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  1. Get paid more! Right, like you say, modern editors can handle that:

            M-x untabify

  2. Re:Bluetooth on KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Have you tried KDE's BlueDevil? I use a BT headset and stereo headphones without issue on KDE 4.6. The sometimes I have to restart pulseaudio if X is restarted, but that's an easy fix. Otherwise fine.

  3. Re:Wow on The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core · · Score: 1

    Fondue.

  4. Where have we seen this before? on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    I think we all should know the procedure with utility pricing by now:

    1. Prime the consumers.
    2. Create scarcity: stage blackouts and shortages.
    3. Start jacking up prices year after year...

  5. Re:Pirate translators needed on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 1

    ... and generate more ad revenue from the case!

  6. trustedreviews.com... on Designing The Ultimate Netbook · · Score: 1


    needs to figure out what a netsite ought to be first!

    The consumer electronics catalogue/blog fails to present the facts in a consistent way, search sucks, categories not tags, overly opinionated waffle misses that leaves out important facts... click through to read more!
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  7. Finally an explanation for Apple's expensive... on Run Mac OS X On Non-Apple Hardware, With a Dongle · · Score: 1

    hardware: they have to add a $150 for the dongle!

  8. Google Analytics integration with Picasaweb on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    G have many solid product offerings, but fail miserably at providing an integrated/seamless experience across those offerings.

    Picasaweb is still missing the obvious benefits of integrating Analytics... A quick look at the picasa community board turns up 100s of requests for trend/web tracking of album/photo views.

    Enabling google analytics in picasa must be a trivial task, yet there's no official answer for why they haven't done so.

    How can anyone recommend Picasa over flickr, or even facebook for that matter, until they are little more customer focused, and address the quick wins that their user base is asking for. ...rant (conscious raising warning) over.

  9. screen, xmove and recon-x on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? · · Score: 1

    screen is possibly the most underrated GNU tool ever. I could never do without it, but I'm amazed by how many "seasoned" sys admins don't use it. You can learn to use screen in a day -- Ctrl-A and ? will help. I change this keyboard binding with the "escape" command, since I'm a bash user.

    Start your screen sessions from the console when you boot the box, then attach to it under X and remotely over Ssh.

    Unfortunately screen does not solve the problem of persisting X-windows applications, and if you use an server over Wifi, this can be a real problem. Try xmove, though it doesn't cope well with loss of connectivity. There's a little tutorial here.

    There is a commercial app called Recon-X, which I haven't had a chance to try and would like to know of any FOSS alternatives. Check the product page here.

  10. Improved Bluetooth support? on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 1

    There didn't seem to be any info on improved Bluetooth support. Does this one support stereo audio (A2DP) and/or OBEX? What about DUN, so it can be used as a bluetooth modem over HSDPA/3g? The DUN Bt profile is pretty basic.

  11. It's a non-commercial public service on Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? · · Score: 1

    so keep it in that domain and charge a licence fee...

    In countries where a licence fee can't be levied, or enforced, then make it commercial with advertising. Is wiki Geo-IP aware? This is how the Beebeesee does it, and many other TV stations around the Europe.

    Yeah, mark me down, but no one had raised the the specter of a browsing tax.

    Disclaimer: I don't even agree with my own opinions.

  12. Re:lenovo already has ultralight... on Thinkpad X300 Specs Leaked · · Score: 1

    When things get hot, the nipple starts to melt... 1440x900 isn't nearly enough definition.

  13. Perhaps the translator of Weight Lift ... on 2007 Darwin Award Winners · · Score: 1

    should remove himself from the gene pool. The translated submission says the lift was coming up towards her (the victim's face), but the original [Spanish] submission clearly states that it was going down (descendía == descend), i.e. from above and behind her head. It was so stupid, it had to be inaccurate!

  14. Wow, this is just like... on Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade · · Score: 1

    in my favourite animated series "Future boy Conan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Boy_Conan by Miyazaki.

    In the series, solar power is beamed down from space to the Triangle tower. Dr. Lao, the scientist behind solar power development, explains the wrongs of their energy ambitions, and how the people just want to lead simple lives -- I wonder if this applies to Palau?

    The story is based in 2008. It's uncanny! And what prescience, considering he completed it 30 years ago. I just hope he's not right about the tectonic upheavals and the whole apocalyptic part...

  15. Most are glaring bugs that aren't being fixed.... on 611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That FF is buggy is no big revelation. The fact that the source is open to peer review (an OSS advantage) and scrutiny means that there is hope. However, having tried Firefox 2.0b I've noticed it still suffers from chronic memory leaks -- which even seem to permeate into the X server. With a desktop uptime that's measured in months, although KDE does save session state, running such resource corrupting desktop apps isn't an option. I certainly cannot recommend FF to anyone with a PC with less than 1GB RAM, Windows or otherwise. Why consider FF when there better alternatives, such as Opera (closed) and Konqueror (open).

  16. Full compatibility?! on Lenovo Preloading SUSE Linux on ThinkPad · · Score: 1

    Suspend to RAM does not work on most of the IBM T series, especially the new T60. From what I am aware my HP8240 is similar to the T60, and while accelerated X works fine with ATI's drivers, I have never had any success with S3 suspend mode.... and I'm starting to think this is as much to do with ACPI support in the kernel (last tried 2.6.17) as it is to do with X drivers. Wifi (ipw2200) and suspend to disk work fine; haven't tried the modem, but the SD card slot isn't recognised despite compiling the recent kernel driver. Getting linux to work on a full featured laptop shouldn't be that far off -- so long as manufacturers stop making false claims of (implied) full linux compatibility when it's only partial and flakey.

  17. I think you meant to write... on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    stuffed with personally-identifiable data are legend.

  18. skype or gaim/google talk for linux on Skype 2.0 Adds Video · · Score: 1

    Gaim 2.0 should be available in a couple of months, for the usual platforms, integrating audio and video. Specifically, this release is due to support google talk's voice feature. Being a long-term Gaim user, I'll have it on my KDE desktop, and encouraging Windows users to turn to google talk for compatibility.

  19. just the USA on Google Maps, Local Expand To UK · · Score: 1

    now, if you zoom all the way out, you get to see all America's states, including the 51st.

  20. Mobile BT app for Toothing? on What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'? · · Score: 1

    www.proxidating.com seems a good commercial implementation.