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  1. Re:Now.... on A 'salty' source of coherent light · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are they mutated?

  2. Put your mouse below the keyboard on In Search of Compact Keyboard That Doesn't Suck? · · Score: 1

    That's what I did, I have my SUN Type6 (Because I keep forgetting to order the Type5 USB adaptor) and my laptop keyboard equidistant, and in front of them is my huge (30x48cm IIRC) mousepad with my laser mouse on it, works brilliantly.

  3. Re:digg yourself on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    Or make it a form that only subscribers can use.

  4. Re:Translation please on Novell Open Sources AppArmor · · Score: 1

    LSM implies kernel space, but the management would be in userspace. As for the rest, let's just say I'll stick with SELinux.

  5. Re:Hate the way it handles TABS! on Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    That's an option, most of us like returning to the last used tab.

    Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Browsing -> Cycle in page bar order

  6. Re:RootKit Revealer on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    That's not how rootkit revealer works.

    It scans for differences between what system calls reveal, and what low level device access reveals. Due to the slowdown and potential for crashes that low level interception would cause the theory is that all rootkits can be seen this way.

  7. Re:cheap = good on DVD Writer RoundUp · · Score: 1

    Pioneer just don't like supporting Australia full stop, I bought a DVR-K05 for my laptop and just needed the CSEL firmware for it, but they don't have it on their site (despite being shipped with some drives mine wasn't) I tried e-mailing then and got told that they don't support them. But I still bought a 110 for my desktop the other week, as they are the best burners I've used.

  8. Re:Razor Wars on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 1

    A classic Aussie sketch comedy show in the 80's did a 27 (IIRC) blade razor, the last one there was "just having a bit of a bludge".

  9. Re:The only reason I boot into Win is to print on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    Try the kprinter frontend, it's pretty nice. I use it talking to a network'd cups backend and never had a problem. It offers multi-up, control of duplexing etc.

  10. Lets start with the FHS on The Role of the Operating System In the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And then work on the LSB. I'd like it if I could even just use generic "linux" applications on Debian as opposed to only ancient versions of RedHat.

  11. Re:The real question on Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s · · Score: 1

    The counterfit mosfet's are really bad, legit dealers are ending up with stock of them from their supply chain, and the problem is until you load them you just can't tell.

  12. Re:There's probably no mention of subsidizing on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 1

    What like Australia, where *again* we're different from the rest of the world in digital?

  13. Re:68% of what? on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    apt-get install libc6

    wow, that took 5 minutes (including the download time), I must be some sort of admin god! (Or just use a competent disto).

  14. Re:Definitely an idea whose time has come on Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? · · Score: 1

    Actually with FUSE now in distro kernels filesystems are now added to the list of low level things that can be closed source on linux without legal problems.

  15. Re:what Ubuntu could do is... on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except that breaks having a single-cd installer, one of the fundamentals of Ubuntu, and it's something they'll hold on to for as long as possible.

    Now what they might do is use free space on the live-cd as storage for any KDE packages they can't fit on the main installer CD.

  16. Re:The user should not have to care on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have you actually given a solid try to Inkscape? I admit I'm not a graphic designer, but I have to do enough that I always keep a copy of Illustrator to hand, but the current version of Inkscape does everything I need except for dealing with the Illustrator file format.

    And more on topic, I went Gnome 1.4 -> KDE 2 -> KDE 3 (With a few months of IceWM due to being stuck on a P120 for a while) -> KDE 3.2 -> GNOME 2.6 (running 2.10 IIRC). I still have two KDE apps that I run, konsole (can't stand anything else), and K3b (I know there are gnome ones out there, just haven't tried them).

  17. Re:Too bad about SGI on Silicon Graphics To Be Delisted From NYSE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >Too bad they couldn't adapt to the changes of the computing world.
    They tried, haven't you heard of the SGI 320 series, relativly nice machines, but they just got slaughtered by dell et al.

    If SGI go it will mean that large scale SMP is essentially dead, I believe that they're the only people other then IBM doing systems > 64 CPU's at the moment, and IBM don't scale all the way up to 512 CPU's.

    But I still love my pair of SGI trinitrons on my desk, the best monitors I've ever used, and that includes some of the best LCD's money can buy.

  18. Re:Two birds, one stone on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    But not the PCI bus, I'm probably going to have to use the PCI proxy code in mac-on-linux to do that (trying to implement an alsa driver for a pro soundcard without
      OS X drivers)

  19. The list... on SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong · · Score: 3, Funny

    The character 'a'
    The character 'b'
    The character 'c' ...
    The character 'A' ...
    The character '{'

    You get the idea.

    But seriously, most of them sound very dodgy, and the JFS issue has already been looked over by people better then SCO.

  20. Re:Indeed. on Australian Do Not Call Register · · Score: 1

    I don't know which Melbourne you live in, but in the one I'm in someone 2k away can have completely opposite weather (some days, today it's just hot everywhere...)

  21. Re:Linux on How The NSA Secures Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    SELinux isn't a distribution, it's a kernel patch and some utilities to enable mandatory access control. Fedora and RHEL both ship with SELinux enabled as standard, full SELinux support has just come through in debian (although much of it has been there for years).

    SELinux is a neat solution to a problem that few users have.

  22. Re:Less-qualified on Are Media Writers Biased Towards Apple? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd say that most people who use macs to do real work do so in any of the following apps, ALL GUI based, (and several mac only):

    * Adobe Photoshop
    * Adobe Illustrator
    * Adobe InDesign
    * Quark xPress
    * Digidesign ProTools
    * Apple Logic
    * Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo

  23. I love the openbsd release songs on Lyrics for OpenBSD 3.8 Song Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever I set up an Asterisk PBX for someone it always comes with the OBSD songs as the hold music, makes for some confused callers :-)

  24. Two quick counter examples on An Intro To Editing Audio On Linux · · Score: 1

    The E-MU line (Which have some nice features and excellent converters), and the entire Digidesign range. Both refuse to open specs so others can write drivers.

  25. Re:Seems reasonable on Java or C: Is One More Secure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    So you check the return value from printf?

    From the man page:
    These functions return the number of characters printed (not including the trailing `\0' used to end output to strings). snprintf and vsnprintf do not write more than size bytes (including the trailing '\0'), and return -1 if the output was truncated due to this limit. (Thus until glibc 2.0.6. Since glibc 2.1 these functions follow the C99 standard and return the number of characters (excluding the trailing '\0') which would have been written to the final string if enough space had been available.)