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  1. BookCat on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    I have been using BookCAT by FMProgramvare for years. Supports loan information and checkin/checkout.
    http://www.fnprg.com/bookcat/
    Even a cool add-on called CatWEB to put your collection online:
    http://www.lotsocds.com/

  2. Top bar is over text on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    The top green bad (Slashdot/Search/Feedback/Submit Story/Options/Account//Log out is on top of the text of the page. This is with Firefox 3.6.13 on Fedora 8 with Flashblock and Adblock Plus. If you load the a page, the green bar is on the top. Then hit space or page down to move down a page of text. The bar is covering the top of the line, so I loose 2 lines of text and need to scroll back up 2 lines every time.

  3. Wikipedia is the source? on UVB-76 Explained · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So it must be true then!

  4. Fedora 9? on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Anyone know how to install on Fedora 9? If you find the install instructions (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html), I try to install the rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm and it says I need a Fedora 10 machine.

    rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    Retrieving http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.hIiu76: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 49c8885a

    error: Failed dependencies:

    system-release >= 10 is needed by rpmfusion-free-release-10-5.noarch

    I am sure I am missing something obvious....

  5. Seriously? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    seriously? (yes, I wanted the achievement)

  6. Can turn off on Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    According to the story at CBS News the person can turn it off on their phone at will. The video shows a test with a family. The reporter says the kid can disable it when ever they want and the parents say don't tell the kids that!
    Some interesting results, one try showed the dad in the middle of the river!

  7. MOD UP! on Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared · · Score: 1

    This was the first thing I thought of when I read the summary......

  8. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Well said. I voted democrat in 2 local elections today. The funny thing was that their platforms overall were more conservative than the republicans they were running against. WTF?

    Plus, it fits with my anti-incumbent strategy since congress has been such a disaster.

    Based on your post, I assume you believe GW is the disaster? This is quite different from congress which has been democratically controlled for the last 2 years....

  9. Fest on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 1

    interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions

    What's a fest?

  10. Spoof caller ID right here on Handling Caller ID Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    From an article in PC world I recently read. it is the last 'trick' on the first page.

    SpoofCard

    How illegal can it be?

  11. Not the answer to everything! on 20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    The researchers propose that, if the industry can't make privacy policies easier to read or skim, then federal intervention may be needed.

    Why does the government need to be involved in everything? Why can't people take a little responsibility? If you don't like the privacy policy on a site (or it is too long to read), then DON'T GO THERE. You don't need the gov for that.

    Not to mention that the web is international. Nothing the EU does forces anything on Brazil, for example.

  12. What a waste on Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test · · Score: 1
    From the article

    The government is providing two $40 coupons per household to help defray the cost.

    This has to be one of the biggest waste of tax dollars I have ever seen. As if people have a right to watch television.

    And it is being handled terribly also. Wasn't the point to help people that couldn't afford converters? Why am I hearing stories about radio DJs using 2 coupons to buy converters because 2 of their 9 TVs aren't on satellite? <sigh>

  13. And you need the union why? on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sixty-hour work weeks with no overtime or comp time, a BlackBerry hitched to your belt 24/7

    So if you don't like this, why didn't you negotiate this when you started? No one forced you to take the job. If you didn't like the requirements, go somewhere else.

    Oh wait, we live an a culture of 'someone take care of me'. Don't take responsibility for you own choices, let someone else fix it for you.

    <sigh>

  14. Re:Colbert isn't republican... on Measuring the "Colbert Bump" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    in this case due to their hypocrisy because several Republicans are homosexual.

    So, do we get to rip on Democrats for being Catholic and pro-abortion?

  15. Mod up! on The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used · · Score: 0

    And my mod points expired this morning :(

  16. Posted yesterday on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Yesterdays' story was updated already with this.

  17. Yahoo to on Spammers Choose GMail · · Score: 1

    It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.

    Yahoo's filter has been pretty bad for a week or two now also.....

  18. Please mod up on NASA Employee Suspended For Blogging At Work · · Score: 1

    Oooo to have mod points.....

  19. mod up on San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    Oh how I wish I had mod points......

  20. Re:The Candidates don't matter on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the exact same thing. Talk about polar opposites of political spectrum. Almost made me wonder if they picked the two most "popular" candidates on /. and picked them for karma whoring.....

  21. Re:Michigan meaningless for Dems on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    There should be no "momentum" in an election. The fact that there is illustrates that a significant number of voters "follow the leader". This is not to say that people are _completely_ sheepish, but rather when faced with a decision, a significant part of that decision is what other people are doing.

    'Course that isn't what happened here. Clinton went from third to first.....
  22. Not more Government interference on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1
    I wish I had mod points....

    Yeah, that's what we need, governments enforcing coding standards.
    Interesting how the generally feel of the /. crowd is less government interference until it is anti-MS. After hearing a million comments about government bloat, bureaucratic in-efficiencies, and such, we want the government to mandate this??
  23. Producers, not WalMart on Target May Discontinue Manhunt 2 Sales · · Score: 1

    since they'll edit the profanity out of an Eminem CD but then sell Pulp Fiction or South Park right next to it.

    I don't believe WalMart does the editing. The record producers create a 'clean' version and an 'explicit' version (look on Amazon, they sell both version). WalMart is choosing to only sell the 'clean' versions.

    However, in the movie world, there is only one version, the 'explicit' version. I recall about a year ago a couple of companies that were doing the editing for parents (buy the movie, send it to them, they send you back a clean version), but I can't find a link to any of them right now. And I recall the movie studios going crazy because people were editing their movies.

    Which I find humorous. Movies are edited for TV all the time. But you can't buy the TV versions of movies. I think there is a large group of people who would buy the edited versions of movies if they could. Just like they buy the edited versions of CDs.

  24. Acrobat on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    as a result Adobe Acrobat and Distiller doesn't work unless you have 7.2 or later - kinda annoying for people that have acrobat 5/6 and have been happy with it for a while .. and no Adobe didn't release a fix allowing them to work in vista.. Adobe's fix is for you to buy the latest version .. Hmm... An application from 2001 (5) or 2003 (6) doesn't work on an operating system that is from 2007? And the company doesn't want to support an application that is 3 versions and 6 years old? Gee, that is a shocker.

    Are you asking for bug fixes in a Linux kernel from 6 years ago? Nope, And Linus wouldn't give release them anyway. But I don't hear anyone yelling at about that.....
  25. Surprising with recent controversy on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A judge in the UK calls it political
    British schools ordered to provide balance when showing the movie.
    But the Nobel Peace price isn't political....