from the power-of-love dept.

Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"

Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 315

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 13, 2010 @02:41PM from the too-soon? dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft's announcement this week that it is preparing to end support for machines running Windows XP SP2 not only represents a challenge for the thousands of businesses still running SP2, but also is the end of an era for both Microsoft and its customers. It wasn't until 2004 that the final release of XP SP2 hit the streets, but when it did, it represented a huge step forward in security for Windows users. It wasn't necessarily the feature set that mattered as much as the fact that the protections were enabled by default and taken out of the users' hands."

Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon 147

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 26, 2010 @05:16PM from the always-in-the-last-place-you-look dept.

cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."

Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed 420

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @11:47AM from the speak-the-truth dept.

Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton writes "The ACLU has targeted a group of Tennessee school districts for blocking websites categorized by a blocking company as 'LGBT.' I hope the ACLU wins, but it may create the mistaken impression that egregious overblocking of websites is easy to fix. On the contrary, the vast majority of errors are hard-coded into the products and cannot be fixed by unblocking a single category." Hit that tantalizingly entitled 'Read More' link to read his essay.

Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's 129

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @04:58AM from the closure-and-rest dept.

Trip6 writes "Bones found near the wreckage of the plane flown by Steve Fossett when he disappeared last fall have been confirmed to be Fossett's by DNA analysis. The NTSB is still investigating the crash. Fossett may have been searching for a place to break the land speed record, his next quest."

Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x 384

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @01:49AM from the an-application-has-expectedly-quit dept.

rugatero writes "The BBC reports that, as of last Saturday, Microsoft is no longer issuing licenses for the 18-year-old Windows 3.x. Many here may well be surprised to learn that anyone still has use for the antiquated software, but it seems to have found a home in a number of embedded systems — including cash registers and the in-flight entertainment systems on some long-haul passenger jets (Virgin and Qantas are cited). Considering Linux's credentials as an embedded OS, this news could very well indicate the possibility of more migrations in the pipeline."

FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum 138

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @09:20PM from the knights-in-white-spaces dept.

sidesh0w was one of a number of readers to alert us to the FCC's unanimous decision approving unlicensed devices to use the white spaces of the spectrum unused by television broadcasters, provided they take certain precautions not to interfere with licensed users. "Denying a tremendous last-minute lobbying effort by broadcasters, the vote on white space devices went ahead as planned today after a several-hour delay at FCC headquarters. When the vote came, though, it was unanimous. For the Democrats on the Commission, the devices are appealing because they offer a potential new avenue for broadband services, while the Republicans are pleased for the same reasons, but love the fact that this is a deregulatory order that focuses on less regulation and more competition."

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