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  1. There is still hope on Piracy Built the Romanian IT Industry · · Score: 1
    Romanian monasteries are running GNU/Linux:

    telnet www.golia.ro 80
    Trying 80.96.154.1...
    Connected to www.golia.ro.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    get / HTTP/1.0

    ...
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7j PHP/4.4.0-gentoo-r1
    ...
  2. Re:Slashdotted Video? on Ball Lightning Created In the Lab · · Score: 3, Informative

    Non Flash version on Google video is here

  3. SQLite on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's probably not so clear from the article but Firefox3 contains a relational database, sqlite which can be accessed from Javascript. This allows for a whole new class of applications to be implemented as extensions.

  4. Re:Hard to explain on Stallman — 20 Years of Explaining Free Software · · Score: 1
    He'd have a good excuse if his first language was Spanish
    No, he would not. Go to gnu.org and see that all the localized pages struggle pointlessly to translate Free as in Freedom:
    Spanish: Libre, no gratuito
    Portuguese: Livre E Pela Liberdade
    French: Libre comme dans Liberté
    Romanian: Liber ca în Libertate
    Italian: Libero come in libertà
    Catalan:Lliure segons la definició de llibertat
  5. Re:Been to Bran and the real Castle too on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 1

    Sorry to disappoint you but the real one is here. As you can see there's not much left of it and it's not exactly hard to get to: it's just in the middle of Bucuresti. When it was built it was in the middle of the forest but afterwards the city grew around it. And even the little bit you see is not all from his time, you will have to go into the basement to see the original walls.

  6. Re:Where's the illegal? on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the very link you kindly provided:
    This license does not permit the usage of the specification to create software which supports SWF file playback.
    How is this better than nothing?
  7. Re:Courage ... on Practices of an Agile Developer · · Score: 1
    After reading your comment I realized I didn't even read the review. And your comment caught my eye only because it's next to a +Funny one.

    Now I am facing this dilemma: should I scroll up and read the review? That's like three maybe four page-ups.

    Nah, I have to set a limit. Next time I'll be reading the articles if I go on this path.

  8. No 64 bit version on Adobe and Mozilla Foundation Collaborate on ECMAScript · · Score: 1
    From Tinic's blog:

    # If you study the source code you'll realize that a 64bit port is NOT a recompile away. We are actively working on the 64bit port, the source code right now is still 32bit until the changes required are stabilized.
    Is this a gift to Mozilla or is it: please fix it for us?
  9. This news is for Digg not Slashdot on Another Denial of Service Bug Found in Firefox 2 · · Score: 1
    Making Firefox crash is no big deal. You can find descriptions of how to do this in Bugzilla, there's no secret about it.

    Here is an easy example, a segmentation violation by not specifying the namespace in xbl.

    This is simple way to make people keep away from your site. OTOH I think I just had an idea for browser based minesweeper.

  10. Get your facts straight on When Stallman is Attacked · · Score: 1
    So basically you get to choose between the linux zealot, and a writer
    OK, for the last time, it's Gnu/linux(GPLv2) Gnu/zealot(GPLv3).
  11. The next big thing after the next big thing on Metaverse the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    As many of us know already, after you add Multiverse to the list of sources for apt and you still can't find the package you are looking for, the next step is to compile it yourself.

  12. Old News on Mandatory Hardware Recycling Coming To US? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Mandatory Hardware Recycling Coming To US?
    But we've had this for years!

    Oh wait, it's the United States not us.

  13. Re:Too much work on Tales From Behind Microsoft's Firewall · · Score: 1
    there are still far too many +5 "Windows?! You have to reboot daily and it bluescreens ALL the time! Call me when its stable

    Just when I was about to mod you up for mentioning both Windows and bluescreen in your post I noticed you posted anonymously. Please log in and repost so that you get all the credit you deserve.

    Have reboot now, compiling the 2.6.18-git20 kernel just finished.

  14. A Shorter Summary on Why Microsoft's Zune Scares Apple to the Core · · Score: 5, Informative
    From TFA:

    Mike Elgan is a technology writer and former editor of Windows Magazine.

  15. Re:It's not just the word "breakthrough" on When a Tech 'Breakthrough' Isn't Really · · Score: 1
    Sophisticated language does not go terribly well with most of us that only learned English as a foreign language. I want the information as fast as possible with the least amount of ambiguity.

    BTW, I read the Pope's speech and when asked what was in it I said: he complains about people using reason less an less. Sadly, what happened next only proved him right.

  16. Build your own on Firefox 2.0 'Beta Candidate 1' Released · · Score: 1
    Betas and RCs are for Digg, this is Slashdot.
    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.or g:/cvsroot co mozilla/client.mk
    cd mozilla
    make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
    now make a file .mozconfig (tweak the settings to fit your system):
    . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
    export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
    export BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
    mk_add_options MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
    mk_add_options BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
    ac_add_options --enable-official-branding

    mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-bin

    ac_add_optio ns --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
    ac_add_options --with-user-appdir=.mozilla
    ac_add_options --with-system-png=/usr
    ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg=/usr
    ac_add_options --enable-postscript
    ac_add_options --disable-installer
    ac_add_options --disable-xprint
    ac_add_options --enable-crypto
    ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
    ac_add_options --enable-canvas
    ac_add_options --enable-svg
    ac_add_options --enable-mathml
    ac_add_options --disable-tests
    ac_add_options --disable-gtktest
    ac_add_options --disable-debug
    ac_add_options --enable-xft
    ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer"
    ac_add_options --with-system-zlib=/usr
    ac_add_options --without-system-nspr
    ac_add_options --enable-xinerama
    ac_add_options --enable-extensions=default
    ac_add_options --disable-pedantic
    ac_add_options --disable-long-long-warning
    ac_add_options --enable-single-profile
    ac_add_options --disable-profilesharing
    ac_add_options --enable-gnomevfs
    ac_add_options --disable-updater
    compile:
    make -f client.mk build
    The result of the build will be in mozilla/firefox-bin/dist/bin. use cp -rL to resolve the links when you copy it to some other place.

