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  1. Re:All of them. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 2

    Google Secure Data Connector. Totally an enterprise focused product. Never really supported (getting it to work involved reading the source code), now announced to be closed with no replacement (though with a suitably long 18 month lead time).

  2. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    There's nothing new here. Most big corporates/Universities etc have proxy'd their traffic for years. That has the same affect. It causes the odd problem with over-zealous blocking, but nothing major.

  3. Re:Enough with this bullshit. on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 2

    That misses the OP's point, which is that since Mozilla is an open source, non-profit org, it *shouldn't* work in this way. If this was about Oracle or Apple or MS or .... then you'd be right. But it's not.

  4. Re:Extended Support Release on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 1

    My recent blog post with links to the relevant extensions for Chrome and Firefox http://www.clune.org/post/20108030713/moderately-private-moderately-secure-browsing (scroll down to skip the general discussion)

  5. Re:Android reduces fragmentation on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 1

    And for us geeks, the Galaxy S is getting ICS. I have it running on my Galaxy S right now via CyanogenMod.

  6. Re:No CI? No version control? on Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    Exactly: "Never let a good crisis go to waste"

  7. Re:Content is keeping me away, not prices of reade on Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall · · Score: 1

    If you buy Kindle books from Amazon, there's Calibre plugins that will automatically strip the DRM. All the O'Reilly books are available (directly from O'Reilly) DRM free. There's also other sources but, yes, there's no general DRM free store yet.

  8. Re:Google search worthless now on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    Google gives different results for different users, so if the OP is logged in they might well get a different set of results to you. Getting to a state where all the results are link spam is impressive though :)

  9. Re:It's symbiotic on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    It's not enough to exist - Opera doesn't have enough market share to really force change in the way FF does.

  10. Re:Happened once on IT Crises vs. Vacation: Sometimes It Isn't Pretty · · Score: 1

    He stared at the file for a few minutes (with #! /usr/bin/perl staring him right in the face) and asked, "What language is this written in?"

    I often get that feeling looking at Perl code :)

  11. Re:Is really a bad, bad idea... on NASA May Outsource · · Score: 1

    The UK Post Office isn't privatised. Yet.

  12. Re:Not just assimilating information on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: 1

    Why are you ruining nice Scotch with ice and *shudder* soda?

  13. Re:Or in other words... on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 1

    I believe that ACPO (the Association of Chief Police Officers) have written a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which they state that IT technicians investigating the matter will not be prosecuted...

    http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/docs/mousexoffences.pdf

  14. Re:Maybe not. on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    My Nikon D200 can do this, so I assume any more recent Nikon can also change the first three chars of the filename. I do as you want to and set the first three letters to my initials.

  15. Re:google running our government IT? on America's New CIO Loves Google · · Score: 1

    You do realize that Google also licenses out their applications for you to run internally right? erm. No. They don't. The only thing you can run internally is a Google search appliance. No gmail. No apps. No docs. No chat. In other words, shut the hell up because you don't know what you're talking about. hm.

  16. Re:ot question, while we're ot on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    I suspect it depends what sector you're in.

  17. Re:ot question, while we're ot on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    None of the professionals I know have top-up health care.

  18. Honeynet Project on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The UK Honeynet Project spotted this a few days earlier :) http://www.ukhoneynet.org/2008/06/30/it-had-to-happen

  19. Re:Linux on the desktop is redundant now on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 1

    I last used it several years ago, so, yes, I should give it another go.

  20. Re:Linux on the desktop is redundant now on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 1

    I agree with a lot of what you say (and I'm a Mac user), but for editing one of the things that keeps me on a Mac is that there is no Linux port of the wonderful TextMate. It's biased to Emacs keybindings, not vi, but it's much the best editor I have ever used. Keyboard short cuts for everything, easy automation, source control, syntax highlighting etc etc.

  21. Re:Fair use!!! on RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized · · Score: 5, Informative

    DG get it. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft supplies 380k mp3s with pdf format booklets and album art. All for less than the physical cd. I've bought several things from them already and intend to buy more.

  22. Re:Clearly you're mistaken on Leopard as the New Vista? · · Score: 1
    To go back to the old suspend mode, rather than the new disk based one:

    biber:~ 502: pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
    hibernatemode 3
    biber:~ 503: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
    biber:~ 504: ls -lh /var/vm/sleepimage
    -rw------T 1 root wheel 2G Oct 19 09:39 /var/vm/sleepimage
    biber:~ 505: sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage
    Frees up 2G of disk space as well. My macbook pro has been happy sleeping again since I reverted.
  23. Re:retarded comments in summary on Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware · · Score: 1

    Bit of a sense of humour failure there....

  24. Re:impossible; other strategies on A Closer Look At Apple Leopard Security · · Score: 1

    I use unison on OS X. I sync my laptop to my desktop (Mail, Firefox, various working directories etc) and once I week I use unison to do a backup of the whole system to an external disk. This means a) I have two copies of everything and three of most important stuff and b) I can use my laptop or my desktop interchangably and know that they are in sync. Powerful and flexible but not that easy to set up for someone that isn't comfortable in *nix land.

  25. Re:too bad on Amazon EC2 Open To All · · Score: 1

    Then use Flexiscale http://www.flexiscale.com/pricing.html It also gives static IPs and normal SAN based backend storage.