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  1. Re:sigh on A Mixed Review For Google Chrome On Linux · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I use KDE and I know it doesn't really look much like a GTK app, but I (and all KDE users) would _really_ appreciate it if it would use the KDE file dialog. Every time the GTK+ file dialog pops up, I want to hurt an animal. A really cute animal, if possible.

  2. Re:how much is it? on Nokia Releases Linux Handset · · Score: 1

    I did not know this; I was wondering why all my pictures turn out like crap. Thank you.

  3. Re:Woo Hoo!!! on New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It does run on 64-bit (natively), I have it running right now. The linux installer has both 32 and 64 bit binaries inside it, and I must say, it works (almost) flawlessly. There is one issue with it I have, but I think KWin is to blame rather than S2. It also runs _really_ fast on linux, and it's just a beta. I'd expect it to be much better when it gets released.

  4. There are hardware issues with GPS this iteration. on First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/021774.html It seems that GPS doesn't work very well with a microSD card plugged in ... and this appears to be a hardware issue. If this is the case, I am thinking about sending the package back when it arrives (it's scheduled for tomorrow via UPS). It'll cost an arm and a leg to send it to the US and back otherwise (from Canada, thanks to UPS and customs).

  5. Re:I was about to order one on First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On that note, Emacs is known to be working on the OpenMoko. One of the primary reasons I'm getting one -- a phone that runs Emacs.

  6. Re:First fanboy alert. on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    I have. Our company gave us each an iPod Touch last Christmas, and I do use it to ssh a lot of the time. It is _quite_ annoying to type on; typing passwords is _really_ annoying (for say, sudo), and in that case, I really wish I had some type of tactile response. Typing English is fine though, I've typed up probably 80% of a term paper on the bus with it, but for SSH/terminal use, you're fighting with the keyboard, not using it.

  7. Re:Student market on Review of Asus Linux-Based Eee PC 701 · · Score: 1

    That's what SSH is for.

  8. Let us not be so narrow-sighted... on New Music Player to Spread Files Wirelessly · · Score: 1

    It says media files, not just music ... which invariably means drive-by porn!

    That being said, with all the media fuss over the RIAA suits, I think the creators are TRYING to piss them off.

  9. Re:Like most of the *NIX family . . . on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not go one step further?
    GTK+ = GIMP ToolKit
    GIMP = GNU Image Manipulation Program
    GNU = GNU's Not Unix

    from here, ad infinitum.

  10. Re:Motive? on Paramount Sues Ohio Man For $100,000 · · Score: 1

    A simple dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda will do the trick. Instead of zeroing it, randomizing it would be a far better alternative -- this is the premise behind the 'shred' command too, except you random the entire hard-drive, which bypasses the filesystem journal (I think?)

  11. Re:Interesting, considering... on Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation · · Score: 1

    They are a company that is always hiring; they seem to have a more public hiring method than the hire-by-referral that is most of Vancouver. They also look toward universities for internships/co-op work terms a LOT, and you always see them as one of the booths at career fairs.

  12. Re:A letter from the hydrogen-powered future on Canon's Fuel Cell May Drive Portable Gear · · Score: 0

    First sentence: as an energy transport mechanism * It's late at night.

  13. Re:A letter from the hydrogen-powered future on Canon's Fuel Cell May Drive Portable Gear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right now, anyway, the whole point of hydrogen fuel cells is not to see hydrogen as a PRODUCER of energy; the current goal is to use fuel cells as a hydrogen transport mechanism. The rationale behind this is simple; the only byproducts (at least with proton-exchange membrane fuel stacks) are water and heat, which is not a pollutant. The manufacture of hydrogen will produce pollutants, however the vehicle (or in this case, the electronic device) has far from an ideal methods to deal with these pollutants compared to say a power plant. Fuel cells have other uses, also, e.g. they charge instantly. The point of fuel cells is to avoid pollutants at the consumer level, and to bring the majority of it to the industrial level, where it may be dealt with in a much more socially responsible way (compared to your tailpipe). This is the current goal with fuel cells, whether or not this will be a viable solution for our dependency on fossil fuels is limited to the minds of the engineers in the R+D sector.

  14. What about video games? on Interview With Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    Technically games are also software, and require programmers to program them. By his philosophy, all games should be free? How will we get good games then, if we don't pay a whole bunch of people to make them? Surely people are not able to make Halo 2 in their spare time.

  15. Causation and Correlation. on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please do not mix them up. They studies found a correlation between them. By using a title such as ``Too Much Computers Hurts Learning'', it implies that too much computers cause a decrease in learning abilities. What they found was a correlation, not a causation. It is dangerous to misinterpret statistics.