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  1. Re:Glacial pace on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 2

    they could use a common prefix. like "-border-radius" is the new "-moz-border-radius + -webkit-border-radius + -ms-border-radius". Of course, this prefix would guarantee nothing about reference rendering just like any other prefix implementation, but just as the current -webkit properties it would just work for most people.

  2. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 2

    webkit should just stop rendering -webkit properties, except in debug-mode (which is NOT default).

  3. Re:WYSIWYG is already a failure by definition. on How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? · · Score: 1

    mod parent up, for truth.

  4. Re:Also warranties suck now on A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High · · Score: 1

    But you cannot really call it warranty. In the EU there are two different things:
    - Garantie (Warranty) optional
    - Gewährleistung (2 years)

    with Gewährleistung, the first 6 months, the producer must replace or prove you damaged it. The last 18 months, you need to prove it was a defect when you bought it. if you cannot, you do not get a replacement.
    So its in effect only 6 months "warranty".

  5. Re:Also warranties suck now on A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High · · Score: 1

    Who needs harddrive warranty?
    When the drive dies, you get a new drive. Nothing else. So you need to backup anyway. And paying 150% for getting a new drive isn't worth it, because when the drive fails you often can already get a new drive for the +50% you paid before.

  6. What about the legal way? on What To Do After You Fire a Bad Sysadmin Or Developer · · Score: 1

    No one suggested it, yet ... why not?

    Just make him clear, if there are any backdoors and he uses them to do bad to the company, he will be responsible.
    When you come over one of the backdoors, remove it. But as long as you do not, just trust that he will be sued, if he uses them. He knows this, too.

  7. Re:OpenVZ on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 1

    linux-vserver mixes processes from inside and outside, openvz is a bit better virtualization.

  8. Re:OpenVZ on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 1

    colinux is the way to go, if he just wants some linux on windows.

  9. Re:speelling mistake on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 2

    > Judgm_E_nt can actually be spelled without an E
    i actually doubt that.

  10. Re:KDE is keeping the configurability torch alive on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    and everything plugs into everything. read about KIO and kparts ... great stuff. the whole kontact app is nothing but a frame which combines kmail, korganizer, etc. as kparts.

  11. Re:He speaks for millions of others. on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    start "amor"
    right click the smiley sitting on your window
    select "tux" as character.

  12. Re:kde menu a mess on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    there are some alterantive menu buttons available for kde.

  13. Re:KDE looks like ass on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    the default theme is just a bad choice. That's nothing new, there were many releases with bad default themes.
    Oxygen window decorations are just ugly. Keramik widgets are just awful.

    But you CAN configure it to look nice. Try using Plastik widgets, maybe with Plastik or even Keramik window decorations. Just start by configuring the look and feel, then continue with the behaviour, step by step, change one thing when its annoying you, keep it, if you like it.

    In the end you get a nice desktop.

    That's what gnome is denying you. And unity, too. Like it (like menus in the top-panel, panel on the left, etc.) or use something else.
    With KDE you can use the default look, tweak it to your liking, or imitate other desktops/OSs.

  14. Re:He speaks for millions of others. on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    ah yeah, its really "amor" just like the love god.

  15. Re:He speaks for millions of others. on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 1

    but there is the kde window sitter. amor or something like this, i cannot remember the full name.

  16. Re:You are an idiot. on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 0

    When i write extrapolation, then i mean it. think about it. But there is a reason, why you are posting as AC, of course.

  17. Re:Mint on EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default · · Score: 1

    try using Luninux. Its Mint for apple users.

  18. Once, there was a time ... on EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default · · Score: 1

    when linux distros had very restrictive defaults.
    Installed firefox on windows? Cookies allowed, no warning, everything open to tracking but for easy use, too.
    Installed firefox on debian? First form you fill, you are asked "do you really want to submit data over unsecured connection?". Cookies? the default was "ask". Other insecure functions? often turned off, so using insecure functionality was opt-in.

  19. Will Microsoft comply? on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    With the name Metro, they were very eager to comply instantly. So maybe this is the end of the metro crap (and not only the end of the name).

    Or maybe they wanted to get rid of the name metro with all the negative google hits anyway ... without getting rid of their little experiment, of course.

  20. Of course ... on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: -1

    ... you can extrapolate every data. just assume a function you like, feed it one ore two data points and start extrapolating.

  21. Re:Why rely on this for your privacy? on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    ghostery is a product of a tracking company.

  22. Re:It Is A Technical Problem on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    There would even be no so big problem, when apache implemented DNT for its logfiles and ignored it for IE10. But they steal the header for webapps, which want to decide on their own. When i code a web application, i want to get the full headers, so i can decide what to do with them.

  23. Re:Kinda Subjective but... on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    > The key is that block level indentation should be done only with tabs, and any extra indentation beyond the block level should be done only with spaces.
    You say it, as if it were fact. Its you coding style, nothing more.

  24. Re:Kinda Subjective but... on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    you must be having a bad editor.
    a tab should expand up to a tab-stop. so

    ab[tab]c
    a[tab]bc
    [tab]abc

    should line up the stuff after the tab at the same horizontal position.
    Of course, this assumes you use enough tabs that one tab is more than the longest difference on the left side. But for the usual lineup indention-stuff you can find a number of tabs, which works without breaking any common (2,4,8) tabwidth.

  25. Solution on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    Change the user agent string of IE10.