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  1. Re:Simple Question on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    There are a whole bunch of services that will let you do this. I use http://csoft.co.uk/ for sending SMS messages from my Nagios system to my mobile phone, and it works really well. Of course, it costs money each time a message is sent... which is why there is demand for using IM services over the Internet in the first place.

  2. Re:Within the retail sector... on Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Within the retail sector... on Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Evolution Fails Critical Test w/GPG Signatures on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the authors of the PGP/MIME would like to hear the details of the flaws you have uncovered in their RFC.

  5. Re:There was GPGDisk on Undocumented Bypass in PGP Whole Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    Read the thread I linked to.

  6. Re:There was GPGDisk on Undocumented Bypass in PGP Whole Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    TrueCrypt is not licensed under the GPL. It uses its own crummy license which has has serious issues WRT free(dom)ness.

  7. Re:The Gimp Interface on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    Well hold on--there are two separate classes of windows that we are talking about here. The document windows, and the toolbox and palette windows.

    If I raise a document window, I already do get the toolbox and palette windows raised. So I assumed you were talking about the other image document windows being raised -- not the toolbox and palettes.

    However after replying I did some thinking and decided that I would find it useful if all the GIMP's document windows were raised together. I filed a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483159 but it was promptly RESOLVED NOTABUG. Oh well.

  8. Re:The Gimp Interface on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    It's even worse... at least the last time I tried it, raising one window doesn't raise them all. So if you switch to a web browser or something and go back to the Gimp, you have to manually raise all the windows (or minimize the web browser and anything else).


    Hmm... this doesn't happen with any other programs though. If I give the focus to an Epiphany window, all the other Epiphany windows don't come to the front, etc...
  9. Re:In a lot of ways, Gimp is more intuitive than P on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. I just opened an image and made loads of different brush strokes; each one is present in th undo history, right back to the creation of the image.

  10. Re:New version of GIMP? on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    What crop box? Make a selection, then go to the Image menu and select Crop to Selection. No dialog box that I can see...

  11. Re:What I find truly dumb.... on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    Cite please?

  12. Re:Perfect snapshot of Debian's developers' arroga on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    You are free to ignore the people who tell you to RTFM and instead listen to those who will help you out.

  13. Re:This points to a wider problem... on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    How does it do that? There are not more hours in the day simply because some politicians decreed that we put our clocks forward for six months of the year.

  14. Re:not the only timezone problem on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    Is there a bug filed about that?

  15. Re:Debian did the right thing on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no difference between what happened then and what is happening now. In both cases, the update is being rolled into the next point release of the stable distribution. Note that this has nothing to do with security updates.

    It is a shame that the updated tzdata package did not enter the Debian ("etch") 4.0r1 point release... I would welcome an explanation for why this was the case, but then again this is Slashdot, not LWN. :)

  16. Re:Debian did the right thing on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    What have log timestamps got to do with time zones?

  17. Re:Is it a security update? on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    They did? When?

  18. Re:Debian keeps getting sillier every day. on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    Having the out-of-date tzdata package does not result in incorrect time.

  19. Re:Volatile versus update on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    So why is there no "non-China" repository in Debian, as they restrict import and use of cryptograhic technology? Smells like politics to me...


    non-US existed because a significant number of Debian Developers, not to mention infrastructure (i.e., harwdare) exists within the United States.
  20. Re:Volatile versus update on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a good post, it was full of inaccuracy!

  21. Re:Q: Why not cooperate? A: Because I am free. on Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I do it because I see a post of notable quality, but I can't mod it up (having not received any mod points for several years... no idea why).

  22. Re:Go read copyright law about derivative works, on OSI Asks Microsoft to Change the MS-PL · · Score: 1

    Theo? Is that you?

  23. Re:xpdf etc on Zero-day Exploit in PDF With Adobe Reader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DRM, execution of JavaScript code and selective toggling of layers.

  24. Re:what about copying comments? on Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten · · Score: 1

    AVATAR IS BACK!!?

  25. Re:Unix Gnome on GNOME 2.20 Released · · Score: 1

    If that was your point then why didn't you make it in the first place, instead of making the (false) claim that the file chooser had not improved for years?