On some of your stories, the link in the title will wrap to two lines if there's a dash in the url. This results in an ugly, inconsistent look on the front page.
To see an example of the problem, go here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=... One of the first results should be "Ruby 2.3.0 Released", and the green title bar is twice as tall as normal. Another example is here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=...
I think I have a fix for you. In your app.css file, at line 720, simply apply the following to your "a.story-sourcelnk" class: "white-space: nowrap;"
Please make this easy fix and improve your site. It's only an extra 21 bytes (19 if you minify your css).
Thanks for replying. It's reassuring to hear that there are actual humans making decisions with rational thought behind them, even if I don't agree with the decisions.
You need new management. Who can we email on your behalf to explain what a foolish idea it is?
Also, why won't the second video show without flash, but the first one is fine without it?
Here's a link to the actual blog post from Lenovo. At the end the author says, "If you think Lenovo should make the retro inspired ThinkPad, or have suggestions on how to make it better, please post your comments here. We're listening."
I had a prof who would do all his lectures & demos from the command line.
Need to write a short C program to demonstrate forking? Boom! Into vim and coding up a basic example in a minute or two.
Typo in his LaTeX slides? Boom! Switch over to fix it, then recompile the slides, and on with the lecture.
Student asks a question about a command line argument? Boom! Man pages up on the big screen.
It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters and making magic appear on the screen, but at the same time it was inspiring. It was an example of what we could aspire towards.
I made a photo booth which was installed inside of an old phone booth in a local cafe for a new-media art festival this past summer. I used a Raspberry Pi, a usb webcam, a big red button connected via GPIO, a coin slot connected via GPIO, and an ethernet cable running to the router in the back room. People would insert their dime or two nickles and the button would light up. Pressing the button would take a photo. The Pi then uploaded the photos to a website which looped through all of the photos taken during the festival. People could visit the website on their own devices, but there were also a few screens set up around the town in shop windows displaying the photos. The program to do all this was a simple python script with a loop.
You can still see the photos taken here: http://donttakemypicture.org/
The site uses javascript to keep checking for new photos and to change the photo displayed for you every few seconds.
I just finished reading Gwern's guide to the Silk Road the other evening. If you weren't familiar with the goods for sale, or how it worked, this is a great article: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
It sounds like T-Mobile is going to be offering reasonable, attractive cell phone plans. Wow. I'm genuinely surprised that such a large carrier is moving in this direction. Good on them.
I second this. TekSavvy is a dream of an ISP. When I lived in Southern Ontario, I eventually broke free of Bell and found TekSavvy.
When I first got service from them, I called them about difficulties getting my connection set up. I got through to someone right away. There was no waiting on hold, and the fellow I spoke with was a competent tech. He wasn't reading from a script, he was helping me get my connection up.
If they ever expand their service into the maritimes, I'll jump ship from my current ISP overnight.
This is a really wonderful idea. I certainly wouldn't want to register a domain that might not be acceptable to every bureaucrat in every government on the planet. This way, if there's something that a particular government doens't like, they can just remove it for me. Simple! This will be awesome!
Their concern: That someone may have copied it and could post it, WikiLeaks-style, on the Internet.
My understanding of WikiLeaks-style is redacting information which could put individuals in danger before posting it. In this case it seems like almost the entire database would be redacted. So, are they really talking about this being posted WikiLeaks style? I don't think so.
Slashdot Mirror
On some of your stories, the link in the title will wrap to two lines if there's a dash in the url. This results in an ugly, inconsistent look on the front page.
To see an example of the problem, go here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=... One of the first results should be "Ruby 2.3.0 Released", and the green title bar is twice as tall as normal. Another example is here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=...
I think I have a fix for you. In your app.css file, at line 720, simply apply the following to your "a.story-sourcelnk" class: "white-space: nowrap;"
Please make this easy fix and improve your site. It's only an extra 21 bytes (19 if you minify your css).
