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  1. Rollernet on Email-only Providers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://rollernet.us/ is EXACTLY what you want. They're an email provider. $5/month gets you your IMAP box. Plus oodles of email-related features and an uncluttered web management interface.

  2. Report it right on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's actually funnier the way the teacher DID report it... 'foxfire.exe', not 'firefox.exe' as the /. blurb says.

  3. Re:Translation of story title... on Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC · · Score: 1

    Of course - it's a clever move by Microsoft to try to sabotage other operating systems! Get them to adopt a really bad idea, then MS announces they're ditching it themselves in a service pack... Probably for something more like gsudo, with a password entry dialog.

  4. Re:This could be a boon in IDEs, but... on Elastic Tabstops — An End to Tabs vs. Spaces? · · Score: 1
    That only happens if you put a tab at the end of the line with "if (blah) {" on it. Remove the tab and it works fine. I think some people may have to change their coding style a little, but if they can get over that hurdle I think the benefits could be huge!
    Or, you know, have another level of indenting anywhere within the block between the two closest empty lines. The tables are separated by empty lines. This means that if you have something at a third-level indent in one block, and only go to the second level in another block, adding a "//" to the front of the empty line between the two can cause stuff in the second block to "jump" over to the side.
  5. This could be a boon in IDEs, but... on Elastic Tabstops — An End to Tabs vs. Spaces? · · Score: 1

    If you play with the demonstration editor a bit, you can see that this has potential.

    BUT, I think it would only be useful in editors with some syntactical idea of the code they're editing, like Netbeans/Eclipse/vim and so on. In the demo editor, for example, tabbing will properly indent code only if you put a brace on its own line. If you don't, you get this:

    if (blah) {
                                                          foowayoverhere();
    }

    Because it indents the next code too far, treating it as a comment. This idea could be very useful to coders, but it's really not for normal documents and it should not be implemented in editors where the format of the file is not known or completely understood.

    But for XML editing...

  6. AFS on Windows to Linux Migration - File Server Security? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not give OpenAFS from http://www.openafs.org/ a try? It has its own permissions model, and (if you choose to have it so) is completely Kerberos-5 secured. Local root means literally nothing to AFS. It may be a bit beyond your needs, but in terms of scalability and security it beats NFS any day...

  7. One Change I Like on Kernel 2.6.12 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if anybody cares, but this update supposedly fixes usb-audio so that disconnecting a running sound card won't eliminate your keyboard. Those of you with SB Audigy 2 NX or Extigy cards should probably upgrade.