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  1. Re:Not sure I understand the question. on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let’s host in Antarctica instead!

  2. Re:Hurrah! on The Shortest Internet Censorship Debate Ever · · Score: 1

    Our laws also make lolicon illegal, at least according to certain people on the Internets.

  3. Deja vu? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Steven Sinofsky, the moron responsible for Windows 8, left Microsoft a very short while after releasing Windows 8. We have a quite similar scenario here, save for the quit happening a bit earlier, but still after shit hit the fan.

  4. Re:Windows problems on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    OS X Mountain Lion is £14 ($20). And it is dirt cheap since Snow Leopard, when it was US$30. http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/

  5. Re:Why? on Improving the Fedora Boot Experience · · Score: 3, Informative

    If 1 disk = 1 partition, then it would be possible. But if your 6 disks contain more than one partition, you will find out that your time savings per disks will be minimum, none or even negative.

  6. Re:Frosty piss on Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB · · Score: 1

    No, you should switch to LibreOffice Calc, or whatever fork is the "current" one.

  7. Re:Finally! on GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support · · Score: 1

    A piece of software I use (not too much, really) and that I have to compile specifically requires GHC; I personally hate Haskell.

  8. Re:Finally! on GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support · · Score: 1

    I think they would allow a GPL-compatible app.

  9. Re:Finally! on GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support · · Score: 2

    s|GNU/Hurd|GNU Hurd| There should be no / here, as this is a 100% GNU project, not a 0.0000000000000001% GNU project, iike KDE/Python/Haskell/TeX/LibreOffice/Blender/Wine/Linux*. * the biggest packages and package groups on my system, in a random order.

  10. Re:Text editors are still around. on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 0

    IDEs rule the roost in Shit and Shit development,

    FTFY

  11. Get the hell out of that country. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would Canada work for those purposes? I guess so.

  12. Re:Fuck the EFF on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Translation: 5.08 cm.

  13. Re:as an austrian on Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Just a dumb guess: with chemical additives? Or other shit like that?

  14. Re:Ignorance on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 1

    ...except*, blame no unicode for the lack of ellipsis.

  15. Re:Ignorance on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 2

    expect “it’s”can also mean “it has”.

  16. Re:Desktop linux, not linux on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1
    There was a quotation here that was lost.

    Since when has a multi-user unix-like OS excelled at being a consumer-oriented desktop system? Never.

  17. Re:Desktop linux, not linux on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1

    *cough* OS X *cough*

  18. Re: bluetooth keyboard on Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    I work with multiple apps at once, especially while coding. I'm guaranteed to be running more than one copy of zsh (tabs in Konsole; usually one is ssh'd to a remote shell server running irssi, also used for development) and Chrome (also for reading docs), Pidgin and GMPC. (on Windows, replace Konsole with one PuTTY window. I do have a working MPD setup under Windows, and even with the same song progress as on Linux.) In order to switch between those apps, I use alt-tab or use the scroll wheel* with my pointer on the panel. And to start them, just click on the four icons which are right next to each other (KDE Icon-Only Task Manager).

    Now, what would I have to do on a tablet? Click on the chrome app (and hope it supports tab pinning for apps), then go back home, start a terminal/ssh app. And then I could start SSH and-- oh wait. I cannot use a local shell. And even if I can, I doubt I would ever get my hands on zsh, vim, ncmpcpp, git, python... Sure, I can do half of those things on the remote host, but certain development tasks require a local environment. And I've yet to see a good** MPD client for Android or a good IM.

    Okay, so even if I had the apps I need, what about switching? As I said, to get from app to app on a computer, I use alt+tab or my mouse. Now, what should I do on Android?

    Add the fact that I like to play some good games. Have you seen any good games for an Android tablet? No, you haven't. And I don't consider Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja or something like that as a good game. Tablets don't have enough resources to have good games. And you won't be able to play too many games on those fancy Windows RT tablets (which are shit.)

    * scroll wheel is my preferred method of interaction with tabs and such. I hate that Chrome on Windows doesn’t accept such behavior.

    ** the only clients I accept on PCs are ncmpcpp and gmpc. Others suck miserably.

    [disclaimer: I hate tablets, and I have played with Android tablets for a very short moment. still, try to move my workflow to a tablet.]

  19. Ditch Java? Done ages ago! on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Is it really time to ditch Oracle's java and go for an open source VM?

    I, for one, got rid of all Java from my machine a long time ago. I think that everyone at slashdot did that too. You don’t know how angered I am when my set-top box has some problems (eg. today it stopped sending audio over HDMI, I needed to set it to standby and wake it up again) or when I got my Kindle today. Both are in Java. Unfortunately.

  20. Re:Local IT control, _not_ Apple. on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    mail was already ready for him, @sejm.pl, the only mail he should use with that iPad. also, no word about FLOSS in the Polish version of the article either. Those jerks from the OSS Foundation (FWiOO) wanted to get one more user for Linux. I don't think that guy would be happy with GNOME3 or Unity. And don't forget that this country is 80% pirated Windows, 18% legal Windows, 1.99% OS X and 0.01% Linux, and that's with some generous rounding.

  21. Re:Privacy? What for?! on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    Also, it got posted as an AC. Wrote that a bit too long and had a break in it. Crap.

  22. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    (there was an ellipsis here, but it was using the unicode … and Slashdot removed it.)

  23. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    um isn’t Safari free?

  24. Re:Too bad it's not free on Bedrock Linux Combines Benefits of Other Linux Distros · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously? Tell me: how many people (and FSF employees/members/what-you-have are not people, let alone RMS) are using those distros? The correct answer is zero. If you don’t count the developers, but that should be obvious. Although you might get a negative number that way.

  25. Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... on Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see a lot of normal people talking in such terms.