garglblaster - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Meanwhile in reality... (Score 1) 68

by garglblaster on Monday July 05, 2021 @11:32PM (#61554300) Attached to: Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post

All the kids are avoiding FB like the plague. It's literally the most uncool thing to use. And it spreads to the older generations as we speak. Everyone else is just waiting for that wave to reach them, as they hate FB's guts but can't leave yet due to everyone else being there due to GOTO 10. So FB is literally already dead but doesn't know it.

Oh well, at least their willful ignorance will make damn sure that they hit that brick wall at top speed. :,-D

Well, I personally deleted my facebook account back in 2009.

Not just all the kids (!), you know..

Comment Re:What about the Eureka machine? (Score 1) 455

by garglblaster on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:29PM (#48449765) Attached to: Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba

Just having read the Guardian Article I just happen to know the answer anyway:

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Comment openSUSE 11.4 is better (Score 2) 96

by garglblaster on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @02:06PM (#41237307) Attached to: OpenSUSE 12.2 Is Out

haven't tried 12.2 yet and guess I won't:

DID try 12.1 quite a lot and was terribly disappointed.

Reformated harddrive and reinstalled 11.4 - and HAPPY!

WHY?

11.4 has GNOME 2 - Now THAT's a GREAT UI.

(At least when seeing the alternatives)

Comment Re:CRC (Score 1) 440

by garglblaster on Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:04PM (#41209231) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files?

Or just by file size first, then do a hash. No need to compute a hash to compare a 1mb file and a 1kb file.

thats exactly right.

Some time ago (years?) I came across a little book called "wicked cool perl scripts" (do a google shure you find it..) In one of the first chapters there is a script that does exactly what you describe (dupfiles.pl if I remember right):

To find duplicate files it goes down the directory hierarchy, sorts the files by size and does a md5sum comparison of files with similar size.

I tried it out once in awhile and it always worked out very well for me.

The scripts themselves can be downloaded from the publishers website. Have a look if your interested -

(btw. I do not have any commercial interests in this recommendation..)

Comment Re:This is exciting (Score 2) 267

by garglblaster on Saturday September 01, 2012 @03:03PM (#41200867) Attached to: Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun

I second that. Here we are looking at more sophisticated effects of the weak force by solar neutrinos. This is exciting indeed!

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid 538

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:00PM from the segfault-plugin-still-highly-recommended dept.

jcatcw writes "First there were the 20 must-have Firefox Extension and ensuing Slashdot discussion. Now Computerworld has the top 10 to avoid. For example, NoScript, which does make Firefox safer, but isn't worth the hassle, Or, VideoDownloader for slow downloads, when it works at all. Then there's Greasemonkey — on both lists."

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