Comment Re:Yeah it's crap. (Score 1) 408
Why can't these web developers get into their heads that not everyone has a 1 megabit pipe?
Comment Re:Where was 3.6.5? (Score 3, Informative) 220
From http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-next-firefox-platform-version-is-1-9-2-6-instead-of-1-9-2-5/:
Firefox 3.6.4 [...] has a platform version of 1.9.2.4. The version number 1.9.2.5 is currently being used by Fennec. We’ll be taking fixes above and beyond that version, so the next platform version Firefox will use will be named 1.9.2.6. We will keep the version numbers coherent by naming it Firefox 3.6.6 (essentially skipping over 3.6.5).
Comment My Experience with Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala (Score 1, Interesting) 1231
First, I tried to do an upgrade normally with Update Manager. I stopped it because due to a slow Internet connection, it was taking too long. Then, I decided to do a fresh install. Before this, Windows XP was on the 35 GB hard disk, and GNU/Linux was on the 16 GB hard disk. I decided to move Windows to the 16 GB HDD and GNU/Linux to the 35 GB HDD, because I store my data on the GNU/Linux partition and I was running out of free space with the 16 GB HDD.
I backed up my data to the Windows partition, installed a new installation of Windows XP on the 16 GB HDD, moved my backup there, then used UNetbooin to install Xubuntu 9.10 on the 35 GB HDD.
It installed perfectly fine. The only major problem I had was that GRUB2 could not boot into Windows "out of the box". I eventually got it to boot into the Windows partition, but then I ran into problems with Windows itself booting. As of this writing I am still trying to fix it. Also, there has been a problem with the swap partition not activating automatically at boot (I must activate it manually with swapon), but I uncommented a line in
The improvements I noticed were:
- It takes only about a minute to boot
- Login/XFCE startup is faster
- Halt/reboot takes only about 10–20 seconds
So far, I am satisfied with Karmic.
Comment Chromium Not Chrome (Score 5, Informative) 168
"Google Chrome" has not been released on the Linux platform yet. From the about:linux-splash on my chromium install:
Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project.
And "Chromium" still doesn't have things like flash and printing, at least not in a stable, usable form.
Comment Re:Here We Go Again (Score 0) 362
I never experienced that with Cox Communications.
They must not have done that in Tulsa...
Comment Re:Here We Go Again (Score 0) 362
Comment Internet Telescope (Score 2, Interesting) 239
What I thought was interesting was the internet telescope mentioned in the article. No wonder we're running out of IPv4 addresses, someone's wasting millions of them!
Comment Re:i would try chrome with wine (Score 0) 381
You could try spoofing your UserAgent string to make it think you are using Windows. Then it will display the download link for Windows users.
Comment Re:Probably intentional (Score 0) 332
TwoTrees Shelterbelt blocks archive.org. I have also occasionally seen it block the Google cache.
Comment If television rules the nation... (Score 0) 193
If television rules the nation, then this must be an unhappy nation.
Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler 265
kpearson writes "Distributed.net's 8-year-old OGR-25 distributed computing project has just proven conclusively that the predicted shortest 25-mark Golomb ruler is optimal. 'The total length of the ruler is 480, with marks at positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. (This ruler may alternatively be expressed in terms of the distance between those positions, which is how dnetc displays them: 12-17-10-33-19-...).' 124,387 people participated in the project and two people found the shortest ruler, one on October 10, 2007 and the other on March 24, 2008."
Comment Re:Alta Vista (Score 1) 109
Yahoo isn't just stamped on them, it is them. Do a search on yahoo and a search on Alta Vista. The results are carbon copies.
How Microsoft Beat Linux In China 313
kripkenstein notes an analysis up on TechRepublic detailing how Microsoft beat Linux in China, and the consequences of that victory: "With the soon-to-be largest economy standardized on Windows desktops, desktop Linux does seem to have an uphill battle ahead of it." "Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker... The fact that... Linux failed to gain a major foothold in China is yet another blow to desktop Linux. After nearly eight years of being on the verge of a breakthrough, Linux seems more destined than ever to be a force in the server room but little more than a narrow niche and an anomaly on the desktop."
Treating the Dead 246
FlyByPC writes "According to a NewsWeek article, oxygen deprivation doesn't kill patients as much as the resumption of oxygen does. This discovery could bring about new ways of resuscitating people whose hearts have stopped."
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