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  1. Re:When Debian's Chromium is "no longer supported" on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Debian Stable, as of this writing, has Chromium [1] version 63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1, which is roughly up to date with the current Chrome Stable Channel release. Given this, I'm not sure why you claim it is out of date. Are you running oldstable? In which case, you would have Chromium [2] version 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1, which is indeed about 9 months out of date and vulnerable.

    [1] https://packages.debian.org/st...
    [2] https://packages.debian.org/je...

  2. Shift+space acts as a page-up in Chrome and Firefox, at least.

  3. Re:Official Google Chrome repo issues on Debian on Chrome 54 Arrives With YouTube Flash Embed Rewriting To HTML5 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Has this always been a problem or did it start again in Chrome 54? You may want to file a bug report about it? https://crbug.com/new

  4. Re:Will others follow suit? on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    Umm, Chrome for Mac has been 64-bit only for a year now. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

  5. Re:lesson learned? on eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 2

    There is another way to go about it. If you trust Google's Linux software repository, you can install the repo's GPG key first: https://www.google.com/linuxre...

    After that, all downloads from Google, e.g. apt-get install google-chrome-stable, gets the same GPG verification as anything from Debian/Ubuntu. Downloads are still over HTTP, just like Debian/Ubuntu, because the GPG verification is there to actually verify the downloads.

  6. scalereg on Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? · · Score: 1

    The So Cal Linux Expo and Texas Linux Fest both use scalereg for attendee + staff registration. It can probably be customized to meet your needs without too much effort. (Note, I'm the primary scalereg author.)

  7. Re:Summary of what ESR is doing on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 1

    For ECC, many modern Pentium and i3 CPUs also support ECC. See http://ark.intel.com/products/... for example - 2 core @ 3.8 GHz for $150, perfect for a single process task. Most i5 and i7s have ECC disabled. At that point, just pay the relatively small premium for the Xeon versions.

  8. Re:Well... on Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page · · Score: 1

    No, Chromium development is nothing like Android development. You can watch Chromium checkins go in around the clock: http://build.chromium.org/

  9. Re:Or, of course extensions that google doesn't li on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    This is due to Chrome's webrequest extension API: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html

  10. Re:Great news! on Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads · · Score: 1

    Fix has already landed on Chrome Canary: http://crrev.com/231405

  11. Re:Damn on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1
  12. Reprinted from last month's Car and Driver on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1
  13. Re:What's best on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Have you filed a bug? http://new.crbug.com/

  14. Re:Google, pay attention on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    Not going to happen. Google has a dual class shares. Class B Google stock gets 10x more votes.

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental/04/092204.asp

  15. Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see any fear, uncertainty or doubt in the tweet.

    You have the freedom to buy an Android phone of your choice. Buy one that's not locked.

  16. Re:Correction on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    Google Chrome will run if you just extract the .deb file, but the SUID sandbox won't work because it expects the chrome-sandbox binary to be SUID and at the right location.

  17. Re:Correction on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    When the next Google Chrome beta comes out, the two tracks will differ. Until then, they are on the same version.

  18. Re:Extensions security? on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    What sources are you basing your claims of insecurity on? Have you read http://webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/2010/secureextensions/ ?

  19. Re:www.thomas-distributing.com has it all on Which Rechargeable Batteries Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I bought nimh batteries from thomas-distributing as well and I'm happy with them. I also have a bunch of ray-o-vac rechargable alkalines. You should buy the right type of battery depending on your situation:

    The nimh batteries work great for items like mp3 players and cameras that draw a lot of power. Rechargable alkalines tend to die after half an hour in my mp3 player. Rechargable alkalines work better in items like graphing calculators and palmpilots, which does not drain the battery as fast. In these devices, nimh batteries do not work well because they slowly lose their charge over a few weeks and then one day you try to turn on your calculator and it doesn't work.

    In any case, you have to make an effort to remember to charge the batteries, but it really helps the environment because you're reducing the amount of battery waste by 10X-100X.

  20. Re:"Free" on Google Unveils The Google Pack · · Score: 1

    Having your calender off can be bothersome. For example, Firefox will complain about SSL certificates being invalid because the calendar date is earlier than the certificate's start valid date.

  21. cpu shipped in an envelope, burnt chips on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    My roommate's dad decided to ship an athlon in a regular letter envelope. We took it out and straightened out all the smashed pins. Worked fine.

    Then there was the cyrix chip in the socket 5. See, the socket 5 was perfectly symmetrically, so I plugged the cpu in backwards. My room smelled like burnt silicon for a couple days...

  22. Re:WARNING! on Unofficial Babylon 5 Freeware Space Sim Released · · Score: 1

    I downloaded the file using bittorrent, and then checked its edonkey hash against the edonkey link provided on the website and they matched.

  23. Re:shoulda shaved or something on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 3, Funny

    reminds me of Stallman...

  24. Does anyone realize... on Penguins Stuck In Infinite Loop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone realize this news story is half an year old? <sarcasm>let's post some april fool's story tomorrow!</sarcasm>

  25. Re:Dropline GNOME for Slackware on Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0 · · Score: 1

    slight problem, slackware doesn't use PAM.