Slashdot Mirror


User: roror

roror's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
175
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 175

  1. Macvim on TextMate 2 Released As Open Source · · Score: 1

    Is it better than macvim?

  2. Re:Liquidity on Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? · · Score: 1

    In addition: when you give them a line of credit and they use it and don't payback, there is no way to get it you know. Stuff like that happen: companies and people don't pay back their loan. Then it'd be a bail out by default--since, we are in a civilized society.

  3. Re:Time to open up those drivers NVIDIA on NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 · · Score: 1

    Assuming you being sarcastic, let me point to kx-audio: open source and much better than the drivers sound blaster team could write. Enthusiasm sometimes takes you farther than expertise.

  4. Yahoo! Answers vs Wikipedia on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 1

    stupid: What is the meaning of life, universe and everything?
    Yahoo! Answer: 42
    Wikipedia: First you need to ask the right question.

  5. not same as Gigapxl project on The Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1

    This is different from the Gigapxl () project. Gigapxl project headed by Graham Flint, a semi retired physicist, takes single snapshots that has information equivalent to 4 Gigapxl each. Check their website for tech details and a lot of images of places in america. Shortly, their technology consists of shooting with large format film camera (9"x18" negatives) followed by high resolution scanning. Details of their methods are fascinating.

    And ya, let me not forget, Michael T. Jones, a co-founder and chief technology officer of Keyhole, now Google Earth, is another team member in the project.

  6. what about updates? on Mandriva 2007 Released · · Score: 1

    Do you get the security updates and updates to the softwares with the free version?

  7. Re:BT Client sucks on Opera 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    you can change association of torrents. go to download extensions and there is a check box to show hidden file types. after that it becomes visible.

  8. Re:Whats the difference between a fly and a mosqui on Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly · · Score: 1

    hats off!! you are my brother.

  9. Whats the difference between a fly and a mosquito on Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly · · Score: 1

    A fly can fly but a mosquito can't mosquito.

    Now you tell me the second difference :D

  10. Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org? on Office Delayed, Too · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Those who are happy with Office 2003 will continue being happy with it. It's such a relief to not have to upgrade to yet another version of office--at least for a while.

  11. how powerful a cpu? on Sun Grid Compute Utility · · Score: 1

    Any idea how powerful a cpu I get one hour of for $1?

  12. Re:A browser with native BitTorrent on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 1

    Where is my mod point when i need to mod someone up? my first reaction was why add bloat when uTorrent does it exceptionally well in a 130KB download with all the features that one should have while downloading torrents.

    But, then the other point of view could be that torrents are so commonplace now and so useful to help sites survive slashdot like effect, it's about time we should use them as regular downloads, i.e., we should not have to use another program to download something off the net. It should be as transparent as possible and browsers should natively handle it.

    I believe Opera foresees a future where most of the downloads are done through torrents thereby better utilizing the bandwidth available to everyone and reducing the load on the hosts.

  13. typical /. story on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 1

    This is so freaking misleading. This is a technology preview guys, not even beta. Those who has tried TP1 of opera 9 would know how horribly unstable it was. In another TP there will be more feature but it'll still be unstable.

    Saying Opera 9 is now available is like taking us geeks to cloud number 9 and slamming back on ground.

  14. Re: There is no Open Source Community on There is No Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    do they visit slashdot at all?

  15. one more thing and we'll love you on Behind the Scenes at Hotmail · · Score: 1

    just use some kind of *nix box and we all here at /. will love you. Until then ....

  16. Re:Two heads are better than one! on Dell Selling 30" Flat Panels · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is perfectly understandable. If you are used to a 23" GOOD LCD monitor and just add a relatively inferior smaller monitor to its side, you are not going to use it often. But, that does not mean dual monitor is not useful. In fact I don't think any dual monitor user actively uses both the monitors even if they are of same quality. The beauty of the dual monitor setup is the luxury it affords to open myriads of useless (or useful) things and throw it to a SEPARATE view away from the place where you are getting your real work done, while keeping it very much accessible. It's similar in a way to having multiple virtual workspace in any mordern desktop envioronment (KDE, GNOME etc). But, separating them physically enables you (or rather me) to just separate "work and play" in the workspace.

    So, given your set up -- I do still see a big plus of having 21" monitor next to the prime 23" one, assuming that cost is not a big factor. The border "in the middle" is the thing you dislike, but, I really like that. I have seen my colleague jokingly say me .. don't they sell a small 2" lcd to fill that gap in between. Thats a common complain from any one coming from one monitor setup, but, once you are used to the idea of two monitors, you'll love it.

  17. Fastfeed on Of Internet Users, Only 4% Knowingly Use RSS · · Score: 1

    They should have called it Fastfeed. There is a lot in the name.

  18. with a article of quality like that .. on India's Road To The Future · · Score: 1

    even a cheapo like me would pay to subscribe to NYT-full version.

  19. Re:Avoiding the question(s) on Microsoft Employees Critical Of Their Employer · · Score: 1

    Was anyone else surprised that the date on the article says 26th Sep 2005? Today is 16th Sep 2005.

  20. Re:Geeks are like apes on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    so, we are superior no doubt. But, because we ran a car over it or because it did not break?

  21. Re:Firefox 1.5 installation directions on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Corporates are not supposed to use Beta releases anyways.

    <<rolls eyes>>

  22. Re:Woohoo! on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    You mean Bugs _are_ bugs!

  23. artificial capping on rokr on iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone · · Score: 1

    OK, you did not make the memory expandable, but, 512MB was generous. Why spoil it with artificial capping of songs to only 100?

    Lame apple, lame. You are getting too greedy.

  24. Why does one need to store clear text password? on Cisco Warns of Stolen Web Site Passwords · · Score: 1

    Why can't we just have unix style encrypted password and verify if the entered password encrypts to the same thing?

  25. Re:right..... on Google Maps Creator Takes Browsers To The Limit · · Score: 1

    Certain organization would very much like you not to distinguish between IE and your PC ;)