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  1. Re:SystemD on KDE Plasma 5 Problem Traced To Bug In Intel Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    The /etc/X11/ dir is optional on any recent Xorg versions, this is not related to systemd or the init system in any way. If/when you need to start making customizations to the default Xorg setup, you *can* do it in /etc/X11/ .

  2. Re:Licensed under the GPLv3 or later on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1
  3. Re:A travesty on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    these too: http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564896/ beersmith-2.0.60.ebuild (non-free, 21-day trial) http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564897/ qbrew-0.4.1.ebuild

  4. Re:A travesty on Brewing Beer With Free Software · · Score: 1

    http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/564895/ brewtarget-1.2.4-r1.ebuild

  5. Re:Do as you like on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    I don't think he made any such assumption: "Some of our potential paying customers are using it without paying, and some non-potential customers are using it without paying."

  6. Re:Magnets? on Razer Hydra Brings Motion Control To PC Gamers · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFA: "Razer says the magnetic field put out by the Hydra base station is 20 times weaker than the Earth's magnetic field, so it shouldn't affect objects such as credit cards, HDDs or speakers in the surrounding area."

  7. Re:Children are likely to get confused on New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks · · Score: 1

    Isn't this already happening with movies & tv?

  8. Re:2.5 inches? Are you sure? on Western Digital Announces 1TB Mobile HD · · Score: 1

    2.5" refers to the platter size, the actual size of that form factor is 2.75" wide. And that passport is an external drive, which means even more outside casing, so 3.1" is reasonable.

  9. Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally, the bigger browsers are ACID2 compatible now. But suddenly those fuckers release a new ACID test. Now everybody's standard incompatible again. Let's see who succesfully implements ACID3 first. these aren't new standards, just a new test that sheds some light on how standards-incompatible our beloved browsers still are
  10. Re:many units clock max speed on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    this is still just the highest "average" speed recorded. it records a series of points, and each "speed" reading is just the average speed between any 2 points. but, as someone else stated, you'd have to have an incredible car for your true "max" to be that much higher than the 1-second (or whatever-second) average at that time.

  11. Re:Attention Grabbing on Virtualization Decreases Security · · Score: 1

    This guy is just grabbing for attention. wait, did theo submit the story to /.?
  12. Re:No prior art and innovative? on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    people have been using apache's mod_rewrite to do this for quite a while, haven't they?

  13. Re:What? on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    amarok is great, unless you consider "media" to include anything but audio

  14. Re:Not a news story - no details - what is this? on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 1

    Are we looking at the same page? I honestly thought the screenshots looked pretty good. The courier-like font used in the toolbars is a little unusual, but certainly not awful.

  15. Re:only a big deal for ITMS on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rockbox, last I checked, had a fraction the battery life of the ipod os, and was also not very responsive of an interface. Are you saying its better now? i don't have an ipod, but i do follow rockbox development. from the changelog, august 6:

    Reduced battery consumption on PP5002 targets (iPod 1st/2nd gen and 3rd gen). Now rockbox battery runtime is better than OF, verified on 2nd gen :-) OF = original firmware, of course. so apparently, yes it is better now! maybe time to give it another try =)
  16. Re:A sign of better times? on Lenovo to Sell, Support Linux on ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    according to this guy, the windows tax is greater than zero. dell thinks so too.

  17. Re:JPEG2000 on Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yeah but how big is that 500MB jpeg2k when uncompressed? probably bigger than 2GB.