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  1. Re:Do you need a database? on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Once you have done trend reporting, can you just store that aggregate info instead of all the data from the beginning?

    RRDB style (round robin data base) where you store daily stats, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 2

    If you've done a factory reset, then the phone owner doesn't need to worry about their data anymore...

  3. Re:Gnu Free Documentation Licence on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 1

    Follow-up: Are any Creative Commons (CC) licenses an answer to the GFDL issues illustrated above?

  4. Crowd Funding on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 1

    Do you see crowd funding as a means to economically provide for the development of Free Software and even Free Hardware?

    Have any small projects grown to a critical mass where only a few funding rounds bootstrapped them into having a sustainable Libre/Free product?

  5. Re:on this topic. on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 1

    Or even Firefox OS?

    Is it even possible to avoid firmware blobs?

  6. Re:Linux on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for listing these! If the game doesn't run natively on linux, I'm not interested. (No windows computer, and no time to mess with settings/wine.)

    Open Arena works great with pulse audio btw.

  7. Re:FOSS games aren't real games on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Open Arena is still very much alive... There's always people playing death match, CTF instant gib, CTF all weapons. There are lots of mods like freeze tag and rocket-rail, and defrag (where you learn how to strafe jump and circle jump to beat the puzzle map).

  8. Re:IPv6 has this tiny problem on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    That's why you create your own CNAME to point to your customer's hostname!

    (Or you could use a hosts file or pdsh groups of hosts)

  9. Re:gmpg.org? on The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available · · Score: 1

    Should all of the <link rel>'s be excluded from the dataset used to build the giant graph?

  10. Re:CC? on The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available · · Score: 1

    I would like to compare the rank of this link graph to DNS requests for a "popularity" graph.

  11. How is this different? on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 2

    Audi tested lasers on sharks before BMW:

    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  12. Re:What we need is not a shell, but sha picker. on A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands · · Score: 1

    You need to run sshd under cygwin and use Putty to easily double-click to select a sha sum (enable X11 mode for select=copy and middle-click=paste).

  13. Re:Beta is terrible! on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 2

    And now that I've used Beta side-by-side with Classic (on this thread) having to "Load More Comments" multiple times is a deal breaker.

    For logged in users, there should be a way to fetch them all on page load (I'll happily wait!).

  14. Re:Beta is terrible! on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 2

    I can live with UI changes. I've been living with them for decades.

    I just want the comments not to suck and not waste usable space with a margin. Once I scroll paste the right side bar, I want the comments to expand to use a maximum width.

    Even in Classic view, there is too much whitespace around each comment. Both views could fit more comments in the same space (but we're all used to Classic).

  15. Re:Move on on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    I nice IDE like Intellij IDEA warns you about using a DOM selector more than once when using jQuery.

    It also warns you about other things:
    Inefficient jQuery usage:
    Checks that jQuery selectors are used in an efficient way. It suggests to split descendant selectors which are prefaced with ID selector and warns about duplicated selectors which could be cached.

  16. Re:Breaks some websites on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    So Slashdot is hyping their new beta site, yet they allow same post by the same user over and over, even after continuous down modding.

  17. Re: the moral of the story on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Many other registrars are inexpensive too like NameCheap and Gandi and BigRock.

  18. Re:Raspberry PI on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 0

    The Raspberry Pi cannot play all of the formats the OP desires. For example, it cannot play large AVIs streamed over SMB, only certain formats the hardware can handle.

  19. Re:pop3 and Google on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    OpenSSL to the rescue!

    $ openssl s_client -connect pop.gmail.com:995

  20. Re:Other Motives on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 2

    Most large/corporate installs of Windows manage updates via server-determined policies, not by individual users.

    One would assume LiMux is managed the same way: an IT team is constantly pushing out updates to their 14,800 desktops. If they made their own distribution, they probably manage their own auto-updates.

  21. Re:Use Google-like monopolies to your advantage on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can easily run ghostery, request policy, refcontrol, noscript, https everywhere, cookie monster, and BetterPrivacy all at the same time.

    How does anyone browse without these? I setup all of those, except request policy and noscript, for every user I help. They're nearly all passive.

  22. Re:Great idea for a graphic on A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm · · Score: 1

    This is d3.js at it's finest.

    The code is very readable with decent comments like:
    // This is O(n^2), but arrays are small, so whatever
    function merge_destinations(a, b) { ...

  23. Re:ABANDON SHIP on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about:
      - TabKit (tabs on the side, how does anyone browse without this?!!)
      - FoxyProxy
      - NoScript (it's not the same on Chrome)
      - Redirector
      - Screen Capture Elite
      - HTML Validator
      - Refcontrol (blocks/fakes referrer header)
      - Better Privacy (flash cookie blocker/sanitizer)

    The list goes on...

  24. Re:ABANDON SHIP on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 1

    Wow, that sounds incredibly horrendous.

    Hopefully just like Gnome2 -> 3, there will be a large community supported fork to maintain a customizable browser.

  25. Re:Slashdot... on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 2

    Every November, Mozilla releases its financial report for the previous year.

    FTFA.