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  1. Re:it doesn't make any sense because on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you really think sudo is ever mentioned in the user-interface ? It maybe what is going on in the back, but in the user-interface it just says: enter your password to perform administrative tasks

    Which works just fine, thank you.

    Also I don't know why you are complaining, because Windows Vista, Mac OS X have something similair.

  2. Re:it doesn't make any sense because on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps the problem is that there is a LOT of hardware out there to test, and Microsoft simply does a better job with hardware compatibility." You are kidding right ? A lot of drivers is still just reverse enginered, but the drivers for Windows are written by the manufacturer of the hardware, I think you could even say 'designed for windows', literally.

  3. Re:Firefox 4.0? on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    My places.sqlite is 40MB, which is 3 months of history (default setting), when I start it up, it's really slow the first time, sometimes minutes. I can see why that would put people off.

  4. Re:Boo hoo hoo. on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    Many bittorrent clients have a settings which says, stop distributing at ratio 2 (which means 1x download, 2x upload), sometimes that even the default.

  5. Re:Funny how low it is. on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    From a sample of the top 1000, what did you expect ? A lot of the general public still doesn't even know what Linux is (I presume Linux ISO are pretty popular legal bittorrents).

  6. Re:As I said in the earlier story on porn... on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    And many Linux-servers use XFS as well

  7. Re:As I said in the earlier story on porn... on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    "our offices did not have naked porn stars running about"

    What a shame, I expected something like this:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070211214215/www.realroot.be/images/fotos/2_1.jpg :-)

  8. Re:Every windows application on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    ohh, yeah, I've seen that one, maybe that's why I mentioned this. :-)

    Very good, keep it up.

    While I don't think it's good that people don't program a proper native application, it's good that alternatives exist.

  9. Re:Say goodbye to... on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 1

    Please lookup edns0, from 1999, this is what solves the 512 limit.

  10. Re:Say goodbye to... on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 1

    Please lookup edns0, from 1999. It is was is used right now.

  11. Re:Great! on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 2, Informative

    But .org does not have a full trust-chain setup from the root yet.

    Only these have a full chain right now:

    bg br cat cz na tm uk

    org and gov, se and others may be signed, but the root does not have 'ds'-records yet for those tld's.

  12. Re:Every windows application on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think Wine needs a usability team. Some kind of gui/tooling to make things easier for newbies to Wine.

  13. Re:China’s Cyber Threat Growing on Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Always remember, fear is the US-politicians number one and most used method.

    Strange enough it's also one of their biggest driving forces, as politicians are also in fear of losing (campaign) money and votes.

  14. Re:EOL? on Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains · · Score: 1

    When you look at the numbers, it's pretty close already. I think the last research suggests, the spammers sends 320 milion messages, he/she gets 28 responses. The email providers already filters out 90% to 98% of all mail (not all of it is spam, some of it is spyware, virus or phishing ofcourse).

  15. Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have seen USB-sticks with a read-only switch, so they do exist.

  16. Re:Extreme on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was thinking, how much energy is needed to create this material ? Because if you need 1000000x the energy to store a little it's probably not as useful.

    The pressure is used in a plant to create the material, the safety very much depends on how they apply that pressure. Also you could put it in the desert somewhere if that would make you feel safe.

  17. Re:Bad Summary on The Curious Case of SSD Performance In OS X · · Score: 1

    I did add noatime to ext4 mount options for my SSD.

  18. Re:Bad Summary on The Curious Case of SSD Performance In OS X · · Score: 1

    Euh, the SSD doesn't know anything about the filesystem layout, thus files.

  19. Re:I want one, but... on Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 · · Score: 1

    If you are dead, it is not your problem, is it ?

  20. Re:Seagate ? Maxtor ? on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what series are these Seagate's ? Derived from the old Maxtor series ?

  21. Re:Ugh. Seriously? on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Maybe it has 4k sectors like the WD EARS-series and they don't want people to use it as a boot-drive and as it's external it won't matter as much if it's slower or something, I don't know !

  22. Re:Rate of Growth Slowing on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Don't know, I'm pretty happy with what I have right now, I'm just happy Moore's law works for SSD.

  23. Seagate ? Maxtor ? on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Seagate ? So this is actually a Maxtor, judging by it's size and market segment ? I've been disappointed by Maxtor a few times to many to not buy this.

  24. Re:Methodology? on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    I've noticed many of those sites use the CACert certificate and Firefox doesn't have it by default, you can install the certificate from /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.org.pem on Debian or Ubuntu by going to edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption -> View Certificates -> Authorities -> import.

  25. Re:Duh on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    What they should have done is, check the name on the certificate and look that one up and see if it points to the same IP.

    Although I prefer if the people would just use 6 IP-addresses for those 50 domains and 5 SSL-sites.