tholme - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Great... (Score 1) 66

by tholme on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:21AM (#61950943) Attached to: Tesla Is Letting Non-Tesla EVs Use Its Supercharger Network For the First Time

What are you talking about? There is a supercharger right in the middle of St. Pölten, and there are more than 10 supercharger stations in driving distance in every direction from this supercharger. Check out https://supercharge.info/map

Comment Re:The Quickest, Not Its Quickest (Score 2) 175

by tholme on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:16PM (#52758381) Attached to: Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car

...Tesla should definitely offer some super-secure teen-driver proofing so your kid with the freshly minted driver's license doesn't squish himself on a joy-ride whilst you and the missus are reconnecting on holiday.

They do. It's called valet mode: An in-depth look at ‘Valet Mode’ for the Tesla Model S

Submission + - Google Drops XMPP Support (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Cbs228 on Monday May 20, 2013 @06:51PM

Cbs228 writes: During last week's Google I/O conference, the company announced a replacement for its aging Talk instant messenger: Google Hangouts. Hangouts, which is only available for Android, iOS, and Chrome, offers closer integration with Google+. Unfortunately, the new product drops support for the XMPP instant messaging protocol, which has been an integral part of Talk for over ten years. XMPP delivers instant messages to desktop clients, like Pidgin, and enables communication between users on different instant messaging networks. Hangouts users attempting to communicate with contacts on non-Google servers, such as jabber.org, have found that all communications have been suddenly and inexplicably severed. A Google account is now required to communicate with Hangouts users.

Google Hangouts joins the ranks of an already-crowded ecosystem of closed, incompatible chat products like Skype.

Comment Re:CSS is annoying (Score 1) 144

by tholme on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:15PM (#39944471) Attached to: W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem

It does. Try: display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; height:100px;

Comment Re:CSS is annoying (Score 1) 144

by tholme on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:09PM (#39944375) Attached to: W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem

You can do it in a table cell with a wrapper div, even if you set the width on the table. See example below: <!doctype html> <title>word-wrap:break-word test</title> <style type="text/css"> td { width:50px; } td > div { word-wrap:break-word;width:inherit; } </style> <table><tr><td><div> Quitealongstringthathopefullyslashdotwillallow </div> </td> </table>

Comment Use xz compression (lzma) (Score 4, Informative) 488

by tholme on Saturday November 05, 2011 @05:51AM (#37956482) Attached to: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD

Why won't ubuntu just do as fedora has done? use xz compression on the squashfs image. The live image for fedora is now 565 MB, but would have been more than 700MB if using gzip compression as ubuntu does. Reading from cd/dvd or even flash drives and harddrives (except ssds) are so slow compared to the cpu today anyway, so it would probably be faster in most cases.

Submission + - Opera Mini for iPhone submitted to App store today

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @03:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Opera Mini for iPhone was officially submitted to the Apple iPhone App store today. A select few first saw it at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Now, the “fast like a rocket” browser is taking its first big step towards giving users a new way to browse on the iPhone.

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Submission + - Firefox Prompts to Disable Microsoft .NET Addon

Submitted by

ZosX

on Friday October 16, 2009 @11:56PM

ZosX writes: "Around 11:45 PM (Eastern time for those that care), I was prompted by Firefox that it had disabled the addons that Microsoft includes with .NET. Specifically the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation. Citing that the "following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox." Thanks mozilla team for hitting the kill switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner for the millions of poor souls that are too unfortunate to be aware of faster, more secure alternatives to their precious Internet Explorer. (Is it possible to troll for IE apologists on slashdot?)"

Comment Re:Thanks (Score 2, Informative) 909

by tholme on Thursday July 30, 2009 @06:25PM (#28889439) Attached to: Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"

It sounds like you doesn't understand what Linus is saying. He isn't insulting OGAWA by telling him that what he found out is obvious. He is just saying what _emacs does_ is an obvious assumption and therefore the commit in question is "a buggy pile of shit" and argues that it should be reverted.

Submission + - VideoLAN 1.0.0 Released! (videolan.org)

Submitted by rift321 on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:36AM

rift321 writes: VLC media player, which we all know for simplifying the playback of, well, pretty much any codec out there, has finally released version 1.0.0.

Here's a quick list of improvements:

Live recording
Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
Finer speed controls
New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
Video scaling in fullscreen
RTSP Trickplay support
Zipped file playback
Customizable toolbars
Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
Better integration in Gtk environments
MTP devices on linux
AirTunes streaming
New skin for the skins2 interface

Might be a good time to donate...

Google Chrome's Inclusion of FFMpeg Vs. the LGPL 245

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 07, 2009 @07:54PM from the to-make-one's-head-spin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has recently added FFMpeg to Chrome to better support HTML5's video element. FFMpeg is licensed under LGPL 2.1, which states that 'if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Library by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Library.' Google admits to having obtained a patent license for their use, but still claims they are not violating LGPL. Among the confused we find Håkon Wium Lie and Miguel de Icaza, who wonders what FSF might say. Google doesn't feel like asking FSF for clarification."

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