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  1. French version on LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? · · Score: 1

    Probably because you have to release a french version as well and they do not want to pay the additional expense...

  2. Great article title... on The Camera That Changed the Universe · · Score: 0

    This article is about everything EXCEPT the camera itself. Apart from a crappy diagram in the middle, I learnt absolutely nothing about that piece of equipment.

  3. Re:Anyone who knows refrigeration? on Ammonia Leak Alarm On the ISS Forces Evacuation of US Side: Crew Safe · · Score: 1

    Probably because they have been working with it for decades and it is a known quantity, instead of having to recertify, retest, remanaufacture cooling systems based on something else. I am not a rocket scientist so this is an educated hunch.

  4. not new on Hotel Chain Plans Phone-Based Check-in and Room Access · · Score: 1

    The check-in part at least is nothing new, Fairmont has offered email check-in/out for a few years at least.

  5. Re:My Question / Suicide is not for cowards on Have Questions For MIT's Aaron Swartz Review? · · Score: 2

    My father blew his brains out, I think he took the cowards way out. Only non-victim in a suicide is the person who does it in my opinion...

  6. Re:Batteries on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    The A380 fleet was never TOTALLY grounded at the same time like the 787. The 20 oldest ones were inspected and the other ones had the check incorporated in their upcoming regularly scheduled maintenance. You are right to say that every new aircraft has teething problems, but this 787 story is completely different and shows the inherent weaknesses of the certification scheme.

  7. Good news on Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE · · Score: 1

    I left Fedora after using it for many years because of the Gnome 3 crap-fest. Been using MATE on Mint since then and have been very satisified. Understand that Fedora is cutting edge and used to test and develop new stuff for RHEL but Gnome 3 was unusable (for me, hate it when others make all the UI decisions for me, no minimize because it is against their philosophy, please...) Going to take out F18 for a spin for sure, always nice to have options. And once again, not bashing Gnome 3, to each their own, it only failed from my point of view!

  8. Few off the top of my head on Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? · · Score: 2

    Rocks clusters (http://www.google.ca/search?gcx=w&ix=c1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rocks+clusters) CHARMM (http://www.charmm.org/) Gaussian as an example of how academic-inspired software should NOT be commercialised (http://www.gaussian.com/)

  9. Re:Fox In the Henhouse on Shuttleworth: Chrome Nearly Replaced FF In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Is it wise to run a browser (and when Chrome OS comes out, a full fledged operating system) pushed by the biggest advertising, tracking, and marketing company on the web? Wouldn't it be better to use something that does not have a vested interest in tracking everything you do online? Or is the source for this browser fully open so any nasty evil bits would be spotted by vigilant hackers and purged immediately?

    Then just use Chromium, you can check the source code all you want to make sure the evil Googles is not getting any of your data...

  10. NPACI Rocks on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster? · · Score: 2

    NPACI Rocks without a doubt. Red Hat centric, you need to put in some work to understand how it ticks, once you so and set up your cluster properly, it is very solid and reliable.

  11. Private trackers on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    I am guessing this doesn't include the boatload of private tracker torrenting going on...

  12. The worse thing is on Goodbye, HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    ... a good number people won't even notice...

  13. Re:Wow that was just bad. on Neal Stephenson On Rockets and Innovation · · Score: 1

    You are correct that the UK and France have their own nuclear arsenal but the way they went about it was completely different. The UK is tied much more closely to US nuclear bomb technology because the US licenses the design to the UK. Of course, the UK maintains launch authority for their warheads. France, on the other hand, developped their nuclear weapons systems from scratch and are completely independent from the US from a manufacturing perspective.

  14. Stupid corporations on In UK, Oink Admin Cleared of Fraud · · Score: 1

    The record companies still don't get that I would pay a decent monthly fee for the legal equivalent of something as well organized as Oink was with the same quality control on the files... Not that I have to anyways but I would.

  15. Re:CentOS 5.4 is out, too. on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess you think Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x fails as well don't you? Maybe it is better that you don't use CentOS, don't worry its OK... Guess you never heard of EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) run by the good folks at Fedora, sure seems GIT is in there (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL). I know, not an official repo, but then the concept of binary compatibility would probably fly right over your head as well.

  16. Re:More likely on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes because the switch-over to whatever the 'new' distribution would have been called would have been so complicated, I mean the developers even stated in the open letter that: "(...)hot machines exist to allow for a cutover with a simple one time installation of one RPM package." Debacle indeed...

  17. ROCKS rocks! on Build Your Own Render Farm · · Score: 1

    Just download the Rocks Cluster distribution and you will have an operational cluster in about an hour. Doesn't get much more efficient than that

  18. Re:Why one thing? Ganglia and Nagios on What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? · · Score: 1

    We are using Ganglia for our Rocks cluster and have been very happy with it. Some Rocks installations are huge and it apparently scales very well.

  19. Mass Spec on Methane On Mars May Indicate Living Planet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has any probe carried a mass spectrometer? If not that should be a high priority to find out which isotopes are being produced as well, would help answer the organic vs. volcanic question.

  20. Re:'the only person he felt he could trust.' on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You must be too young to rememember when Reagan fired all the striking ATC's in the late 80's. Too bad no one doesn't have the balls to stick it to the unions like he did these days...

  21. This is news? on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    And this is news how? Congratulations Steve Jobs, Apple has become the new Bose!

  22. Limit the upload on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    The problem is most probably that BT is using ALL your upload bandwidth, this affects every TCP packet coming into your network since there is no upload room for control packets. In your BT client, limit the upload to 80% of your link's upload speed. For example, I have 1Mbit upload, I limit uTorrent to 80k/sec. Voila, problem solved.

  23. Already done in the Great White North on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1

    Videotron has done this with their 10Mbps home plan. You get 100GB/month and they don't throttle. My Bell Sympatico friends were laughing at me with their 'unlimited' bandwidth until they started throttling. I download a fair amount and I don't even get close to the limit. You can also upgrade to the same speed but business plan if you need real unlimited. Not saying I am a big fan but it hasn't wound up costing me any extra money, I get the advertised speeds. Comcast's proposed limit is 2.5x mine so it should be even less of a problem.

  24. Re:This is a shame on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1, Funny

    I will see your Verilog and raise you an Intercal!

  25. Re:As an American, I would like to know on Bell Wants to Dump Third-Party ISP's Entirely · · Score: 2, Informative

    Canada has the Competition Act and also a common law framework that provides the legal basis.