robzon - Slashdot User

Comment Chromebook Pixel (LS) (Score 1) 237

by robzon on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:07PM (#50570087) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop?

If you feel comfortable with istalling Linux yourself, get a Chromebook Pixel and slap Linux onto it. Amazing hardware, great design and perfect compatibility with Linux, since ChromeOS is also based on Linux.

You can very easily run ChromeOS and Linux at the same time, you can use ChromeOS for the basic stuff and even run Linux in a window inside ChromeOS or you can wipe the Pixel clean and go Linux-only (that requires some more fiddling though).

Comment Re:black DNS? (Score 1) 388

by robzon on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @12:19PM (#48617625) Attached to: Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS

Namecoin?

Comment Re: Slashdot: news for nerds who... (Score 1) 421

by robzon on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:18PM (#46298805) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass?

Seriously guys there are WAY easier and cheaper ways to record people without their consent. Spy glasses were there for years and privacy is the dumbest thing to point out in Google Glass. It's a huge misconception that Glass changes anything in that matter. Try actually using Glass for a few hours before you voice your opinion. It's a very limited device for now, but it's very shortsighted to dismiss its potential.

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 292

by robzon on Sunday March 20, 2011 @07:40AM (#35549126) Attached to: Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7

My Android phone has a FM tuner and a dedicated camera button. As for integration with MS products I couldn't care less (but I see that for some people it could be an advantage).

Comment Re:i'm interested in an android app for ssh tunnel (Score 1) 359

by robzon on Thursday January 06, 2011 @12:50PM (#34778060) Attached to: Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited

ConnectBot + HTC Desire Z rocks. Works like a charm.

Comment well (Score 1) 247

by robzon on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:37PM (#34250252) Attached to: For 18 Minutes, 15% of the Internet Routed Through China

it was probably all porn anyways

Comment Re:Welcome to Japan circa 2001 (Score 1) 384

by robzon on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:31AM (#27903759) Attached to: Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5

Yeah, exactly! In fact the phones are so unusable they tried to replace the text with little images resembling features of the phone, but kinda failed at it, too.

Comment Re:Welcome to Japan circa 2001 (Score 1) 384

by robzon on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:27AM (#27903737) Attached to: Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5

"Hello I'd like to buy that Nokia phone. Is the 10-hour video recording traning session included in the price? And what's the minimum required IQ for the maps feature?"

Comment Re:You Can't Pay: africa, latin america, east euro (Score 1) 133

by robzon on Sunday May 03, 2009 @06:03AM (#27804779) Attached to: Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube

I get it that advertising won't be enough, but I'd be more than glad to pay a few bucks a month to get sites like pandora or hulu working. Actually I pay for US-based proxy, so I CAN access these services for a small fee, it just sucks that this money goes to hosting company not to the content providers.

Comment Re:Available outside U.S. ? (Score 5, Insightful) 133

by robzon on Saturday May 02, 2009 @08:58AM (#27797881) Attached to: Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube

Exactly! It really pisses me off that I'm locked out just because I don't live in the states anymore. No wonder torrent sites flourish.

Comment Re:Ming boggles... (Score 1) 166

by robzon on Saturday September 27, 2008 @10:17PM (#25181545) Attached to: Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free

Do these posters never learn?

Never.

Submission + - Users, Web developers vent over IE7

Submitted by

Spinlock_1977

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @01:59PM

Spinlock_1977 writes: "ComputerWorld is running a story about developers frustration with IE 7, and Microsoft's upcoming plans (or lack thereof) for it. From the article:

But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. "You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won't download and play with Silverlight ... won't build a Live widget ... won't consider any Microsoft search or ad products in the future."

Journal Journal: today.

Journal by glung on Friday February 16, 2007 @07:20PM

today is my best friend's birthday. she is 16. naturally, she got her license in the morning and drove the truck she got to school. sure, her two older sisters also drove that truck when they were in high school and sure its not that new. but she still got something. today was pretty cool. in the morning i decorated her locker and she checked in late and we had cookies and king cake and all kinda shit during break. at lunch, one of the few decent teachers we have went get a couple of us lunch fr

Feed Software to the People! (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 16, 2007 @07:12PM

Communist Cuba joins socialist Venezuela in embracing the concept of open-source software. By the Associated Press.

Journal Journal: Music execs criticise DRM systems

Journal by mapkinase on Friday February 16, 2007 @06:19PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6362069.stm

Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey.

Haha.

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