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  1. Good news on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 2

    This is good news. Google Earth is one of my favorite applications, but I have been frustrated by the resolution of many areas outside of cities. I will have to do better at hiding my secret nuclear missile silo though. :-)

  2. Re:Typical Microsoft on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 0

    Linux is superior because it doesn't detract from our freedom. Microsoft has been actively working against software user's freedom from their very beginning.

  3. Re:Typical Microsoft on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 0

    It is not a superior product since it doesn't run on Linux unlike Google Sky.

  4. Re:how to download and play in linux on Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try the MediaPlayerConnectivity Firefox addon.

  5. Re:Rage Against the Chinese? on Cyber Attacks against Tibetan Communities · · Score: 1

    Buddhists don't believe in a god.

  6. Re:The only thing that matters: EMAIL on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    No, I was saying that Gmail is better than Yahoo mail because it has IMAP access while Yahoo does not. It is not necessary to be rude.

  7. Re:The only thing that matters: EMAIL on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Even better: it has IMAP.

  8. Re:flickr on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    F-Spot will export to Picasaweb, Flickr and others. Also there is an addon for Firefox called Firefox Universal Uploader that will do the same function for many sites.

  9. Re:The only thing that matters: EMAIL on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    I have mostly stopped using Yahoo! mail because of the lack of IMAP support. Both Gmail and AOL mail have IMAP support. I hate POP3. Using IMAP allows you the choice of using an email client or webmail as well as having the same email available on your laptop as you have on your desktop.

  10. Re:DLINK DNS-323 on Current Recommendations For a Home File Server? · · Score: 1

    I am having problems with foreign characters in filenames not displaying properly. This is apparently fixed in the upcoming firmware revision.

  11. Re:DLINK DNS-323 on Current Recommendations For a Home File Server? · · Score: 1

    I just bought one and put two 500Gb drives in it. It also acts as a daap media server, so it is a great place to store all of your mp3 files. Make sure you have the latest firmware before you put anything on it. The older firmware had problems with the ext3 file system. The latest version went back to ext2.

  12. If you think that you need this thing . . . on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    then you should consider changing to a more stable operating system.

  13. Using the irivier Clix on Linux on Syncing Music Players In Linux? · · Score: 3, Informative

    A quick Google search got me this: Using the irivier Clix on Linux

  14. Re:can't see peacefire.org! on Yes Virginia, ISPs Have Silently Blocked Web Sites · · Score: 1

    I tried several anonymous proxy servers and still couldn't reach peacfire, so perhaps their server is down for some reason.

  15. Re:Not even custom on 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    There are others. See http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html. I am not an accountant, so I don't know what is good and what is not, but accounting is often brought up a reason for needing Windows, though there seem to be several options on Linux.

  16. Re:Not even custom on 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Quasar?

  17. Re:Anti-Apple week on Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs · · Score: 1

    In a similar vein is this article, talking about the advanced 3G capabilities of Japanese cell phones.

  18. Perimeter Institute on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1

    Lee Smolin is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics which has an excellent public lecture series on physics and other scientific subjects. I have attended many of these lectures and they are always fascinating. These lectures are recorded and are available on PI's website in Windows Media format.

  19. YouTube a sex site? on Steal This Film · · Score: 1

    According to the Netsweeper filtering software installed by my local library (http://www.kpl.org/), YouTube is classified as a "sex site" so I am not allowed view this video. The Kitchener Public Library treats adults like children.

  20. Quasar on When Will OSS Financial Apps Catch Up? · · Score: 1

    Linux Canada has an open source business accounting package called Quasar.

  21. Re:Poorly designed on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1

    You didn't pay to read my post and were not forced to read it. Don't whine about it.

  22. Poorly designed on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am not impressed. I installed this thing and it tells me that my pictures are located in Y:\pics instead of ~/pics. Also, it is too stupid to realize that the simlink on the desktop is the same directory and it indexes everything twice. Stupid!

  23. Sign the Petition on French MPs Consider P2P Downloads Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sign the petition for a global licence by L'Alliance Public-Artists (public and artists for a legal solution for exchanges on the Internet). The organization mentioned in the BBC story is L'Association Des Audionautes. All pages are in French. Use Google Language Tools if you need a translation.

  24. Re:Lorentz transform anyone? on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry · · Score: 2, Informative

    I found this reference :
    Multidimensional Time Simplifies General Relativity
    Authors: Mayer, Alexander
    Affiliation: MIT
    Journal: American Physical Society, Second Meeting of the Northwest Section 2000 May 19-20, 2000 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, abstract #CP1.013
    Publication Date: 05/2000
    Abstract
    The Minkowski metric is interpreted to imply that time is multidimensional. Multidimensional time simplifies the derivation of equations describing gravitational relativistic phenomena and challenges interpretations of the theory in the strong field limit.

    and this one
    Title: On the Cause of Geodetic Satellite Accelerations and Other Correlated Unmodeled Phenomena
    Authors: Mayer, A. F.
    Affiliation: AA(Affymetrix, Inc., 3380 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051 United States ; amayer@alum.mit.edu)
    Journal: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #G41B-0363
    Publication Date: 12/2005
    Origin: AGU
    AGU Keywords: 1229 Reference systems, 1243 Space geodetic surveys, 6964 Radio wave propagation, 7504 Celestial mechanics, 7969 Satellite drag (1241)
    Abstract Copyright: (c) 2005: American Geophysical Union
    Bibliographic Code: 2005AGUFM.G41B0363M
    Abstract
    An oversight in the development of the Einstein field equations requires a well-defined amendment to general relativity that very slightly modifies the weak-field Schwarzschild geometry yielding unambiguous new predictions of gravitational relativistic phenomena. . .etc.

  25. Understanding Evolution on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    A good resource on evolution is the University of California Museum of Paleontology's Understanding Evolution page at http://evolution.berkeley.edu