Comment Wait! (Score 3, Insightful) 71
What's this? A Phoronix article where I _don't_ have to click through eleven other articles to find the source?
Other than that: Hopefully this will make coreboot's future brighter, by a lot.
Comment Re:Please let me use the same password (Score 1) 497
"Your new password is too similar to one of the previous six."
Yes, I've experienced this being enforced.
Comment Re:Confusing icon practices (Score 1) 256
I still wonder what that icon does. It doesn't even have a tooltip and clicking it seems to do nothing
Comment Re:Programming without music? (Score 5, Insightful) 1019
Working without music is fine, as long as there isn't any noise to avert your concentration. The easiest way to solve this little issue it just go to work with a pair of earmuffs. Your argument for using them should be obvious.
Comment Rules are to be broken, but not on Wikipedia. (Score 5, Insightful) 632
They also have a stupid rule regarding "how important stuff has to be" before it can be added as a new article on Wikipedia. That one alone is the main reason I never again will try to contribute anything to it.
Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 200
I remember Skynet back when it was called Google!
Comment Ran ran ruu! (Score 1) 317
It's slightly sad to see that NVIDIA most likely won't go through the same effort as AMD/ATi did with their internal documentation. The current open source drivers are quite amazing regardless tho'.
Comment Re:Measurement from the NVIDIA site? (Score 5, Informative) 317
This was mentioned in the article. They do find it troublesome to measure their Linux user-base due to this.
Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 127
An anonymous reader writes "Thawte is ending their Web of Trust, including their free Personal Email Certificates, in less than 2 weeks' time. This hasn't been picked up by the media yet. Seems to me a lot of people, including myself, are hurt by this." Thawte is offering a 1-year free VeriSign cert to those holding valid Personal Email Certificates; after that you pay.
Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder 336
Several readers sent in word that Google has served a Cease and Desist order to Cyanogen, one of the most prolific Android modders: his CyanogenMod is enjoyed by 30,000 users. The move is puzzling. Gizmodo wonders what Google's game is, and Lauren Weinstein calls the move "not of the high 'Googley' caliber" that one would expect of the company.
Comment Re:Taking care to avoid Slashdotting... or not? (Score 1) 83
Windows (which apparently has 32-bit only?):
- http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85819
- http://solidfiles.com/d/8fC8
- http://www.mediafire.com/file/zkiqmzcode4/asciiportal-1.0-win32.zip
Mac binaries (compiled by FutureStack on RGRD):
- http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85820
- http://solidfiles.com/d/XGEg
- http://www.mediafire.com/file/yhaywt2zjzi/asciiportal-1.0-osx-univ.zip
Linux-64bit binaries (compiled by Kaw on RGRD):
- http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85821
- http://solidfiles.com/d/9jxO
- http://www.mediafire.com/file/yzdneznfujo/asciiportal-1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
Source is included with the binaries.
The Best First Language For a Young Programmer 634
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions whether Scheme, a dialect of Lisp taught as part of many first-year CS curricula and considered by some to be the 'latin of programming,' is really the best first language for a young programmer. As he sees it, the essentially write-only Scheme requires you to bore down into the source code just to figure out what a Scheme program is trying to do — excellent for teaching programming but 'lousy for a 15-year-old trying to figure out how to make a computer do stuff on his own.' And though the 'hacker ethic' may in fact be harming today's developers, McAllister still suggests we encourage the young to 'develop the innate curiosity and love of programming that lies at the heart of any really brilliant programmer' by simply encouraging them to fool around with whatever produces the most gratifying results. After all, as Jeff Atwood puts it, 'what we do is craftmanship, not engineering,' and inventing effective software solutions takes insight, inspiration, deduction, and often a sprinkling of luck. 'If that means coding in Visual Basic, so be it. Scheme can come later.'"
Comment Re:Leisure Suit Larry (Score 1) 204
People actually answer does? I thought everyone knew that you could bypass them with <Alt>X.
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