mislam - Slashdot User

Comment Big Island here I come... (Score 0) 29

by mislam on Saturday August 04, 2012 @02:05AM (#40875855) Attached to: SAP Agrees To Pay Oracle $306 Million In Corporate Theft Case

sez uncle Larry...

Comment Almost there... (Score 2) 479

by mislam on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @07:31PM (#40460207) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012?

I have been without cable or satelite for a year now. I have MythTV setup with dual tuner which captures OTA programs. After the shows get recorded an automated process converts the mpeg2 files into mpeg4 for lower file size and easy to stream in home network format. On the front end I have 4 apple TV connected to 4 TVs in different rooms. Each of them is running XBMC on it which streams the recorded programs from MythTV. My network is a mix of WIFI G and ethernet over power line. Works fairly well. Only problem is I can't watch live tv on the Apple TV because uncompressed mpeg2 is too much to stream. And the Apple TV are too underpowered to decode it properly. I get channel lineup information from schedulesdirect on yearly subscription. Anything I missed? My only gripe is not having sports access. This year missed NBA completely. :(

Comment Re:Drug patents (Score 2) 83

by mislam on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:50PM (#37079828) Attached to: Google Takes a Small Step in Lodsys Patent-Troll Case

Nobody is talking about Drug Patent here. This is related to software patent. Especially the ones which the patent hold never implemente nor has any plan to implement. Those patents stifle competition and innovation. Kapeesh?

Comment Why is this a surprise? (Score 1) 148

by mislam on Friday September 05, 2008 @03:51PM (#24892735) Attached to: MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not)

Why is this a surprise to anyone? It was expected from day one of the announcement. Atleast from my perspective.

eBay to Drop Negative Feedback on Buyers 505

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 07, 2008 @10:21AM from the didn't-like-the-kvetching dept.

Trip Ericson writes "ArsTechnica is reporting that eBay plans to drop negative feedback on buyers. It's just one of a number of changes eBay will be making in the near future. 'eBay's data shows that sellers are eight times more likely to retaliate in kind against negative feedback, a figure that has grown dramatically over the years. In an attempt to mollify sellers, eBay will initiate a handful of seller protections to offset the inability to speak ill of a buyer. Negative and neutral feedback will be removed if a buyer bails on a transaction or if the buyer has his or her account suspended. Buyers will have less time to leave feedback, and won't be able to do so until three days after the auction ends. eBay is also pledging to step up monitoring and enforcement of its policies around buyers who behave very badly.'"

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