nedrichards
Re:WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do
on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:00AM (#49299612)
ChromeOS firmware has a bunch of this built in - it's super cool. https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/chromebooks-iden... and https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1pyojjd/comme... and https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA... is where I found out about it. A lot of the clever capabilities rely on the firmware that you have. Source - having spent a while a few weeks back getting Codex to poke at this topic on my machine https://github.com/nedrichards/whatcable-linux/blob/main/doc... since framework do reuse parts of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller in their firmware.
Re:Google Now on your iPhone and iPad
on Monday April 29, 2013 @12:39PM (#5627220)
Press the i button in the top right hand corner of the card. Select 'Transportation Mode' from the expander. Select from Driving, Public Transport, Walking, Cycling etc.
Re:Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS
on Friday September 02, 2011 @11:29AM (#2954436)
[n.b. I work for Intel on MeeGo]
MeeGo Netbook uses Clutter. It also supports Qt applications. Other products from our partners have used Clutter and I would expect them to use Clutter in the future.
Re:Gnome Shell updates for 3.2
on Thursday July 14, 2011 @11:56AM (#2763571)
I can guarantee that it works pretty well on the ExoPC.
Re:Rhapsody passes on Apple's "economically untenable" sub plans
on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:40AM (#2225692)
They are now offered in the Android Kindle application as well.
Re:Understanding Today's Skype Outage: Explaining Supernodes
on Thursday December 23, 2010 @08:06AM (#2034289)
So much so that they actually licenced the Joltid technology that they spun out of Kazaa. There was a lawsuit:
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2009/11/joltid_settlement.html
There were in fact several lawsuits related to licencing this stuff.
Re:RIM kicks Kik off Blackberries: Revokes keys, disables push
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @05:01PM (#1935557)
Sole carrier with Skype in the USA.
Re:LibreOffice tells Oracle to fork off
on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @12:12PM (#1736145)
Go-OO is maintained as a series of patches which can be applied independently by distributions to add or remove features; this is intended to replace the OOo project entirely.
Or, to try and use a historical analogy, this is the tipping point from 'a patchy server' to Apache.
Re:Why Japan Is Doomed
on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @03:37PM (#1575594)
Yes. And since I lived in the UK my government impounded Icelandic owned assets up to their value[1] to pay me back my money. Yay for international relations!
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/318519...
Re:The New Kindle DX "Graphite"
on Thursday July 01, 2010 @05:42AM (#1477567)
I believe Amazon use AT&T's roaming relationships rather than having to do deals with operators in each country, so the device is always using roaming data when it's not in the USA, thus the reason they turn off some of the features that use more bandwidth for international users.