k_yarina - Slashdot User

Comment Well, if you capriciously remove useful features.. (Score 1) 272

by k_yarina on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:39PM (#54491995) Attached to: Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won'

I replaced Netscape with Firefox's first released version, even gave money to the Mozilla foundation back then. Tab Groups became my favorite feature, then after they trashed it switched to the add on. Now they've killed that ability and the developer gave up. Lets see, regular hangs and crashes but with tab groups, or a regularly hanging and crashing Chrome clone without them. Hmm, tough decision. Guess it's bye bye to the fox and move to our Googlian Overlords tool of global domination the day my tabs all become flat again. Just have to get used to all the social engineering warnings, really don't care if the NSA sees what I read on /. or if a major forum uses a cert that isn't exactly perfect per our overlords rules

Comment 35 +/- years. Gosh, must be getting old. (Score 1) 162

by k_yarina on Thursday October 01, 2015 @06:02PM (#50639721) Attached to: 30 Years a Sysadmin

Was a mainframe systems programmer on IBM and Univac machines starting about 1972 or so. First Unix machine I worked on was a Callan workstation somewhere around 1981, followed by 68K Suns, Motorola VME buss systems (which we built from spare parts and installed Sys V on), Sparc Suns, then the usual Linux suspects somewhere around 99 or 2000. Sysadming wasn't my primary job, but somehow I was in charge of keeping them going. I did see a PDP-11 Unix machine in the mainframe room at Western Electric Greensboro, used the console's desk as a footrest while running tests on IBM mainframe front end systems in the middle of the night somewhere in the mid 70s. Asked, but they wouldn't let me fiddle with it.

Comment Re:Opening up HR to https will save it (Score 1) 371

by k_yarina on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:11AM (#44112739) Attached to: FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio

The worse threat to ham radio is not cussing and https, but to simple lack of amateurs

Actually, the number of US amateur radio licenses reached an all-time high last year.

http://www.arrl.org/news/2012-marks-all-time-high-for-amateur-radio-licenses

kc8mmu

Comment Re:Just one (Score 1) 382

by k_yarina on Saturday June 19, 2010 @01:13AM (#32622636) Attached to: How many processes are running on your desktop box?

One per processor thread if you're hyperthreaded.

Comment Re:differance is that i have a gun and bat (Score 1) 569

by dasherk on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @01:15AM (#29728725) Attached to: BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated

your using something that cost time and effort, to create a work, that you are enjoying. don't dilute yourself by thinking that just because you aren't profiting from a given work, that you are not stealing and cheapening the hard work of someone else. don't get me wrong, i hate the RIAA and all else who act like them. but we shouldn't stoop to their levels and steal, steal-alike.

Comment Re:Should have used Java (Score 1) 419

by k_yarina on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @04:32PM (#29124717) Attached to: Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly

FORTRAN? Fortran's for lazy typers. Real Programmers use Cobol and punch their own 026 drum cards.

If it doesn't take two boxes of cards it's not a real program.

Ridley Scott's Forever War In 3D 296

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:15AM from the that-extra-d-is-for-dumber dept.

bowman9991 writes "Ridley Scott's next science fiction film, his first since Blade Runner, will be a 3D adaptation of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, an action packed novel about the impact of the time dilation effect on soldiers returning from an interstellar war against the mysterious Tauran species. Scott recently decided to move to 3D after watching footage of James Cameron's yet to be released science fiction epic Avatar. The Forever War, Cameron's Avatar, and Scott's other upcoming science fiction project, Brave New World, will make the next five years a fantastic time to be a science fiction movie enthusiast."

Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs 345

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:30AM from the won't-that-be-crash-crash-crash dept.

Drivintin writes "In a move that should make cable companies nervous, Adobe announces they are going to push a Flash that runs directly on TVs. 'Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, wants to extend Flash's reach even further. On Monday, Adobe's chief executive, Shantanu Narayen, will announce at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas that Adobe is extending Flash to the television screen. He expects TVs and set-top boxes that support the Flash format to start selling later this year.' With the ability to run Hulu, YouTube and others, the question of dropping your cable becomes a little bit more reasonable."

