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  1. Well, there is https://necunos.com/

  2. Found the guy who's never dealt with the cursed b43 in any OS that isn't sold by Microsoft.

    Yes, a truly horrible piece of hardware. I've vowed never to buy anything that has Broadcom in it.

  3. Re:So long on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    geat for Canada, not great for UK. It's bad enough we are leaving the EU, but joining US would be the literal end

    Maybe we should have some kind of coffee party to stop this happening...

  4. Re:Same country VPN on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    "It does not count where you come from, if you are in another country, they cannot show you anything which is only licensed in your home country and not in the country you are watching from."

    And therein lies the idiocy of the approach. Attempting excessive monetisation of a product will eventually result in people refusing to purchase it. Especially if your product is a bunch of bits.

  5. Modern media on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    "modern media from the 1800s forward seem to have shrinking lifetimes"

    I don't recall having any issues reading Shakespeare, Dumas or Dickens.

  6. Re:My systems on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Most of my machines have ended up being Thinkpads

    Interesting. What did they start out as?

    Desktops.

  7. My systems on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Most of my machines have ended up being Thinkpads (T61, X220, T440p, et al.). I also have a XMG P406.

    All machines run Arch Linux with a choice of Gnome, KDE, IceWM, OpenBox, Fluxbox. The machine is use daily also has Deepin, WindowMaker, Awesome, i3 and Blackbox.

    My preferred text editor is Kate and browser is Firefox or Seamonkey.

  8. Zim or CherryTree on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But my notes are on my local machine and not in "the cloud."

    Having used both for an extended period of time, I've decided Zim works better for me.

  9. Good point, but the Google phones comes with non-replaceable batteries and no SD card slots.

  10. Re:What's the big fuss? on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, this works well as long as the site is going to still be online in 5 (10? or 20?) years time and still have the same URL structure.

  11. Re:Watch Spaceballs, instead on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all about the merchandising...

  12. Kudos on KDE Turns 19 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's come a long way and the current incarnation is robust, intuitive and quite pleasing on the eye.

  13. Re:Holy Cow on Lenovo Could Remake the ThinkPad X300 With Current Technologies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just reformat the hard disk and install Linux. Job done.

  14. Re:Good for developers ... on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 2

    This is the exact scenario where you end up with people still using XP machines and IE6 (seen just last week).

  15. Re:How critical is stability? on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 0

    Do you really believe that "mission-critical" systems don't have outages?

  16. Re:Not enough application success stories on FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later · · Score: 1

    I completely disagree with your point. Part of the attraction for me is the ability to switch from one to another at will.

  17. Re:Why not WebKit? on Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta · · Score: 1

    I tried the Linux version, but it crashed or hung quite a lot.

  18. Re:Which one is better? on Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse · · Score: 4, Informative

    In my job, we used JBuilder up to (and including) JBuilder X. However, the enterprise version of JBuilder is prohibitively expensive. We evaluated Eclipse and found that adding the plugins for JBOSS IDE and XDoclet gave us enough functionality to enable us to switch for the majority of our development work. However, we still keep a copy of JBuilder X for Swing development, which (obviously) is not very good in Eclipse.

    One of the intriguing aspects of Eclipse is the rich client platform, which has the potential of becoming a cornerstone of client development for enterprise systems.
  19. Re:Editing? on CeBIT 2005: SLI Shuttle Surfaces · · Score: 1

    But surely this is talking about the company, Shuttle, which is a singular entity. Hence the correct term would be "Shuttle is being ..."

  20. Re:Vicious on Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome · · Score: 1

    Try one of the alternate Windows shells: bb4win, LiteStep, Geoshell, iShell, xoblite, bbLean, SharpE.

  21. Re:He missed one point -- Yeah Like on The War Of The Word · · Score: 1

    Powered Armor Soccer, an awful game in which even the ball shoots back. -- Elf Sternberg It's football, soccer nazi.

  22. Re:What Linux needs is VB on Linux Programming by Example · · Score: 1

    That is a definitely a good joke.

  23. Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch on Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch · · Score: 1

    Surely, these are the names of pubs?

  24. Re:I doubt this is a major problem for Google on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Complaining about popups? Why didn't you do the decent thing and install Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox or K-Meleon?

  25. Re:Well, on Windows on Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program · · Score: 1

    You could bypass explorer altogether by running an alternate shell (litestep, bb4win, ishell, etc.).