egstern - Slashdot User

Comment I prefer do-release-upgrade (Score 1) 34

by egstern on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:31PM (#62807049) Attached to: Ubuntu Upgrades Now Arrive with a Simple Prompt (and Security Fixes)

It can fail spectacularly if you have installed other software from PPA or anywhere else that has conflicting package names or versions. Also, I have much better luck upgrading from the command line with do-release-upgrade than using the GUI. I've had to reinstall systems when a X, GTK, or Gnome library was upgraded and then another package failed to upgrade leaving me with a system that was unusable.

Comment and disabling paste for passwords is worse (Score 1) 498

by egstern on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:41PM (#54014941) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit?

What I really hate is when websites disable pasting the password from your password manager into the login field.

Comment colloquium given by the D-wave guy (Score 1) 224

by egstern on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:31PM (#46145163) Attached to: First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

Colin Williams of D-wave spoke at Fermilab. His presentation was recorded http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/L....

Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat 155

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:46AM from the the-calming-power-of-beef dept.

Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down. From the article: 'Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive. Frank Kachanoff, who studies evolution at the university’s department of psychology, had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt. But in fact, his research showed the reverse is true.'" I can see all the "Make Steak, Not War!" protest signs already.

Comment CDC and Fujitso disk drives (Score 1) 621

by egstern on Wednesday March 05, 2003 @08:43PM (#5445644) Attached to: What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.?

This reminds me of a story I heard about CDC management in the late 70's early 80's. At that time, CDC owned the market for disk drives. In those days, the large multi-hundred megabyte disk drives were the the size of washing machines. A new executive arrived at CDC and questioned why they were spending $180 so much on R&D when they owned the market. He slashed it by 80%. The next year Fujitso came out with Winchester head technology reducing disk drives to the size of a toaster. CDC never recovered, and now they don't even exist.

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