Oracle Buys Sun 906

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @08:11AM from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

bruunb writes "Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. 'We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,' said Oracle President Safra Catz."

Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users 440

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 09, 2009 @11:40AM from the how-about-just-never-boot dept.

Al writes "A company called Presto hopes to exploit the painful amount of time it takes for Windows computers to start up by offering a streamlined version of Linux that boots in just seconds. Presto's distro comes with Firefox, Skype and other goodies pre-installed and the company has also created an app store so that users can install only what they really need. The software was demonstrated at this year's Demo conference in Palm Desert, CA. Interestingly, the company barely mentions the name Linux on its website. Is this a clever stealth-marketing ploy for converting Windows users to Linux?"

Flying Car Flies From London To Africa 148

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @04:16PM from the laden-or-unladen dept.

krou writes "It may not be exactly what people have envisioned or tried over the years, such as the flying car in Bladerunner, or the previously reported Terrafugia Transition, but the BBC is reporting that a flying car (creatively dubbed the Skycar, but different from this Skycar) has flown from London across into Africa. They modified a parajet fan that can fly a man into a bigger fan with a canopy that is capable of flying a car."

First Evidence of Supernovae Found In Ice Cores 145

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:44PM from the hot-and-the-cold-of-it dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Supernovae in our part of the Milky Way ought to have a significant impact on the atmosphere. In particular, the intense gamma-ray burst would ionize oxygen and nitrogen in the mid to upper atmosphere, increasing the levels of nitrogen oxide there by an order of magnitude or so. Now a team of Japanese researchers has found the first evidence of a supernova's impact on the atmosphere in an ice core taken from Dome Fuji in Antarctica. The team examined ice that was laid down in the 11th century and found three nitrogen oxide spikes, two of which correspond to well known supernovae: one event in 1006 AD and another in 1054 AD, which was the birth of the Crab Nebula (abstract). Both were widely reported by Chinese and Arabic astronomers at the time. The third spike is unexplained, but the team suggests it may have been caused by a supernova visible only from the southern hemisphere or one that was obscured by interstellar dust."

Steps Toward a Universal Flu Vaccine 177

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @07:59PM from the one-antibody-to-rule-them-all dept.

Plasmoid writes "The NYTimes is reporting that scientists have starting developing what could turn out to be a 'universal' flu vaccine. They created antibody proteins that can neutralize different strains of the influenza virus, including the deadly H5N1 bird flu, the virus behind the 1918 epidemic, and common seasonal strains. These new antibodies target part of the virus that is shared between different strains and thus appear to be broadly effective. However, some experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution. An article on nature.com describes the work further."

Submission + - Walter Bright Ports D to the Mac (ddj.com)

Submitted by jonniee on Saturday February 21, 2009 @07:03PM

jonniee writes: D is a programming language created by Walter Bright of C++ fame. D's focus is on combining the power and high performance of C/C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. And now he's ported it to the Macintosh.

Submission + - 1-Click Smacked Down Again as Reexam Languishes

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday February 21, 2009 @06:11PM

theodp writes: "Pressed on Amazon's 1-Click patent, then-USPTO Chief Q. Todd Dickinson got testy: "I make this challenge all the time. If you're aware of prior art out there that invalidates a patent that is existing, file a re-examination. We'll be happy to take a look at it." Really? It's been 3+ years since unemployed actor Peter Calveley submitted prior art that triggered a USPTO reexamination of the 1-Click patent. Still no "final answer" from the USPTO. To put things in perspective, 1-Click inventor Jeff Bezos once proposed a three-year lifespan for patents (later retracted), let alone patent reexams. In the meantime, other patent examiners have repeatedly smacked down 1-Click — the latest (non-final) rejection was issued on Feb. 10th with Sandra Bullock's help."

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