russlar - Slashdot User

Comment oops (Score 2) 185

by russlar on Thursday November 08, 2012 @07:47PM (#41926217) Attached to: Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site

He's channeling his inner Rick Perry.

Comment Laymen's Terms (Score 5, Funny) 412

by russlar on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @12:34PM (#40675005) Attached to: The Web Is Not the Internet

The internet is a series of tubes, the web are the cats clogging the tubes.

Comment Just get on the cart (Score 5, Funny) 151

by russlar on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @04:56PM (#39933883) Attached to: Apache OpenOffice Releases Version 3.4

This should really be from the I'm-not-dead-yet! department

Comment Nope (Score 5, Informative) 661

by russlar on Thursday September 15, 2011 @09:42AM (#37408814) Attached to: Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash?

FTFA:

In Windows 8, IE 10 is available as a Metro style app and as a desktop app. The desktop app continues to fully support all plug-ins and extensions.

Comment Already Slashdotted (Score 4, Funny) 113

by russlar on Saturday September 10, 2011 @09:39AM (#37361896) Attached to: The Linux Counter Relaunches

The project started in 1993 and shot to fame six years later, largely as a result of three Slashdot articles (two of which brought the Counter to its knees)

Here's to keeping the tradition alive!

Comment Re:Red Hat (Score 1) 142

by russlar on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:14PM (#37114644) Attached to: A Linux Kernel More Stable Than -stable

> Isn't this basically what Red Hat does - back porting security and bug fixes to an established maintenance point for the kernel and many of their other packages? 2.6.18 forever!

Comment Google's Response (Score 0) 267

by russlar on Thursday August 11, 2011 @03:27PM (#37060758) Attached to: Google Patents Telling Time

They see me trollin', they hatin'.

Comment Define "4G" (Score 4, Insightful) 139

by russlar on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:30AM (#37043934) Attached to: 4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON

Which "4G" technology are we talking? WiMAX? LTE? AT&T&Tmobile's HSPA cranked up to 11?

Comment Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2... (Score 1) 471

by russlar on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:09PM (#36751032) Attached to: Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet

After years of heading up a company that made shit, Gates is now heading up an initiative to improve the processing of shit.

Comment Re:spolier:The sonic screwdriver seems to be gone (Score 1) 332

by russlar on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:18PM (#36309884) Attached to: Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who

real laughter was produced.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 3, Interesting) 84

by russlar on Monday May 23, 2011 @09:46PM (#36224112) Attached to: Muon Suite To Be Kubuntu's Software Center

the KDE3 version of Adept was good. But yeah, they never had one for KDE4. The KPackageKit GUI from 9.04 was a mess, and actually drove me to SUSE

Comment Mystery Science Linux 3000 (Score 1) 293

by russlar on Monday May 23, 2011 @06:51PM (#36222764) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series

development code name: forrester

Comment Re:Oracle's Android... (Score 3, Funny) 130

by russlar on Friday May 06, 2011 @08:55AM (#36046426) Attached to: Oracle's Android Claims Cut By 98%

Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Android

Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 262

by russlar on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @10:51AM (#35942186) Attached to: What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies?

really. the cloud is just a new name on an old concept, that's become viable because bandwidth is cheaper than in the past.

Comment Titan != Europa (Score 2) 109

by russlar on Monday April 18, 2011 @11:26AM (#35855860) Attached to: Titan May Have an Ocean

sweet! we can land there!

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