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  1. Re:Maemo on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 1

    It's not just the "sudo gainroot" that's special.

    It's the "apt-get install-what-i-want".

    That's real apt-get, just like any other Debian based system. You'd have to install a Debian system on your android phone to get that - at which point it wouldn't really be an android phone, would it?

  2. Re:This is silly on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 1

    Don't tell anyone, but Android is Linux. It's a huge secret!

    Android isn't linux. It's a bastardized JavaVM running on some OS that happens to be linux today, but could be something else some other day.

  3. Re:Maemo on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to wikipedia, Maemo is largely open source with some mandatory proprietary components. How is this different from Android?

    ~ $ sudo gainroot
    Root shell enabled
     
    Busybox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+05m) built-in shell (ash)
    Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
     
    /home/user # apt-get install whatever-i-want

  4. Re:Um...how do you figure? on Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla · · Score: 1

    What makes it impossible to fit geko into a phone? My phone uses a geko based browser (microB on the n900). Works for me.

  5. Re:We need a Debian Atp-Get model for phones on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1

    "Can make phone calls" may be 4th on the feature list, but given the number of features it's still pretty high.

    The phone app works OK for me, it's a bit clunky to launch to make calls (either turn the phone to portrait, or press a button and click the screen), but it works. No per-user ringtones yet.

    Unfortunately the phone app is one of the closed source bits, the open stack wasn't ready yet, so if you want new phone stuff you'll just have to wait for Nokia to release it.

    (Or maybe not - I've heard one guy has installed Asterisk on his n900, maybe that'll allow something fun to be done).

  6. Re:We need a Debian Atp-Get model for phones on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google really needs to rip off Apt and Synaptics and make a version for their phones.

    What, you mean like Nokia already does?

  7. Re:I Just Did... on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1

    When we can get VOIP over 3G on an open smartphone

    Why do you say when? The First Post was from a guy with a n900 - he can already do voip over 3g on a (mostly) open "smartphone".

    ("smart" in scare quotes 'cos it's not smart, it's fucking brilliant!)

  8. Re:Climate Myth: The Hockey Stick was wrong on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mann hockey stick #1 has been falsified (statistical errors)
    Mann hockey stick #2 has been falsified (statistical errors)
    Briffa hockey stick has been falsified (statistical errors)

    [ citation needed ] you lying sack of shit.

  9. Re:Because the game is rigged on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Even showing that a single valid paper was rejected is enough, because it's not supposed to be possible.

    What absolutist fantasy land do you live in. Of course it's possible that valid papers get rejected, it's certain that they do. It's also known that crap gets published.

    Anyone (sane) who has a interesting paper that gets rejected fixes whatever problems it had and tries again. If it's any good it'll get published.

    A conspiracy has been exposed

    In your head.

  10. Re:Does XEN have a future? on The Book of Xen · · Score: 1

    I will be using debian stable. Live migration is a must as is hardware supported virtualisation.

    If by stable you mean Lenny then Xen is the best - Debian's Xen works great on Lenny. If you want to use Squeeze then you have a problem, dom0 doesn't work yet, but it's been promised. After Squeeze you're screwed.

  11. Re:Does XEN have a future? on The Book of Xen · · Score: 1

    I'm fine running a funny Linux kernel (or a funny NetBSD or OpenSolaris kernel) in the dom0.

    You must like running dodgy old software. The most recent Xen dom0 that's half-way stable I can find (Debian Lenny) is borderline for my needs (dodgy multipath, creeky mdadm, only 90% ready for recentish hardware (Dell R710)...).

  12. Re:Does XEN have a future? on The Book of Xen · · Score: 1

    but KVM does it better and simpler by just running on Linux as the base system hypervisor.

    No, KVM des it worse and simpler - Xen is faster than KVM on the same hardware (about 10% for disk I/O comparing Xen paravirtualisation with KVM virtio-blk).

  13. Re:Now let the Endless French Surrender jokes begi on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 1

    An English speakers teasing the French is just a impulse reaction hardcoded into the DNA of our language.

    And which language would that be? It doesn't seem to be English.

    Look at how many miserable and oppressive words we have borrowed from them.

    What, like "miserable" and "oppressive'. Or do you mean "language"?

  14. Re:Now let the Endless French Surrender jokes begi on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 1

    I for one would like to see this fucking "meme" be laid to rest. It was always present but seems to have been resurrected when the French decided not to commit forces to the first Gulf War (because it wasn't authorized by the UN I believe).

    ITYM "second" Gulf war. The French did commit forces to the first Gulf war.

  15. Re:It means a lot when Defense systems move over on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kudos to them for open sourcing it.

    Shh, don't tell the BSD license fans, the GPL works as intended.

  16. Re:Enter the closed loop you cannot enter. on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    They didn't "miss a publication" they cited the fucking paper themselves.

    Troll.

  17. Re:Is this an issue outside the US? on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    America, UK, Australia.

    Notice a trend?

    It's what the froggies call the "anglo-saxon" countries that are having this problem.

    Odd.

  18. Re:Enter the closed loop you cannot enter. on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    Of course, on of the issues revealed is that they were preventing dissenting opinions from being accepted in peer reviewed journals...

    This is a lie. Stop repeating it. You either know it's a lie or don't know how to use Google.

    Hint - the papers Jones said needed a redefinition of peer review to get rid of were cited in the chapter of the IPCC report that Jones's group edited.

    Some censorship.

  19. Re:gone on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    9. I'm freezing my ass off and could do with some global bloody warming right now. So where the hell is it?

    I have flowering roses in my garden.

    The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

  20. Re:gone on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    well there's a big difference between not surviving several hundred years of history and being purposely deleted after a FOIA request.

    Except that no data was deleted after the famous "FOIA request",

    Some e-mails were deleted. Which was wrong. But maybe understandable when you learn that McIntyre made 58 FOAI requests in 5 days. 11 FOIA requests a day! http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/08/mcintyre_versus_jones_climate_1.html

    And what does McIntyre want to do with the data? He's on record as saying he's not going to bother checking it if he gets it (unless someone pays him, he says). Was it done just to piss CRU off?

  21. Re:OS is nothing. Apps are everything. on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    if people get bluetooth hid devices going, that may be the case with the nokia n900.

    You mean removing input from DisabledPlugins in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf doesn't do it for you?

    http://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_Unsupported_Bluetooth_profiles

  22. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    [ sorry, I meant cited not published above ]

  23. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's why the two (now universaly accepted to be crap) papers were published in the part of the IPCC report than Phil Jones helped edit.

    Yup, that's some powerful censorship that peer review.

  24. Re:How does it compare with the other NVidia drive on Nouveau NVIDIA Driver To Enter Linux 2.6.33 Kernel · · Score: 1

    The "official" Nvidia driver doesn't work in IBM 370 based systems.

    Not all the world is x86 you know.

    Also there's this little idea of "Freedom" (or "Openness" if you're an ESR fan).

  25. Re:And that's bad how? on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    So you claim that you've investigated the evidence, that it shows that the temperature isn't rising, but the evidence doesn't tell you what's going on.

    You are useless.

    Bye bye troll.