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  1. Re:Rube-goldberg on Controlling Linux Using an Android Phone As Mouse, Keyboard, and Gamepad · · Score: 1

    why would my stationary desktop need wifi (mine has it but I ran a cable to it anyways) when there is gigabit available? it's not like my desktop moves all that much, and by the time i unplug all the other cords, how much work is an Ethernet cord?

  2. Re:No Surprise There on Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program · · Score: 1

    Unrepairability by end users

    Not that I'm defending apple, but they are repairable (by apple and for some definitions) and the Al chassis is recyclable.

    That said as much as i would like the high res screen on the new 15" macbook, the soldered on ram and the petalobe screws are an instant deal killer.

  3. Re:really? on Is Python a Legitimate Data Analysis Tool? · · Score: 2
  4. Re:really? on Is Python a Legitimate Data Analysis Tool? · · Score: 1

    you should see small business engineering... if it is, it is in excel or autocad. These are then printed to PDF for publication.

  5. Re:Privacy issue in Europe on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 1

    They also can then balance the operation of everyone's AC so that the "roll" around a neighborhood so that everyone gets cold air, but they minimize getting huge spikes if everyone's AC happens to end up in sync (think housing development similar construction, similar equipment, and most people work similar hours so it could be concevable that the AC units turn on and off at about the same times.

  6. Re:Privacy issue in Europe on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 1

    such as? when you use that power and t hen correlate that with other sources of info? Are they complaining that the postal service also could know when you are on vacation because you had your mail stopped? or that the credit card company sees that you bought a 2 person cruise and at the same time as your trip your wife used her card 3000 miles away? or...

    All info can have other trends pulled out of it. In fact I'm willing to bet that the oil service place could have tell when I lost my job and when I got my new one based on the time between oil changes...

  7. Re:Oh, this won't end well... on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    make sure you play with the right click customization if you are using autocad. Very quickly you will start wondering if you could get by with a frogpad and a mouse. It's just a shame that autocad refuses to use more than 3 buttons and a wheel on a mouse...

  8. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    or say ffmpeg instead of handbrake?

    I'd use handbrake as soon as they unbundle all of the bundled libs and the downloads during install so it is the main portage tree.

  9. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    so "click on start and type "cmd" into the bar at the bottom, now type "ipconfig and press enter. scroll up and look for the first line that says "ip address" and tell me what that says" isn't the same thing you proposed?

  10. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    what i would type, keys are in {}.

    ht{tab}s{tab}w{tab}go{tab}command+line+interfaces{enter}

    or

    go{tab} "command line interfaces"{enter}

    and i would get the same thing you got.

    Say you want to add the same piece of info(name of the drummer in a band) to the file name all music files that are in /music/artist/*, imagine they are your favorite artist and so you have about 200 songs to change. How long does it take to do by a gui?
    in CLI that would be (assuming recentish bash)

    for file in $(ls -R *); do mv ${file} "{file%.*} drummer.${file##*.}; done

    and wait about 3 seconds for it to finish.

  11. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    I would agree. Engineering seems to be especially bad at doing this. Granted things like python and postgresql are just hard to deploy widely with minimal infrastructure.

  12. Re:How about... on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Lots of devices have cyanogenmod or AOPK ports for them. That seems like a way for users to upgrade themselves. Granted i'm still waiting for cm9 for my HTC Glacier.

    As for opensourcing things, the hard part is drivers for cameras. Those are closed source not by the carriers or device manufacturer, but by the vendor of the camera. Things like sense or motoblur shouldn't really make much difference. If they get ported or not.

  13. Re:Hard drive prices down? on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    why doesn't windows just write it's hibernation info to the page file? That would save a lot of disk space especially as ram amounts go up. I know linux does and it works very well.

  14. Re:I never understood server room cooling on IBM Deploys Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Too moist? Servers will happily work with 95% humidity as long as it doesn't condense (which is easy as the server will heat the air and thus lower the RH), when it is cool out there is no reason to evaporate water to cool the air.

    (Yes I plot it on a psych chart if you would like).