Thanks for replying. It's reassuring to hear that there are actual humans making decisions with rational thought behind them, even if I don't agree with the decisions.
You need new management. Who can we email on your behalf to explain what a foolish idea it is? Also, why won't the second video show without flash, but the first one is fine without it?
Here's a link to the actual blog post from Lenovo. At the end the author says, "If you think Lenovo should make the retro inspired ThinkPad, or have suggestions on how to make it better, please post your comments here. We're listening."
How do you stay up to date with tech news? Do you read Slashdot on a regular basis, or where else do you get your news from?
Essentially this.
I had a prof who would do all his lectures & demos from the command line.
Need to write a short C program to demonstrate forking? Boom! Into vim and coding up a basic example in a minute or two.
Typo in his LaTeX slides? Boom! Switch over to fix it, then recompile the slides, and on with the lecture.
Student asks a question about a command line argument? Boom! Man pages up on the big screen.
It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters and making magic appear on the screen, but at the same time it was inspiring. It was an example of what we could aspire towards.
I made a photo booth which was installed inside of an old phone booth in a local cafe for a new-media art festival this past summer. I used a Raspberry Pi, a usb webcam, a big red button connected via GPIO, a coin slot connected via GPIO, and an ethernet cable running to the router in the back room. People would insert their dime or two nickles and the button would light up. Pressing the button would take a photo. The Pi then uploaded the photos to a website which looped through all of the photos taken during the festival. People could visit the website on their own devices, but there were also a few screens set up around the town in shop windows displaying the photos. The program to do all this was a simple python script with a loop.
You can still see the photos taken here: http://donttakemypicture.org/
The site uses javascript to keep checking for new photos and to change the photo displayed for you every few seconds.
I just finished reading Gwern's guide to the Silk Road the other evening. If you weren't familiar with the goods for sale, or how it worked, this is a great article: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
Actually, when it comes to Firefox, it's pretty easy to find 2.0, or even 0.8 if you really want. Mozilla has a page of every version of Firefox ever released: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
It sounds like T-Mobile is going to be offering reasonable, attractive cell phone plans. Wow. I'm genuinely surprised that such a large carrier is moving in this direction. Good on them.
Torrent files are now available here: http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php
This really distracted me from the rest of the summary as well.
That's actually a pretty useful page if you're shopping for a lenovo laptop. Thanks for sharing.
This is an interesting point. It would be worth sending a request with gibberish for an UUID, and see if anything gets sent back.
Wish I had some mod points for this one.
Thanks folks!
If anyone's got an extra invite, I've got an email address you can send it to: alexander [dot] keeling [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks
Mod parent up.
I second this.
...Paramount, Fox and Disney declined to join.
They're missing Star Trek & Star Wars from the get-go.
I second this. TekSavvy is a dream of an ISP. When I lived in Southern Ontario, I eventually broke free of Bell and found TekSavvy. When I first got service from them, I called them about difficulties getting my connection set up. I got through to someone right away. There was no waiting on hold, and the fellow I spoke with was a competent tech. He wasn't reading from a script, he was helping me get my connection up. If they ever expand their service into the maritimes, I'll jump ship from my current ISP overnight.
This is a really wonderful idea. I certainly wouldn't want to register a domain that might not be acceptable to every bureaucrat in every government on the planet. This way, if there's something that a particular government doens't like, they can just remove it for me. Simple! This will be awesome!
-269.5 degrees Celsius
This seems to me like a very appropriate time to use Kelvin. For anyone interested, this is 3.65 degrees Kelvin.
I was wondering about this as well. The way it's written makes it very difficult to understand the intention of the author.
Their concern: That someone may have copied it and could post it, WikiLeaks-style, on the Internet.
My understanding of WikiLeaks-style is redacting information which could put individuals in danger before posting it. In this case it seems like almost the entire database would be redacted. So, are they really talking about this being posted WikiLeaks style? I don't think so.