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  1. Re:Short Nokia stock on Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android · · Score: 2

    Um, I am just a layman here, but I thought QT worked exactly as you describe, or darn near close to your written spec. And QT spits out Meego apps as well.

    http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/nokias-cross-platform-development-strategy-evolves-with-qt-47.ars

    September 22, 2010 6:30 AM

    Nokia has announced the official release of Qt 4.7, a new version of the company's open source development toolkit. The update introduces an impressive new framework called "Qt Quick" that accelerates the development of mobile user interfaces that work across multiple platforms and form factors.

  2. Re:Just trade in the Nokia for an Android on Nokia Shareholders Fight Back · · Score: 1

    Huh?

    Buy low and sell high to make a profit. GOOG is quite pricey, NOK isn't. It is your job as the investor to decide based on fundamentals, including the buy-in price, whether or not the price of the stock is deemed likely to increase. Some folks might view the NOK price as currently undervalued, which makes this a good time to invest.

  3. Re:We don't use sudo? on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  4. Re:impact force? on Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A CompactCard survived a bridge explosion with the photo: http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/blast-destroys-camera-flash-card-survives/

    Another card one survived the collapse of one of the Twin Towers, with photos from the photographer that perished: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm

  5. Re:Good luck with that on Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers · · Score: 2

    Glad everything is working out for you.

    Here's a comment from someone more in-line with the work I do, from an expert supporting my server configuration:

    "Re: your issue - it looks weird and I must admit I'm already tired supporting Ubuntu. 95% of all issues were related to some weird package updates they (Canonical) decided to introduce over last months. At the same time there was just one and simple issue in Debian Lenny, related to broken git package. My general advice is: avoid Ubuntu at all costs! They are simply crazy and I would never use Ubuntu on any server."

    https://github.com/omega8cc/nginx-for-drupal/issues/issue/166#issue/166/comment/652144

  6. Re:Good luck with that on Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between installation using apt-get and actually serving pages with a full configuration that might include stuff like memcache, drupal, mariadb, in a professionally hosted environment, serving multiple domains. Gimme a break. There's a reason Debian calls its stable repo stable.

  7. Re:Good luck with that on Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers · · Score: 2

    Ubuntu itself is a terrible server, why not use Debian instead? Or is it only me that cannot find the Ubuntu 'Stable' Repo for running things like NGINX? Nevermind Ubuntu for servers, just use Debian; and you're probably actually supporting Ubuntu when you do too.

  8. Re:If it's germain, why not? on Facebook Private Info Increasingly Used In Court · · Score: 1

    TFA ends:

    So defense lawyers came up with the following solution: they ask the judges to make the plaintiffs to sign a consent form, which is then added to the subpoena sent to the sites in question, who then have no reason not to comply with the request.

    Why are judges issueing subpeonas merely off a plaintiffs signature? That's what I'd like to know. This seems likely overturned on appeal, except IANAL.

  9. Re:A link would have been nice on Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam · · Score: 1

    Wow, I thought this was a Slashvertisement for OpenXchange and your specs detail that for me. Those specs. seems to match the business model of Zimbra, another Exchange competitor, right down to the community edition being available for free unsupported. Yet I see no mention of Zimbra in TFA. And I think Zimbra has a lot of users too.

  10. UPnP Linux options on Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux · · Score: 1

    ...although why you'd want to run Windows 7 in a VM just to watch Netflix I'll never know.

    You might install the sanctioned PlayOn UPnP Media server to broadcast to your Linux UPnP clients maybe? Heck, if you were technically forced to, Windows networking might be VPNd which allows some degree of port control which is otherwise difficult when using an XBox, PlayStation, Roku, Wii, AppleTV etc. How would you otherwise force an XBox or some such hardware to SSH or VPN using only a router like DD-WRT?

  11. Re:News on the BBC is not free (if you live in UK) on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    No doubt! If the BBC revenues were increased due to monetization of internet publishing, I doubt we'd be having this discussion today. Try another business model folks, it is the internet, deal with it!

  12. Re:Sweet spot on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True! I am not a Gamer. Not by any measure. The Only way you're likely to draw me into your game world, is to hook me on a demo I can play over time. I've bought a few cell phone games for my Nokia this way.

    Like Golf, I remember. I'll play the same hole when I'm bored on a train or something, and if I like it enough I'll buy the 'upgrade'. But I gotta figure it out first, and a lot of games don't interest me enough to adopt their learning curve. So a demo is the best way to try.

  13. Re:Lazy Patent Agents on Facebook Patents the News Feed · · Score: 1

    Or RSS?

  14. www.panix.com on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    Hi Folks, Since I moved my Drupal Aegir (fully-rooted Debian) VPS to www.panix.com, I've been extremely pleased with the uptime, price, and configuration. The control panel is not for linux n00bs, (Dreamhost is waaaay more feature complete). But I'm runnin' a server dammit. I really like Panix in NY.

    FWIW, I pay for support, (from a 3rd party) and they introduced me to Panix. In other words, the technical folks I pay to cover my back, choose Panix.

  15. Re:Things I look for on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    I get free hourly, daily, weekly backups (and self service restores).

    If you've been relying on Dreamhost rsnapshot backups to save your ass, as you describe, let me tell you Dreamhost stopped doing that last year. Guess you haven't (had to) test(ed) your recoverability in awhile, and I think it is time you do.

