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Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 1) 320

by hag3r (#55236713) Attached to: Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete

By the way, why is there no "lock screen" option in Windows 10 "Power" options (lower left when you press Windows button)? One still has to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to lock the screen. Gates admitted it was a silly convention several years ago, so why make it the only obvious choice in 10? (Lock is under the "user" icon, which is not intuitive; it should be with the logout, shutdown, sleep, etc. options)

I agree, there probably should be an option to lock the screen there. However, Win+L is a pretty convenient way to lock the screen, no?

Submission + - Middle-click Paste? Not For Long

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed from next GNOME version.

Submission + - Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Supporters of the Communications Data Bill (also known as the Snooper's Charter) have lost no time in calling for the Bill to be revived, in response to yesterday's brutal murder of a soldier on the streets of Woolwich, South London. The Bill would have allowed monitoring of all online communications — including who people contact and what websites they visit — but was shelved after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg opposed it, effectively splitting Britain's coalition government on the issue. Now the fear of new terrorism could rekindle support, based on the argument that even "lone wolf" attackers use the Internet.
Hardware

Submission + - Researcher develops world's first integrated chemical chip (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: While the silicon chips found in the electronic devices that we rely on every day are built around the flow of electrons through circuits, with the development of an “integrated chemical chip,” a doctoral student in Organic Electronics at Sweden’s Linköping University has created the basis for an entirely new circuit technology based on the transmission of ions and molecules. Like silicon-based chips, the integrated chemical chip contains logic gates, such as NAND gates, that form the basis of digital electronics by allowing for the construction of all logical functions.

Comment Re:yay! (Score 5, Informative) 94

by hag3r (#38224744) Attached to: Fate Saves Workprint of <em>Manos: The Hands of Fate</em>

Several people involved with the shoot (including the guy who played Torgo) later committed suicide.

AFAIK, the only one from the cast who committed suicide was John Reynolds (Torgo). It is speculated that the things he wore on his legs permanently injured his knees during the shoot, and that the pain later on drove him to commit suicide.

That anyone else involved in the shoot killed themselves afterwards is most likely just a myth.
Apple

Submission + - Australian court blocks sales of Samsung Galaxy Ta (itnews.com.au) 2

Submitted by jimboh2k
jimboh2k writes: Apple has succeeded in blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia until a final hearing can be heard in the case down under. The judgment on Thursday could effectively kill chances of the tablet ever launching properly in Australia after Samsung claimed further delays to the product would threaten hopes of gaining traction.

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 413

by hag3r (#37424810) Attached to: Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps

I'm all for MS-flaming but how could anyone possibly be disappointed or shocked by this? It's like expecting 68k Macs to run PPC binaries.

Since they are transitioning from Intel to ARM, this is more like running 68k binaries on PPC Macs, or PPC binaries on Intel Macs. Both of which were, of course, possible.

Except it's the other way around.
Pretty much any current Intel processor (not sure about Atom) out there runs circles around the ARM chips of today.
Although it's still possible to run x86 binaries in emulated environment on ARM, I wouldn't expect it to be a pleasant experience.
Linux

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

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