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  1. Re:And why are those systems unpatched ? on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    It's what micros~1 has repeatedly called themselves. In fact, one day after another crash and subsequent disk trashing by "scandisk" they called themselves micros~1, micros~2, micros~3, micros~4, micros~5 and micros~6! They all sat in a folder called progra~1.

  2. Bluetooth on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why no one has mentioned this but printing from most devices is pretty easy, all you need is a printer with either built-in bluetooth or a host USB port (usually used for mass storage devices). Just plug in a Bluetooth dongle and it'll become visible, send it a file and it'll print. I had an HP which did this 5 years ago and I sent it files from a Symbian phone. Thanks to intents, any application which wants to send a file can queue a print job.

  3. Re:Finally! on DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he'd manage to make an iTunes visualisation of the missile trajectories and allow the UAVs to reload using in-app purchases.

  4. Re:This actually makes sense on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 2

    Because it's SO HARD to install joe, nano, ne or just edit files over a mounted sftp. Oh wait, you can't mount sftp in Windows.

  5. Re:Acceptable Frame Rate on The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated · · Score: 2

    Something to run slashdots unoptimised JavaScript at an acceptable frame rate!

  6. GitHub on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    GitHub provides a friendly interface to view the source without having to use the repo tool and downloading the whole thing, so I'm eagerly waiting for this to get pushed there as well. Shouldn't take long.

    https://github.com/android/

  7. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Simply using the list of installed files to search against is not a hack, is well documented and works exactly as expected. Also, if a file wasn't installed through the package manager, dpkg will tell you as well:

    $ dpkg -S weeblefrob
    dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *weeblefrob*.
    $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/weeblefrob
    dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/weeblefrob.

    Only one version of any given package may be installed at any time and to see which version is installed you can use either dpkg -l $package or apt-cache policy $package (this tells you which version would get installed, too). If you want to search for files in all packages (even those not installed), you can use apt-file.

  8. What's the point on Chevy Volt Fire Prompts Safety Investigation For EV Batteries · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why would anyone drive around in their laptops? Anyone who has one of those know how quickly they die. Sure, electric cars don't produce CO2 but those batteries aren't exactly environmentally friendly on the inside, they need replacements after a certain amount of cycles and the power for the charger still needs to come from somewhere. Could be coal plants for all we know. Investments in these type of cars are useless, no one will be driving around in these kind of cars for long.

    You see, petrol has been used quite successfully for the past 100 years and we need something which will last for at least another 100 years. Perhaps something like, you know, hydrogen.

  9. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how dpkg -S can't do this, why would a filename search against all packages be inadequate? Perhaps an example would be useful:

    $ dpkg -S `which git`
    git: /usr/bin/git

    Here, `which git` returns /usr/bin/git and since packages must not overlap in the filesystem dpkg will always return one package name when given a full path. Even for example with ls, when there's also lsmod, lsof, lsusb, etc.

  10. Re:Definition of Linux is...muddled on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Zfs, no. But you can use clang and llvm just fine. For jails, there's a plethora of solutions like LXC, VZ and the more elaborate virtualisation solutions like Xen and KVM.

    Definately no reason to switch to GNU, though.

  11. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 3, Informative

    apt has never fubar'ed any of my systems without my explicit consent. You get a warning and have to type in 'Yes, do as I say!' before shit happens.

  12. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 4, Informative

    apt is analogous to yum and dpkg is analogous to rpm. With that out of the way:

    • dpkg -L package
      Lists files in package package and
    • dpkg -S file
      searches for file in all packages (may list multiple packages).
  13. Re:Correction on Anonymous Hacks Finland · · Score: 2

    It happens (I've even done so myself when I was younger), but they're just using "Anonymous" to grab attention. Not to hide their tracks.

  14. Correction on Anonymous Hacks Finland · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fins hack Finland. Nothing to see here, move along.

  15. It lives on on Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It lives on in the form of Android, more specifically the java. parts of the Dalvik core library.

  16. What's this? on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    Page shows me a bunch of irrelevant news pages. Guess what the top story is?. Hmm.

  17. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    So you want to compress and decompress inside the kernel? Really?

  18. Re:Unity's table look and feel on Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    And not a single fuck was given.

  19. Re:Wait a minute... on The Weight of an e-Book · · Score: 2

    That's not how woosh works, you don't woosh your own reply.

  20. Re:End Team Nuon on More Interviews With World Solar Challenge Competitors · · Score: 1

    Sure, go spend some more. When the credit card refuses, just get another one. Hell, Greece does it all the time so why can't we?

  21. End Team Nuon on More Interviews With World Solar Challenge Competitors · · Score: 1

    Energy could be a lot cheaper if they spent less on office furniture and sponsorships. Everyone has to tighten their belt these days, no exceptions.

  22. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    At best, it can register a "charm" (basically an action for the app-wide context menu) for a certain protocol, and another app can register itself as handling that protocol - then, whenever user activates that charm in app #1, app #2 is activated and parameters are passed to it.

    This sounds awfully familiar... Anyway, thanks a lot for taking the time to explain win8/Metro. There's a lot of interesting stuff to learn about!
    A terrific day to you and whoever's with you.

  23. Re:PAL/NTSC? on Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System · · Score: 2

    Quite some time, actually. And it's awesome because replacements are FREE nowadays. No one wants them so I actually have a small surplus now of old tellies that people didn't want to keep any longer. The analogue ones are best, just flick the next or previous channel button and it instantly switches channel! That's so awesome, I laugh in the face of anyone trying to sell one of those set-top boxes with their awfully slow menus and "interactive content" which are in reality mandatory loading screens whenever you come across one of those channels.

  24. Oh Great on Lost Hour-Long Jobs Interview Found · · Score: 1

    Even after his death, he's going to say ONE MORE THING.

  25. Re:Computers must have an emergency-recovery on Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Good one. Maybe it's better to reverse the attack, kill the controller until it power cycles. The obvious downside is that the attack would still run and could still perform other steps to take over the boot process. But then, dealing with malware has always been a game of cat-and-mouse. You take the _least_ effort measure against today's malware, and then pass on the ball. A "perfect" solution would be absolutely devastating, because 30 years into the game the malware authors continue to remain one step ahead. Supposedly TPM would solve this, but it's a very complex hardware solution. If -- or rather when -- a weakness is found, then what do we do? Longer keys? Back to the old cat-and-mouse but in hardware, no thanks.