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byFedeTXF
2014 @05:52PM
(#45911851)
Attached to: Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases?
New Python versions come with incompatible changes. Very rarely you can grab code written for one version and run it completely unmodified on a newer version. This sucks and is made worse by third party APIs that also have to be modified.
It is hard to release new language versions and also keeping backward compatibility. Some languages do it better than others.
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byFedeTXF
2011 @10:35AM
(#38423726)
Attached to: Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE
All linux desktops in my office are Ubuntu + Unity except one OpenSuse + KDE. This is like a 10 to 1 proportion. And everybody here installs whatever they want. It used to be all Windows XP 5 years ago. Now there is one Mac, about 10 Ubuntus, one Opensuse and 30 Windows.
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byFedeTXF
@09:26AM
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Attached to: Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5
If flash or other plugin hangs, Firefox does not hang since 3.6. Chrome is uses much more memory just because evey tab is a process, so reducing memory footprint and making every tab a process are in conflict.
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byFedeTXF
1 @01:02PM
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Attached to: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban
"My gf, who doesn't have a clue how to unlock and root phones, is using CM7 nightlies on her HTC just fine."
Amazing.
I think U.S. carriers are either too pressed by competition or too greedy. In Argentina (only 3 nationwide) you can get 500 voice minutes, 250 SMS, 250 MMS plus unlimited data (2GB full speed, after that 128kbps) for about USD 50. That includes tethering if you happen to chose an Android 2.2 phone with your plan. You can also have 500 MB (plus 200 minutes and 200 SMS) for USD 30 and also do tethering if your phone supports it.
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byFedeTXF
@08:09PM
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Attached to: NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7
That's right. If you use Linux you are more secure by default. For example one of the tips is to limit the use of administrator account and to configure auto-update. Both things are by design unless you brake them on purpose.
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nuary 07, 2011 @11:26AM
from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.
An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."
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Thursday January 06, 2011 @12:31PM
An anonymous reader writes: A man awaiting trial in Pennsylvania was arrested by Federal agents on Jan. 4, and accused of exploiting a software "glitch" within slot machines in order to win payouts. The exploit may have allowed the man to obtain more than a million dollars from casinos in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and officials say they are investigating to see if he used the method elsewhere. The accused stated that "I'm being arrested federally for winning on a slot machine. Let everybody see the surveillance tapes. I pressed buttons on the machine on the casino. That's all I did.".
Apparently, slot machine software errors are fairly common, as witnessed in these stories:
http://www.luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/two_men_denied_slot_machine_winnings.php
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14795166
http://www.onlinecasinosphere.com/news/reports/world-casinos/canadian-casino-refuses-to-pay-jackpot-5443.php
The lesson here seems to be that casinos can deny you a slot machine win any time they wish by claiming software errors, and if you find an error that you can exploit, you may find yourself on Federal charges for doing so.
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byFedeTXF
2010 @08:42AM
(#34721110)
Attached to: Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes
I always use a local dns recursor server so I point my dns settings to 127.0.0.1. I can only see advantages privacy and performance-wise. The kind of problem described in this article seems to be another advantage to my apporach over using an external DNS server, but at the same time I rarely see anybody recommending it. What are the disavantages of using things like pdns-recursor?
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byFedeTXF
2010 @05:27PM
(#34610424)
Attached to: Open Source Genealogy Software
http://gramps-project.org/
Gramps is the only I know. It is quite good.
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Sunday December 19, 2010 @04:08PM
An anonymous reader writes: I'm looking to build a family tree for a holiday gift. Do the slashdotters of the world have any recommendations on open source genealogy software?
I did try a 14-day free trial of Ancestry.com. What a scam! I submitted the personal information for my parents, grandparents, and me. Then, I received a pop-up telling me that if I would like to get information on my family, I would have to upgrade my subscription for $29.95 U.S. So, I took the chance. Turns out that the only information they had was my previous addresses for the past 20 years. Thanks, Ancestry.com! I think I know where I have lived.
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day December 18, 2010 @08:12AM
Hold on to your hats, people, there's a wind of awesomeness coming through. The Nexus S is no longer the only Gingerbread game in town, courtesy of supercurio over on the xda-developers forum, who has ported the hot new phone's Android 2.3 install over to its Samsung forefather, the Galaxy S. The port is described as being unmodified from the Nexus S original, although quite a few basic functions like voice, WiFi, and GPS (insert joke about Galaxy S GPS woes) aren't yet operational. All the same, we agree with supercurio that it's looking "super smooth" and look forward to seeing him and the rest of the xda crew polish this stock Android baby off in short order.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S receives Gingerbread port right from the Nexus S source (video)
Samsung Galaxy S receives Gingerbread port right from the Nexus S source (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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byFedeTXF
2010 @01:42PM
(#34590484)
Attached to: Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation
"LO TRADUCE EL TEXTO" is not a Spanish phrase, unless you want to say "Text translates it". The Spanish phrase would have been "TRADUCE TEXTO" but I think the result with that tool was so bad they changed the Spanish text until the bad translation rendered a good English phrase.
The same happens with other examples from that video such as "ROPAS OPCIONAL EN ESTA PLAYA". The only way you are going to read that sign is if you ask an English speaker to write it.
What they did was write the English phrases, translate them to Spanish and then translate them back for the video.
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byFedeTXF
2010 @03:05PM
(#34055460)
Attached to: For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011
I encourage everyone using beta 6 to use the nightly version (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) as their main FF experience. The JS is 10 times faster on most public benchmarks and the boomarks and profile data are not affected even when switching back and forth between 4.0 and 3.6.
I have both installed: 3.6 that comes with my Linux distro and 4.0 unzipped in my home folder and being updated every morning automatically.
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byFedeTXF
2010 @02:58PM
(#34055336)
Attached to: For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011
Firefox uses the "beta" name to encourage early adopters to use it so they can help find bugs by sending crash reports and usage statistics.
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une 01, 2010 @08:40AM
from the they-forgot-the-ponies dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."
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