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  1. If you want a makerbot like machine, then the latest flashforge creator pro is a fantastic clone of the replicator 1. Dont get taken in by the flashforge dreamer which is a POS, its also the same machine being pushed by dremel.

    on the software side you can use slic3r or cura with the GPX module, dont listen to those who say you can only use makerware or repg

  2. Re:So... on FSF-Endorsed Libreboot X200 Laptop Comes With Intel's AMT Removed · · Score: 1

    Interesting, the first time they did that, it would trigger a wave of replacement world wide, so you get the situation where they wont because they dont want to burn that card.

    It long past the point where the world needs a reliable supply of non-US based technology components, i now consider almost everything originating from the US as being irrevocably compromised. And china is not much better.

    We have sold our souls to the devil for the nice tunes he plays, and now we have to pay.

  3. Re:So what is an answer? on FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    For weight and space reasons I travel with only my wifi-only tablet. Generally that works well for me.

      Every now and then I encounter a hotel with only wired access provided in rooms. (Often they have wifi in public areas.) Is there an answer to using the wifi-only device in such a circumstance. For sake of argument, let's assume I am an international traveller whose cellphone never works in the countries I visit. (True) That means the hotspot method mentioned will not work.

    There are numerous mobile wifi router/bridges which can plug into a wired network and make ot available over wifi, either as a bridged or routed connection. At home they can also be used as a wifi range extender.

    For example

    http://www.tp-link.com/en/prod...

  4. Re:Still ripping shit off, eh? on Hands On With MakerBot's 3D-Printed Wood · · Score: 1

    I bought a flashforge, who are ripping them off......

  5. Re:i like open offices on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 0

    Agreed, this abhorrence of open plan offices seems to be a percularly american trait. I have no problens focusing in an open office, being able to tune out distractions is all part of the trade.

  6. Re:Why the distros? on Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure · · Score: 1

    I think he is trying to show that the distros are doing a poor job in ensuring that insecure versions are not getting frozen in thier distributions.

  7. Re:Amazon was being dumb on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Yes and thier math is a little strange, Average paperback page is 400 words, which puts 90,000 word novel about 225 pages. They say that it had 100 hyphenated words, which is only one occurance every 2-3 pages, which does not sound excessive at all.

  8. Re:They need to take it a step further... on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Google will still have people and assets in spain after the withdrawl of google news, which is after all only one relativly small part of its spanish operations.

  9. Re:Reduced revenues != lost profit on Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables · · Score: 2

    3, assumes there is no storage capability at the renewable end, new storage technologies are comming online every day, largely driven by the EV industry. If the solar system could store 24 hours worth of energy, then that problem goes away. True it will drive up costs and that may change the break even point, but storage costs are on the same downward trajectory as the renewable generation costs.

  10. Re: A feature of Western *democracy*? on Probe Into NSA Activity Reveals Germany Spying On Germans · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do you actualy know what socalisim is?

  11. People have tried to get me to eat balut, i cant bring myself to do it, its a rite of passage that the local guys here try to put foreigners through. Its almost the first thing they offer when you ask about philippine cuisine. They all think its very funny when you go strange colour as they describe it to you. I'd rather eat red salt egg or 1000 year egg than balut. Although i am partial to a pickeled egg, my wife has just learnt how to make them and proper pickeled onions, so they are back on the menu. All I need now is a decent supply of Cod out here that does not cost 4 gold bars a kilo, and its chippy night again, battered cod and chips, pickeled eggs, pickled onions, buckets of salt, malt vinegar and ketchup. And some doorstops of white bread and butter to make a chip butty. Good strong cup of hot milky sweet tea to go with it. Loverly........ Homesick british ex-pat in manila.

  12. Re:Things you need to fix if you want users on Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations · · Score: 1

    Lumber jacks, they use them for breaking logjams when floating trees downriver.

  13. Re:Video tutorials on Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations · · Score: 1

    Its "right off the bat" , which means immeatiate, straight away. http://www.thesaurus.com/brows... Its a term that comes from cricket that made its way into common language.

  14. Re:Free Windows? on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Here in the philippines, you can buy alot of PC and laptop products without an OS, most come with freedos or a simple linux setup loaded just to allow testing of hardware Example. http://www.villman.com/Search....

  15. Re:But will it affect consumers? on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Bigot

  16. Re:No, it's not bricked. on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    I dont think the windows usb.sys will allow conndctions to devices with pid=0, thats why you can only fix them on a mac or linux box.

  17. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    Many os's including windows wont allow connections to pid0 at the low level, below the driver, setting pid to 0 effectivly bricks the device as far as windows is concered, thays why they can only be fixed on a mac or linux system that does not have that restriction.

  18. Re: Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    And to make matters worse, even if they roll back to a restore point and an older driver it still does not work. Consumer given no notification, no choice as to the disposition of thier device, something that does not belong to FTDI.

  19. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    In most cases consumers have never heard of FTDI, and would not understand what it did anyway. In thier eyes they did a windows update and thier device broke, and even if the use a rollback point, and unwind tje update its still broke. Microsoft is going to take the heat.

  20. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do know that the routine inside thier drivers as assertained from the symbol tables in the driver code was called "BrickClonedDevices" I think that is a smoking gun, and shows intent. How much chance does 99% of the population have of recovering the functionality of a bricked device, even if pid 0 is rewritable. Its like telling a comsumer that a phone that has scrambled its eeprom is still perfectly ok, all they have to Do is buy a JTAG interface, hook it up, learn several years of embedded systems knowledge. But its not bricked is it. For all intentive purposes it is Bricked as far as a consumer is concerned who has never heard of FTDI.

  21. Re:Is this legal? on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    For 99.99% of people in the world, who dont understand that a) thier device actualy has an ftdi chip in it, b) which os is safe, c) how to rewrite the pid. Then the device is effectivly "bricked" .

  22. Re: are the debian support forums down? on Ask Slashdot: Stop PulseAudio From Changing Sound Settings? · · Score: 1

    All varients except the android version, have deteriorated over the last year or so. I use skype a lot to call into conference calls, i have a Mac, Linux desktop and large android tablet, and one by one each version has stopped generating recognisble touch tones that can be used to drive the conferencing services (more than 1) . If the android version goes the same way, i will have to give up on skype.

  23. Re:GPS on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 1

    US has been known to shut down gps over regions during conflicts, last happend to india in 1999. India like eu, china, and russia now want thier own systems so they are not dependent on the USs goodwill and support.

  24. Re:Region-Specific on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 3
  25. Re:Region-Specific on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 2

    IRNSS sats are geostationary, they are positioned above india and dont move.