User: soloport

KDE4 is Just EZ

On: Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

KDE 4.2.2

Click the settings (yellow yin-yang) icon on the far right. Click the Hight button (center of settings bar). Drag up or down to grow or shrink icon size. You can make the icons virtually any size you want.

Wasn't that easy?

Such Admiration

On: Microsoft 'Vista Capable' Settlement Cost Could Be Over $8 Billion

I have three points left and wanted to mod you up, but I wanted to submit this post (telling you how much I wanted to mod you up) even more.

Fresh Set of GOP Numbers

On: McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs

Fresh set of GOP numbers? What to do...

Joe: Hello?

New BB Owner: Is your refrigerator running?

So many possibilities!

Re:grep and emacs integration

On: (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?

Emacs saves me tons of time in two main ways:
1) Macros (see Ctrl-Z or F5)
2) Visual diff (see F7 and F8)

Typical .emacs:
;; MACROS

;; define common macros
(fset 'switch-buffers "\C-xb\C-m")
(fset 'page-down-buffers "\C-v\C-xb\C-m\C-v")
(fset 'sub-word "\C-f\C-[b\C-y\C-[d\C-@\C-[b\C-[w\C-[f")

;; map macro calls to single key-presses
(global-set-key "\C-z" 'call-last-kbd-macro)
(global-set-key [f5] 'call-last-kbd-macro)
(global-set-key [f7] 'switch-buffers)
(global-set-key [f8] 'page-down-buffers)
(global-set-key "\C-[t" 'sub-word)

;; PREFERENCES

;; disable welcome message
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

;; disable backup files
(setq make-backup-files nil)

;; ask for y/n instead of yes/no
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

;; enable font-lock mode
(global-font-lock-mode t)

;; disable insert-tabs
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; enable remove-trailing-whitespace
(add-hook 'write-file-functions 'delete-trailing-whitespace)

;; re-map delete key
(define-key global-map [delete] 'delete-char)

;; C/C++ STYLE

;; set C tab offset to 4-character
(setq c-basic-offset 4)

;; set C/CC/C++ indent style to K&R
(setq c-default-style '((c-mode . "k&r") (cc-mode . "k&r") (c++-mode . "k&r")))

;; PHP SUPPORT

;; php syntax highlighting
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/php-mode.el")
(require 'php-mode)
(add-hook 'php-mode-user-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

;; php file extensions to include .inc and .html
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.html\\'" . php-mode) ("\\.inc\\'" . php-mode)) auto-mode-alist))

Re:Clean?

On: Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy

So we're going to be using some other creatures shit for our fuel? Hardly clean. It's shit!

If you want to define "clean" by that standard, you may want to avoid beer.

Re:Perhaps a better solution...

On: Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service?

Apparently. If you knew what a compressor does, you would not be recommending refrigeration equipment when clearly what is required is audio equipment.

Vizzini? Truly you have a dizzying intellect.

Just One Example

On: Mass Hack Infects Tens of Thousands of Sites

Here are more details on how such an attack can take place, and the devastation it can cause.

Re:What's that sound?

On: Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?

And the next chart looks rather monochromatic.

The Real Meaning of Bad

On: How Fast is Your Turnaround Time?

Our running joke used to be:
Marketing: We need it real bad!
Engineering: How bad do you need it?
Marketing: <puzzled look>
Engineering: Careful what you wish for... OK, Ops. Ship it!

Re:The one video that sums

On: Has the Novell/Microsoft Deal Made a Difference?

I don't know. This guy seems pretty convincing.

Re:google time

On: Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed

4) Couldn't say "Developers!" more than seven times in a row without getting tongue-tied.

Cheap and Ubiquitous FTW!

On: Microsoft's XO Laptop Strategy

Yes. But imagine a cheap / "free" Windows on every XO -- when access to the Internet becomes more and more readily available:

"That's no Storm Worm..."

;)

Re:Then what is it for?

On: When Not to Use chroot

What's it for?

https://portal.mytesting.org:8080/ (including)
* tinyHTTP (AppWeb, Apache, etc.)
* SQLite (MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
* [chroot-path-0]/www/html/*
* Other ([chroot-path-0]/usr/lib, [chroot-path-0]/bin, etc.)
and repeat...

https://my-test-env.org:8081/

https://my-test-env.org:8082/

https://my-test-env.org:8083/

https://my-test-env.org:8084/ Next, bind /proc to all 5. Then make a script to easily update them from SVN. Done.

Now you have 5 chroot'ed web environments to help your test team (of 5) speed up Alpha testing. May be fraught with bad security? That's not the point.

ZDNet?

On: The Linux Identity Crisis

The article is from ZDNet. The author probably stumbled upon kerneltrap for the first time and thought, "OMG! There's a real *war* happening here! This is news!" -- not realizing that the "war" was business-as-usual.

Another thing the author doesn't seem to realize is that Linux code (the kernel) is forking all the time. It may be support for real-time embedded or support for MMU-less processors, etc. The point is, people experiment, discover something interesting (fork), then try to get the interesting part back into the mainline tree. Happens a lot. Let the code fork in a big way? It will later merge and improve, yet again.

I recommend to anyone covering geek news: Be a lurker for longer than ten minutes and try harder to understand what you're writing about. From the article: "Much like Republicans and Democrats, Linux is dominated by two factions with entirely different ideas." In psychology I think that's called "projection".

Proud Father

On: Velociraptor Had Feathers

And his proud, feathered father.

Secretly Working Where?

On: de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard"

Was that before or after he started secretly working at SCO?

Actually, he really did get the gig at MS -- he just told the rest of us otherwise. ;-)

Safety equipment++

On: Outfitting a Brand New Datacenter?

And a good sized crescent wrench. Absolutely indispensable.

Drop it across the terminals of one of your backup batteries -- when it's disconnected from the grid. When the wrench cools off, store it in a safe place. Makes a great scapegoat when things go wrong. Could save your career...

M. Webster's Explains

On: Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"

trial
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier to try
3: a test of faith, patience, or stamina through subjection to suffering or temptation; broadly : a source of vexation or annoyance

Story of my life

On: Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration

Try explaining anything scientific to your friends -- you soon won't have any.

Re:Wasn't sling or rock that killed Goliath

On: Red Hat Rejects Microsoft Deals

Hair? Yeah. That would be Sampson. Goliath was a a Philistine warrior; Sampson and David both Hebrews.

Unique!

On: For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count

You're right. What a case of mistaken generalization. You're an individual. You *are* unique.

Just like everyone else ;-)

Re:Fixed it for ya!

On: IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities

If Apache made 70% of the webservers in the world, they would also likely be the most hacked webserver in the world ... Oh wait -- they do make 70% of the webservers in the world. Your metaphor fails.

So back to the obvious explanation: the IE team can't code for shit

Needs some modding up, please.

Re:No OpenBSD?

On: Top 12 Operating Systems Vulnerability Survey

Considering that server OSs were examined, why no OpenBSD? Too "obvious"?

Title says, "Top 12"? (Am guessing.)

Speed Up OOo

On: Open Office - What's the Downside?

Here you go.

Correct Link

On: Researchers Spin Out Smaller Electronics Than Ever

Link corrected.