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  1. Re:Love KDE on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 2

    I love KDE. It really should have been the default on Ubuntu.

  2. They changed the music on Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years With Free Browser-Based Version · · Score: 1

    It used to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied in the original PC version

  3. Re:doesn't look like much now, but... on Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years With Free Browser-Based Version · · Score: 2

    Too bad you didn't have a look at Ultima Underworld, which was released 2 months before Wolfenstein 3D, and had way better 3D graphics (with a lower framerate)

  4. Re:Minor correction in from Google on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    "Do no Evil" seem to be becoming "Be less evil than Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and Facebook"...

  5. Re:LaTeX on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 2, Funny
  6. Titanic Super 3D on How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Check out the (parody) trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxj1mou03M

  7. For Linux - Back in Time on Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? · · Score: 1

    It's like the Linux version of Flyback or Timevault.

    http://backintime.le-web.org/

  8. Re:InfoWorld at it again on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's what nohup is for

  9. Some Clarifications on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to this article: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/3895-google-insists-on-google-wallet.html

    1. Developers outside the US are exempted
    2. Google Wallet charges a float 5%, Paypal charges $0.30 + 2.9%. Google Wallet is only more expensive if your app costs > $14.28. Considering the prices of most Android apps, I'd say calling Google Wallet "costlier" is a downright lie.

  10. Re:Where is that fixed font check box post? on Big Internet Players Propose DMARC Anti-Phishing Protocol · · Score: 1

    That checklist is for address spam, not phishing
    Here is it if you want to try adapting from it: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

  11. Creative Ziio on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 2

    http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-ZiiO-7-Entertainment-Tablet-16GB/M/B004DJQXDW.htm

    Resistive Screen, comes with a stylus.
    Runs Android but has not access to Android Market - not a problem, you can still download APKs and install it onto the device.
    Evernote would be the app you you are looking for for Note-taking, you can download the APK for that no problem - it's freeware.

  12. Re:Experience on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    "It's okay for other people to die as long as my privacy is preserved"

  13. Re:Honeycomb on Android 4.0 Source Code Coming "Soon" · · Score: 1

    There's a huge difference between lying and changing your mind.

  14. Re:falling ahead? on Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour · · Score: 1

    What kind of FUD is this?

    The entire OS in Android is also C based.
    The application stack runs a Dalvik VM which (since Froyo) does JIT compilation. Just about all the CPU-intensive stuff (i.e. UI drawing) is done in the C side through JNI. In any case with JIT, the performance difference between C and compiled bytecode is insignificant.

  15. RMS doesn't even know what he's talking about on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    Android for mobile phones is still completedly free and open sourced. If you want the source, get the Gingerbread 2.3.4 source code, which is the latest version of Android for mobile phones. Honeycomb is NOT a mobile phone OS, therefore it's not valid to say that Android is not open-sourced for mobile phones.

    Android for tablets is currently not open-sourced. I have access to the Honeycomb source code and it's not hard to see why - Google has pretty much hacked in tablet support and it looks like a rush job to get a tablet version of Android out so that Motorola, Samsung, etc will be able to push out tablets to compete with the iPad. Think of Honeycomb as a fork off Android, or a feature branch.

    Android is apparently first and foremost a mobile phone OS, and Google apparently only wants to release the Android source code that is able to run on mobile phones. The good news is, Ice Cream Sandwich is the release where all the features of Honeycomb will be properly merged back into the mobile phone trunk code. Higher resolution mobile phones will be able to use the Honeycomb UI features like Fragments.

  16. CleverNickName on HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year · · Score: 1

    I wonder what this guy have to say about this...

  17. Re:Cold war turns hot on HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents · · Score: 1

    It's like a third country getting nuclear capabilities to match the US and the USSR back during the cold war.

    "Hi guys! I have nukes and ICBMs now! Give me one billion gadzillion dollars! No? What is this MAD thing you guys keep talking about? Ah who cares, I'm going to fire an ICBM at you and see what happens after..."

  18. "(Strictly protect)" on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Just reading through a few of the cables that have leaked regarding my country and I came across several cables that have named names of sources with the tag "(strictly protect)". Now, in my country, their lives are certainly not in danger, but their jobs certainly are.

    The biggest achievement of cablegate would be to make everyone think twice about talking to any US diplomats.

  19. Re:QML on Aaron Seigo On KDE SC 5.0 — and What Getting There Means · · Score: 1

    "throwing away"?

    You're saying like as if writing Qt5 app in C++ will no longer be possible.

  20. Re:Version compatibility on Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client · · Score: 1

    Did you read the part that says
    "The need to match versions of Chrome with versions of the SDK is temporary; this restriction will be removed once we stabilize the Native Client application binary interface (ABI)."

  21. The purpose of NaCl, IMO... on Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client · · Score: 1

    ...is to allow the reuse of code that has already been written in C or C++

    At the same time, it makes it easier to port applications and games that have already been written in C or C++ to run in a web browser, hosted on a webpage.
    With the NaCl port of Qt, it will also be easy to write applications that can be built to run on various platform, including NaCl.

  22. Prior art on Jeff Bezos Wants To Put an Airbag In Your iPhone · · Score: 5, Interesting
  23. Re:You should just buy one of these on Build Your Own Camera, Launch It Like a Grenade · · Score: 1

    Obviously you would either move after you launch it, or you send a small patrol to another location to launch it. Pretty much the same SOP used by artillery batteries.

  24. Used to have a postfix + mysql + courier-imap + .. on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    ... + squirrelmail + apache + spamassassin (later switched to dspam)

    I used this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

    It was great when it started out. It handles multiple domains. Handled spam well. Ran on a low end PC. Handled email for my family and a couple of friends.

    Then it became a fucking pain in the ass to maintain. Mainly the spam filtering started failing, and it was a resource drain. Switched from spamassassin to dspam which improved the situation. But dspam was a fucking chore to train the filter.

    Eventually I gave up. It took too much of my precious time to manage all the shit on my own and I moved my domains to Google Apps and can't be happier.

  25. If Anonymous were any good... on PayPal Hands Over 1,000 IP Addresses To the FBI · · Score: 1

    ...they would be using compromised systems or drones to attack their victims.

    My guess is the FBI is sitting on 1000 IP addresses of compromised systems that need to be cleaned.