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  1. Re:You can still do your own backups. on Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Google does not allow you to POP all your email.

    It does seem as if Google has a time limit as to when you can download/POP mail. I tried to get all my mail from my old Gmail account onto my new hosted domain.

    I could not enable POP for all the mail I ever received. I had to resort to libgmail and hacking its demo archive.py script to get all my mail.

    The whole story is on my blog

  2. Re:Continuations on What are the Next Programming Models? · · Score: 1

    Another great web application framework that uses continuations is Seaside. Implemented in Smalltalk.

  3. Re:good, paypal needs competition on Google Wallet May Compete With Paypal · · Score: 1

    I am looking forward to this a lot.

    Paypal stopped their service in South Africa. Sending them a query asking if and when they will start operating in South Africa again, you get a canned response.

    I hope gwallet comes to South Africa!

  4. Use Stow for custom installed software on AutoPackaging for Linux · · Score: 1

    It amazes me that GNU Stow has not been mentioned yet (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow).

    If the software you are installing uses the autotools, it's this easy to install software:

    $ mkdir /usr/local/stow/swiprolog
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/swiprolog
    $ make; make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/swiprolog

    You can do all this as a non-root user (aside from creating the directory of course). So you will sure that swiprolog didn't write files in funny
    locations.

    Now you need to Stow it (`apt-get install stow` on Debian):

    # As root
    $ stow /usr/local/stow/swiprolog

    This makes symlinks into the /usr/local hierarchy.

    When time for deletion comes:

    $ stow -D /usr/local/stow/swiprolog

    Its clean and has worked for me for many years.

  5. Re:Galeon is unstable under KDE on Galeon Developers Interview · · Score: 1

    Ah no, I have to disagree very strongly here.

    I use Galeon as my primary browser. Version 1.3.5.20030714 in Debian
    unstable.

    My desktop is KDE. I listen to my music with XMMS through the aRts plugin.

    And galeon does not crash on me at all. And it's opened for days, until I
    need to plugin some or the other hard drive.

  6. Re:Love it! on Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors · · Score: 1

    Great statement!

    I'm a Debian user. I respect RedHat for what they have/are doing to Linux. I especially like the fact that they stick to opensource.

    I use KDE. But I prefer Galeon as browser (tabs and such).

    Choice is good.

  7. Kurt is not accepting patches to base system. on AtheOS Hits 0.3.7 · · Score: 1

    He said so on the mailing list a while ago.

    Why would he do that? So that he can re-license it someday, like Tuxracer?