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  1. My preference and a follow-on question on Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As an answer, I've used Virtual Dimensions and Dexpot a lot. Last I used one, I preferred Dexpot.

    Now, a slight variant of the question. Are there any truly multi-monitor aware virtual desktops. I mainly am looking for the ability to run the two screens as independent virtual desktops and change them independently.

  2. Re:Barring? on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    I knew I was gonna get that reference wrong. Oh well. ;-)

  3. Re:Barring? on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most major breweries in the U.S. (even Guinness - *SOB*) are owned and operated from overseas. Brew your own!

    This may be one of the most (unintentionally?) funny things I've ever read on /. No kidding? A famous UK brand isn't US-owned? Wow?

  4. Re:I second that. on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure my gTablet would handle a USB floppy drive just fine. However, I've never touched one.

  5. Re:I use my iPad on the train on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Um, you should perhaps not attend classes with so many meth-heads?

  6. Re:LaTeX? on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 1

    He's right. Vi is a sucky word-processor. It's a phenomenal text editor and I fully expect it to last forever in that role.

  7. Re:woohoo on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 1, Troll

    When they give up on greater security out-of-the-box?

  8. Re:Oracle and Java on Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire · · Score: 1

    I may be a simpleton, but your data seems to corroborate the GP's claim that Java demand is declining. It shows that GP is overstating the decline, but supports the base contention.

    Disclaimer: I've been primarily a "Java Guy" for over a decade. Interestingly, the first place I used/learned Java was on a cross-platform project that ran on several UNIX variants, Linux, and Windows. The only cross-platform pain we had was a poorly thought-out installation process that needed to do *way* too much work during installation.

  9. Re:so wait on FDA Approves Self-Sanitizing Keyboard · · Score: 1

    If cleanliness is the goal, surely a traditional keyboard is completely the wrong design. Touchscreen would be ideal and easy to clean with an inexpensive wipe. Who requires a high level of cleanliness but uses a keyboard enough that a traditional keyboard is required? Do neurosurgeons have their personal assistants 'take letters' during surgery?

    Not familiar with computerized medical records, are we?

  10. Re:Kid's first OS on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 2

    Kids these days! It was *AMAZING* when I upgraded to a PC w/ DOS. Third system, if I recall correctly.

  11. Re:Regenerate? on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    It's also already been deused.

  12. Re:Go retro.. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    Well, that raises some interesting copyright questions. A quick perusal of Wikipedia did not make it clear how the copyright stands. Pretty strong argument that it went PD in 1980, regardless of wider distribution.

        By modern standards, it was copyright as soon as it was "penned". The standard of the day required an explicit claim of copyright or it was PD by default. Three paths, all lead to PD no later than 1980. The university that published it in 2010 could only claim copyright to their derivative work, I'd think.

        Hmm. Now I'm very curious.

  13. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    That's 2, maybe 3 novels without counting waiting-in-airports time. Each way.

  14. Re:my wife's novels on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    But then, I just noticed your username. Maybe no links was more fitting.

  15. Re:my wife's novels on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    No links? What kind of pseudo-self-promotion is this?

  16. Re:Geeky must-reads on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    Others have made the point that the first three are best. I'd go farther, the later ones, that are basically different perspectives on the first group, are probably very uninteresting out of that context.

  17. Re:Go retro.. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    The man died in 1910. How could his autobiography not be public domain?

  18. Re:So let me get this straight... on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 1

    You got me all excited thinking Crickett had a kid's shotgun. Tease.

    My daughter loves her Pink Crickett. Although, US law does require that, technically, I own it until she's 21.

  19. Re:Really Has Nothing to Do with Development on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    Um, circular logic there. What you're saying is that people who use a service designed to help optimize the revenue stream tend to be developers looking to optimize the revenue stream.

  20. Re:Requires things he said he couldn't do on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    Um, sticky bit?

  21. Re:Buy new hard drives on Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Um, ghosting these drives then reporting them destroyed might just be punishable as treason.

  22. Re:IP-based location services? on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that cable-companies and/or local stations showing regional ads during national broadcasts might qualify as prior-art.

  23. Re:Mod parent funny on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 2

    That abomination has nothing to do with the real Norton Ghost. Any Norton product that runs in Windows sucks. It's a simple rule to follow.

  24. Re:Bad /. editors. No cookie for you! on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 1

    Don't /. editors check stories for troll submissions these days?

    Apparently not, given the amount of articles I stories I have reading recently where the first few comments for each article all point out lacking information/source/validity or that it is just plain fud (4 so far today!).

    I personally suspect /. editing has been handed over to a redesigned spam filter.

    Wow! the incomprehensibility of that first sentence hurts. It really does.

  25. Re:Let me guess, a bunch of stuff from 40+ years a on Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books · · Score: 1

    Try googling "The Fifth Imperium".