Comment Re:So unprofessional (Score 1) 67
Can't tell if you're joking, but yeah, Squeeze, Potato, Wheezy and Woody are so much better...
Comment Re:Theoretical speeds (Score 1) 205
Another lamp, of course. Duh.
Comment What's the difference from a Lumia? (Score 1) 165
I read the article, and I'm still not clear on how a "Surface Phone" would be different from a Lumia with Windows 10. I'm sure someone here can explain to me, seeing as I'm apparently not familiar enough with the Microsoft eco-system.
Thanks!
Comment Brings back memories (Score 5, Insightful) 127
Oh, remember all those times you used that e-mail button on your keyboard to start your mail program, or the globe button to launch the web browser. I can't even imagine life before I had those. I bet this will be just as successful!
Comment Re:Never seen it (Score 1) 169
Thank you. The article makes it sound as if it was used in versions after Windows 3.1, and specifically not in 3.1. I was lucky enough to not have a Windows PC in the old 3.1 days, so that would explain it.
Comment Re:Never seen it (Score 1) 169
No, I think just missed that one. Good for me, it would seem.
Comment Never seen it (Score 1) 169
I must be unique then in that I have used Windows for 15 years and I've never seen that particular blue screen before. Had to google it after reading the article, and still can't find any other mention of it. In what version of Windows was it used?
Submission + - FSF responds to Microsoft's privacy and encryption announcement (fsf.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft announced yesterday their plans to encrypt customer data to prevent government snooping. Free Software Foundation executive directory John Sullivan asks the logic of trusting nonfree software and adds "Proprietary software like Windows is fundamentally insecure not because of Microsoft's privacy policies but because its code is hidden from the very users whose interests it is supposed to secure."
Comment Working link to article (Score 4, Informative) 187
Comment Re:Standards (Score 2) 144
They won't do that because then consumers will know the difference, and as it turns out, that's bad for business.
Remember http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/18/2025210/usb-11-renumbered-to-usb-2?
Submission + - Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 as 'Puzzling, Confusing' (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has called Windows 8 'puzzling' and 'confusing initially,' but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. In a post to his personal blog on Tuesday — strangely titled in the third person as, 'Paul's take on Windows 8,' Allen said he has been running Windows 8 Release Preview — the public sneak peak Microsoft shipped May 31 — on both a traditional desktop as well as on a Samsung 700T tablet, designed for Windows 7. 'I did encounter some puzzling aspects of Windows 8,' Allen wrote, and said the dual, and dueling user interfaces (UIs), were confusing. 'The bimodal user experience can introduce confusion, especially when two versions of the same application — such as Internet Explorer — can be opened and run simultaneously,' Allen said."
Submission + - Why are we so rude online? (wsj.com)
kodiaktau writes: An article reported by the WSJ discusses why online media users are more rude online than they are in person. The story discusses some of the possible reasons being lowered inhibitions because there is formal social interaction. Other theories include feeling like reporting on a phone or other device is simply communicating with a "toy" which dehumanizes the conversation. Submitter's note: A dehumanized conversation has never happened on Slashdot in the last 15 years.
Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 4, Informative) 356
Yes, for me, the reason I'm not using any other KDE based distro is because I want access to the awesome Ubuntu package repositories, as well as all the PPAs. I love PPAs, and apparently so does a lot of other users and developers.
Comment No dedup in FreeNAS (Score 5, Informative) 306
However, FreeNAS supports ZFS v15, which doesn't have support for deduplication.
Comment Novobirsk? (Score 2) 128
For some reason, the summary says Novobirsk. It should of course be Novosibirsk.
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