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  1. Re:"Hardware accelerated PDF viewers'' ? on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 1

    Use F10. One press of F10 activates the main menu, both on Linux and Windows. Another press dismisses the menu. I don't know about Macs (do they have an F10 key ?) but a real (though nonstandard) key like F10 is much easier to code for than a modifier like Alt.

    By default Macs (X.3 anyway) use F10 for show all application windows in Expose.

  2. Re:No REALLY!! How can I get NTFS-like permissions on Windows to Linux Migration in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    To go along with the other posters, yes ACLs give you this control over permissions and I believe they are included by default in the 2.6 kernel. Certainly Fedora Core 3 and RHEL 4 include them.

  3. Re:Social Security on State of the Union · · Score: 1

    In Australia, we've had compulsory private superannuation since I started working in the 80's, and I've never had a year where the earnings on my superannuation has exceeded the fees paid to my fund managers.

    I'm not sure who your superannuation is with but for the year ending 2004, my Australian fund (UniSuper) earned 8.5% and charged me 0.5% in managment funds. Might be time for you to shop around?

  4. Re:Tiger's punch was last year... on Windows Longhorn Beta for June Release · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the updated pre-release copies of Tiger Server and Client which were mailed out to Select member in the last week or so. I've been testing both and using 10.4 as my primary desktop with few problems.

    And yes, Spotlight is included and works well.

  5. Re:guestBox on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if you go to the guestBox site you'll find you can login with username test and password test.

  6. Re:They also do things worse... on Is iPod the Razor or the Blade? · · Score: 1

    The drives themselves don't have eject buttons - the keyboards do. I've got a 12" Powerbook and a 10" G5 and neither of those drives have an eject button.

  7. Re:and here in Australia... on 8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK · · Score: 1

    I've got a smaller download limit (12GB) but much faster pipe through iPrimus.

    6Mb/s down and 384Kb/s up for AUD$49 per month.

  8. Re:Missing dynamic DNS support on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link.

  9. Re:Missing dynamic DNS support on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    In particular, a parameter usually needs to be passed to the DHCP client to "send the hostname" (which allows the DHCP server to update the DNS records). This parameter is almost always off by default. On Redhat this is just annoying; you can turn it on fairly easily.

    This is something that's always annoyed me with RedHat. Can you tell me how it's turned on?

  10. Re:Doesn't this violate the equal time rule? on Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Even if the court ruled that this required equal time, the extra time would likely be given to Bush. After all the film does feature Kerry rather than Bush.

    Fairly unsound, I know...

  11. Re:Browser War on John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser · · Score: 2, Informative

    FreePOPs is a great utility which allows you to check webmail (including Gmail / Hotmail / any Squirellmail based site) as if it were a standard POP3 account.

    It runs on Linux, OS X and Windows. If anyone is interested, I've written a guide for installing and using FreePOPs with OS X and Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage.

  12. Re:Google web-scrapes the latest news on The Google News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Try FreePOPs - it allows you to access almost any web-based email service (including Gmail) as if it were a POP3 account so there are no ads.

    Runs on OS X, Linux / Unix and Windows...

  13. Re:Boycott! on Star Wars DVD Box Set Released · · Score: 1

    I'm having a few problems with the Torrent of the files. How do I find such people? ;-)

  14. Re:Nokia 7610 Sync on Apple Releases 10.3.5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read about this issue this morning (though I don't have a 7610, it still stayed in my head).

    Much the same thing is happening with users who bought Nokia's 7610 mobile phone, expecting that it would naturally sync with the Mac. It doesn't and, according to a recent post at discussions.info.apple.com, it won't, at least not until Apple changes the technology iSync uses to communicate with Symbian devices like the 7610.

    The Nokia 6600, 3650 and 3660 used a program called mRouter. The 7610 uses different software, which requires iSync to switch to SyncML. But nobody knows when that might happen. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a sync tool that worked with the executives of Microsoft, Apple and Nokia?

    From http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/09/10920 22394057.html

  15. Re:Move on to free sources for the same informatio on Searching for The New York Times · · Score: 1

    You can also use Aaron Swartz's link generator to create archive-safe links for the NYT. Two of our prominent Australian newspapers are planning to require registration in the near future - I wonder if that will drop their search rankings (which are currently much higher than the NYT).

  16. Re:Active Directory on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see a link to information on this - last I read, Samba (and Panther) could be PDCs which offered more than NT4 PDCs but couldn't offer full AD functionality.

  17. Re:More drive space is always nice on 2.8TB in a Power Mac G5? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Of course, g5 xserves don't appear to be happening (ship date gets pushed back, back, back) anytime soon.

    We (Australian EDU) have ten dual G5 cluster nodes - they arrived at least two months ago.

  18. Re:Business Lesson 101 on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Common problem.. on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be:

    ctrl+x cuts
    ctrl+c copies
    ctrl+v pastes

    The idea being that x, c and v are right next to each other and easy to use with one hand in conjunction with the ctrl key. No jokes about what the other hand is doing...

  20. Re:Too much space! on 60GB iPod Coming? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're using an Apple computer, it's easy to use their built-in home directory encryption and mirror that on your iPod.

  21. Re:Continue Anyway on Microsoft Behind $12M Opera Settlement · · Score: 1

    Even better, I get an "Unsupported browser error" on Shutterfly despite my browser explicitly being mentioned as supported (Safari / OS X). Great coding there guys...

  22. Re:There are customers outside US also on iTunes One Year Anniversary Sparks Comparison · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are at least two online music stores for Australians to use. http://bigpondmusic.com/home.asp and http://www.destramusic.com/.

    Sure, they are both Windows only (and they both suck), but they are there. Personally I use www.allofmp3.com in Russia. See today's Age newspaper for more details.

  23. Re:Microsoft offering a competitive environment? on iTunes One Year Anniversary Sparks Comparison · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft is only entering the game as a software provider? No Microsoft music store? Did you think Microsoft could really resist leaving any pie untouched?

    http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5176411.html

    Microsoft said Friday that the second half of the year will see the launch of its online music store, a long-expected entry into an increasingly crowded business dominated by Apple Computer's iTunes.

    The software giant this week began offering sneak peaks of the service to independent record labels at the South by Southwest trade show in Austin, Texas. Though Microsoft remains mum about specific details, this week's dog and pony show signals the company's heightened ambitions to enter the world of online music sales with a bang.

  24. What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The first of April perhaps...

  25. Re:I don't get it on Getting Around Printer-Manufacturer Abuse · · Score: 1

    I just bought a Canon i865 printer for about AUD$300. Why did I buy a colour printer?

    Firstly, it prints A4 size photos with quality as good, or better than, the local photo shop. Yes, they cost AUD$3 or $4 each, but that's much less than the AUD$12 - $15 the photo shop charges. Colour matching is much easier as well. Sure, the ink may not last as long without fading, but I can always print them again...

    Secondly, for printing documents in colour. It's much more convenient to print a fifteen page business plan at a a cost of several dollars and then have it professionally bound, than it is to pay AUD$1 - $2 per page for colour laser printing.

    I couldn't be happier with my purchase and I'd buy one again in a second.