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  1. Re:email is open, cheap and universal on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    You don't need a cell phone to start a gmail account. They ask for a mobile number but it's not mandatory.

  2. Re:The Last Starfighter on DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software · · Score: 2

    There's trouble right here in the galaxy, Trouble with a capital T that doesn't rhyme with K that stands for Ko-Dan.

  3. Re:The Wart on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    While for the most part, I agree, the WRT54's don't support IPv6, and it would be nice if it had a couple of USB ports for a storage device/printer.

    I have two of the v8 model, one runs the most recent stock firmware and serves as the router/gateway. The other runs a micro DD-WRT and serves as a bridge. The bridge one won't turn on it's wireless after a power outage for some reason and has to be manually restarted. Otherwise, they run 24/7 without issues, and have done so for years.

    I've basically had the same question as the submitter, and haven't found a proper replacement yet. I blame Cisco for buying and "nerfing" Linksys because too many home and small offices were making do with Linksys gear rather than paying through the nose for Cisco Pre-Cisco, it was easy, there was one good household router at each "wireless standard" which was at a fair price and everyone knew what it was.

    B : BEFW11S4
    G: WRT54

    Now each brand has a plethora of models with incoherent model naming systems.

    The router I want is the WRT1900AC of course, It has the right featurs and form-factor, but that thing is expensive. If they want it to be a mass-market router it needs to be $60, like the WRT54 was.

  4. Re:Android Browser 2.x and IE/XP lack SNI on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    Tepples is seriously hyper-focused on edge cases, because essentially he is one.

  5. Re:Read the source code on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, I've noticed a steady decline in documentation for commercial software too. Manuals have gone from the thick reference books I remember from 20 years ago to little "quick start" books if you're lucky. More frequently no documentation at all.

    How I miss the days of fat manuals and binders with software In the old (meaning even up to XP) days they even used to ship comprehensive user guides with computers.

    It's even effecting games now, both PC and console. For example The manual for the PS3 edition of the GOTY version of Fallout 3 is 43 pages long. The manual for the PS3 version of the Legendary version of Skyrim is a two page pamphlet directing you to http://manuals.bethsoft.com/ where you can get a PDF version, which is slightly over 20 pages long. That PDF is useless on the PS3 itself, of course. Digital downloads are hit or miss. Strangely the PSP was better in that regard.

    One set of well done user documentation I have encountered recently is that for Scrivener. Very comprehensive.

  6. Re:Big problem: Linux won on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Well, I know there's is something called roff, which stands for "runoff". It is used for text formatting on Unix systems I also know that groff is the gnu version of it.

    IIRC man pages are done in nroff format.

    That's pretty much all I know about it.

  7. Re:Who else makes this mistake? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    You mean "ZZ". :-)

  8. Re:I switched to kate after this on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Most XFCE installs include Leafpad.

  9. Re:I used to teach Linux. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Assuming you have ncurses set up properly.

    Yes, I had to deal with a serial console on a machine where ncurses was not working.

    Ouch! How long ago was that?

  10. Re: You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    The problem with Vim (and Emacs) is that they do not support anything modern, not even ctrl-z/x/c/v.

    Yes they do. I know you can start vim as evim, or use the "cream" add-on.

  11. Re:Have you seen Gedit lately? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    I was thinking something similar: "What's wrong with gedit? it's a fairly good graphical editor if one doesn't want to use gvim or cream."

    Then I checked the image and had a WTF moment, and thought "Gedit doesn't look like that for me."

    Then I checked the version and Fedora 20 is using 3.10.4, not that crazy 3.11.x version.

  12. Re:Here's an idea! on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the UK market had protectionist features to protect Uncle Clive from the likes of Atari and Nintendo, and later on Sony.

    Not to mention that a lot of spectrum games are low budget platformers on £1.99 tapes that were then copied on dual tape decks. These games aren't the quality level of NES games, or C64 games either.

    In the US, C64 games weren't half the price of NES games, because the best C64 games in the US were games on floppy that retailed for the same price as cartridge games.

  13. Re:They lost their market on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    When they finally hack the WiiU to do homebrew, you'll see an increase of console sales.

    No they won't. Very few people have an interest in homebrew. A few cheap guys who want homebrew for Emulators are a miniscule niche. The ones that actually DO want to do coding are an even smaller niche.

  14. Re:They should stop making consoles on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    That helps them sell their consoles at a profit instead of a loss.

    Sony is already selling the PS4 as a hardware unit at a profit.

    until the Kinect and Move were rushed to market in response, and took the wind out of Nintendo's sales.

    Move? Rushed to market? Sony has been working with motion control longer than Nintendo has.

    From Siggraph 2001:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Eyetoy Demo from 2003
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:Nintendo Has an R&D Problem on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    only to find out that the PS4 isn't at all backwards compatible with the PS3 and likely never will be outside of being able to do "timed rentals" of PS3 stuff on Gaikai and stream it.. but that won't happen until sometime in 2015.

    Playstation Now Open Beta is up and running as of right now. The Selection isn't large yet.

  16. For the terminal: on Better Living Through Data · · Score: 1

    history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head -n 20

    Better than using battery life. Course it only works for commands you run in the terminal.

  17. Re:He did it to himself on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    While he lead to the creation of RPGs, as a game designer I have used him and TSR as the shining example of everything not to do.

    He's also a bad writer. A lot of the problems with early D&D are because of his intentionally archaic Vancian writing style sometimes obfuscated the rules in ways it shouldn't. The Gord the Rogue books are painful reads.

  18. Re:5thed is irrelevant. on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    Link an MP absorb to ANOTHER Mastered KOTR for MP replenishment. The easy way is W-Summon, Master Summon, Master KOTR + MP Absorb. You'll want that KOTR when you're grinding AP in the crater in that area with the "Movers" because of the @#$@$ Tonberries. See one, KOTR it.

  19. Re:Easy on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    after some halfwit from Greenwood's warped imagination?

    Better than being named Dryzzt420 or Gord-something.

    And it isn't even the classic list, FFS.

    It isn't? That's the 1st or 2nd Edition AD&D version of the list, right? The versions that first achieved prominence and sold enough copies to be a "thing"?

    It's similar but not quite exactly the same as the Red Box list.

  20. Re:Easy on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    The classic list, and from someone named "Kelemvor". Kudos.

  21. Re:Not everything that shines is gold... on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 1

    It's Spain, it's been united under one government for what...500 years now? It's time to give the regionalism a rest.

  22. Re:Not everything that shines is gold... on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 2

    They exist to praise regionalism of the different autonomies(regions) of Spain by local politicians

    What is up with that? Here in the states no one would even think of doing something like Californi-ux or Tex-ux, or Illini-ux. If some school district or state school administration wanted to switch to Linux they'd just choose edubuntu, or CentOS and be done with it. Why roll their own when they're perfectly suitable distros out there already.

  23. Re:I would switch to linux if the fonts on GOG.com Announces Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Fedora encourages use of the installed-by-default Liberation fonts instead, though you can find a prebuilt package out there.

  24. Re:I would switch to linux if the fonts on GOG.com Announces Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Did you set up your Desktop's appearance, including anti-aliasing and hinting suggestions properly?

  25. Re:If you had taken part in "welcome back"... on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    The new deal, for the holdouts is worse, imo.

    It's even worse than you think, because it was TWO free games for both the PS3 and PSP, for a total of four. AND FreeRealms and PS Home content worth about $20 for each, AND the month of PS+, AND an additional 30 days of Music Unlimited if you subscribed to that.

    Not only that, but those who took that deal still get 1 benefit choice from the new deal, either a game, the themes, or 3 months of PS+