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  1. Re:Poettering strikes again on Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 2

    >what happens when MicroSoft decides to open the lawsuit of the century claiming to be the owners of the INI format and demand retribution? I think they get laughed out of court.

  2. Re: But is Wayland better? on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For wanting to access intranet resources in a browser I prefer to use the sock tunnelling in ssh (-D). This avoids having to deal with a high latency user interfaces (but maybe you have a better internet connection than me).

  3. Re:The real news, is that this is on Ars at all... on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The original source is Nature http://www.nature.com/articles...

  4. No, 32bit per channel. so 128bit per RGBA pixel

  5. 32 bit

  6. 23bit color shouldn't be long now https://www.gimp.org/news/2017... , and the 2.9.x dev builds are pretty usable.

  7. Re: bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 2

    Only the parity modes (raid 5,6). BTRFS raid 0,1,10 work great and give better protection than traditional raid thanks to the checksumming.

  8. Most routes round here have an interchange or large station at one or both ends, usually with at least 10 minute waits. So they could be topped up through the day. There is also the idea of inductive pads at each bus stop. Even if electric buses currently only worked on 50% of routes that would be a nice saving in emissions.

  9. It already works out cleaner even if your grid is power by fossil fuels, thanks to better efficiencis and regenerative breaking. Even in places that aren't rapidly switching to zero carbon sources, the coal -> gas migration is dropping CO2 intensity of grid electricity.

  10. For scale on Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What's that in becquerels

  11. Lets hope it is using the EOMA68 standard.

  12. Re:React? Angular? NoSQL? on 3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released (freeciv.org) · · Score: 1

    You can install the native version from http://www.freeciv.org/ Should run fine on just about any computer made in the past 15 years.

  13. Hoax on New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Gravity is a Chinese hoax

  14. It was the BIOS that was hiding AHCI. With some soldering skills it was already possible to download the bios, disassemble, remove 1 line of code, reflash and then enable AHCI and install Linux.

  15. Lets hope that soon 'real' diamonds are considered the same way as real fur.

  16. The driver support is fine if you turn the RAID mode off. But to do so you have to make a binary patch to the BIOS, open up the case and reflash it.

  17. Re:welcome to python on Apple Releases Swift 3.0, 'Not Source-Compatibile With Swift 2.3' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you wrote a python program any time in the past 15 (maybe longer) years that worked in the current version of the time, it will still work in a supported version today. Though you might get some deprecation warnings, and you should probably start thinking about migrating to 3.x.

  18. Re:Overpriced+vaporware on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Blob free arm boards, not yet https://www.fsf.org/resources/... , but there will be soon https://www.fsf.org/blogs/lice... . Actually a few can be run blob free if you don't mind sacrificing some features.

  19. LibreOffice on Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? (apache.org) · · Score: 1

    Lets just hope this happens in such a way that current OpenOffice users find out about LibreOffice.

  20. Re:If I already have MS Office, on LibreOffice 5.2 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    There are a few areas they it has advantages in, for example it supports a much wider range of file formats, works on more platforms (does not not limit features by platform (e.g. ms access is not in mac office)), can run from a USB stick, can be scripted in python, can make hybrid PDF files... But then it also misses some features of MS office, so it depends on which of the unique features are more useful for you. https://wiki.documentfoundatio...

  21. Re:You're reading them wrong on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Soon the software vendors will be shipping snap and flatpak packages, so you can run which every distro version you want :-)

  22. Re:You're reading them wrong on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, init from the sysvinit package has been replaced with Upstart, an event-based init system." https://access.redhat.com/docu...

  23. > NetworkManager is impossible to control from the command line https://developer.gnome.org/Ne...

  24. Re:You're reading them wrong on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Rare to see someone argue that upstart is better than systemd.