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  1. Re:Enlightenment on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link, I've wanted this ability for a long long time.

  2. Re:xinerama and xrandr on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 1

    I looked in to this a few years ago, wouldn't work back then so I'm glad some one asked because I'm not in the habit of constantly asking Google the same question everyday and getting the same result.
    I'm not insane, not yet anyway. Plus if you don't have a good search string then you're not going to find good answers. Some of the people here get mad for people asking dumb questions but give the guy a break. At least when (s)he's asking /. they can use real English to describe the problem and have people interpret it.

    And as far as I know even in the previous release of Suse and the 8.04 Ubuntu this was the way to do it but it was a known issue not to work.

  3. Re:No, Seriously... on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    I know, I heard it with a frog, hound etc, so I went to Google it to get it 'right' and snopes of all places had it as a turtle. Interesting story none the less. I assume the scorpion could sting the turtle in the head.

    first that showed up

  4. Re:No, Seriously... on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What did Google and the rest of them expect, they got in to bed with a country that has little to no regard for the privacy of its own citizens, did Google honestly think they would be treated any different? I surely don't feel sorry for them. Google compromised so much in order to "compete in the world economy", and now they are shocked that they got bit?

    The Scorpion and the Turtle.

  5. Re:Lovely encryption on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    Ugh, replied to the wrong post. I need to go home. Sorry

  6. Re:Lovely encryption on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    submitter failed a lot in the summary, TFA says: C3 focuses on transnational Internet crimes, including child pornography that has crossed national boundaries.. It's not just for kiddie porn. It seems they would use the same tech if it was a suggested terrorist pc.

  7. Re:So, the question is... on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah if you're one of the top sites on Google a million probably doesn't mean nearly as much as Mark Cuban thinks it does.

  8. Re:Oh great on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sure they got plenty angry when the got a nice impersonal letter from the Hospital saying "Our bad, sorry about the hair thing, here have a free baseball hat."

  9. Re:Errata on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 1

    You don't need consolation for this; you can always revert back to Bob's revision and have Alice go back and make sure her check in isn't overwriting Bob's code.

  10. Re:From the license... on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that it's more akin to posting a "No Trespassing sign" on the border of your property with out a fence or a auto garage shop saying "No customers allowed in this area". Sure it's easy to get past but don't say you were not warned.
    As said above"Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. In this case they are telling you not to.

  11. Re:making progress on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    I was using Kubuntu and stopped for the same reason, couldn't get wireless (or wired for that matter) working, dropped it was about to go back to Ubuntu when I got the urge to try out OpenSuSE, I hadn't used it since it was regular SuSE. What I liked the most was that OpenSuSE 11.1 give you the option of KDE 3.5 or 4.x That's what did it for me.

    Anyone know where the release notes are for 4.3? They say they added all this functionality and fixed thousands of bugs but i can't seem to find a nice list to see if what I wanted fixed or added was done. I don't like the idea of install it and find out. I'd rather read the documentation.

  12. Re:Per-desktop activities assignments on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    For KDE when did that ability go away? In 3.5 you can have each virtual desktop have it's own wallpaper.
    I was told that in 4.3 you would finally be able to have SystemTray widgets on two differnt toolbars. I've ofetn lamented for this at work were I use a dual display setup on y laptop.

    When I read the release notes I hope it's there.

    My new wish is that if you use dual displays then each display is it's on virtual desktop.

  13. Re:Derivative work on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    Regardless of why doesn't it still boils down to data loss? Plus the fact that he didn't lose his data, his data is still there. That it is unusable for him means that he should have done better than "remember this paragraph". If only we had a way of reading books that wasn't depended on some one else taking the copy you already have and deleting it. I have a hard time feeling for people who go out of their way to make reading a book more complicated and got in to bed with Amazon. That said even with a regular book it could have become unreadable or lost etc. He should have wrote his notes some where else and had better pointers to specific sections/pages etc.

  14. Re:Apostrophe Overload on Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content · · Score: 1

    Just for you
    Unnecessary Quotations
    Enjoy

  15. Re:I am still waiting... on Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. I use the silverlight service at home at it works great for me. I output from my computer to my LCD TV and it looks good to me. As a bonus since it's not flashed based I can full screen it on my TD and still do stuff on my monitor.

  16. Re:You could always let the user choose on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    I often wonder why I need password makes on my smart phone. I can be fairly sure that no one is able to see my type them in, and what with the way the keyboard is set up it's easy to type in a shift numeric sign wrong. The kicker is that it won't even allow me to paste passwords in to fields. I get the whole reason for **** but for God's sake man at least let me take the risk and allow me to copy and paste.

  17. Re:Carriers != Manufacturers on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the carrier doesn't market the phone then the manufacture will. These manufactures do just well in non US markets, in fact I doubt it would hurt the manufacture at all.

  18. Re:Lame Gov on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1

    you're exactly right, because the whole of the entire government can only focus on one single task at a time. It is completely impossible that the government could divide itself in to groups to handle different tasks.

  19. Re:Not murder on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    If what your doing is wrong you have an obligation to go against the will of the company. Not to Godwin the thread but this parallels Nuremberg. Just following orders is not an excuse.

  20. Re:Hmmm.... on Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    So basically everything that can be written has been written?
    It depends like you said on the threshold but their are other forces at work. Esp when you are catching the most stupid of plagiarism. For example in my courts class in college we had to do case briefs of famous supreme court rulings. The kid who sat next to me asked for an extension for one and was give a few more days to work on it. For him working on it meant copying whole sections verbatim from one of our textbooks. Yeah he got caught, and no it wasn't hard to prove. Some students might be more crafty than others but for the most part I think you could catch the large majority of them. If their is doubt the professor could always ask them to explain something, for example: "What did you mean by this part?" or by comparing results to essays on tests where you don't have an oppertunity to get a paper of the internet. /yes I know He didn't really say everything that can be invented has been invented.

  21. Re:no wonder he was unemployed.... on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay this is what you need to do. First take off the tinfoil hat. Next is go outside, you really need to get some sunlight.

  22. Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: 1

    Conversely the fact that a law exists is not a justification of its disobedience, sir.

  23. Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You might just be the first person I read on /. that doesn't try to delude or justify his actions. You'll find that most of the people here either say it's only illegal because the law says it is (which is kinda of redundant) or that they are just making backup copies. Either way they aren't gonna like you.

    My hat is off to you sir.

  24. Re:A right to do what? on Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies · · Score: 1, Funny

    But... but.. but... we love false apologies on /.
    The only thing the Parent did wrong use a false analogy about lawnmowers instead of a false analogy involving cars.
    Joking aside you analogy is more accurate.

  25. 10,191 on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the year 10,191 lots of cool stuff will start happening around then.