Slashdot Mirror


User: Tubal-Cain

Tubal-Cain's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,898
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,898

  1. Re:Defrag on Exploring Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology · · Score: 1

    Used to have a lot of 8 GB Stargate DVD ISOs. I've been splitting them up into individual ~1.7 GB episodes.

  2. Re:55GB Savings!!!!!!! on Exploring Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology · · Score: 1

    That's like complaining that you get shafted by the US gallon/imperial gallon exchange rate whenever you by milk/gas/whatever. Sufficiently few people sell things labeled with gigabibyte or imperial gallons that there is no confusion as to what you're getting.

  3. Re:Defrag on Exploring Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology · · Score: 1

    You assume that the hard drive is empty enough to have sufficient contiguous free space.

  4. Re:The way the Chinese government operates... on Losing Google Would Hit Chinese Science Hard · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of "The way China does R&D..."

  5. Re:"I hope you have the time of your life"- Green on Losing Google Would Hit Chinese Science Hard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they don't want to hire citizens here, they can incorporate somewhere else.

  6. Re:On Earth on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 1

    It's not the fact that they're "man-made" that makes them unstable, we just don't often bother using colliders to make atoms that would exist naturally.

  7. Re:Add the USA to the list too on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    Assuming that left hand knows what the right hand is doing, sure.

  8. Re:The question remains on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

    The more context you have, the easier it is to learn.

  9. Re:Won't matter on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    Newspaper is not exactly the most durable parchment we've ever used.

  10. Re:First Post on Stone Tools Found On Crete Push Back Humans' Maritime History · · Score: 1

    Even more mystifying was the -1 Redundant.

  11. For the visually-impaired computer user... on The Blind Shall See Again, But When? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Try working on a VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort/whatever input, too. Bypass monitors altogether.

  12. Or the home folder on 64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha · · Score: 1

    Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins).

    It works just as well (for single-user systems) in ~/.mozilla/plugins.

  13. Re:Here is what is going to happen. on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    ...it's probably also true that they're just trying to upset this market because the established cable companies are a threat to their other businesses, both because of their slowness to raise the bandwidth bar and because of their marriages to legacy content distribution.

    Not to mention the threats against Net Neutrality.

  14. Re:Uh, yeah... on Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix · · Score: 1

    I'm having a hard time getting it to work with my horizontal sliding sash windows.

  15. Re:Remove one and unanimity is impossible on Study Says OOXML Unsuitable For Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    I just set it to default, and it still gave me the "are you sure?" message. Yes, there is a "never ask again" checkbox, but I don't feel like doing that to every computer and I don't trust the users to handle it properly themselves.

  16. Re:Consistent Histories? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    Power = 1
    No power = 0

    What's so hard about that?

  17. Re:first post on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    In any case, anyone with the minimal savvy required to install Ubuntu will also have the requisite smarts to change the default search engine to one of their choosing.

    Fixed that for you. Some of us have users that can't change it.

  18. Re:A Working ZPM on Stargate Props Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    For starters, I believe they claimed to be using some mini Naquada generators to keep the general city running. It was mentioned a few times in season 1 such as when there was an energy draining monster, and later they needed to make one give off an EMP.

    Yes... for season 1. The energy-draining monster was in episode 2 or 3 (I think it was called Hide and Seek). The ZPM found in the SG1 episode Mobius was sent to Atlantis for the season 2 premiere and used until the energy bridge incident. The one they got a few episodes later lasted to the end of the series, I believe.

    As for the shield, I don't recall them using the left-over ZPM for that...

    The shield was used in The Siege, Echos, First Strike/Adrift/Lifeline, The Last Man (not shown), First Contact, Enemy at the Gate... did I miss any? I forget which ZPM was used in Echos, but the second one was definitely in use by First Strike.

    Unless you mean the shield around the gate itself, at which point I don't recall if that was the ZPM or their generators.

    The gate shield was used in the Season 1 episode The Storm (or was it The Eye...?), so the generators could handle it.

  19. Re:How Could You Miss This Important Fact on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hear that boiling water to the groin will do that...

  20. Re:Obligatory on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    My favorite is 404.

  21. Static or Dynamic? on Comcast Plans IPv6 Trials In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Will the addresses by dynamic or static? Is there any good reason for them not to be static?

  22. Re:ChromeOS Zero - what's so special about it? on ChromeOS Zero Released · · Score: 1

    How does one bloat a text editor?

  23. Re:Using Macs could have prevented this! on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or any other browser. Like, for example, Chrome.

  24. Re:Btrfs? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The chances of them using it would be pretty much nil. They are switching from ext2, and ext4's been "done" for over a year now. I'm sure they have a few benchmarks of btrfs, just not on as large of a scale as these tests were.

  25. Re:I Don't Think Censorship's Been Lifted on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how this explains it. The searches shown have very low results for the offensive images? I don't think Google would be foolish enough to remove values from their page ranking system or fiddle with those numbers.

    They don't need to. Don't results get a higher rank if they are clicked? If so, censored pages have a low rank because they haven't been getting visits.