Comment news? (Score 4, Informative) 527
TFA is from October 2008.
Comment Re:What is eye-fi and why would I care? (Score 1) 128
Most newish Nokia S60 devices do as well.
Comment Re:Like to see this replicated (Score 1) 639
He's not saying that the medical bills would be increased simply to encourage donation, he's saying that they would already be expensive anyway due to the nature of the procedure...cool your jets.
Halo 3 Causing Network Issues 306
Recently at my university where I'm a student and a sys admin, we have been experiencing some odd outages, in particular since the 25th of September. The outages seemed to occur between 8 PM and 12:00 AM — peak gaming hours for our dorms. It just happens that Halo 3 came out on the 25th of September. Upon further investigation we found that our network routers were shaping TCP packets, but not UDP. Once we applied UDP shaping as well, all network outages ceased. Gamers complained, but university students attempting to access network resources such as our UNIX clusters were satisfied.
Comment Re:Been demoing it myself. compare to BBEDIT (Score 1) 226
I just recently gave TextMate a solid week of work (using the demo - still have 20+ days left) instead of my normal TextWrangler (BBEdit's little brother). I really like the way TextMate does some things, particularly the automatic matching of quotes and brackets and the shortcut to close an open HTML tag. I got used to the larger default font size and some of the preferences for dealing with files when the app starts up. But none of it was really enough for me to justify the ~$52 price tag. I went in and changed some prefs in TextWrangler to make it feel more like the things I liked from TextMate. The only thing I can't get the way I want in TextWrangler is that I have an option for when the app starts to either start with a new, empty file or not, that's fine when I invoke the app on its own but when I open a file and it starts the app, I'd rather it didn't create an unnecessary empty file. TextMate has that option and it doesn't seem to be much of a stretch. If TextWrangler weren't around, I'd definitely buy TextMate without a second thought.
MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week 381
An anonymous reader writes "Hitwise is reporting that MySpace has reached the top, surpassing Yahoo! Mail as the most visited site on the internet for US users. Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two short years, this internet sensation has come quite a long ways. From the article: 'To put MySpace's growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com represented 1.9% of all Internet visits. With the week ending July 8, 2006 market share figure of 4.5% of all the US Internet visits.'"
Comment This is a good read... (Score 1) 252
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