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  1. Re:Two things... on One SimCity Per Child · · Score: 2, Informative

    The black and white mode is generally used for reading, or for use in direct sunlight.

    The screen will also do colour.

    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1#Display

  2. Re:atomic clock to PC connection? on NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More · · Score: 1

    What I don't get is why time was never part of DHCP. That would make NTP pointless for anyone not trying to sync logs or transactions across servers. A bit too late for that though.
    DHCP allows the sending of a parameter containing one or more NTP servers the client should sync with, if that's what you were meaning.
  3. Re:BES users potentially not affected? on Blackberry Network is Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes.

  4. Re:complete and absolute BS (SOX) on Google Apps Premier Edition Launches, Widely Used · · Score: 1

    Google allows you to route all email through your own network so you can do any filtering you wish before (possibly) allowing the mail to continue to their servers.

  5. Re:Inside the Windows Vista kernel... on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel, Part 2 · · Score: 1

    The uac_alert function just crashes the program if you select cancel. Or perhaps if you don't.

  6. Re:WTF?! on Open XML Translator for Microsoft Word Available · · Score: 1

    What happened next time? :)

    Oddly, that text isn't in the source code anywhere, so I wonder what's causing it..

  7. What's the point? on Open XML Translator for Microsoft Word Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the point if the add-in doesn't allow ODF to be set as the default file type, or even used via the Save As menu?

    Hopefully the Word "interop" API actually allows for this sort of thing to be properly integrated.

  8. Re:Not the first time on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1
    For those interested, the C64 game was Lazy Jones.

    You can listen to the track on the Guide to Electronic Music. Press "Techno" then "VGM" at the left and choose track 5.

  9. Re:Not all that's secret on How Apple Kept the iPhone Secret · · Score: 1
    I've used a Nokia 770 (which obviously isn't the same as the iPhone: it's an internet tablet) and the display on it is amazing. 800 x 480 resolution on a 4"-or-so screen.

    It comes with Opera (I think) and browsing the web (or doing anything) on it is great; web pages are basically as readable as they are on a PC.

    The Nokia N800 which was released the other day has the same resolution. Which is nice.

    Plus of course it runs Linux :)
  10. Re:Best place, despite worst pay on Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work · · Score: 1

    Doh. Indeed!

  11. Best place, despite worst pay on Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Google appears to be somewhere in the 91st to last range in terms of pay.

    Those free lunches must really keep their employees happy..

  12. Startup.com on What Movies Got Computers Right? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Easy to clone on British "Secure" Passports Cracked · · Score: 2, Informative
    Please people, support NO2ID and tell Blair where to shove his flawed ID cards and CCTV cameras.

    Also, 10 Downing Street have now made it easy for you to petition against the introduction ID cards.
  14. Novell already integrate with Windows environments on Microsoft To Announce Linux Partnership · · Score: 1

    Novell have done a lot of work in integrating their Enterprise Desktop OS with Active Directory etc, and have hired Samba people to work on this.

    See http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/linux- goes-mad/ for a large article on these features going into SUSE.

    I'm not really sure what MS get out of this aside from maybe stopping companies from moving entirely to Linux?

  15. Re:I found a major bug!!! on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Outlook! on The Most Desired Linux Ports · · Score: 1

    Novell have already started the Hula Project to try and meet this need.

  17. Re:Where's the data? What about KDE? on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1
    I saw these videos first presented at GUADEC, where there was no mention of SUSE and it was billed as a "Windows Migration Study". The same talk was given at aKademy.

    There's more details on the KDE wiki, where they mention the tests shown in the videos as well as other KDE tests.

    So I doubt there's some sort of anti-KDE conspiracy here. Maybe cutting up 200 videos just takes time?

  18. Re:Google's Click History Asset on Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope · · Score: 1

    Though surely no browser would actually attempt to revalidate a Google search result page after only a few seconds, especially via the Back button?

    Not that Google appears to send a Last-Modified header anyway.

  19. Re:Padding? on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    Generally, and certainly in the case of Google AdSense, such adverts are loaded via JavaScript or an IFRAME. Thus the adverts won't get prefetched; only the raw HTML of the target page is downloaded and cached (if appropriate).

  20. Re:Where did I see this... on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wow, well done.. and some of us saw it three weeks ago as it actually happened on the Something Awful forums.

  21. Re:Include Mozilla Calendar! on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure where you're getting the IMAP idea from at all.

    Yes, Mozilla Calendar / Sunbird stores your calendars locally on disk in a "calendar" folder.
    But it also sends/retrieves calendars over WebDAV, which then are written to disk (possibly?).

    The FAQ says so.

  22. Re:database back-end on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 1
    Yes this is right.. Thunderbird uses the painfully arcane mork format to store headers etc.

    However, each mail folder has its metainfo DB stored in a separate file which makes it a little less easier to implement virtual folders, I guess..

  23. web://cp on Post Cobalt Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't really recommend using web://cp.. unless it has changed much in the last few months.

    For a start, the webcp daemon seems to die ALL the time for no apparent reason. We've had to do a lot of work changing poorly-written code.. it's quite a hassle to get it all up and running properly. It's not too bad once you get it going however.

    Though I imagine other web control panel software are still better than webcp.

  24. Re:Liquid War on Multiplayer Games For Christmas Lull at the Office? · · Score: 1
    Mod this way up!

    This game is soooo good. I'm now an addict and am now running the server on our LAN.

    Original. Simple, yet addictive. Very addictive.

  25. Re:bye bye tivo on PVR For Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
    XMLTV works reliably well for retrieving, parsing and sorting TV guide data, at least in the UK.
    As you can guess, it stores listings in XML, with a well documented DTD..

    I know they also now have new backends for grabbing TV listings for the USA and Canada which I have quickly tried successfully.