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  1. Re:First impressions: on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    From my experience it ignores the shared-mime-info database and instead parses /etc/mailcap. It also stores the user's preferences for mime handlers in its own mimeTypes.rdf file, instead of the standard $XDG_DATA_HOME/share/applications/defaults.list.

  2. Re:Sorry but the subject of this article is mislea on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    Actually, as I understand it, if you try to register by telephone, it arranges for FEMA to mail you a form to your home address... ...something tells me the mail might not get through to New Orleans addresses for a while...

  3. Re:release notes app font on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    How to install a font:

    Put it in ~/.fonts

    Thank you, come again!

  4. Re:Blah. on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    A better criticism of Gnome-VFS is that it's a bloody shame that most "Gnome" apps don't actually use them.

    The last time I ran into this was with Gnome 2.10, trying to open an image on a CIFS share: Eye of Gnome (the Gnome image viewer) can't open files via Gnome-VFS.

    I have also seen people griping on blogs that Abiword and other "Gnome" Office applications don't use Gnome-VFS; and of course Openoffice.org doesn't use it.

    All together, not a good situation. :(

  5. Re:release notes app font on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Here is how to install a font:

    Put it in /usr/share/fonts (global) or ~/.fonts (per user).

    That is all.

  6. Re:GNOME lags behind on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    How is config file editing "mandatory sometimes"?

    Either you must edit a config file, or it is optional.

    As for myself, I don't need seem to need to edit any config files to plug in a digital camera and arse about with the pictures therein.

  7. Re:First impressions: on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1
    "Without a copy of KDE on the Live CD I wasn't able to see if Gnome has adopted the Freedesktop.org MIME standard in this release so that downloads in Epiphany and Firefox will default to the same applications that Konqueror does (it doesn't in 2.10)."
    Bull! 2.10 makes use of the freedesktop.org shared mime system.

    One problem is that Firefox completly ignores Gnome's MIME provision library and does all its own stuff. One of the reasons I ditched Firefox for Epiphany is its poor Gnome integration.
  8. Re:What Gnome needs on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Better yet: set /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir to True.

    "If set to true, then Nautilus will use the user's home folder as the desktop. If it is false, then it will use ~/Desktop as the desktop."

    This makes so much sense. It's great!

  9. Re:Have to try it out on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Simple Menu Editor for Gnome

    Maybe the author is not English? Or liked Red Dwarf... :)

  10. Re:If you mean like ATI's I'll stick with Nvidia.. on S3 Graphics Comes out of Hiding with Chrome20 · · Score: 1

    Not to mention breaking suspend/standby/whatever.

  11. Re:which korea? on Korea Post Office Supports XPCOM Based E-Banking · · Score: 1

    Are there any countries with "democratic" in the name that are actually democratic?

  12. Re:The ideas were ok... on Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age · · Score: 1

    Angled quotation marks in varous European languages

    Admittedly this doesn't explain why TFA used the angled quotation marks inside out, or indeed why they were used at all given that the article was written in English. :)

  13. Re:You want to know why gameplay is dead? on Realism vs. Style: the Zelda Debate · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear. Even though you typed 'by' wheny ou meant 'buy'. :)

  14. Re:Disagree on Open Source Alternative for Skype · · Score: 1

    How does that work, anyway? Have they discovered a massive vulnerability in all firewalls? What if two people behind the same IP address want to use Skype?

  15. Re:It could be useful on Massachusetts Explains Legal Concerns for Open Documents · · Score: 1

    Can you please stop making this joke. It's not funny any more.

  16. Re:My point of view on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    postgresql (7.5.0) experimental; urgency=low

        * Initial release of transition package to new multicluster/multiversion
            architecture.

      -- Martin Pitt Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:58:37 +0100

    Silly wabbit, using Unstable on a production machine. ;)

  17. Re:I OWN the cartridge, not RENT / LEASE it on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot for the clarification.

  18. Re:I OWN the cartridge, not RENT / LEASE it on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Not at all. You are entering into a contract with Lexmark: $30 off the purchase price of your cartridge, provided that you return it to Lexmark when it's empty.

    If you don't want to enter the contract, you don't have to; you are free to pay the full price up front.

  19. Re:I OWN the cartridge, not RENT / LEASE it on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    I thought the first-sale doctrine means that the copyright holder of a work is unable to prevent me from reselling my copy of a work--nothing to do with other forms of IP including patents.

  20. Re:Read the opinion please. on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    So why must patents come into it?

    The customer has entered into a contract with Lexmark; the customer breaks the contract; Lexmark sues the customer for breach of contract. Seems pretty simple from where I'm sitting.

  21. Re:quite stupid decision on Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts IT Decision · · Score: 1

    But... MSI files are not RAR archives.

    $ unrar l incoming/xsdref.msi

    UNRAR 3.50 beta 3 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2005 Alexander Roshal

    incoming/xsdref.msi is not RAR archive

  22. Re:quite stupid decision on Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts IT Decision · · Score: 1

    Winrar and Winzip only run on Windows though...

  23. Re:Totally agree on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account · · Score: 1

    This is all absolutely true. However I'm sure people would be willing to cut Paypal a little slack if only their customer service wasn't so goddamn awful!

  24. Re:He was scum on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1
  25. Re:quite stupid decision on Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts IT Decision · · Score: 1

    Everybody assumes that the MS Office 2003 schemas do sneaky things to avoid interoperability... but has anyone actually checked?

    Unfortunatly the schemas are only available in an .MSI package, so I can't check myself.