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Comment HP Elitebook Workstations (Score 1) 300

by shallow monkey on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:45PM (#40052351) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck

The HP Elitebooks are rock solid high-end laptops. The workstation elitebooks http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewStandardCatalog-Browse?CatalogCategoryID=vfoQ7EN5XpgAAAEuPyFCFgH7 include numeric keypads.

AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 24, 2010 @01:34PM from the power-of-love dept.

Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"

Comment Solar Furnace (Score 1) 386

by shallow monkey on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:34AM (#33380334) Attached to: Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish?

I saw a solar furnace at a sustainability fair a couple years ago. It tracks the sun and is generally used to heat water. It is built with a satellite dish lined with mirrored material:

http://www.krawlr.com/solarfurnace/solarfurnace.htm

Submission + - ARM Cortex A9 Laptops to be Linux Powered (armdevices.net)

Submitted by Charbax on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:33PM

Charbax writes: In this video, Jerone Young, lead partner engineer at Canonical, explains some of the challenges that Canonical and other companies who are part of the new Linaro project have been working on for the past many months, in preparation for the now imminent release of a whole bunch of ARM Cortex A9 Powered laptops and desktops likely to be manufactured by giants of the industry such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Quanta, Invetec, Pegatron, Compal, all of whome have been showing tens of early prototype designs of these ARM Powered laptops at trade shows around the world during the past year and a half. They work to standardize the boot process, write drivers to use graphics and video hardware acceleration, they optimize the web browser (Chrome and Mozilla), they implement faster DDR3 RAM and faster I/O bus speeds, they also optimize the software to use the new faster dual core ARM Cortex A9 processors. The goal is to have these upcoming ARM Powered laptops feel as usable to end consumers as Intel x86 based laptops/netbooks. With increased competition thanks to this alternative CPU architecture, prices of laptops and desktops could rapidly go down (sub-$149 laptops and sub-$99 desktops are likely), battery life could run much longer (up to 30-50 hours using a Pixel Qi LCD screen), sizes and weights can be much smaller. This could be the type of low-power, low-cost computer that the next 5 billion people in the world may use as their first computer.

Comment Re:50 exactly (Score 1) 382

by shallow monkey on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @01:39PM (#32592392) Attached to: How many processes are running on your desktop box?

There's a 50/50 chance on that.

Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @10:52AM from the here's-to-you-mrs-robinson dept.

teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"

OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released 105

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 29, 2010 @04:31PM from the sweet-when-is-2.0 dept.

hardaker writes "After over 11 years of development since the start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all store."

Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? 117

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @08:31AM from the no-you-guide-me dept.

QuaveringGrape writes "After a few years of Python I've recently been trying to expand my programming knowledge into the realm of compiled languages. I started with C, then switched over to C++. A friend and longtime OpenGL programmer told me about NeHe's tutorials as a good step after the command-line programs started to get old, but there's a problem: all the tutorials are very Windows-based, and I've been using Linux as my single platform for a while now. I'm looking for suggestions for tutorials that are easy to learn, without being dumbed down or geared towards non-programmers."

Comment Avatar? (Score 1) 460

by shallow monkey on Thursday January 28, 2010 @08:10PM (#30943836) Attached to: 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X?

Did you watch Avatar a few too many times and now want to glide applications from one display to another whilst walking around the link lab?

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My son loves the freaky blue dudes.

Comment Too late for me, but perfect for others. (Score 1) 607

by shallow monkey on Monday September 21, 2009 @12:02PM (#29492369) Attached to: Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid

Unfortunately, this product is about 12 years too late for me to take advantage of it. We looked high and low for such a product back in 1997 after my son continually wandered away from home. At that time, there were just a few products becoming available for Alzheimer's patients, but nothing in the children's market. We even contacted a few research organizations that were producing collars for tracking wildlife. Their products would have worked but they couldn't market them for use with humans.

If you have an autistic son or daughter who wanders, you will RUN to get this for the peace of mind it can provide. My son was able to outwit, evade, and overcome all the household locking devices we could generate (aside from a keyed deadbolt that would have been problematic in case of a fire.)

Seriously, this device will give some parents peace of mind.

NOTE: My son was always found, without harm, but only after a great deal of effort at times, including the bulk of the police force in Fort Collins at one point in time. Today he's a fairly well-adjusted sophomore in high school.

Comment Giraffes (Score 1) 435

by shallow monkey on Thursday August 13, 2009 @08:46AM (#29050351) Attached to: Science, Technology, Natural History Museums?

The Cheyenne Mountain zoo in Colorado Springs has the best giraffe exhibit I've seen. You are face to face with the long necked giants and are allowed and encouraged to feed them. A deep purple prehensile tongue grabs the snacks from your hands--grossing you out and inspiring entries like this all at the same time.

http://www.cmzoo.org/

Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @02:31PM from the get-your-mobility-on dept.

superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

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