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  1. Re:He's sorta right, but mostly off target on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Nope, tis Breezy. :)

    Add Applications is also present under System -> Administration. The menu entry is owned by a package called 'gnome-app-install', which is depended upon by 'ubuntu-desktop'. If you don't have ubuntu-desktop installed then I suggest you install it, as it will keep the recommended/default set of software that comes with Ubuntu installed (and updated when you upgrade to Dapper).

  2. Re:He's sorta right, but mostly off target on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    It's from my Ubuntu machine.

    It seems like you don't have an issue with "Linux", which is only a kernel. Your problem is that Redhat is different from Debian is different from Ubuntu, etc.

    I guess there is no easy answer. All I can suggest is that you pick a distribution with a good manual and a helpful community, and learn how to use it.

  3. Re:He's sorta right, but mostly off target on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Applications -> Add Applications.

  4. Re:Memory on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Even if all that memory was free(2)'d, it still wouldn't return to the OS.

  5. Re:Skip to Eight: Nautilus Scripts on Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus · · Score: 1

    If the uninstaller removes the add/remove programs entry before the uninstall completes sucessfully, it is broken.

    Since re-writing Windows to enable removal of running programs is not going to happen, the uninstaller should have aborted at the first failure and rolled back the operation.

  6. Re:Standardize the Kernel API!! on Time for a Linux Bug-Fixing Cycle · · Score: 4, Insightful
  7. Re:The ESC key annoys me on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I realise that this isn't going to make you jump ship, but if you find yourself on a machine with only vim, try :behave mswin. It enables windows-like shortcuts such as C-z for undo, C-s for save, C-x for cut, C-c for copy and C-v for paste. Probably more but those are the only ones I use often enough to remember.

  8. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch.
    Stockholm Syndome, perhaps?
  9. Re:Same thing? on OpenDocument Voted In By ISO · · Score: 1
  10. Re:ffmpeg, nice! on Summer of Code Now Taking Student Applications · · Score: 1

    WMA9/WMV9 (is this the same as VC-1?) would be nice though. I'm sure it will happen in time.

  11. Re:Related news on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    For more indepth information that any human should really posess about the topic, see Setuid Demystified.

  12. Re:Missing *pair* of parentheses on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, change the 0 to another number and it wails, but I guess 0 is a valid comparison since 0 = NULL... damn.

  13. Re:Missing *pair* of parentheses on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    GCC would have warned about a comparison between an int and a pointer. This is why you should always work with -Werror! :)

  14. Re:Already Corrected? on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In which case it won't be running the X server, which is the program in which this flaw resides. :)

  15. Re:Better email on Why Email is a Bad Collaboration Tool · · Score: 1

    You are describing read reciepts + the assumption that all email is lost until a reciept is recieved.

  16. Re:I'm not impressed by the article on Why Email is a Bad Collaboration Tool · · Score: 1
    In the article it is clearly stated, that you may encrypt the traffic between the client machine and the server, but once there, the traffic between SMTP hosts is not encrypted.
    Actually an awful lot of it is encrypted. But if you really want end to end encryption, use it.
  17. Re:Whatever...try fat32 partition on Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? · · Score: 1

    People will suck it down and buy MTP-capable devices. This has the bonus effect that the device will be able to prevent content from being copied off of it--helping fight those who would use their MP3 players and cameras as portable disks to infringe copyright.

  18. Re:Screw the EU on EU/Microsoft Antitrust Case Delves Into Tech · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your faith in the good intentions of the EU Commission is likewise moronic. It is simply fortunate that our goal (of getting MS to open their protocols) is temporarily aligned with the goal of the Commission (extortion).

  19. Re:net here! on $400 Million IP Experiment Making Some Nervous · · Score: 1

    What's weird is the disconnect between patents that have been accepted and the UKPO's own information on the subject: http://www.patent.gov.uk/media/pressrelease/2001/1 203.htm states clearly that "Present UK law (the Patents Act 1977) and the European Patent Convention (1973) exclude computer software as such ... from patent protection".

  20. Re:frack that on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 0

    Silence, taffer!

  21. Re:That is incorrect. on $400 Million IP Experiment Making Some Nervous · · Score: 1

    Some are rejected. LWZ wasn't. MPEG-related patents aren't. :(

  22. Re:net here! on $400 Million IP Experiment Making Some Nervous · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although the European Patent Convention forbids the patenting of software, individual EU member states have varying laws on the matter. In the UK, software has already been quite patentable for a while. :/

  23. Re:It was about the applications not the OS on Three Windows to Linux Migrations (and Vice Versa) · · Score: 1

    What servers does Lightning use on the backend? IF your organisation is small then you could get away with subscribing to and publishing iCalendar files to a Webdav share -- in which case all you need is Apache. If you want something to scale a little more, you would want to use CalDAV (think HTTP + special verbs for managing calendars).

    There are several CalDAV servers available, I don't know how which ones are good and which are bad however. See this article for some pointers to server software.

    The other alternative is to ditch Web/CalDAV entirely and go with something proprietry like Hula (which might actually use CalDAV these days, I haven't checked) or Novel Groupwise or something like that. Also there are web based calendaring systems like Scooby and phpCalendar (most of which make their calendars available over WebDAV/CalDAV anyway, so you could choose when you want to use the web frontend or use a desktop application).

  24. Re:I don't get the point on Linspire Announces Freespire Distribution · · Score: 1

    Those files are not part of Ubuntu.

    You can find out which package they came from with "dpkg --search /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll"; then find out where that package came from with "apt-cache policy packagename".

  25. Re:WRONG! on Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    In the United States, and assuming that the copyright owner of the game in question is a corporation, the copyright will expire 90 years after the game was published. Assuming Congress doesn't extend copyright terms any further.