"faulty cap's" is just marketspeak for:
"During the design phase we set silly tight volume and price margins. The design engineers cut as close to the MAXIMUM, run at this level and lifetime shortened, level of voltage, ripple current across operating temperature. This means there is a sharp...
if they go AFK and do not gain XP for 5min they are kicked, get a leave and recieve -PSR
The report player feature is about to be launched and AFK'ers is one thing they want to remove
And that is why I have the applet AutoDisconnect installed on my n900. When activity on 2G,3G or Wifi drops below a set level and a set time has passed it disconnects that net connection and also switches the mobile broadband setting to 2G to improve battery life - works wonders
THe chief driver for this was that stupid farmville
firefox 3.6.4 detects if a plugin crashes (not responds for 10 seconds) i then kills the process. farmville seems to take more than 10 seconds to load but people are willing to wait that long to play it.
plenty of such devices exist (usually built around an ftdi USB uart chip - well the serial ones are).
As long as you are not intending todo bitbanging (ie JTAG programming) you will be fine. The usb -> foo dongles are not good for bitbanging without some sort of intermediatary device to ensure...
RETARD!
The reason the "red phone" existed was because it was a dedicated, minimum chance of being influenced connection.
passing control over something that was meant to be a last stop a M.A.D. to a internet Fad is retarded beyond belief
well I just got the src for the version they state has it and it doesn't have a new plugin that needs to be activated and opening a pdf will result in my default pdf viewer opening.
even tried with a new user just incase....
You are aware that Linux (esp ones running apache) have been hit by worms quite a few times. I don't know any linux user that is soo disillusioned that
#1 running linux makes them impervious from user error
#2 code with exploits can get exploited
why is it an excuse? IF a user doesn't set a passwd for admin is that hte OS's fault when someone then just walks into it?
As far as the OS is concerned this is a valid system call so harsh as it is that the upstream source (which would have effected windows as well if ppl compiled it from...
The binaries need to come from somewhere (namely the distro's dev's who compile from source for the users)
The thing about linux is it relies on a degree of trust and many-eyes
The last time something like this occurred someone tried to sneak a trojan into a firefox package for a certain...
http://www.destructoid.com/ooops-activision-s-goldeneye-wii-and-ds-remake-leaked-175549.phtml
OMG if true!!!
this game almost ruined my 1st year at uni
Take the derivative of security improvements and yes MS have done the most.
But well starting out with a turd, then polishing it and finally pasteurising it doesn't change the fact that it is a turd and started like shit!
MS had the furthest to come w.r.t. to security so it is easy to make such...
fyi it was the lack of American legislation that is partly to blame here
BP have been doing rig drilling for years. The british north sea has loads of rigs.
relief wells are mandatory in Canada (but not in the US, yet US are foaming that BP want to implement something that was regulated to...
So what
#1 if you have an open router more fool you
#2 from my living room I can see ~ 20 access points (most WPA2, a couple WEP and one that drifts into my range every now and again that is open)... There is no way to know what router is for what house, except for the muppet that named his...
why not just push Dirac for the html5 codec (which is what this vp8 vs h.264 is about)
It is proven, it works well, it is free (which removes the issue of a licence tech used as the cornerstone of an international standard)
its not about universally replacing h.264 (h.264 is fantastic), it is...
is this one of these FAKERAID chips oO *Shudder*
if you are having problem's concider chainloading GRUB from NTLDR instead of the standard GRUB chainloading NTLDR (I do this on a work machine)
Or use your BIOS bootloader (I do this at home, gentoo on one hdd and win on another, F11 during...
Actually it is. *IF* the program had been written correctly in the 1st place a quick recompile would suffice.
However, it turns out in the case of Adobe-flash they had a shadload of 16bit CPU calls (for some fucked up reason). You cannot have 16bit calls when the CPU is in 64bit mode.
Adobe...
just more proof software patents and the patent system in the us in general is broken.
nokia's hardware patent on its antenna to apple's piss-poor vague software patents are a farse
apple need to be knocked down more than a few rungs. they could have such a larger share the markets they...
That is what they use (With PissPoor commits...)
They do own CUPS tho... but since they bought them the only big update was them changing the artwork... a stagnent project now
apple are not FOSS-friendly
Looking over the replies on the phoronix discussion on these tests two things stand out
#1 Ubuntu is not Linux so it is more of a specific comparison (they did a ubuntu vs sabayon and sabayon wiped the floor with ubuntu)
#2 it is virtually all gfx targeted. (the test suite tests ALOT of...
interesting results. Overall Win7 wins but in quite a few instances Ubuntu wins.
Would be nice to see other distro's (say Arch, the Ubuntu setup is nasty... got some benchtests at work somewhere from using Arch and Ubuntu for some FEA sims that take >24hours each) and other windows (say XP or...
Best way is to fuck it up. I had been using linux for some time and knew my way around, I had installed gentoo and learnt more in that weekend than I had in the 4years before with RH&Mandrake.
BUT I really learnt when I screwed something up and wasn't going to go through re-installing gentoo...