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  1. Re: I buy lots of ebooks - Cheap "unix" books on H on O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Fantastic deal. Mind you, you don't get free updates as you would from directly purchasing from O'Reilly. I think you can upgrade for $4.99 per title, so pick the ones you want (or are likely to need upgrades) and do that. Still save a lot.

    Would have been nice to have Apache (or nginx) and Samba books though.

  2. Re: What has become of this world? on Fake Gaming Torrents Download Unwanted Apps Instead of Popular Games (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking this. I have hundreds of games from sales and bundles, many of which I haven't even touched.

  3. Re: Where's "Scroll Lock"? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Yeah for function documentation or "jump to declaration" kinda stuff... But once you start to use that often enough you start to look for and then use the keyboard shortcut.

  4. Re: Question about the name on The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead · · Score: 1

    It's all explained here

  5. Re: Bad RNG will make your crypto predictable on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't they also have to know your sampling frequency for that to be of any use? And I'm guessing if you randomized that, they'd have to follow your entire tool chain to get the same random result. I'm just thinking out loud here...

  6. Re:Compelling Price. Will Google respond? on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 1

    Flickr is 1TB free, with no resizing necessary, AFAIK.

  7. Re: US Only on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 1

    Does that mean we lose our 5GB and get nothing to replace it with?

  8. Re: No more free tier on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah guess I did.

    Still, I only want a few hundred MB for mobi files (maybe less than a hundred). That's all I will make use of in the plan... I know its only $1 a month but unless they integrate with pretty much everything, I will still need another cloud plan.

  9. No more free tier on Amazon Announces Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans · · Score: 1

    The aggravating part is that the free 5GB you used to have is gone now (source: email). All I wanted it for is Kindle document storage, which is unavailable at the $12/year level. It looks like I have to pay $60/year to store a few books.

  10. Re: Oh no on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pointless analogies are like a car with no steering wheel.

  11. Re: How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    I loosen mine quite a lot at night, maybe two notches. I want it on for the sleep tracking of the Misfit app but if I didn't do that it was extremely uncomfortable (my arm would go to sleep). I don't have it extremely tight on my wrist either.

  12. Re: What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    Funnier yet, it's actually "Wojciehowicz". Though they spelled it wrong of the board the last season or so.

  13. Re:Overblown on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Read Ihtnako's review. That one is bang on, not the Ars piece. Yes it's flawed, and OH MY it's way too expensive.

    If I'm a fanboy then I must be the worst in history...

  14. Re:Overblown on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Yes it's head and shoulders above other remote access tools for the iPad. I thought that was obvious. Or are you truly ignorant of things like, oh I don't know, TFA?

    RDP is nice but it doesn't have the integration that this does to make things finger-friendly.

  15. Overblown on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 2

    First of all, there was ONE "less than stellar" review. The Ars review was pretty pathetically trollish, I have no idea why. Check Google if you don't believe it. http://www.google.com/search?q=parallels+access+review

    I used it in beta testing and its head and shoulders above other remote access tools. Their pricing is out to lunch, but it is an excellent tool.

    Second, Parallels always has done stuff like this. The last version or two has been popping up ads. It's lazy of them and stupid but it's not really an "unrelated daemon".

    Don't expect their support to give you instructions on how to uninstall it, just run something like CleanMyMac2 and move on.

  16. Re:Update your skills on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 2

    This. Observe carefully the direction of the industry and apply yourself like a student to some upcoming tech. It's easier (less outlay) with software/programming but you can probably keep yourself occupied with learning admin tasks as well.

  17. Re:One of two things. on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    It takes a lot longer than a day to learn a new programming language. Unless you think "hello world" is sufficient.

  18. Re:quit whining over loss of free services on Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die? · · Score: 1

    Sync.

    They killed every other option for syncing feeds/read status because they were free and very good. Now we need to scramble to create new options and get platform support.

    Your interface comments are your perspective only. I loved it, it was extremely efficient.

  19. Re:Depreciation on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 2

    "darn good" = "quite good", with a little bit of extra emphasis. It's a common enough slang term, where have you been?

  20. Re:Glacial pace on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Or, you could say accomplishing the purpose of the prefixes in creating a de facto standard. Ideally we could then simply drop the prefixes and have the same behavior. Whether each prefixed attribute behaves the same is another issue, of course.

  21. Re:Extra memory on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1

    DESQview!

    Oh, wait.

  22. Re:applications on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 0

    I don't think that was unreasonable. If you have critical business apps running 16-bit code you need to prioritize their replacements IMMEDIATELY. That's certainly not impossible, though you will need someone skilled with both legacy and modern code.

    Changing them to accommodate 64-bit OSes doesn't necessarily mean totally rewriting them, either. Maybe there are some non-compatible libraries that need to be swapped out, with a few code changes.

  23. Re:Translating Roman Numerals... srsly??? on $50,000 Zero-Day Exploit Evades Adobe's Sandbox, Say Russian Analysts · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would have kept one numbering system for the whole article, but "Zero-day" would have been really tough.

  24. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    Apple. Or even modern versions of Windows, I guess.

    For me at least, the clear advantages of a Linux desktop withered away about 4-5 years ago. Even the price of commercial OS's are almost inconsequential these days.

  25. Re:DRM on The Kindle is Getting Support For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    I have a number of O'Reilly books, and none of them have that, at least in the ePub or PDF. It is not a bad idea though.