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  1. Re:I tried this... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    This was a pretty decent kickstarter for an open source project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django?ref=live

  2. Re:I miss version numbers on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 1

    Keylime Pie

  3. Re:Thinly veiled stab at MySQL on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    Having a truly open source (and community developed) fork is one of the main reasons, however we actually have been developing features independent of what oracle does. Pretty much the entire MySQL optimizer team left Oracle and moved to the MariaDB project. They took the time to fix subqueries so they were actually usable and improve many other features. Take a look at the comparison:

    https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/

  4. MariaDB (fork of MySQL) on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://kb.askmonty.org/en/community-contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/

    We (yes, I work for the project) are always looking for new contributors. There are lots of exciting things happening right now.

  5. Re:Frank Herbert's The White Plague on Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons · · Score: 1

    Possibly Dark Angel?

  6. Re:I wonder how it is to be used on Samsung Creates New File System F2Fs For Linux & Android · · Score: 2

    I'm not a filesystem expert, but this is what I believe they are referring too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system

  7. Re:Marking items to 'keep'? on Game Review: Borderlands 2 · · Score: 1

    While there is no "sell all" feature, they have added a nice solution to your problem. You can now "star" or "x" items. There is no added functionality besides the visual indicator but it makes it easy when going through the vendor to quickly sell all your X'd items. I star my important, must keep items and then during downtime (waiting on co-op buddies) go through and X anything I want to sell.

  8. Re:MySQL tombstone: G.I.F. on Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? · · Score: 2

    And it has, see MariaDB. A complete drop in replacement with added features. Full disclosure: I work on the project.

  9. GIS improvements already are in MariaDB on Ask Slashdot: Open Source vs Proprietary GIS Solution? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Disclaimer: I work for Monty Program Ab, the primary developers behind MariaDB.

    MariaDB 5.3.3 (currently in RC status) has improved GIS functionality versus MySQL. While sponsoring new features could improve it even further what we are releasing right now might be enough for you. Please give it a try, and talk to us about how we could make it fit your needs better.

  10. Re:which patents? on Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe · · Score: 1

    Siri's entirely on the phone on the other hand.

    Sorry, you are mistaken: http://macintude.net/2011/10/04/apple-unveils-beta-voice-control-service-siri/

    Speech recognition will work in English (UK, US and Australian), French and German in it’s beta release. A data connection is also required to work.

    (about halfway through the article). That being said, Siri looks more advanced then the default voice recognition built into android, though some similar 3rd party apps exist for android.

  11. Re:Officially they never enabled it anyway on Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading · · Score: 1

    In 3.1 on my xoom they do a good job. On the desktop, when you long hold you can drag to a trash can that says "remove" and that simply removes it from the desktop. On the app list, long holding makes "Uninstall" button appear that you can drag too.

    If I recall correctly, the next android phone version is supposed to bring a lot of improvements from the tablet version.

  12. Re:Credit Card data? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 2

    In fact, not wearing pants in the office will most likely lead to you spending more time at home.

    Of course if you will continue to be paid is a different matter

  13. Still supports PHP 4.3 on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, but the framework still supports PHP version 4.3.2. Support for PHP 4 was ended at the end of 2007. Any framework that doesn't take advantage of the nice new features in PHP 5 bound to be full of kludges and outdated code.

    That is just my reaction based on when I was comparing PHP frameworks, I didn't dig into their code so maybe I am wrong.

  14. The Oatmeal says on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 1

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop

    Pretty much covers it.

  15. Re:VAC is a joke on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Atleast in TF2 if you are on a good server people are easily banned by unique ID.

    My clan has been playing Modern Warfare 2 recently and if you find a cheater the only thing you can do is back out of the match.

  16. Re:Time to move the servers? on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 4, Informative

    If they want to have any corporate entity in the US they have to follow these laws, the actual physical location of the servers doesn't matter (according to the lawyers I worked with).

    It really is quite stupid, it just causes problems and doesn't help anything.

  17. Re:Science Fiction? on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    Why it's intelligent design of course! ;)

  18. Re:let me be the first to say on Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sad the mods don't get a L4D reference.

  19. Re:Original Firefox goals forgotten... on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 1

    Disable automatic upgrades then.

    Tools > Options > Upgrades: Uncheck "Automatically check for upgrades".

    Not so hard, but less fun then whining.

  20. Re:Steam on Valve Claims New Steamworks Update "Makes DRM Obsolete" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And that's just as illegal as pirating them in the first place...

    and I won't feel bad about it at all... Unlike if I had never paid for it in the first place.

  21. Re:Why does anyone care about the 'desktop'? on KDE 4.1 Released, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Of course, it is editable, but how many users are willing to do that? I am a competent user, yet I still can't be bothered.

    Yeah dragging and dropping items is pretty tough...

  22. Re:Broyhill on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

  23. Re:Excerice ball on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    I will chime in and say "me too". I work from home and while I was comfortable in my normal chair at first after a few hours it causes problems in my lower back / hip. At a previous company this problem led to a burning sensation in my leg which is not fun. Anyways, at the advice of my chiro I switch between the chair and the exercise ball and feel much better. Actually having to hold your back and neck up at first will tire you up but you get over it.

  24. Re:So... on Crysis Sequel Announced, Still PC Only · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My ~$1200 PC ran it well on medium and the game looked good. I don't know what everyone was bitching about. Besides looking good I thought it was a damn fun single player game, and spent a couple of weeks playing around online before getting into TF2 heavily.

  25. Re:ThinkPads still use non-reflective screens on Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know I am strange. Let me say that some of the native apps for OS X were extremely nice (Keynote in particular).

    These are the things that bugged me:
    1. Virtual desktops. Spaces is nice but not a complete replacement.
    2. Package management. I tried fink and one other, but it was nothing compared to apt-get.
    3. Window switching. Switching to the application and then to the exact window I wanted seemed clunky to me and even after a month I wasn't used to it.
    4. Lack of configuration. Maybe I missed some secret way to control things but it seemed that Apple decided exactly how you should use your computer and if you didn't like that, well too bad. In this case I didn't want the computer to sleep when I shut the lid but even after googling I could not find a solution that worked. Please correct me if I am wrong.

    If I had stuck to it longer I would have probably gotten used to most things but since I had a chance to trade back to Linux I jumped on it and haven't regretted it. I also probably was missing tips people who have used OS X for years use that make things better.

    I thought it was a very well made OS but it didn't fit me well at the time.