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  1. Optical Music recognition on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    The OMR (Optical Music recognition) feature of music typesetting (like Finale has).
    That is - I would like to be able to scan a music score and import it to LilyPond.

  2. Re:The Desktop on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    Linus, Do still care about the desktop? Does it need better leadership?

  3. goto considered harmful on Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question · · Score: 1

    What is your current view on Dijkstra classic claim:
        "go to statement considered harmful"
    in Communications of the ACM / March 1968

  4. Re:emacs on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Clean directories, change file permissions, etc. can be easily done using the 'dired' function of Emacs.

  5. emacs on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Emacs is a necessity for me.
    For editing local and remote (via tramp) files.
    Run simple shells, compile, grep, diff, clean directories. All within emacs.

  6. We Can Put an End to Word Attachments on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 2

    Richard M. Stallman already said similar things in his
        http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
    2002 article.

  7. Re:GNU Languages: Guile and ELisp on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    Would you consider pushing a more popular glue language for Emacs?
    Have you looked at Pymacs ?

  8. Google native Linux support on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    What's your opinion on Google's lack or annoyingly late native Linux support
    for their client applications - (Picasa, Google-Earth, Google-Drive)
    ?

  9. Emacs is my IDE on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    IDE ? I live in Emacs!
    There I can edit, compile, grep, open-shells, and run gdb that utilizes emacs buffers.

  10. By September 15 !? on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    How does this "by September 15th" time limit translate to the past?

  11. Just say NO to Microsoft-Word on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1
  12. Re:International Editions on Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here · · Score: 1
  13. Re:bidi? on The Future of Emacs · · Score: 1

    The lack of strong Bidi editor (yes, I do use gedit), hurts advancing the use of free Hebrew-supported software. For Emacs addict users (like me), it is difficult to document in Hebrew usage examples, or write simple notes in order to encourage the use of general free software by Hebrew speaking people.

  14. Will FastMail follow? on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    Anyone knows whether FastMail will follow the generous-1Gb move and when?

  15. Go pdfLaTeX, go! on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    But whenever I need to provide a document
    to describe or provide a user-guide,
    rather than asking "how should this be made?",
    I simply write it (using Emacs!) in LaTeX,
    and use a Makefile, with rules to produces:

    PostScript, (latex->dvips->)

    PDF (pdflatex)

    html (latex2html)

  16. Avoiding reboot ? on Five Power Supplies Compared · · Score: 1

    At my home, I suspect that occasionally a decrease in voltage happens for some tiny time segment (a millisecond?). Anyway, some PCs are not effected, but some are turned off and on.

    I wonder whether this has to do with the quality of the power supply unit or - some PC's architecture is more sensitive than other?

  17. Banks using Linux? on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1

    Are there banks serving personal accounts that operate using Linux as the main computing platform?

  18. All I want is Bidirectional Hebrew Emacs support on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1

    For some years, I am monitoring
    http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
    and hope to live to see a release announcement.

  19. typo: s/more then/more than/g on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg? · · Score: 1

    in:

    (... I remember paying more then that ... )

  20. Bidirectional editing? (Hebrew, Arabic) on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    All I want is an editor with a nice
    bidirectionl support.
    Hopefully, one day there will be
    an annoucement in:
    http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-bidi/
    Or someone will pick
    http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/
    and use it to make simple but workable editor.

  21. Re:PDF is the only alternative on Could LaTeX Replace HTML? · · Score: 1

    I agree! What is needed is polishing pdfLaTeX, freeing/opening acroread and helping xpdf get mature.

  22. In Citibank: web-password == card-PIN on Internet Banking Security Hole · · Score: 1

    In Citibank the web-password of one's account is the same as your Citibank card PIN!
    Practically it is just 4 digits - which gives you 10^4 = 10000 passwords. You don't need supercomputers to crack this...

    I have contacted Citibank-customer service several times, asking them to establish separate password for account web-access. They said their state-of-the-art bla-bla encription
    is safe enough. By the way, they refuse to send their messages to a customer Internet's email-address - for (pause,) security reasons.

    I still have an account there. May be I like to test my calmness. My PIN # is ooops...

  23. more additions to C++ on Ask Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++ · · Score: 1

    Hello Bjarne, Do you think there will ever be significant additions to C++? How about well defined sized integeres such as: int32, int64, uint32, uint64 or templatized? Additions to the standard library? hash-tables, hash_map, Big-dynamically growing integers?