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  1. Re:How much CPU power & storage in HDD control on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if you're the drive controller firmware, storage space is a non-consideration for the most part. You can store stuff on the drive platters. A certain percentage of those are reserved for sector reallocation anyway, so you could use those without anyone really every being the wiser.

  2. Seems pricey on Print Isn't Dead: How Linux Voice Crowdfunded a New Magazine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I love linux periodicals, but the ones from Europe always seem to be extremely pricey, at least to US customers. For print, I intuitively understand that, but the digital-only prices always seem high to me.

    1-Year US/Canada Subscription: 95 GBP == 162.13 US Dollar
    1-Year Digital Subscription: 38 GBP == 64.86 US Dollar

    I keep looking at Linux Format, but that has even higher digital-only prices.

    My impulse buy point for digital subscriptions is maybe $50/year.

    For comparison, I looked up a subscription I do have:
    Linux Journal offers 24 issues for $49.50. I suppose it's more advertising-supported, but still.

    Oh well. I'm glad that these periodicals exist, and I hope they do well enough to hang around. :-)

  3. DevCon.exe and a red-glowing USB mouse on Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I made a top-of-the-cubicle LED indicator using Devcon.exe and a Microsoft Mouse that happened to glow red when it was receiving USB power once.

    I basically had devcon.exe 'enable' the mouse when it was ready to indicate something and 'disable' it otherwise.

    Worked reasonably well, but that was back before I got all the notifications on the smartphone anyway.

  4. Re:27cb appearing in HTML in 5.4.3.2.1... on Unicode 6.1 Released · · Score: 1

    If I read the character list correctly, that's the division / slash symbol. That does sound somewhat ominous from a malformed-URL perspective. (They also added something that looks like backslash as 27cd).

  5. Re:Are mid-range PC games dead? on Humble Bundle 2 Is Live · · Score: 2

    The Witcher Sequel is also available from gog.com as a drm-free pre-order for the same price as is available Steam. The Steam version will probably have Steam Achievements, etc, though, so which is more worth the money may be up to some debate.