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  1. Re:I quit using PCs on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    They'll say "they look the same to me" because they both don't have a white case with an apple logo on.

  2. Re:Help me statistician your my only hope ... on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1

    It only looks at the last 4. Any run longer than 4 with you both choosing the same should just continue like that until YOU choose something different.

  3. Re:Double clicking titlebar... on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    Yep. Though it's hard to go back to using Windows 3.0 now, the lack of a top-right button for close drives me barmy.

  4. Re:Beats Ubuntu - sorry Linux fanatics on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I remember upgrading to 8.10 (I think) on my x64 box and having it fail to boot unless I modified the boot commandline.

    I recently upgraded my router from ubuntu server 8.10 to 10.04, and am sticking with it as an LTS (I should have put 8.04 on it originally, but I didn't).

    On some hardware the upgrade is painless. On others, it won't boot after...

  5. Re:Nostalgia ain't what it used to be on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even have the 8087 FPU coprocessor.

    I was interested in trying to get an 8-bit ISA ethernet card for it, until I saw the price of them on ebay. I guess businesses still need them for "mission critical" systems!

  6. Re:Nostalgia ain't what it used to be on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 2

    I have a working 8MHz 8086 with 640kB of ram next to me, does that make you feel better?

  7. Re:Not ZMODEM, SMODEM on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    I doubt it was available for the first Linux images though.

    Note: I made an account to say this.

    Wait, when did slashdot go over 2 million registered users?

  8. Re:Wow, you mean a scifi writer... on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 1

    Actually the Kiint could listen in, IIRC. It's only mentioned somewhere in the first book I think.

  9. Re:That is the greatest advantage of Microsoft on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Then press ctrl+esc.

  10. Re:I like the C-50 on AMD's Fusion APU Pitted Against 21 Desktop CPUs · · Score: 1

    I'm quite jealous.

  11. Re:No ads benefits folks you may not like on Playing Around With Tracking Protection In IE9 · · Score: 1

    No ads = less diverse content.

    When I think of "sites with ads" I think of: sites like cracked.com, link aggregators, and facebook - sites with no content of value

    Slashdot has ads. If you pay, or have high karma, they go away, but they are there.

  12. Re:First? on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    That page doesn't account for the stress on objects caused by the changes in gravitational force. There are some very drastic changes in speed in some of those.

  13. Re:just like windows 3 on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 1

    Oh, and it is integrated graphics.

  14. Re:just like windows 3 on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the V30 includes 286 instructions so would run the colour drivers...

  15. Re:just like windows 3 on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 1

    Hadn't heard of it, so I just did: http://superuser.com/questions/248957/ega-graphics-on-windows-3-0-on-8086

    Wouldn't let me tag it as Windows-3.0 though, new users can't make tags and there wasn't one already.

  16. Re:just like windows 3 on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 1

    I can't get Windows 3.0 to run in colour on my 8086 with EGA graphics. Anyone help?

    I'm serious. Best I can find out is that Windows 3.0's colour drivers require at least a 286, so I'm stuck with monochrome for now.

  17. Re:So true on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    Fun.

  18. Re:Authenticator on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 2

    Because your bank is crap.

    I have one of these: Barclays PINsentry Card Reader

  19. Re:Looking forward to the next thing on Activision Axes Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    If you can make us lazy, talentless bums get a glimpse of what it is to be a superhero (like CoD gives you the impression of being a supersoldier without the unpleasantries of getting your legs blown off by a mine), I'll gladly put down hard cash to buy your game. And maybe, *one* of the sequels, too :)

    City of Heroes ?

  20. Re:Fails to Work on Android on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1

    If it's the same problem PHP had, then it requires an x86 FPU.

  21. Re:PrtSc on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 1

    Gif may be technically lossless, but only if you only want 256-colours. These days "lossless" means on 24-bit colour.

  22. Re:PrtSc on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 0

    This is a stenography-like technique, print-screen will get you the uncompressed image but as soon as you compress it as a jpeg it will show the message again.

    Of course this would be voided by using lossless compression or just using the original image.

    A variation could even work on a resampled resize of the image, in which case it doesn't matter how you save it, it's "use the original or else".

  23. Re:Technological independence on Russia Launches, Loses, Finds Military Satellite · · Score: 1

    No, that hasn't happened yet.

  24. Re:Show us the evidence of evolution! on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 2

    Evolution has been observed in action in the Peppered Moth. Found in both "peppered" (white with black speckles) and completely black, over just a few hundred years it went from most being peppered, to most being completely black, then back to most being peppered, in response to which colouring provided the best camouflage. Note that the individual moths didn't change colour, they still "looked like their parents" as it were, it's just that the massive amount of pollution put out in the industrial revolution made everything black and so all the white moths became easily visible for predators. Later, once we cleaned up, white went back to being the ideal colour and the black moths started to get killed off more than the white, pushing the population back the other way. If it had persisted for too long, the species could have become permanently black, and could even have become unable to (or unwilling to) breed with any white moths elsewhere that hadn't been subject to the same selective pressure.

  25. Re:How on Smile Efficiently With the Emoticon Keyboard · · Score: 1

    They're even still right next to each other!