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  1. SD card corruption on Interviews: Ask Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO Eben Upton a Question · · Score: 1

    Will Broadcom ever fix the timing problems in its SoC to fix the SD card corruption issue or are we going to be stuck with USB/network boot as a workaround that only works on Pi3's?

  2. Re:Keep an older copy of Chrome around? on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 2

    all those years of "write once, run anywhere" bullshit and here we are with seven different installations of java from 1.5 to 1.8 just to run a web application and a database.

    and yeah, i agree, like flash java needs to die, fed up of the weekly security exploits.

  3. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    it was getting a bit repetitive - go abroad somewhere with 3 knackered cars, try to cross a river/desert, end up doing roadside fixes, one presenter gets left behind, bang into each other a bit, blah blah.

    very formulaic, like ramsey's hotel hell or even the a-team.

  4. Re:in further news show tanks on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    jezza's been in it from the start, tiff needell used to be good in it but left to join fifth gear which i think got cancelled within a year. i can't think who they could bring in that would keep the show going.

  5. Hollywood will blame pirates... on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    ...the rest of us know that its because of the endless remakes, reboots, prequels and general lack of any new ideas coming out of LA. I mean how many times can you reboot Superman/Spiderman?

    Don't get me started on movies made entirely to sell toys and themepark rides like Transformers and fucking Frozen.

  6. Will they never learn? on Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages · · Score: 1

    i'm sure i've heard of this before, probably a decade ago. wasn't it d-link or netgear back then? if it couldn't get a response from their ntp server it wouldn't even connect.

  7. Re:so how fast is fast..? on Linux 3.15 Will Suspend & Resume Much Faster · · Score: 1

    sounds more like you need a better disk or distro, my 5400rpm hdd resumes debian sid (3.13.7-1 but also 3.11 when it ran wheezy) in 1-2secs and i can type the password and get on with work instantly.

  8. My Linux laptop boots faster than Win7 resumes on Linux 3.15 Will Suspend & Resume Much Faster · · Score: 1

    My Clevo laptop is a Pentium-D and it boots Debian with encrypted root faster than Win7 can resume on my $$$ Core-i5 Lenovo.

    So not sure we even need a faster suspend/resume, which is almost instant.

  9. or just use c++ in the first place on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 2

    never seen the point of c#

  10. junos cli on Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance? · · Score: 2

    better than ios, easily parsed by scripts, regex support etc.

  11. Other shock revalations..... on Microsoft's IE Is the Most Targeted Application By Security Researchers · · Score: 2

    ...from the feckingobvious department, that yellow disc in the sky is the sun. Slow news day or something guys?

  12. Not another Stonehenge on Bletchley Park's Bitter Dispute Over Its Future · · Score: 2

    Please don't make it like Stonehenge where you can't even get to it without going through the giftshop, and then you can't actually get anywhere near it.

    I expect they'll Disney-fy it and rename it Bletchley Theme Park, jees do the Nation Trust just play Angry Birds all day?

  13. Re:The Seagate Squeak on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 2

    in my experience smart ain't worth a wank. had tens of drives fail, only ever had any headsup from smart on one.

    heard from a data recovery service that the main probelm with the baraccuda's is the power supply board, they stock loads of them as most of their business is solved by replacing it.

  14. sounds about right to me on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    mirrors my experience too. i'm very impressed with hitachi drives, western digital/samsung are pretty poor and seagate are just plain shite.

  15. Re:FreeBSD... on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    no that's solaris 11

  16. But 479 euros?! on Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Given that the Oppo N1 works out around 75e more than a Nexus5, is there any point buying the N1?

  17. Absolutely on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    I think most of us have various setups at home for learning/experimenting, partly because its fun, partly because its a good way to get a better job and partly because our employer doesn't give us proper development environments!

    Its been a long time since I've worked at a place that has a proper dev->staging->production setup.

    I'm glad the op didn't use the term "lab" which always seems to be clueless people trying to get a CCNA, rather than people actually interested in their trade.

  18. Re:How close? Within WiFi range? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    ok, when someone invents fast wifi we'll look at this again. personally i'll stick with 300mbps esata and walk across the street.

  19. Re:How close? Within WiFi range? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    if its within wifi range should his house burns down, so will his backup box, and multi-terrabyte backup over wifi won't be fun.

    realistically an esata enclosure stored a bit further away than a neighbour is the best way to go (maybe at work?) kept up to date with rsync (locally not over t'internet).

    this question has been asked countless times before. search box is top left.

  20. Slowwwwwww on Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point · · Score: 1

    Silly DNS scripts seems like a bad way to achieve this, Privoxy would be better, and the Pi's ethernet-over-USB setup (and a USB wifi donlge) is going to make this pretty slow.

    Why does this have to be a Pi-specific tutorial, you could do this better on pretty much any Linux box.

  21. SFO hostility on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 2

    I've got to say SFO is consistently the most hostile airport I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot of them.

    But this just beggars belief and basically boils down to taxi drivers wanting a monopoly and "somehow" convincing the airport officials to back them.

    You can't do anything for free in the good old US-of-A, its bound to upset some corporation or other, and they're the ones with all the power, not the voters.

  22. Re:Clairification- VirtualBox is being continued on Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies · · Score: 1

    you got any hints how to do this? i tried migrating a debian wheezy image across (sid host) today and never managed to get bridged networking working, also it was slow as mollasses.

    i assume you don't have to make stupid scripts up to add a tap interface for each vm like its still 1990 do you? i converted my eth0 to br0 and all i could do was ping the host from the guest and vice versa, no LAN/WAN access. that was using the virtio driver and the vhost_net module.

  23. Re:Crap on Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies · · Score: 2

    Maybe Larry is a vampire, as he seems to want to block out the Sun....

  24. Re:How Much Would What Cost? on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    don't mention Word/MS or some moron will end up making you use Sharepoint instead of Git!

  25. Block it, there is no useful content on Facebook on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    Just drop the domain, kids shouldn't be on Facebook at school