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  1. Re:Running a WABI environment on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? · · Score: 1

    Whoops, my mistake. I found the manual here. It was Caldera's release of Wabi 2.2.

  2. Running a WABI environment on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? · · Score: 2

    Back when Wine was alpha grade software, I had a copy of Red Hat's branded WABI installed on my Slackware system. I launched Wine to run the progman.exe file in the WABI Windows environment and it loaded up the whole Windows 3 desktop.

    It was pretty cool.

  3. Re:Lock and unlock on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes it completely worth it to have an ugly notch in every video I watch on my phone.

  4. Re:Defective by obscurity on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    'True Depth' is a trademark. Like 'Altivec' and 'Power PC.' Make sure you capitalize it or the branding lawyers from Apple will climb up your shorts.

  5. Re:Compulsory Lord Acton quotation on Cringely: Amazon Is Starting To Act Like 'Bad Microsoft' (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    What Clinton did with Lewinsky was textbook 'sexual harassment in the workplace.'

  6. Re:Brilliant on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about going to your vacation on the Hyperloop is that you don't have to fret about where you are going to go. No, you won't be going to an obscure park in Montana, let along Northern Minnesota.

    No, you'll go where the Hyperloop takes you. Either Vegas or Palm Beach.

    Get used to it, prole. You don't have the freedom to drive where you like anymore. That is reserved for the 1% now that we've killed the ICE.

  7. Re:Brilliant on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's about da oil companies."

    So 1980s. Yep. Big Oil. They make it expensive for me to own my Cordoba. I can barely afford it on my UAW wages.

  8. Re:Brilliant on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let the laws of physics get in the way. We have an agenda to push. So what that only a small minority of the population can own an electric car for it to be viable. We've got an ICE infrastructure to demolish so we can cram people into high-density housing along rapid-transit corridors.

    It's not a conspiracy. It's what some of the pushy fuckers simply insist is inevitable.

  9. Re:2 MW power supply? on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They really do pay you well, Musk shill. I mean, for goodness sakes. Those pom-poms are cute.

  10. Re:Brilliant on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That isn't "pace your scaling." It's called "scale to a natural saturation point." And that's about 10% of cars.

    It's slick marketing, though. Because the urban planners really DO want us to buy into something that can only scale up for about 10% of the population to have the privilege of owning cars.

  11. Re:Stealing from the People on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, a robust merging of the State and the big Capitalists kept the trains running on time, didn't it?

  12. Re:Fortunately they don't blow up on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That happened to a handful of one product line of Samsung phone. This is an issue for the entire population of the Iphone X model.

    It's hard to believe no environmental evaluation is done for a product that has to meet the conditions of use that a cellphone endures. They should have at least done evaluations at +30, 0, and -40 degrees C. A fricking $6 dashbord switch in a GM automobile has to meet standards like that before the design is signed off, let alone released for manufacture.

  13. Re:Late Nerd News on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is on apple.slashdot.org, not the main site. Anything on the Apple subdomain has to go through focus groups in Cupertino first. They're pretty busy there at the moment.

  14. Re:Who cares? Designed by Apple in California on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The state won't all be water. When the big quake happens and it sloughs off a chunk of the coast, there will still be substantial land mass. I understand out-state California is pretty nice in places.

  15. Re: So on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the original Farmville by Zynga ever leave 'beta' state? I think they just shut down the beta when they came out with Farmville 2.

  16. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes indeed, how does this fit into Apple's evil plan achieve world domination and enslave humanity?

    You're kidding, right? They can't even do a full environmental evaluation on a major product launch. Take over the world? That's preposterous.

    Environmental chambers are not a big expense, it's established testing protocol to do that sort of evaluation. What else have they skipped testing?

  17. Re:Why cassettes? on A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a bunch of archival reel-to-reel tapes. The Fostex 8-track is probably one of the best machines available to transcribe old reel-to-reel material. No matter which track layout an old tape uses, the Fostex is set up to play back and transcribe it by choosing which of the eight track heads to play back through. I haven't dug into it, but I suspect it's one of the best options out there for a playback machine and old tapes.

  18. Re: No mention of AMD? on MINIX: Intel's Hidden In-chip Operating System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I will just hang on to the Pentium III machines I have in storage. If this problem continues to grow, it will make sense to 'segment' my computer technology. Keep the high-horsepower processers securely firewalled, and put older more secure hardware out 'on the perimeter' to do communications. We could 'sector' our hardware and build the 'clustered' kind of computing system that Andy Tanenbaum pioneered with Amoeba. What an irony, eh?

  19. Re:Why cassettes? on A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that be for those weird Fostex 'portable studio' things, that did multitrack on standard cassettes?

    I have a Fostex 8-track reel-to-reel deck that uses 1/4" audio tape. It's a thrift store acquisition and some hipster needs to buy it from me for the big bux.

  20. Re:Devs should do QA on Apple Watches Were Crashing When Asked About the Weather (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    I once had a Windows system, I think it was Windows 95 or 98, prompt me to update for Daylight Savings time. It wanted to set the clock back an hour. I said 'yes' to the prompt.

    An hour later it prompted me again, to see if I wanted to set the clock back for Daylight Savings time.

  21. I am saddened that my 2500 sets are now, for the moment, unusable in my home. I need to find an affordable VOIP solution to plug my entire house full of extension phones into so I can restore the 2500 sets' use. CenturyLink can rot in hell, of course.

  22. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? on iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't really make iOS 'Slashdot friendly.' Because the line-noise phenomena that iOS 11 creates when somebody running it posts on Slashdot is a useful function for identifying 'leading edge' Apple Gadget users. It helps us suss them out and aids in evaluating what they post.

    And no, Slashdot isn't joining the particular flavor of '21st century' that Apple promotes. Thank goodness.

  23. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? on iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but the manufactured diamonds are often 'too perfect' to be natural diamonds. So a mechanism for documenting a diamond's provenance has been developed. It is claimed that it is to protect victims of oppression in the diamond mining business, but really it's to shore up the idea that 'natural' diamonds are more valuable than cheaply produced 'synthetic' diamonds.

    The synthetic diamonds may be easy and cheap to produce, but their existence messes with the pyramid scheme that the diamond jewelry business has evolved into over the last century.

  24. Re:Ideology is no way to govern on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Indiana, if I buy a Tesla and plug it into the outlet in my garage, it's burning coal. So fuck your 'clean air' blather.

  25. Re:You insensitive clod! on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it couldn't be tech unless it involved Javascript.

    And web pages. And stuff.