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  1. Re:LiveScribe on Ask Slashdot: Digital Pens On Linux? · · Score: 2

    LiveScribe has the best pen, but you need to use a Windows VM through VirtualBox to make it work.

    There is also LibreScribe and smartpen-browser. Last time I ran either of these, they were still missing a lot of features.

  2. Re:Privacy Concerns on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    IPv6 blocklists will most likely block entire /64's instead of single addresses. This has the potential of blocking an entire organization for one user's bad behavior, but so does blocking a single IPv4 address that is the public side of a NAT.

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

    Simply put, it's not that important anymore. If you're talking about a decade ago, when your typical desktop drive was 20 gigs, then sure it made a difference. Now that sub-terabyte drives are on the way out, the added cost associated with transparent compression makes it almost completely useless.

  4. Get off my lawn! on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 2

    Another "x dropped from Ubuntu" post, another mass ragequit from the hive mind.

    Ten years ago, nobody complained about the default installation profile of Linux distributions. If you were geeky enough to use Linux, then you knew how to use package managers and could maybe even configure and make something from source. Now everyone wants their preferred DE and pre-selected apps handed to them on a platter, as if they reinstalled their OS every fucking week. If the default package list is a deal breaker for you when choosing a distribution, then you need to reevaluate why you are using Linux to begin with. And no, you probably won't find yourself welcome in the Gentoo/LFS communities either because they dropped this grievance long ago.

  5. Re:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 Post! on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 1

    You can collapse any one set of consecutive zero groups, and you can remove leading zeros from each group.
    0000:0000:1234:: (0:0:1234::)
    ::1234:0000:0000:0000:0000 (::1234:0:0:0:0)

  6. Re:home routers on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    Then, every home device would have a static IP

    I hope so. I'm tired of paying double for static IPv4.

  7. Windows, Office, and IE icons? on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I can understand why one would like to make their desktop look similar to the Windows 7 default theme, but do we really need to use the same application-specific icons as Windows? When I'm in Windows, I don't change my Firefox shortcut to show an IE icon.

  8. Re:An honest answer: Its better, for tracking YOU on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    They can still track the prefix to your house.

    Except that there's no easy way to tell if you're on a /48, /64, /80, etc. In v4 it's assumed that everyone can be tracked by a single address, at least for a little while.

  9. Re:Simple... on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    If you're using their bandwidth then you're probably on their time as well. Don't do anything at work that you don't want them to have the rights to (remember Bratz?).

  10. They're not bugs... on Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    they're features

  11. from the Book of Mozilla, 2:1 on AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development · · Score: 2, Funny

    And so the Creator looked upon the beast and buried it deep within the earth. Its mourners looked up into the sky and joined their kin under the wings of the great bird, and the people rejoiced.

  12. Re:This is a good thing on CUPS Purchased By Apple Inc. · · Score: 1

    Plus, Apple's design sense can't hurt in this case. The CUPS web interface has got to be one of the worst I've ever seen. OSX's Print & Fax interface is worse than the CUPS web interface. It's a real disappointment compared to the rest of OSX. Hopefully they'll fix both.
  13. Somewhere on Butterfly Island... on FORGET DRAGONS! TIME FOR PONIES!!!1! · · Score: 1

    DM: Dragon breathes fire on you. Make a reflex save.
    Player: 4
    DM: 4? What did you roll?
    Player: I rolled 15. My reflex is -11.
    DM: Too bad. You did not make the save. Take 22 hit points.
    Player: My pony died!

  14. Re:Favorite WoW Quest on What Are Some of Your Favorite RPG Quests? · · Score: 1

    Haven't done ZF by 49? I did it at 46, including the quest mentioned above. It should be fairly easy for you with the right group.

  15. In other news... on U.S. Deploys Orbital Communications Jammer · · Score: 1

    A cult linked to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon committed mass suicide through use of weaponized satellites. Friends of the recently deceased told Moon's own newspaper that they were unaware of the use of the satellites and that they believed that God was lifting them from the earth for the lifelong service against the rampant homosexuals and individualists.

  16. Re:IDN hole? No patch needed? on Firefox Exploit Adds Fuel to Browser Security Feud · · Score: 1

    As I remember, there was no "IDN hole" or any buffer overrun that resulted from using IDN's. The exploit simply made it possible to create phishing attacks by selecting two characters that in the Unicode character set that looked (nearly) identical but were in fact different letters, both in the URL itself and in the name of a valid SSL certificate. The person who demonstrated the exploit created a site called www.paypal.com along with a SSL certificate that had the same name in it, but instead of the regular ASCII "paypal" name, a Unicode name was created with a different 'a'. With my font, I could see that the 'a' was abnormal, but some other users would have a difficult time distinguishing it from the ASCII 'a' character. By disabling enableIDN, these characters show up in URL-encoded format rather than Unicode. There's really no way to prevent phishing attacks other than by reporting fraudulent websites. Netcraft has already given me a free mug by doing that.

  17. USB support only for music? on VW Goes USB · · Score: 1

    You mean I can't drive with my Logitech RumblePad? Too bad.

  18. Abolish DST on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 1

    If it's good enough for energy hogs like Phoenix, then it's good enough for me.

    And on a side note: When Congress starts talking about energy, be afraid.

  19. It's ok on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 1

    My site already redirects users to the "unenhanced" version for IE users while everyone else who uses a standards-compliant browser can see my real site.

  20. Bad move on HP Invents A New Way To Print · · Score: 1

    I bought an HP printer for this exact reason. My Epson lasted about a year before the head started to go, and I could not fix the problem with anything short of buying of a new printer. Now it looks like I'll be holding onto my current HP for a while.

  21. Doesn't change anything on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1

    I have never bought anything from a popup, banner, or flash advertisement, and I never will. If I am to go shopping online, I already know what I'm looking for and where to find it. I have no problem adblocking. As far as I'm concerned, I am saving companies like DoubleClick bandwidth that would otherwise be wasted on sending me content that I will never respond to.

    I leave it to those people who actually do buy stuff they see in banners and popups to support them. They're probably not the ones who are going to bother to find a way to block ads.

  22. What about home users? on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    I never bought a "server," I built one from spare parts. I'm sure that the majority of us who run sites from a home DSL connection are in the same demographic as I am, and obviously we aren't counted in this article. And out of that group, how many of us are going to shell out 600 bucks on a Windows server?

  23. Yeah, but... on First PC Virus Spreads to Humans · · Score: 1

    Does it run on Linux?

  24. Feel free to flame me... on Enterprise Fans Buy Full-Page Ad In LA Times · · Score: 1

    but I was turned off to Enterprise after the first couple of episodes because it just seems to appeal to a rebel, redneck, and possibly right-wing type of personality. How many people who read the LA Times do they think they're going to get?

  25. Stupid inventors on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ironically, QWERTY was actually designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming the keys

    I'm a little bit rusty on my history, but I always thought that QWERTY was designed to prevent jamming by causing subsequent hammer strokes to occur from opposite sides. If you look carefully, a lot of the words in English seem to cover the entire physical distance of the keyboard for each word.

    I tried using DVORAK, and I really wish I could stick with it but I use vi and that makes things difficult. Keyboards have been used on computers for almost 50 years now, why couldn't DVORAK be the standard from the get-go?