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Comment Buggy .. (Score 1) 729

by subspacemsg (#36017042) Attached to: Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider
I upgraded to 11.04 and when the system rebooted, Apt stopped working, I get a Hash Sum mismatch error when I try to get packages or even running apt-get update. Went back to 10.10 by doing a fresh install...

Comment Re:This article is boss (Score 3, Funny) 167

by subspacemsg (#32465680) Attached to: Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device

Huge iPhone like device. Not something you want to hold up to your ear, bluetooth recommended just to hold down the Geek-factor.

http://www.androidcentral.com/dell-streak-coming-att-later-summer

Speculation about carrier based on the frequencies is at best guesswork, because new radios can be swapped into the design very easily. Most radio chipset manufacturers can give you a radio with the same pin-outs and die size for any flavor of cell system you want to talk to, and the programming interfaces are all standardized as well.

It could be on sprint tomorrow if they wanted.

Bluetooth is holding down the Geek factor? lol

Submission + - Market sell-off caused by trader's fat-finger (cnbc.com)

Submitted by s122604
s122604 writes: Stock market's extraordinary volatility may have been caused by fat-fingered entry.
Article is reporting that the catalyst for today's extradorinary price swing (at one point the Dow lost almost 9 percent in less than an hour) may have been because a trader entered a 'B' for billions instead of an 'M' for millions on a trade of Procter and Gamble:

"According to multiple sources, a trader entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble, a component in the Dow. (CNBC's Jim Cramer noted suspicious price movement in P&G stock on air during the height of the market selloff."
br. Unbelievable there are no safeguards to protect against this.

Comment Re:Mossberg is an Apple fanboi, valid point though (Score 1) 568

by subspacemsg (#30662326) Attached to: Google's Nexus One Phone Launches
Android works differently when it comes to App footprint management.Only the critical piece goes on the ROM, the app data stays on the sdcard.

I have a mytouch android phone it has a 512MB of ROM space. I have more than 100 apps installed and still 96MB of space left. I hardly see this is as a problem.

Comment Re:Normal People? (Score 2, Informative) 1019

by subspacemsg (#24231543) Attached to: Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market

What head aches? like not being able to find drivers for your new geeky toy?

Windows might be bloated, take up resources but an "operating system" is no good if it can't operate all of your hardware. Microsoft is soo good at enabling other companies to write drivers for them, I know it's not because of their technical prowess but because of their army of marketing people. In the end I don't care how they got to that point. Sayinng non-windows OSes are great has merit but only in a very limited context.

Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal 854

Posted by CmdrTaco from the omg-i-heart-ponies-lol dept.
Our marketing department has done extensive research over the last 3 quarters and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design and content to widen our appeal to these less active demographics. Don't worry! We'll still continue to serve our core audience, but we hope you'll work with us as we try to find a balance that will work for all.

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