mike_93 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Ever wish you had one of those big LED displays (Score 1) 128

by mike_93 on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:23PM (#26580001) Attached to: DIY LED Array Marquee For Your PC

You fail at being a nerd.

In that case I'm proud to fail

Comment Re:whew... thank gawd... (Score 1) 431

by mike_93 on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:53PM (#26576205) Attached to: Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09

Im running windows...

and I use Linux Mint, not vulnerable to Mac or Windows viruses, trojans etc. Can you believe it!

Comment Re:Flash is a Big Deal (Score 1) 1654

by mike_93 on Friday January 16, 2009 @08:35AM (#26480619) Attached to: Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes

There is the big problem with all the distros is that barely any install flash by default, mostly for semi-legal reasons. Linux Mint is one of the few distros that does come with it, and is, IMO, the best. Richard Stallman and co. may not agree, but I think this kind of thing is just what Desktop Linux needs.

Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds 654

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @06:10PM from the spurious-precision-is-2.6-times-better dept.

Pizzutz writes "Softpedia reports that Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds using the current daily build and the newly supported EXT4 file system. From the article: 'There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available (for testing), and... we couldn't resist the temptation to take the current daily build for a test drive, before our usual screenshot tour, and taste the "sweetness" of that evolutionary EXT4 Linux filesystem. Announced on Christmas Eve, the EXT4 filesystem is now declared stable and it is distributed with version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel and later. However, the good news is that the EXT4 filesystem was implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 a couple of days ago and it will be available in the Ubuntu Installer, if you choose manual partitioning.' I guess it's finally time to reformat my /home partition..."

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