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  1. I'd better get my butt in gear on New Linux Kernel Development Process · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was planning on submitting a patch to make a certain tablet pass pressure data to X. (By re-mapping Tablet-Pressure to Mouse-Z).

    Now I'll have to rush to get it in without a huge wait before it gets in the main tree.

  2. Re:The case against on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    How about just setting a daily time limit on how long each MAC can stay connected. After 2 hours, they're booted off the network or firewalled off from everything but a page requesting they buy airtime.

  3. Re:Free Wi-Fi? on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    It would be possible that people that own laptops would. But these same people are unlikely to use the desktops. They'd just move on to a cafe where they can use their laptop, instead of staying and ordering a latte and a muffin.

  4. Re:Feel "teh diference" on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    neither of which are installed on that server.

  5. There is a levy on Tapes. on No Levy on iPods in Canada · · Score: 2

    As there is on blank CDs, DVDs, and minidiscs.

  6. Re:Feel "teh diference" on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    There is no X nor desktop environments installed on that server. Just Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, sshd.

  7. Re:I agree on Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future · · Score: 1

    killing the shell created by su does not give it's child processes root priviliges.

  8. Re:Lots of work on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 0

    While they're at it, they could code up some handy VMS syntax. The "cacls" is so much harder to remember than "set acl" and "show acl".

  9. Re:Feel "teh diference" on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    Same goes for Linux. But with both, you have to know what you're doing, and whatch for what dependencies get installed along with the services you do use. For example I have no idea why one of my boxes suddenly has portmap and famd on it (both listening on the internet nic).

  10. Re:I agree on Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future · · Score: 1

    notice where I said

    chroot (newroot) (server)

    There is no shell to type exit in.

  11. Re:I agree on Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future · · Score: 1

    su (nonprivileged user)
    chroot (newroot) (server)

    Each tool does one thing, and does it well.

    Also, chroot jails as non-root still leave you vulnerable to a combination of privilege escalation and chroot breaking vulnerabilities, no matter what OS you're on.

  12. Spammer: on This Year's Ottawa Linux Symposium Covered · · Score: 1

    1) noun. see gestures

  13. Re:Mozilla 1.5 will have SVG on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    It seems to REALLY eat CPU on my system.

    Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
    768MB Ram

    mozilla-firefox-1.0.6
    cairo-0.1.23
    gtk+-2 .6.7
    libxml2-2.6.19
    XML-Parser-2.34
    glib-2.6.4
    xorg-x11-6.8.2
    nvidia-glx-1.0.6629
    linux-2.6.10

  14. Re:Pressure on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do you need pressure sensitivity for a vector graphics package?

  15. Bad Idea! on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    If you do the photo editing in SVG, the edited photo must be re-rendered every time it is displayed (unless exported to eps or something).

  16. Re:Replacing? on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    Just a little gimp gripe....

    Gimp does not support 16 bit colour depth, and Cinepaint (a gimp fork that does) does not support rotating, cropping, or resampling of images.

    I use Cinepaint for my scanned slides, but I'm forced to do cropping, rotations, and resizing from the command line with ImageMagick.

    I like Inkscape very much from what I've seen so far (0.41), and it should round out the Toolset of Cinepaint, ImageMagick, Scribus, SANE, and CUPS nicely. Anyone with a small business should soon be able to do most of their Image & Print work in house on Open Source.

  17. Re:I've gotta ask.... on Cell Phones Predict the Future · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I leave whether this is a good thing as an exercise for the reader.

  18. Re:I've gotta ask.... on Cell Phones Predict the Future · · Score: 1

    This is automatic, tracks lots of people, and requires less observers. I'd imaging the old way would require 4 observers per subject (3shifts daily plus fill-ins/management/analysis), whereas this way one observer could watch tens or hundreds of people.

  19. Holy Ads, bat-man! on Basics of RAID · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's an awful lot of ads for a re-hash of well-known info. Are the editors sure this is frontpage worthy? It looks like a blatant attempt to get page views to me.

  20. Re:What happens when... on U.S. High Level Anti-Piracy Post Created · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, that's steganography, not cryptography.

  22. Isn't a subpoena good enough? on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't comply with a subpoena, you go to jail for contempt of court. Of course a subpoena actually requires judicial approval, whereas a police request for encryption keys does not.

  23. Re:my bad on Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought so too. While it's neat that a big company like Yahoo! is developing for firefox on several platforms, why would anyone want the yahoo toolbar?

  24. Re:hampster? on Top 10 Web Fads · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live in the same city where the site was made. After the fad hit, she made enough money to buy a new beetle and put "hampsterdance.com" decals on each side.

  25. Re:The other side of things. on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 2

    I have no problem with one site tracking my motions through their services. What bothers me is services that track me through multiple unrelated sites, some of which have my personal information on file.