ThinkDifferently - Slashdot User

Comment Basica (Score 1) 623

by ThinkDifferently on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @10:17AM (#43850333) Attached to: How Did You Learn How To Program?

Basica on DOS on an 8088 clone PC. Then I had to UNlearn that and learn how to really program in college.

Comment Re:Needed reform. (Score 1) 405

by ThinkDifferently on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:30AM (#43665933) Attached to: The public sector in direst need of reform is ...

I vote congress too. Huge reform needed.

Comment All? (Score 1) 413

by ThinkDifferently on Monday April 29, 2013 @10:42AM (#43581273) Attached to: My most frequent OS migration path?

How about always used all of them, depending on the circumstances?

Comment Uh, none of the above (Score 1) 283

by ThinkDifferently on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:50PM (#42898709) Attached to: I Get Most of My Caffeine Through

I had to give it all up. Migraines.

Comment 3 ways (Score 1) 212

by ThinkDifferently on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:12AM (#42715855) Attached to: How Do You Backup Your Data?

First to a local USB drive (good to take with me on trips).
Second to a NAS in my basement.
Third to a USB drive I left at my in-laws place 3 states away.

Comment It depends... (Score 5, Insightful) 319

by ThinkDifferently on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:21PM (#39226079) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons?

It really depends on what you're teaching. If you want to teach them an enterprise product, then RHEL/CentOS/Fedora. If you want to teach them a desktop product, then Ubuntu. I know this probably wouldn't be for the poster, but for others who felt comfortable with Windows and would just want to learn basic Linux commands, dare I commit heresy here, might I suggest Cygwin?

Comment It'll probably be buried in the EULA (Score 1) 186

by ThinkDifferently on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:07PM (#39225093) Attached to: Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras

EULA...I agree
Privacy Policy...I agree
Countersurveillance Agreement...I ag...wait, wuh?

Comment Possession... (Score 1) 385

by ThinkDifferently on Thursday February 09, 2012 @10:58AM (#38982299) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data?

...as they say, is nine-tenths of the law.

Comment 3D trickery... (Score 1) 125

by ThinkDifferently on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @11:27AM (#38806499) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion?

...gives me a headache, especially the flickering kind.

Comment ...consumer is in control (Score 1) 404

by ThinkDifferently on Monday January 23, 2012 @11:27AM (#38792581) Attached to: Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture

Oh, the horror.

Comment Solar _and_ wind (Score 1) 498

by ThinkDifferently on Monday January 23, 2012 @11:21AM (#38792477) Attached to: Where does your electricity come from?

I make solar on my roof, and when I buy power get from 100% wind.

Comment So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score 5, Funny) 780

by ThinkDifferently on Friday January 13, 2012 @10:21AM (#38686060) Attached to: Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server

Maybe call it Prompts from now on?

Comment Re:And still... (Score -1, Redundant) 511

by ThinkDifferently on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:00AM (#38238238) Attached to: Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser

I haven't used Firefox in a long while, so I wouldn't know. They already lost me. Too slow and too unstable.

Comment Next mod... (Score 2, Funny) 177

by ThinkDifferently on Monday November 28, 2011 @11:09AM (#38191282) Attached to: Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks

Build your own fully body scanner.

Comment Re:NIST says zero-fill is enough for modern drives (Score 1) 209

by ThinkDifferently on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:20PM (#38151804) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions?

Too bad the security officers haven't caught up with this news, because all pretty much just require destruction still.

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