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  1. Re:Wrote my own on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    This looks really impressive compare to other alternatives that I've tried.

  2. what kind of dedup? on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    Do you need dedup with dynamic block sizes? Or is fixed block size enough? Comparing data domain (or similar products) with ZFS's dedup (or most other primary storage "dedup" filesystems) is comparing apples and oranges.

  3. Re:Linux I/O scheduling on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    What I have done for a while is have a swap partition that I disable normally, but have a wrapper script that swapon it and then hibernate. Eventually I don't care about it enough to use it.

  4. Re:tibiwangzi on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    I was going to comment on that, but I RTFA and it's correct there :-)

  5. Re:Wow on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 1

    ["cultural revolution" that spawned the current Chinese Communist Party government] gets rated informative?

  6. Re:Ideology meet reality on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    Nah, time for everyone to just switch to IE.

  7. Re:60% faster loss of privacy on Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost · · Score: 1

    That is not limited to firefox, almost every graphical browser is "vulnerable" to this

  8. Re:It seems the article also tested a netbook on IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life · · Score: 1

    "On the netbook, Chrome was slightly ahead of IE8."

  9. Re:How about some autoupdate? on Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability) · · Score: 1

    Well, consider that we have no full time developers and makes about $3000 a year from GSoC... comparing to firefox would be a bit unfair, no?

  10. Re:Blaming the wrong ones on Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability) · · Score: 1

    First of all, to that security company. Good job really publicizing a vulnerability without checking with unpaid developers of a complete open source project.

    Actually, they notified us about it a couple weeks ago, and gave us enough time to fix it before announcing the vulnerability.

  11. Re:$4 a line?? on Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about that, I was reading that Tencent was paying people around 1K/month

  12. Re:This is a patent I can get behind on Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI · · Score: 1

    HTTP is just one of the possible transports for SOAP, so saying SOAP reinvented HTTP would be like... I think I will spare you from a bad analogy this time.

  13. Re:What kind of question is that? on How Long Should an Open Source Project Support Users? · · Score: 1

    tickets are only closed by inactivity if it's pending, which means we requested information from the ticket submitter. Which ticket is this, and did you get back to us with the information?

  14. Re:Pidgin + OTR on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 1

    More like due to crappy protocol.

  15. Re:Suggesting nightlies to regular users?! on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    comparing nightly to stable version?

  16. Re:Let's head some comments off on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    You mean reduces usb initialization _to_ said time, right?

  17. Re:As long as you're asking on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    there's fscache which will probably be merged soon. RHEL5 already ships with it, so it's probably stable enough. It only works with NFS though.

  18. if only they can see it on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 2, Interesting

    just talked to someone in China (Xian), and he told me he couldn't get to it...

  19. Re:fall of open email on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    how would you request permission?

  20. 666 on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    And my car's plate ends in 666. I personally don't mind it though

  21. Re:No, not SourceForge on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    Also, quite a few projects have pulled the source to previous releases (a violation of the GPL that these projects were released under; gaim is one of them). Their management of projects and overall administration leaves MUCH to be desired.

    We haven't pulled the source to previous releases, we just moved them to elsewhere. All previous releases are tagged in our monotone repository, you can follow the instruction here to get it:

    http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/UsingPidginMonotone
  22. Re:How to unfork: on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    This was how it was initially done, except it caused various problems since manually resizing a GtkPaned (if I remember correctly) causes weird behavior when you change the request size of the child (which is how automatic resize is implemented).

    If someone can come up with a clean patch that can make both work at the same time, we will gladly accept it. Of course, whiners are whiners, not coders.

  23. Re:Didn't learn lesson from javascript on Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    > And if Ubuntu was really concerned about security they would ship
    > it by default with a web browser already set up under a separate
    > username with strict selinux policies.

    It is non-trivial to setup, but I use firefox under a different
    username today. It doesn't solve the problem of cookie stealing
    though.

  24. Re:Why are people allowed to possess guns in the U on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    About five people in Asia died from it and it was reported as a 'worldwide pandemic.'
    More like 774 people dying worldwide in 8096 cases. I have no idea where you get your number from.
  25. Re:Gaim funding on Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM · · Score: 1

    Originally out of a developer's own pocket. Later some nice people offered pro-bono support.