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  1. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    Urm, there is more documentation by default, due to the fact every change is tracked in a publicly accessible scm system. You'll find that a changelog is then generated from this. Projects generally require a comment on every change committed to the source repository... How ubuntu, suse, fedora use such easily available information is the problem, not the person adding to the app itself.

  2. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    And a lot of us can make great sites (like this one), with a decent text editor, inkscape and GIMP, and why would you load a .png in fireworks while a .psd in photoshop when both are raster images?

  3. Re:Conspiracy Theories on White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad? · · Score: 1

    Well, there are companies that distribute files to the public via bitorrent (mostly open source ones).

  4. Re:Do arms races ever work? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Oi, I'm 18 and use SMTP, IRC, NNTP, telnet... Granted, I also use IMAP4, XMPP...

  5. Re:Do arms races ever work? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    I'll be running Linux on mine. Wouldn't trust M$ anywhere near my brain chip...

  6. Re:buzzwords are my favorite on Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 1

    As an 18 year old, I still define the web as HTML (also XHTML or similar medium) coming over HTTP mostly on port 80.

  7. Re:Still using rectangular connectors, I see. on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    /me can't count the number of times when he tried to plug a usb device into side of laptop, and find he found the ethernet port next to them...

  8. Re:Is it burst speed? on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    Linux has always locked the cdrom drive while reading (in the last 5 years), and there is a software eject, (right click on it in kde/gnome or see man eject).

  9. Re:Is it burst speed? on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    I've had to rescue several memory sticks now, where the clueless reader corrupted the FAT fs by just yanking the stick out. Also I have no problems with umount speed on my 250GB external, but then I am using a sane filesystem on it (ext3).

  10. Re:So silly bug on iPhone Wants To Hang On To the Old Year · · Score: 1

    That will repeat every new year. Not so limited... (darn, that wrecks using modpoints on this thread)

  11. Re:Your post - Bollocks on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    I don't always switch, I do depending on letter, also mouse is slow, moving all that way and back again... reasons why when using qwerty I use vim.

  12. Re:Your post - Bollocks on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    This assumes a qwerty keyboard (I use dvorak a lot too), and aren't you suppose to shift with the opposite hand?

  13. Re:Wait on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    From the point of view of astronomers, you reallise those big telescopes need to track the rotation of the sky to such accuracy (the scope moves through parts of an arc second) and then astronomical data and records would get interesting... this is where clocks do need to be synced with the heavens.

  14. Re:Academic work on Terabit-Per-Second Class Connections over FTTH · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Having 1Gb (I have access to at uni) is great if only I wasn't using an IDE hardrive and a 100Mb ethernet card... on another note, what will happen to the /. effect if this does happen?

  15. Re:Hardware RNG on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    00:00 01/01/1970 being the UNIX epoch???

  16. Re:Hopefully on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    These do recompile for multiple platforms, hence why they prefer to use opengl.

  17. Re:Any opensource out of this ? on Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was this team that has opensourced the software: http://www.ubcthunderbird.com/ code found here (sf.net). Unfortunately they didn't make it through to the finals...

  18. Re:Hopefully on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was certain opengl features they disabled... I know I'm not the only one that has had problems with it...

  19. Re:Hopefully on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Well it never worked on the Betas and RCs, and I know of one game that they had to transfer all code to DirectX to make it work... but then I'm a Linux user.

  20. Re:Hopefully on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, M$ disabled it as it can't work with Aero.

  21. Re:Hopefully on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    It's called opengl for 3d graphics... wxwidgets for gui... it's not the opensource communities' fault if M$ keeps going around breaking some of them each release (opengl in vista)...

  22. Re:Lame reason. on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    Lynx, links or links2 for me... Oh, I'm using firefox, btw if it works in safari chances are it works in konqueror.

  23. Re:One of those tricks on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    I already know this too... It's windows that causes the security nightmare in the first place...

  24. Re:Why haven't schools switched to all Linux? on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    So you have an Apple xserve and a xserve RAID, now it doesn't come up properly... Someone logs on before it manages to get mounted... now windows guy has just fallen down at having mount points within directory tree, Linux guy just has to find the option in the GUI... Answer Linux wins, this is a trues story, it also took apple engineers a week to fix the same problem.

  25. Re:One of those tricks on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    You know how well renaming the .exe works, it's a filename based whitelist so just rename to msword.exe or whatever... Oh and students running there own programs isn't as much of a problem on a properly set up 'nix system.