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  1. digiKam is what you want. on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 2

    DigiKam will do everything you want. It works by creating hashes. You set your level of similarity and digiKam will find the files. It can handle multiple locations, and even "albums" on removable media. If you have a lot of images it can be slow, but if you limit any particular search you can greatly improve performance. It is available for Linux and Windows both.

  2. Re:Journalists and Math on Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark · · Score: 1

    No - American Billion is 10^9 or as you put it 1.000.000.000

  3. Re:Give it to me straight on Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006 · · Score: 1

    Some probability of radiation damage to the ISS, including the inhabitants.

  4. Re:Works with cornflakes. Seriously. on Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity · · Score: 1

    That's because the iron they add to the corn flakes as a mineral is in the form of finely powdered elemental iron.

  5. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    In the days of the Apollo program someone doing a "sneak-circuit" analysis of the Saturn V launch system found a series of ground faults that, taken together, could have resulted in a Saturn V launch from a janitor accidentally bumping the "go" button while cleaning. This would have even by-passed the launch-key protection. Modern launch systems are designed knowing this story.

  6. Why not just call it SuSE 12? on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 1

    That would be more consistant.

  7. Re:Broken Link In Summary on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 1

    None of their stories are available from their site - regional block?

  8. Congress is the Reason on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 1

    Congress has passed so many laws and requirements that any federal agency that wants to modernize has to spend years filling out the impact paperwork.

    Add to that an annual, zero-based budget (no long-term funding). Each department has to spend months preparing their budget inputs - all of which gets ignored by Congress who creates their own.

  9. Re:Bugzilla and Wiki on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    I second this recommendation. Just be prepared to get a lot of perl modules if you are on connected directly to the internet (about 106 of them if I remember right!)

  10. Re:dont overthink on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 3, Informative

    DO NOT BUY A US POWER STRIP TO USE IN THE UK!!!!!!

    Seriously. Remember, the UK uses 240 volts and the US power strips and internal breaker are rated at 120 volts. The strip will most likely not survive the experience. An adapter plug only gets you plugged in. It does not change the voltage. There are adapters that can change the voltage, but for limited wattage.

    As for sights - The Imperial War Museum (WWI and WWII weapons and gadgets), the Science Museum (Industrial Arts including lots of steam engines and boat models), The British Museum (lots of historical "stuff" from all over the world), Westminster (no cameras allowed), St Paul's, Windsor Castle, Camden Lock Markets, London Museum (history of London), National Museum of Art, Tate Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Kew Gardens, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace, etc.

    Get a multizone (1 thru 6) London Transport pass (Oyster card) and you can go almost anywhere on the tube or buses.

    Try out some of the great Indian curry houses, China Town restaurants, a Sunday Roast at a pub.

    I spent 4 months working there, sight-seeing on the weekends, and know that there are things that I missed. Take your laptop, get one of the British HSDPA modems if you are running Windows - they don't have drivers for Linux. Take a good digital camera and burn CD's of of your photos each day.

    Good luck.

  11. Re:Sure on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 1

    I agree. I just started using KDE 4 (OpenSuSE 11.2) and absolutely HATE Dolphin. The major reason I have picked KDE over Gnome was the crappy file manager (Natilus) in Gnome, and now I find that KDE has chosen to emulate the same crappy interface. If I am looking for files I don't need to see icons for everything! If I am saving a file I don't want to have previews on for everything, and no choice to go to a list mode - or anything else without giant icons.

  12. Already done by VMware on Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They may have a patent too!!

  13. Re:Is he a goblin? (harry potter reference) on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    Except that the RIAA didn't create the music - the original artist did. The RIAA is made up of the packaging and distributing companies. It's the RIAA that would be in trouble with the Goblins.

  14. Win2k3 R2 on Directory Service Implementation From Scratch? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows 2003 R2 has (virutally) the same IDMU as Win 2008.

    I have implemented such a mixed environment, with one problem. As I pointed more and more liunx boxes at the AD running IDMU, the number of internal connections from the AD server to it's own LDAP port increased until they were all tied up. It got so the AD server could not even read its own global policies.

    I had to implement a Linux NIS slave and point all of my Linux boxes at it instead of the AD server.

  15. Re:If the military sucks, don't joint 'em. on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They also do it to their civilian employees. When I was assigned to the AF Geophysics Lab in the 1980 time frame, one of our civilians got an award as the top scientist in the USAF. But . . . he couldn't get promoted because he wasn't in a politically popular development program. He left and went to JPL where he helped harden the Voyager probes with what he had been working on for the USAF.

  16. Re:No physics background here on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed light has mass. How much depends on the color of the light.

    Shorter wavelengths have more energy and therefore more mass. m = E / c**2

    Light has no REST mass, but since it cannot rest, that is irrelevant.

  17. Re:Smarter not harder on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 1

    I had the same problem with Ubuntu - they shipped a bad video driver for one of the older interfaces and it refused to display anything. Went to SuSE instead

  18. Re:Good Marketing on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    That depends on your iPod. My iPod Touch shows NOTHING under Linux. I can only update it through iTunes. Their Windows USB drivers are crap. The last two time I tried to update the OS on it (2.0.1 & 2.0.2) it bricked and I had to take it to an Apple Store so that they could reload it from a Mac.