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  1. Re:Windows? on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    try pmount for umounting next time

  2. Re:Windows? on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    HMM? almost every linux program has extensive keybindings, and there are a few "use keys to move the mouse pointer" programs around.

  3. Re:Defense in depth on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    There is always shoddiness, no exceptions. Somewhere a corner will be cut, or there will be something unknown, or some unexpected issue during construction. So yes, 3 layers, or 10 or how ever many the budget will allow, should be done, preferably by as many different companies as possible. Grated how many companies world wide build nuke plants these days? 1? 3? 4?

  4. Re:Really? on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    But there is limited ability for this plant to do anything as it is currently shutdown for refueling. I'm assuming they are only sort of moving forward with that in that they are not bringing the plant back online until the flooding is over.

  5. Re:The grey line of theft on Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Give your physical media to my 3 and 5 year old, and let me know how long it lasts. Every dvd in my house has been ripped. I'm resistant to blu-ray, although i own around 6, half of which are the dual bly-ray/dvd combo pack things.

    I have no ability to back up a blu-ray disk, my only blu-ray drive is in my PS3(running current software as i like watching netflix on it). In fact most of the combo pack i have also include a ipod, android, etc copy, but you need a windows computer to access it and move it to your device.

  6. Re:The grey line of theft on Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll pay for content/services that I like. I pay for both cable and netflix, but I still download some stuff. Mainly BBC sports coverage, as it doesn't have have commercials, and it has commentators that either were in that sport or a very similar one. I actually found some of the motorcycle racing I normally download on SPEED and decided to watch it. The problem was after lap 3 they went to commercial, had no recap of the qualifying, and simply didn't seem to know what is going on, or who the racer were.

    Short answer, let me pay for good content and I would. Could I pay BBC for the ability to watch a time-shifted live coverage that I can pause so that I can get up to get pizza, tend to my children, take the dog out, etc., I'd probably be willing to pay $200 or so for it.

    As for copyrights, GPL is a copyright license, so is CC, I have some programming out there under GPLv3. Granted I'm an HVAC engineer so it's not at a level that would make it into the kernel(if it was at all kernel related, or even in C), so that does tarnish it some. There is not much of an open community for HVAC stuff.

  7. Re:Try again.. on Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market · · Score: 2

    or when you stop side loading it on your android device. Remember this is android, and sideloading exists. Well a phone maker maybe could remove it, but the device will get hacked, and then CyanogenMod will be available and will have side loading.

  8. Re:Really? on Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39 · · Score: 1

    My video card can do it as well, but Adobe hasn't decided to leverage VDPAU yet, this is not a linux problem. Adobe could also target VA-API, which would allow them to have a large amount of supported systems in one go.

  9. Re:Makes sense... on Vint Cerf Says Fix the Net With More Pipe · · Score: 1

    I haven't bothered to traffic watch, but i would think that they use different subdomains or IP addrs for the website and the "stream". If they do it should be easy to throttle the only "stream" and not the website.

  10. Re:But Microsoft can't bundle a browser?!?!?!?! on Apple To Start Making TVs? · · Score: 1

    The fact that apple doesn't want it does not help me watch my purchased movie on android, or on my linux computer, or anywhere else with a screen.

    Granted I'm free to not buy an apple TV( and I won't if it runs iOS) so I'm not sure what the issue here is.

  11. Re:The invisible hand of captialism on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    Most packages do not include the dependencies either. It should be easy for you to write some automation around ./configure, see gentoo ebuilds.

    If packages are including the deps, how many copies of libpng or libstdc++ do you want running around on your system to patch and update.

  12. Re:omg! on Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Once again... on AMD Rejects SYSmark Benchmark · · Score: 2

    you mean like GCC?

    AMD has contributed a lot to GCC in the past.

  14. Re:Wut? on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    QNX, I'm betting most of the OSs on PLCs are supported for at least 10 years.

    Consumer market sure, but the only reason XP is still around is that they were just able to start the transition with windows 7 and it took them that long to get it out.

  15. Re:The invisible hand of captialism on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    you mean "./configure && make && make install" packed in a tar file isn't the one ring?

  16. Re:The first problem that comes to mind.. on AMD Fusion System Architecture Detailed · · Score: 1

    Just upgraded my desktop, and by that i mean bought a new one, and moved the server into the old one. At some point in the future, this new desktop will become the family computer, I'll have a new desktop, and the server will still be humming along.

    As for "bumping up the price" give me tools to use it for GPGPU while using the PCIe card for video and I'm sold.

    I think some business users will notice, I have a nvidia Quadro in my work laptop for a reason.

  17. Re:More corporate on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    I also would think that git-svn would be used a lot by the devs to talk to the central SVN repo.

  18. Re:Follow the cash on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    because we have to eat, as do our families, full stop. underpaid >>> no pay.

  19. Re:Polish on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) gnome do, with the key bound to "meta", works in xfce and gnome as well.
    2) Set the window list to include all programs, again works just fine in XFCE and gnome.
    3) Right, maybe you'd need to be running compiz to do that, but how is that helpful?
    4) Shell script + .desktop file and away you go, works everywhere. yes this can be done quickly once you have done it once.

    It would be nice if you could come up with a unique feature that is useful...

  20. Re:Selective Reading on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1

    really not much has changed with the windows UI since windows 95... The colors did, and most recently the shape of the start button, and that you have to click an extra time to get the "old" menu up.

  21. Re:Selective Reading on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1

    again with the idea that people should be using the mouse. try that slide to the top of the screen with sloppy focus and autoraise on some time and let me know how it works out for you.

    Keybindings(preferable sensible defaults but can be changed by the user) get used a lot by me for most things. heck even office now lets me script things and assign keys to them with the "quick access toolbar".

    I bet i can do things faster in autocad with the keyboard and the cmdline than the people that grab stuff from the menus. same goes for using bash instead of a gui tool. I just wish autocad understood that I can have more than 3 buttons on my mouse, they handle like 75 on a tablet, but only 3 on a mouse....

  22. Re:Selective Reading on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1

    click? who clicks on things? IMO well designed apps should have keyboard shortcuts for everything useful.

  23. Re:Ya that is how it goes here on Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? · · Score: 1

    so can i "sudo su -"? how about "sudo /bin/bash", "sudo /usr/bin/env bash"? can i set kernel boot pararms or boot from CD/jumpdrive? if so i have root.

    As for only owned machines that fine, but could uni's just start documenting things? like the IP/hostname of the various print servers, and whatnot so those of use that can set up things on our own can?

    P.S. I worked for the helpdesk of a uni that has a student laptop program and 2/3rds of the helpdesk ran linux on their issued computer, and those that did run linux where happy to help if it wasn't too busy and you asked nicely.

  24. Re:Lack of XP support isn't news anymore on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 1

    and not all software will work on OSX... know of a 100% compatable autoCAD/Inventor/Revit/solidworks program for it? how about Excel with VBA? how about the selection program for these guys http://www.luvata.com/ ? right so looks like I'm stuck with winXP for a while....

  25. Re:in other news... on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    but that doesn't support netflix... stupid DRM.