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  1. Re:What about Gmail for orgs? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    Thank you, didn't know about it. I use it mostly with my laptop so it is useful.

  2. Re:That's good news on Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look like a toy to me:
    http://tinyurl.com/55dxgf

  3. What about Gmail for orgs? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    I have two gmail accounts: A standard one (@gmail.com) and gmail for orgs (@mydomain.org), the first has "always ssl" in settings, but the former has not. Does anybody knows why and if this is going to change?

  4. Found the project wiki on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1
  5. Re:More like an NES/Famicon clone on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    In Argentina they sell for about 20 dollars. But I bet that 99% of people buy it for gaming (mostly poor people that can't even afford a Sega that is 35 dollars),

  6. Re:How to solve world hunger: on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mod this up!. Thats the "root of all Evil".

  7. Re:It flew under the radar on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I am in Argentina I got it several times. And I know a lot of people who received the envelops. Sometimes they even put some nice stickers in.

  8. Re:the article is bullshit on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    You are right.
    Add a set of micropipettes ($300), eppendorf tubes, and primer is $1 per base, so think about $20-30 per SNP. PCR machines are not licensed for clinical diagnostic, so it will cost more (or just buy a PCR machine with standard research license and use it for diagnostic). Most clonning kits assumes you have some basic research equipment like electropheresis cube, shaker, centrifugue and so on.

  9. Re:A slightly more indirect solution on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    What about downloading the child porn from the thief machine?

  10. ICQ usage in different countries? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    In Argentina ICQ is now something you may remember as you remember Altavista, and other ".com" fossils.
    (most people use MSN, and geeks use gtalk).

  11. Re:Obscure stuff on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 1

    Don't they charge just to use their repository?

    No, they don't. But they used to do it.

  12. Re:Obscure stuff on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Obscure stuff on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 1

    In this screenshot I am using Freespire:
    http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen1jy9.jpg

  14. Re:the geek's short attention span on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 1

    Linspire irritated the FOSS purist because it believed the installed and licensed proprietary media codec and player was essential to delivering a commercially viable product.

    Yes, but it irritated more the UNIX purist because it policy of running as root as default in earlier betas. That was a worst offense than packing proprietary drivers.

  15. Re:Obscure stuff on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 1

    Xandros has a filemanager that looks like the windows file explorer. I don't know if this is patented.

  16. Re:Obscure stuff on Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am former Linspire user, now I use Freespire.
    You can see a picture of me using Linspire here:
    http://www.linspire.com/lraiser_success.php?serial=318
    (rather old picture anyway).
    My main cmoputer iss an HP Pavilion dv 5000 laptop. Ubuntu prior 8.04 didn't recognize the wifi card (unless you do extensive hacking, to have a sub-standart result). With Freespire it works "out of the box" (using NDISwrapper). Everything work very easy, even easier than Ubuntu (my wife machine, a Sony VAIO VGN-CR220E, uses Ubuntu).
    But I tried the 8.04 liveCD in my HP and a wizard downloaded the driver for my wifi, so there is no need to keep on using Freespire, but I didn't found time to make the change, yet.
    CNR is a big selling point of Freespire/Linspire, but it will be available to Ubuntu AFAIK. (see http://www.cnr.com./
    Freespire were releasing several products every month at the beginning, but now they are somehow without to much activity.
    If you value your time, Linspire is not a bad choice.

  17. Re:Peer review! on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Nature has precedings too:

    precedings.nature.com

  18. Excel in Science?: Python - All a Scientist Needs on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. A doorstop to avoid using the access card. on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    I saw in INTA building (the Argentina version of USDA) some door that have a card reader to get it, but the traffic is to intense in the morning that is always left with a stone working as a doorstop.
    Like the password written in the keyboard.

  20. Re:It's really the company's decision on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    Here it is: the end of Internet

  21. Re:It's really the company's decision on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    I think it was Columbo not Maxwell-Smart who said "Oh and one other thing" just before leaving.

  22. Software development on Career Choices for Computational Biologists? · · Score: 1

    I think there still a need on custom software development. Most biologist can't code and mode programmers don't understand molecular biology. A computer biologist could work as a binding of both worlds (each "world" has its own terminology). At least that is what I do :)

  23. Must be on IRS computers on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    I read once about some very old systems still running at IRS computers. It is so old that it would take an astronomical budget to port it.

  24. Want to smash a harddrive like this guy on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With ZFS you can smash a hard drive and keep the system running:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=CN6iDzesEs0

  25. Censorship or bandwidth problem? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to Cuban supporters, there is no restriction to visit websites, the real problem is that the whole country have a very limited bandwidth so most pages doesn't load at all. And this limitation is thanks to the US who put a ban on export of goods and services to Cuba.
    The main problem I see is that they are using mostly unlicensed copy of windows, since Windows licenses can't be acquired in Cuba.