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  1. Re:I enjoyed the screen shots on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    You can do this too with the Expo plugin for compiz! Sure it's a copy of Exposé for the mac, but it works!

  2. Re:Automatic window arrangement on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    So it's just like running compiz and the scale plugin? GNOME devs shouldnt be reinventing the wheel and making it square at the same time. I hope theres a way in gnome3 to keep the old gnome2 behaviour or they continue to maintain gnome2 because I have a feeling lots of people wont be upgrading!

  3. Re:Please fix the window manager on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    Simply set the workspace count to 1 and dont use em! Workspaces enhance productivity on a desktop, just like having more than one monitor!

  4. Re:What GNOME really needs on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    It does it for most system stuff (like prefs, etc.) but often 3rd party apps arent set to use this (like nvidia-settings). The run as root could be useful for some scripts and stuff, it could just prepend gksudo to the command.

  5. Re:GNOME Shell == Clusterfuck on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And let us use the contextual menu (right click) in list view even if it's loaded with items! I hate going back to icons view just to be able to right click to create a folder!!

  6. Re:WTH on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    GNOME has used two bars in the past (one at the top and one at the bottom) to accomplish the same and there really isn't any need to.

    I use GNOME everyday and I can tell you that having 2 bars is very useful (and you can edit everything, including removing panels if you dont like having 2 of em).
    I personally have the applications list on the bottom one (like Windows) and on the top, I have a bunch of shortcuts to everything I need to use quickly (term, firefox, etc.) and it's very good. It's even more useful when you have 2 screens, you get to have 2 different applications panels and you can distinguish which window is on which screen, unlike Windows.

    I need to have everything I need quickly accessible, ala Windows "Quick Launch". I used to have my windows taskbar 2 units high (in XP and earlier) because I needed more space for the shortcuts. GNOME's solution to this is more elegant, IMO.

  7. Re:WTH on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    I used to run Amarok 1 on gnome (yeah I know..), but now that they f'd it up in 2.0, I switched to Songbird. It has much less features and looks like a copy of iTunes but I know Mozilla is actively working on it :)

  8. Re:How can xterm be improved? on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    Mono is a cancer.

    GNOME Do is wonderful and who cares if it runs on mono? Tomboy notes does too and its well integrated and it doesn't crash.

  9. Re:arguably Apple share the blame on First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    I think the proper fix to this should be in OpenSSHd's iPhone package, setting the config line disabling root access from ssh would fix the issue.

  10. Re:arguably Apple share the blame on First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't OpenSSH developers' problem. The jailbreaking utility should prompt you to change your root password. SSH is only allowing you to remotely log on the device, in the end if your password is weak/default, you shouldn't run an SSH server.

  11. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1
  12. Re:That was no ISP on Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net · · Score: 1

    traceroute to telkom.co.za (196.43.22.222), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
      1 192.168.20.2 (192.168.20.2) 0.224 ms 0.152 ms 0.154 ms
      2 ip-209-172-xx-xx.static.privatedns.com (209.172.xx.xx) 0.466 ms 0.399 ms 0.449 ms
      3 te8-1.v0709.cl-core04.mtl.iweb.com (67.205.127.130) 0.811 ms 0.625 ms 0.760 ms
      4 te8-1.v0699.cl-core06.mtl.iweb.com (67.205.127.86) 0.841 ms 0.793 ms 0.650 ms
      5 te2-2.mpd01.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.104.154.201) 1.084 ms 0.936 ms 0.906 ms
      6 te3-6.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.117) 144.064 ms te4-3.ccr01.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.57) 15.331 ms 15.334 ms
      7 te4-3.ccr01.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.62) 15.503 ms te2-7.ccr01.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.134) 15.607 ms 15.605 ms
      8 telkomsouthafrica.demarc.cogentco.com (38.112.18.42) 273.902 ms 273.908 ms 273.903 ms
      9 rrba-ip-esr-1-ge-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.11.166) 338.869 ms 338.857 ms 338.853 ms
    10 rrba-ip-bssr-1-ge-2-48.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.23.6) 339.263 ms 338.846 ms 338.880 ms
    11 nbsc-ip-bssr-1-atm-5-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.23.30) 351.209 ms 351.220 ms 351.166 ms
    12 nbsc-ip-rcache-1-vif2.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.22.222) 343.911 ms 344.389 ms 344.385 ms

    It aint that fast mind you!
    Same goes for brabys.co.za and ananzi.co.za.

  13. Re:what's the point of IOS? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously at the time IOS was designed, everyone would write their own special-purpose operating system for embedded devices. These days, wouldn't it make more sense to just scrap it and switch to Linux? Lots of other manufacturers are doing it (Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.). This would certainly prevent this kind of embarassment.

    you have no idea how big and dedicated the Cisco IOS is!

  14. Re:Heat death of the Universe coming early? on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    haha same here

  15. Re:Easy answer. on Silent Keyboards for Silent PCs? · · Score: 1

    Please note everyone that Dell is making false advertisment, their Dell QuietKey keyboards are not really quiet, they're one of the loudest keyboard I have ever used!!!

  16. Re:Hmmm... on Silent Keyboards for Silent PCs? · · Score: 1

    That's true ;) I don't know about their desktop keyboards because it has been a while that I used them :P