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Comment RSS broken (Score 5, Insightful) 261

by varju on Monday April 01, 2013 @11:24AM (#43330991) Attached to: A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative

Great, so now my RSS feed is going to be broken for the rest of the day? I like April Fools' as much as the next guy, but not when it effectively breaks the whole site for the day.

Where Have All the Pagers Gone? 584

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:40AM from the long-time-paging dept.

oddRaisin writes "After recently sleeping through a page for work, I decided to change my paging device from my BlackBerry (which is quiet and has a pathetic vibrate mode) to an actual pager. After looking at the websites of Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, I'm left scratching my head and wondering where all the pagers went. I can't find them or any mention of them. Pagers of yore offered some great features that reflected the serious nature of being paged. They were loud. They had good vibrate modes. They continued to alert after a page until you acknowledged them. I didn't have to differentiate between a text from a friend and a page from work. Now that pagers seem to have become passé, what are other people doing to fill this niche? Are some phones better pagers than others? Are there still paging service providers out there?"

Linux Hackers Reclaim the WRT54G 265

Posted by timothy on Monday June 26, 2006 @05:32PM from the bwuah-ha-ha dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The world's most ubiquitous wireless access point is free to run Linux again, thanks to a brilliant hack by db90h, aka Jeremy Collake. No soldering is required, as Collake's 'VxWorks Killer' nixes the WRT54G's VxWorks bootloader and installs a normal Broadcom one, allowing Linux to be installed easily. One distribution small enough for the series five WRT54G's 2MB of Flash and 8MB of RAM is the free DD-WRT project's "micro" edition. It lacks some of the fancier Linux router packages, such as nocat and IPv6, but does support PPPoE, and could be more stable than the VxWorks firmware, which seems to have generated mixed reviews." Update: 06/26 22:52 GMT by T : Note that the project's name is DD-WRT, not (as it was mistakenly rendered) WR-DDT. Check out the DD-WRT project's site.

Comment what's wrong with 'wrong number #1' etc.. (Score 4, Insightful) 245

by Dave_B93 on Monday March 27, 2006 @07:30PM (#15007084) Attached to: Homemade Cell Phone Call Blocker?

I used to have someone doing this all the time and so added them to my phone book as 'wrong number #1' and just not answering it. Do you really have more than the 250 or so numbers that your sim card can hold ( or more if you're using phone memory? ) An alternative would be to have caller groups and only having it ring if it was a known number, but then you have to know everyone who calls you. If they're calling from a Private Number then you're really screwed.

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