    You can also put all this in a script and run it with crontab.

  17. Re:I suspect WinFS failed because it was hard to d on WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper · · Score: 1

    Before rebooting the only anomaly I could see was that I could not delete a certain empty directory. I could not find a way to repair without unmounting so I had to reboot. Past that point I could not get any distro to see my raid configuration.

    I am not sure how active or passive a file system is but could I suggest a self-check, self-repair, alert the user function?
    I always thought of ReiserFS as a good candidate for storage in today's document management systems (obstacle's bugs in blob support will likely outlive most of us) but there the number one rule is data integrity.
  18. Re:I suspect WinFS failed because it was hard to d on WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Performance and features are secondary to reliability. I found this out the hard way when my Reiser 3 file system got corrupted. Because the system was on it as well the computer could no longer reboot. I never got a byte back from it, maybe I did not have the knowledge, maybe it was not possible.

    To add insult to injury once I installed xfs I copied some of the data back from a Win2K box that never lost a byte in the 5 years it's been running 24/7.

    I am saddened to say it but it's going to be a very long time before I use Reiser fs again. I'd rather spend more money on faster hardware if I want more speed rather than have to deal with data loss.

  19. Re:simple solutions on Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr · · Score: 1
    what exactly is a photo
    If an image comes out of a digital camera it will most likely have an exif section. This is the easiest thing to check for. OTOH adding some fake exif info to a screenshot is quite trivial.
  20. Beware of Microsoft's advice on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA:
    On its security blog Microsoft wrote: "We strongly recommend that those of you who are still running these older versions of Windows upgrade to a newer, more secure version
    Well, I folowed their advice and upgraded from 32 bit linux to amd_64 linux. Now I have no Macromedia Flash player and there's no hourly trunk build of Firefox.
  21. Crashes on startup on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 2, Informative
    ./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget6setApiEPN5earth4e vll3APIE+0x4b) [0xf65177bb]
    ./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12cre ateWidgetEv+0x8a) [0xf64ff6ba]
    ./libgoogleearth.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidget 9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x7d) [0xf78b180d]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0x277) [0xf6f8cdb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication14internalNotifyE P7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa1) [0xf6ee0731]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObject P6QEvent+0xc9) [0xf6ee1219]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x266) [0xf6f8bd16]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget12showChildrenEb+0x11b) [0xf6f8ba6b]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget4showEv+0x207) [0xf6f8bcb7]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN11QMainWindow4showEv+0x93) [0xf705e513]
    ./libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x33) [0xf6f85383]
    ./libgoogleearth.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensiz eInfoEv+0x621) [0xf7876e61]
    ./libgoogleearth.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3 runEiPPc+0x1569) [0xf789e2d9]
    ./libgoogleearth.so(_ZN5earth6client11ApplicationC 1EiPPcb+0x923) [0xf78a02c3]
    ./googleearth-bin [0x804c73d]
    /lib32/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd2) [0xf6279ea2]
    ./googleearth-bin(__gxx_personality_v0+0x41) [0x804a961]

    We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
    This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
    circumstances. A bug report and debugging data are now being written
    to this text file:

    .googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-0B103505. txt

    This bug report will be sent to Google automatically next time you run
    Google Earth. Its data, which contains no personal information, will help
    us correct problems without bothering you further. If you would rather
    this info not be transmitted, please delete the above file before running
    the program again. If you want bug reports to NEVER be sent, remove the
    above 'crashlogs' directory's read/write permissions.
  22. Re:It's just a tool on Why the Light Has Gone Out on LAMP · · Score: 1
    we have electronic engineers here using Perl. You want to see their scripts? The code looks like baby poo
    Don't worry, once they grow up a bit they'll be able to make one liners.
  23. Re:Mullholland wasn't always wrong on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 2, Funny
    Not only did Mullholland build that dam that collapsed, he also built the Los Angeles Aquaduct

    Old Man: "Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. Piled it for months. But do they call me McGregor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo.."

    Then the old man gestured at the bar.

    "Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin' back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days. But do they call me McGregor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo..."

    Then the old man points out the window.

    "Eh, Laddy, look out to sea. Do ya see that pier that sretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board. But do they call me McGregor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo..."

    Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention.

    "But ya fuck one goat . . . "

  24. It's not so simple on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I see many comments saying: I will hide my data so well nobody will know it exists. There is still one person that knows about that data: you. And you can be forced to reveal it in many ways. Especially today when being accused of anti-communism^W^W terrorism wipes out all your human rights.

  25. This explains it on Americans Are Scarce in Top Programming Contest · · Score: 1
    Some of the Eastern Europeans even seemed slightly embarrassed by their over-representation, saying it isn't evidence of any superior schooling or talent so much as an indicator of how much they have to prove.

    And that's why some of us take the extra step in modesty and try to pass as americans when they purchase various things on the net.