su8lime - Slashdot User

Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? 370

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 08, 2013 @06:15AM from the if-only-the-weather-channel-made-a-tablet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm looking to pick up a tablet for my father. He is in his 70s and the internet is a bit of a mystery to him, but he asked me about a way to send/receive email and watch online videos. He is not interested in getting a smartphone or changing his cheap phone plan that doesn't include data. But he is interested in getting a tablet and using the free Wi-Fi that is available in his building. Here is my question: can you recommend a tablet equivalent to those phones with the big numbers that they sell to older people? Does there exist a tablet with an interface that would be simple and easy to use for someone who has very little experience with computer GUIs?"

Submission + - Open Well-Tempered Clavier: a Kickstarter campaign for open source Bach (kickstarter.com) 1

Submitted by rDouglass on Friday September 20, 2013 @05:42AM

rDouglass writes: The Open Goldberg Variations team has launched a new project to make an open source, public domain version of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. The work is significant because of it's enormous influence on musicians and composers throughout history. A new studio recording, a new digital MuseScore score (with support for MusicXML and MIDI), as well as all source materials (multitrack WAV, lossless FLAC) will be provided as libre and gratis downloads. New to the project are publisher GRIN Verlag, as well as record label PARMA Recordings. GRIN and PARMA will produce and distribute the physical score and double CD, even though the digital versions are to be widely available and in the public domain. Their enthusiasm for the project runs counter to the general publishing and music industry's fear of digital file sharing, and shows growing momentum for finding new models to make free music commercially sustainable.

Comment What a great idea (Score 1) 84

by su8lime on Thursday April 01, 2010 @09:33AM (#31699822) Attached to: Google Renames Itself "Topeka"

only Google could come up with such a great idea

Comment Re:They're artificial limitations. That's the prob (Score 1) 1634

by su8lime on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:48PM (#30940772) Attached to: iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward"

Then dont buy it... Go buy a Microsoft tablet (I have, they SUCK) besides... iPad isnt even a computer... its like a read-only device...the fact that you ca create documents on it via iWork is simply amazing... try doing that on a Kindle. Its not a freakin computer... so all your expectations are void

Comment Re:block by ip address (Score 1) 297

by su8lime on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @03:20AM (#27146981) Attached to: How To Keep a Web Site Local?

This is not a good solution because people will travel and need to log in from Coasta Rica to access their local area info Blocking by IP address is what narrow minded system adminstrators would do One option as mentioned previously is to require user validation and then approve users before they can log in to post

International Spam Ring Shut Down 243

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @06:19PM from the spamhaus-top-ten dept.

smooth wombat writes "An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US is in the process of being shut down. Finances of members in the US are being frozen using the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 while the FBI is pursuing criminal charges. The group sent spam advertising male enhancement herbs and other items using a botnet estimated at 35,000 computers, and able to send 10 billion emails per day. The Federal Trade Commission monitored the group's finances and found that they had cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone."

Slashdot Top Deals