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  1. I have it in my arcade retropie https://retropie.org.uk/ system, perfectly working under Dosbox, available after a launch time of a few seconds... nothing beats playing the original

  2. How to run that script? on Leaked Files Show How the NSA Tracks Other Countries' Hackers (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Some hints to the availability of that script, for self-cleaning purposes?

  3. Re:Interesting on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I happily use Vivaldi (under Linux), and the perfect solution to your problem is the Neater Bookmarks extension

  4. not even able to understand a microprocessor... on Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This from january seems relevant... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... : Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

  5. Re:486 in 2010 on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    oblig reference... Frogger
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. where I'm working (materials science research) what everybody using Linux agrees on is that we really miss Microcal Origin - that's the only reason many here have a virtual machine with Windows on it...

  7. Guayadeque on Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? · · Score: 1

    I tested many, then went for Guayadeque http://sourceforge.net/projects/guayadeque/ and never looked back

  8. obfuscate on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    we are really, really without any way out if we dont start inundating them with noise...
    please, people, install at once trackmenot or paranoid browsing

    http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
    http://boingboing.net/2013/08/18/paranoid-browsing-anti-profil.html

  9. trackmenot on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 1

    I keep on using google search without worries: the trackmenot plugin carefully obfuscates any tracks you leave...

  10. guayadeque on Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released · · Score: 1

    This happens just days after I finally ditched Amarok and switched to Guayadeque http://guayadeque.org/ : I'll never look back, give it a try. If nothing else, at least for the marvelous smart mode (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/review-guayadeque-0-2-9-the-lightweight-music-app/)

  11. sadness... on Computer Marries Texas Couple · · Score: 1

    I consider this as one of the saddest pieces of news this monday morning...

  12. folders + wiki on File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? · · Score: 2

    I finally dealt with this problem once and for all in the following way. I found the best personal wiki out there (Zim: http://zim-wiki.org/), and wrote a simple python script (http://www.inrim.it/~magni/zimDMS.htm) that scans nightly my folder structure, keeping up-to-date my wiki. My wiki, therefore, is a perfect mirror of my folder structure, with the added bonuses that I can navigate to each folder, comment it, describe its content, insert images, insert links to other folders, and finally by a single click I can open it in the file manager. My ~ 15000 folders are managed perfectly...

  13. Re:One of the reasons... on EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM · · Score: 1

    on a Mac, try Boxer boxerapp.com : it is THE frontend for any dosbox game

  14. It is MY fault on Tracking Stolen Gadgets — Manufacturers' New Dilemma · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I recently lost my Glofish phone - at a railway station, and never saw it again.
    I immediately disabled the phone account, but resisted when my wife insisted that I had to brick it.
    Why should I? I was so stupid to lose it ... let the next bugger who finds it enjoy it!

  15. Re:I own some readers on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    try NullusNet!

  16. easy... on Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon · · Score: 3, Funny

    they just have to patch the new IE shipped with Vista so that it redirects everything from Google to OurNewMSN.com ... provided that they're able to ship Vista in such large numbers that this move is relevant, anyway...

  17. Re:What outrage on Reputation System Fights P2P Junk · · Score: 1

    Laughable. Nobody here is "shocked", and many people are as smart as you in guessing why *AA people do what they do.

    Everybody decides which part they do belong.

    The Cornell people simply developed a new weapon - if it will work we'll see - to be used in an escalating war. Possibly *AA will develop a countermeasure, hopefully not.

    I don't see any reason for outrage either, the pollution of P2P networks is really old story (years).

  18. Re:99% on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    ... and you too forgot to mention the reason why

  19. Re:The Facts of Linux on Who Wrote Linux? · · Score: 1

    oh jesus, that's too funny. W/ your permission I'll use it on my linux homepage...

  20. Re:Before you buy any eBook device... on Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April · · Score: 1

    I frankly don't understand why anybody should buy any ebook content.
    I own the same Rocket as yours, used for many years to read anything, from my mail to tech manuals to novels. I love that thing.
    And you know what? There are Gigabytes of ASCII/HTML wonderful novels,poetry, whatever you want.
    If you choose DRM, you must know what you're going into.

  21. we want to crucifix him? on Blaster Writer Caught · · Score: 1
    > Hope whoever it was had fun,

    > because a world of pain is waiting in store now.

    Jeeesus, with all the real pain waiting for you as you cross the street, seems from this (and other people's) post we are really exagerating.

    It's not a bullet planted in your front...

  22. non-proprietary content on Gemstar Ebook Crashes, Burns · · Score: 3, Informative
    I chose the Rocket ebook in the past for just that reason: it allowed via its software to upload .txt/.htm/... to the device.

    Concerning a question made above, the format specs and a Linux software both exist here.

    Now I'm pretty happy with another device, i.e. the Hiebook (site; groups), that provides the same, important capability: you can upload to it any .txt/.htm content.

    Not as as good a display as the rocket, though...

  23. Ballard on Soundless Music? · · Score: 1

    Another interesting point made by Ballard in a long story (short novel?) of him, many years ago:
    The Sound-Sweep, Science-Fantasy #39 '60