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Comment Re:Nautilus still broken (Score 1) 567

by TravisWatkins on Thursday April 29, 2010 @05:24PM (#32037190) Attached to: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx)

If you look in the ~/.gvfs/ directory in a terminal you will find the mounts GNOME created. They would prefer you use GIO to access them but if your program doesn't support that just point it to the mount in there.

Submission + - Club Nintendo goes Live (wiimedia.com) 2

Submitted by

AKAImBatman

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:03PM

AKAImBatman writes: "Nintendo has launched their new Club Nintendo service that allows customers to earn "coins" for purchasing Nintendo products. Coins can then be redeemed for items like exclusive DS games, playing cards, Wii Remote holders, DS cases, and other Nintendo branded items.

Points are earned by registering Wii games (50 points), DS games (30 points), or by purchasing Wii Shop items (10 points) after your Wii Shop account has been linked to your Club Nintendo account. Users may link their account under the "Settings" area of the Wii Shop channel.

Prices range from 300 coins for a Wii Remote holder to 800 coins for the Game & Watch Collection for the Nintendo DS."

Comment Re:The best things in life are free ... (Score 1) 246

by TravisWatkins on Monday March 10, 2008 @11:56PM (#22711928) Attached to: Beatles and iTunes At Last?

Tool

Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen 680

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 02, 2008 @07:40PM from the that's-like-the-fourteenth-commandment-right dept.

theodp writes "For 200 members of the Immanuel Bible Church and their friends, the annual Super Bowl party is over thanks to the NFL, which explained that airing NFL games at churches on large-screen TV sets violates the NFL copyright. Federal copyright law includes an exemption for sports bars, according to NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, but churches are out of luck. Churchgoers who aren't averse to a little drinking-and-driving still have the opportunity to see the game together in public on a screen bigger than 55 inches."

Submission + - MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building

Submitted by

theodp

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @01:31AM

theodp writes: "MIT has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in years, caused leaks to spring, masonry to crack, mold to grow, and drainage to back up. The complex, which houses a Who's Who of Computing including Tim Berners-Lee and Richard Stallman, includes the William H. Gates Building."

Submission + - Automatix Activly Dangerous to Ubuntu

Submitted by exeme on Saturday August 04, 2007 @06:21AM

exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.

Old Islamic Tile Patterns Show Modern Math Insight 538

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 23, 2007 @04:12AM from the high-tech-tetris dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "Reuters reports that medieval Muslims made a mega math marvel. Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. 'Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.' It isn't known if the mosque designers understood the math behind the patterns or not."

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