    Lots of data centers are going to air side when the outside air will allow, and using other cooling methods when the air is too moist. This gives you more site flexability will still taking advantage of the "free cooling" with outside air. The real downside of using outside air is the need for filters (and therefore pressure drop, and energy use).

  15. Re:I never understood server room cooling on IBM Deploys Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you can get enough "pressure" to pull the air though a direct evap cooler (DEC, Swamp cooler) before making it to the servers. There are many many places in this world were the humidity is low enough to make this work every day all day if you can accept 95-100F air into the servers, even when it is 120F outside.

    The bigger issue is not how to cool the air, but all the shit in the outside air. getting the air though filters and then the DEC with enough flow to make it work at 100F usually means a fan.

    Go see what you can find on microsoft's or dell's "data center in a box".

  16. Re:Ugh, this makes me mad. on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1

    And what happens when that ABI needs to be changed/updated to handle some new something?

    Right, the only real way to make this work is what nvidia is doing, or going full opensource. Full opensource is probably not an option as they have likely licensed something from someone else.

  17. Re:"changing the underlying Internet infrastructur on Netflix and Google Make Land Grab On Edge of Internet · · Score: 1

    instead of having Akamai, or level3 record it for them? I'm confused what are on about? Seems like a non story to me. Big high bandwidth company moves some of it's bandwidth to the edges.

    I'd bet that each netflix end doesn't have the full catalog, but just the most popular 500 things or something like that. They may even be doing something like that 1-2 second "start loading the movie but call it instant" on the most popular 10-15 is because they can get 5-10 requests for it in the same second and start all of those clients at the same time to save disk bandwidth.

  18. Re:Ha! on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Bias much? on Despite Game-Related Glitches, AMD Discontinues Monthly Driver Updates · · Score: 1

    so when will linux drivers be needed? It sure won't be to fix windows game under wine.... anyways that is my concern about this statement. I'm still not running xorg-server-1.12 on my one AMD machine because FGLRX doesn't support it yet..

  20. Re:Distrust on Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia · · Score: 1

    Admob is easy to avoid on android, get root install adblock. I do wish though that I could get dnsmasq running locally, and then use that as my default DNS service, and filter all of the add hosts there... Some apps check to see if their add provider is in hosts even though i could be using that to fix things on some networks that are dns blocking it...

  21. Re:Awesome! on Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia · · Score: 1

    since google bought Motorola or only before? seeing as it was only a few weeks ago the deal was approved, I'm not sure how we can blame google yet...

    Also google can't just drop those cases or they would get smacked by the court for it.

  22. Re:Hey on Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia · · Score: 1

    Android has browser, chrome, firefox, opera, dolphin, and a few more as well i think. I'm not sure about iOS and i don't even know anyone with a windows phone or a modern blackberry to ask.

  23. Re:Ok, Sherlock, your mystery is not a, uh, myster on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1, Redundant

    wtf is the difference between an arm tablet and an x86 tablet (other than CPU arch)? will I notice much on gentoo or fedora?

    Anyways, yes the issue is that to have the win8 client sticker you must ship with MS's key (and optionally more) and Secureboot must be enabled by default.

    Sure you can allow users to turn off secure boot, but because UEFI doesn't specify the UI to do this, how does the linux community document the steps so that ma and pa normalperson can do that? "go into UEFI by pressing the correct button for your system, once there navigate the screens and turn of secure boot. Next boot and install linux.

  24. Re:Quick Summary on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    wake me up when the app is flexable enough to take into account house rules, large numbers of circumstance bonuses, and custom races (with or without bloodlines). I keep trying out spreadsheets and programs for it, and always run into something the program/sheet/app can't handle.

    For example, could you tell me where the druid lvl 0 "create water" spell specifies the type of water or where it is created? My wife sucssufully argured that it was holy water and should appear where she wanted it to (above the vamipre we were fighting at the time). It had some interesting effects as there was basically no saving throw for it.

  25. Re:Uh....May Fools Day? on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    3.0 psionics... that is all i have to say...