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  1. ceace and desist on Python-Based Server Lets Eye-Fi Users Skip Company's Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hope the people at Eye-Fi see this as a good thing, rather than reason for a knee-jerk cease-and-desist letter

    From looking at their 3 different models it seems that the only difference between the bottom two models is software running on the PC, so this could effectively turn a $50 card into a $60 card. Doubt they would be happy about that.

  2. only at home? on Python-Based Server Lets Eye-Fi Users Skip Company's Software · · Score: 1

    Running the script at intervals would allow for real time updates to an online gallery.

    Wouldn't you have to be within range of your own home network for this to work? I don't think it would work if you were on someone else's wireless would it?

  3. Re:How about a focus that WORKS? on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    See links above for about plenoptics. You can focus your shot after it is taken. Very cool.

  4. Re:Gun Point? on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This has got to be one of the most excessive police actions ever. Sending a man to jail for a non-violent offense. I hate this country's legal system.

    You're an idiot. You don't think the Enron guys should have gone to jail? What about Madoff or these guys from AIG, CityGroup etc?

  5. plenoptics on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. This is great on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    A filesystem that takes something to the extreme will hunt down and kill bugs in programs that make assumptions.
    This is why porting a program to different OS's, trying it out on different architectures is great.
    I've ran into this kind of bug before when you write to a file and expect the file to be there right away. It worked on one setup where the fileserver was the same as the application server, but when we moved the appserver it started failing. NFS didn't report the file there right away, it took a little while.
    The less assumptions the better....better software.

  7. Re:Depends on the scaler on Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux · · Score: 1

    I like to go on one extreme or the other, but most of the time I like using no sampling at all. I want my pixels to look as square as can be on my 60" HDTV. Looks so retro and awesome.

  8. Re:No on Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux · · Score: 1

    If you want to emulate these mentioned systems, you are way better off with a PC, Xbox 1, or Wii.

    Xbox 1 is the way to go. The emulators and XBMC make it so worth it. I'm thinking about buying another Xbox 1 just in case mine dies some day.

  9. WebStart on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    Too bad Sun is uninterested on having more desktop adoption of Java. Sun's incompetence / arrogance is the reason we have this and SilverLight.

  10. uncompressed on Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device · · Score: 1

    Good, lets keep the size of the discs the same, use the same 1080P resolution and use losslessly compressed audio and video. Oh, and let the big movie studios use their expensive equipment and processing power to make it 60fps rather than letting everybody's bluray player magically turn 24fps into 60

  11. Has been this way for a while on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know why, but even under complete OS virtualization FireFox is faster in Windows under VMWare or VirtualBox than it is natively on the same box.

  12. package manager on Firefox Exec Says Windows Bundling Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    I would like to see the EU or some other entity force Microsoft to develop a package manager. The first time you start up Windows and you connect to the internet it asks you which browser you'd like to download and install.

  13. countdown... on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    watch -n 0.1 'python -c "from datetime import datetime; print datetime.fromtimestamp(1234567890) - datetime.now()" '

  14. Re:Why perl? on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    The original example worked from the command line. Your's is on multiple lines and doesn't.
    echo "import time; print time.asctime(time.localtime(1234567890))" | python

  15. Re:Because when I think graphics, I think intel on Intel To Design PlayStation 4 GPU · · Score: 5, Informative

    Someone Please add this link as an update to the main summary.

  16. backward compatibility on Intel To Design PlayStation 4 GPU · · Score: 1

    Just a guess. But it looks like backward compatibility just got hosed if they go to all Intel. There was such a gap in power that the PS3 was able to emulate the PS2 games on a completely different arch. I'm guessing that emulating the Cell Broadband Processor will be much harder if possible at all on Larrabee. This might be the final nail in Sony's coffin after recently having a 95% drop in profits. I have a PS3, and a 60" Sony SXRD display but damn do I hate Sony. It is interesting that they went with Larrabee for a GPU which is very similar to the CBE in the first place. Having both would be silly. They could have 2 CBE's or 2 Larrabee's.

  17. Re:for quick, cross-platform development c/c++ suc on The Case For Supporting and Using Mono · · Score: 1

    Right, all of the #ifdefs are in the library itself. I'm not saying that is good or bad.

  18. Re:Obviously.... on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xbuntu, EDUbuntu, Ubuntu mobile, WTFbuntu

  19. Re:they found that on What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come on. While normally that shit gets old it is actually funny here. Mod parent phunny.

  20. fs-driver on Fedora 11 To Default To the Ext4 File System · · Score: 1

    ext3 seems to be the nicest at the moment for native linux support and painless Windows support for dual boot machines. Easier than using NTFS in Linux. Last I heard ext4 wouldn't work with Windows.

  21. Re:PyQt? on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Lets just hope that Riverbank will allow their Commercial PyQT to be used with the LGPL QT and not restrict it to the Commercial QT version.

  22. Re:Linux? on LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netflix Videos · · Score: 1

    Same here. Its the only thing I use VirtualBox or Windows for. What a huge waste of disk space. I'd be happy if my PS3 would stream it or my Linux laptop.

  23. Re:Warning, Y2.1K bug. on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Its already in calendar.py def isleap(year):
    """Return 1 for leap years, 0 for non-leap years."""
    return year % 4 == 0 and (year % 100 != 0 or year % 400 == 0)

  24. Re:Hallejulla! on AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code · · Score: 1

    You said best web browsers (plural). Which ones are you talking about? I still need to fire up virtualbox and run Windows to watch NetFlix. Also, there is no Chrome on anything but Windows either.

  25. more to come... on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I didn't RTFA...whatever. Anyway, I'm sure this product came from China since it was sold a Walmart. I remember a while back people speculating about China's x86 compatible processor having undocumented opcodes for some alterior motive. This is all part of the China conspiracy.