    Of course you can always install them on your own VPS, but without Dreamhost support. Hell, you can install anything on your Dreamhost PS, but DO NOT EXPECT ANY support in doing so. Same goes for rsnapshot recovery.

    Honestly, as a Dreamhost client since '95 I miss it (not only on PS, but shared hosting too), and have already phased out much of my development there as a result.

  16. Re:Fly-by-wireless-link for the win! on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget incidental risks due to human error, namely the deaths of innocent civilians. Which is another way to lose the war.

    Our track record is NOT perfect. Not by a longshot. In fact, it's a Big Problem.

  17. Re:Sounds like fun... on The Surreal World of Chatroulette · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Andy Grove said, 'is Thomas Edison such an overachiever for inventing the lightbulb? ...Because if if he didn't do it, it was inevitably going to be invented by someone.'

    Personally, I haven't been paying attention, but I thought Skype already made this possible, and clearly I was wrong.

    Wiring up random videocams with each other was bound to happen sooner or later. Duh. This is like basic Darwinian smut technology.

    Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain; in this case it seems to be a pretty cool 17 year old kid who is just as amazed as you or I would be. Good for you kid!

    And the global anonymous internet, once given random-video-chat-technology? Well, what were you expecting?

  18. Frisbees are nice and all but... on Father of the Frisbee Dies At 90 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Aerobies are waaay more fun. To take mine away, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead, ...oh wait.

    http://www.aerobie.com/Products/Sprint.htm

    "The farthest object thrown by man"

  19. firefox scrapbook extension on Document Management For Research With Annotation? · · Score: 1

    Someone else mentioned Zotero, which looks really good and I'm meaning to try it, once I've cleared out over due projects.

    What I have used for quite some time, with great results, is the Firefox extension called Scrapbook. Just select the HTML you want to keep from a web page, and you're nearly done. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427

  20. Re:First Polanski on Google Airs Super Bowl Ad · · Score: 1
    Well, Parisians are not allowed to use www.ashleymadison.com, which only operates within the USA. All non-US IPs see on the web page is:

    LIFE IS SHORT, HAVE AN AFFAIR.(TM)
    We are unable to process your request due to your present location.

  21. Re:OK. I need a Karma whore. on ChromeOS Zero Released · · Score: 1

    Bling? Oh, I have heard about that! This is a search engine on the inter-net, right?

  22. Re:Hat's off to the French. on Tech NGOs Working In Haiti · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the wine. And the cheese. And if you're in the South, maybe in the Nice/ Provence area, the cheese pizzas with the wine! (Or in the Alps they have those cheesy potato & onion pizzas, or...)

  23. Re:no DD WRT on Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The dd-wrt shop does have more powerful CPUs/throughput-hardware than is afforded by common WRT-class home routers. HOW much more powerful, or more throughput I do not know. Maybe someone else can comment, given the hardware available.

    The prices are reasonable; it seems for about $75 you can buy a outdoor-unit that will blanket an area better than a home router.

    http://www.dd-wrt.com/shop/catalog/

  24. Re:Feaking Sweet! on OpenShot Video Editor Reaches Version 1.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Recently I tried Pitivi to make a cheesy Christmas Christmas video. Otherwise all my experience has been with my copy of Adobe premiere Elements 4.0. I looked hard at the advantages of paying for a more recent copy of Adobe Premiere too, but it offered no advantages that I could see. (And it is sloooooooow, at least on my Vista hardware).

    The workflow I developed was to edit using pitivi on Ubuntu, because the speed of Linux on my Quad-core helped make the labor go quickest. Then I exported video in a humungous .avi container, with motion jpegs and MU-law audio, and let Premiere sloooowly render it to FLV adding motion-stabilization and auto-color-levels/balance. Newer versions of Premiere Elements are identical for these aspects as far as I could tell.

    I have read Ubuntu dropped Gimp while opting for Pitivi, and the devs for OpenShot were in a competitive mood, trying to become the Ubuntu video editor-of-choice, (at least the one distributed on the CD). I cannot pull up a reference now, but it looks like this is the result of timely competition; and someone working their ass off, possibly to make an impression prior to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

    I will certainly try OpenShot next. While it seems Pitivi support for gstreamer export would work really well, in practice I only found 1 maybe 2 useful export formats that Premiere would work with. Also Pitivi transitions & titles are still being worked on. These are the things that appear compelling, and are now being offered by OpenShot.

    Adobe Premiere Elements, and TechSmith Camtasia are 2 of the 3 critical Windows apps I still use regularly, and their days are looking numbered. Adobe FrameMaker is the other one.

    FWIW, I find video screenshot documentation useful for some projects & online help. Also, I have found that recording screencasts of software engineers explaining there complex app/logic to me, saves time & frustration for everyone, while allowing for better final documentation to be created from using this captured info (i.e. this is efficient knowledge transfer, and a great way to make docs).

  25. Re:Science Fiction? on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Avatar's production company is Fox, which is owned by an Australian.

    Actually this isn't true. One of the strategic investments Rupert Murdoch made over the years, along with divesting his media structure to tax havens world-wide, was buying his American citizenship. He has kept the Australian accent though. His trophy wife is a real looker too! She's Chinese which also helps smooth business-relations over there.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch#Acquiring_American_Citizenship