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  1. Kindle file format on Free Comic Book Day Event Features Neil Gaiman, the Simpsons · · Score: 1

    Why they call it all "Kindle" files when I found it is a normal PDF? Or are there some other "Kindle" file formats which I may not be able to read on normal Free Linux?

  2. Re:QWERTY on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 1

    The last Linux QWERTY phone was N900 which I still use. But that is 5+ years old. (Maybe you have N950 but that was not a really public release.)

  3. QWERTY on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 1

    "is needed because touchscreen keyboards remain modestly effective and while 'Voice input is an option"

    So what about ... a keyboard?

  4. Aren't the legs stretched out needlessly late? It does not seem to me they were already fully deployed and fixed during the final touch down.

  5. Re:No surprise here on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 1

    Spreading even more the PHP plague is a crime.

  6. Re:Proprietary formats suck. on Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube · · Score: 1

    On my 16-core (32 HT) Haswell the CPU usage is also negligible. But the goal of my past was to show it plays fine even on an ancient hardware.

  7. Re:Proprietary formats suck. on Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube · · Score: 5, Informative

    4 years old i7-2620M: VP9 1080p takes at most 40% core (=20% CPU), 2160p takes at most 150% core (=75% CPU).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... formats 248 and 313 respectively.

  8. It is clear what happens on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    It will defend itself.

  9. It is required to rename files in File Explorer on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    I was once told by a MS-Windows user that he would be fine (or even welcome) showing the extensions but he can't set it that way. As then when you click a filename in File Explorer for renaming and write the new name (sure without typing the dot-and-extension) the file loses its extension.

  10. Re:Electric not the answer on The Best, and Worst, Places To Drive Your Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Googled some U.S. used car shop. For Model S I see 90% of price for 2014 model - similar Skoda has 70% price. It makes sense to me it keeps its value - the motor does not wear and the battery will be still OK even after 10+ years (when 7 y.o. Roadsters are 80%+).

  11. Re:Electric not the answer on The Best, and Worst, Places To Drive Your Electric Car · · Score: 1

    You can check those with Tesla Roadster 2008 - resale value is high (USD 60000 - 50% of purchase price) and batter capacity is also still fine (80% and more).

  12. Re:Nope on Could Tizen Be the Next Android? · · Score: 3, Informative

    No Apps => Noone buys it

    Tizen runs Android apps by ACL; as I heard.

  13. Re:SMTP != distributed on Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google · · Score: 1

    For the reception: Everyone has (or should have) his own primary MX SMTP server (or at least small groups of people have their own primary MX SMTP server) so no single point of failure (no single IP adress) can break significant number of people.

  14. Re:SMTP != distributed on Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google · · Score: 1

    Initial SMTP server IP address can be localhost, what's the problem?

  15. SMTP!=gmail on Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google · · Score: 1

    "leaving users in China with no way of sending or receiving emails" - SMTP has been designed so that it has no single point of failure. Why one poor webmail service failure can affect SMTP users in China (stated in general)? That's their problem if they made themselves dependent on some 3rd party service they have no control of and it is good they finally see it.

  16. Public, not unsecured on Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Providing all my WiFi hotspots unencrypted free for all around and I find my network perfectly secure. Security is ssh+openvpn one can use on top of it.

  17. Re:Give us QWERTY on Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review · · Score: 1

    OK, you are right. I meant more the flip-out QWERTY. I have tried the Blackberry keyboard but it is too small and it also does not have enough keys - primarily arrow keys. It is IMO more for SMSes, not for editor/shell. So maybe the QWERTY is covered by Blackberry for QWERTY users market as I see.

  18. Give us QWERTY on Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review · · Score: 1

    > Differentiation is difficult in the smartphone market these days.

    > all are nice upgrades but are only iterative

    Please give us one huge upgrade - simple QWERTY. Last QWERTY phone is N900 from 2009. The next will be Jolla+TOHKBD in 2015 just thanks to a community funding effort (but still with weak hardware from 2013). Everybody in forums wants QWERTY but no single manufacturer makes one.

    Interesting both QWERTY phones also run Linux OS (that is not Android) despite both features are technically completely unrelated. And there are very few non-QWERTY Linux OS phones.

  19. Re:Why to develop anything? on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 1

    Maybe there is some need for extension (although I have never found it) but in that case - systemd is still too buggy to be deployed in a real OS. After any upgrade/update I am dealing with daemons refusing to start, system upgrade takes _whole_night_ because systemd crashed on an assert - on each host upgraded etc. etc.
    It is similar to pulseaudio, since that time I had to learn all the options of audio software how to deal with silent audio which always worked before pulseaudio deployment.

  20. Re:Why to develop anything? on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 2

    upstart is event based, it has replaced sysvinit in RHEL-6 and RHEL-6 still worked, I have noticed it has replaced init only after some time using it. systemd's scope is needlessly large for the even based parallelization, systemd replaces everything what worked and nobody complained before.

  21. Why to develop anything? on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 1

    Linux worked better - or rather it really worked - before systemd. Why to develop anything? Just keep the old proven and _working_ daemons.

  22. Re:What a gap... on Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 · · Score: 1

    You can order Jolla from its website, there are usually some EUR100 discount coupons around. For TOHKBD you can contact its author. Unfortunately given the low-end hardware it has it is all a bit pricy compared to Android phones from Asia.

  23. Re:What a gap... on Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 · · Score: 2

    For N900 replacement look for Jolla+TOHKBD.

  24. Re:What a gap... on Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 · · Score: 1

    Because N900 is the only phone out there running Linux OS - not just the Linux kernel like Android but the full userland (mostly GNU), incl. bash, glibc etc.

  25. Re:Most people write far less. on Consumer-Grade SSDs Survive Two Petabytes of Writes · · Score: 1

    Programmer, SSD for 3 years on Linux, 27TB written (160GB SSD).