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  1. If it only it were just that - The UK navy cannot maintain the propulsion systems on Type 45 destroyers by itself because of ITAR!

  2. Save it before it all slips through your fingers on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    I wish I could go back in time and tell my 18yo self to a) open a savings account b) set up an automated weekly transfer of some small amount into it.

  3. > I won't beleaguer the point, but you need to be slapped on the ass with a dictionary.
    Beleaguer? Really? I think you meant 'belabour'.

  4. Jasper's List on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Lazarus Form Recovery - keeps a continuous history of all forms. Essential if your job consists of manipulating web interfaces all day.
    Saved Password Editor - Clue's in the name.
    Check4Changes - Reloads a page and alerts you [sound or email] when a specific element has changed.
    reallyremember - saves passwords on forms with autocomplete="off" set .
    Tree Style Tab - move the tabs to the side of the browser instead of the top.

  5. Re:Ten times stronger? on Nanotech Makes Steel 10x Stronger · · Score: 1

    you have to do something called plunge grinding

    Plunge grinding was only legalised in the UK in 1952, and those prosecuted were all posthumously pardoned by the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

  6. Re:Let off some steam, Bennett on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 1

    Best Schwarzenegger reference ever!

  7. Re:When I'm editing on one of our Linux servers on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Besides, who wants all the extra kruft that goes along with Gedit or Kate on a server?

    If you want to use Kate to edit files on a server:

    File > Open > fish://servername/path/to/file

    More about fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

    That's just one thing I love about Kate. Something else I like is the 'map' of the file you're working on, in the scroll bar.

    Settings > Configure > Editor Component > Appearance > Borders > Show scrollbar mini-map.

    Screenie: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/...

  8. Re:So in other words, it will be just like Firewir on Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? · · Score: 1

    > When the USB 3 alternative is 2-3 times less expensive

    What does '2-3 times less expensive' mean?

  9. Re:Shields Down! on Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec · · Score: 1

    How on earth is this only a +4? This is the most interesting comment I've seen on /. in months!

  10. Re:costs on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 1

    This was my experience too. I record a load of stuff, "aah, I'll watch it later", and before long I've got a backlog of days worth of video. Not long after I stop adding stuff to the recording schedule because there's already a load to watch. Net result: don't record, don't watch. Haven't had a TV license for 18 months now. This isn't something that happened because I got the internet - I had broadband 5 years before I got MythTV working. Perhaps that says something about how hard it is to get MythTV working ;-)

  11. Re:We have. It's called the X Window System. on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    If you want usable remote X with session support, use x2go. ssh -XC is fine for one-off apps, but if you ever need to disconnect and reconnect from elsewhere, x2go is the answer.

  12. Re:How does this happen? on TEPCO Workers Remove Wrong Pipe Get Splashed With Radioactive Water · · Score: 1

    > They lack a complete inability to think on their feet and respond in a timely manner.

    So...are you saying they don't have a problem? Or that they do have a lack of a problem? Or perhaps both?

  13. Re:The mythical "new user" on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 2

    Most people have moved to the ctrl+c and ctrl+v mechanism

    Really? How would you know that?

  14. KDE user here... on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    ...basking in the glory of a desktop environment that doesn't go out of it's way to remove stuff I use and stop me from working the way I want to. I think all the non-GNOME desktops can expect to gain some users from this, and I dearly hope that that no-middle-click-to-paste virus doesn't infect any other software projects.