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  1. Re:Standards on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. Fvwm starting on HP-UX then on to Linux, after twm, tvtwm, ctwm, though 30 years is a stretch as Rob Nation didn't write it until 1993.
    I contributed some code to an early version, that Rob fixed, to implement the wrap around window movement at the borders of the virtual desktop. The earliest email exchange with Rob I still have was back in November 1994, so going on to 25 years.
    After all it is the Perfect Window Manager

  2. I'm in the same boat, though it seems, according to this site, that one can use the GVoice app for VOIP without using one's cell phone plan.

  3. I wish my desktop keyboard had one too.

    Buy one for your desktop: USB version Bluethooth version
    Look on Amazon or Jet.

  4. Re:The remaining 1/3 will turn off the lights. on HPE To Spin Out Its Huge Services Business, Merge It With CSC (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    We spun of HP Incorporated which does the more consumer oriented products that most consumers associated with HP, so that is why they got the original logo.

    As an ex-HP from the long ago HP, I still think that the original logo really belongs to what is now Keysight Techonologies.

  5. Re:Gimme an alternative to Gallery2 instead on 9 Open Source Alternatives To Picasa · · Score: 2

    Piwigo. It can import gallery2/gallery3. My ISP supports it via automatic install. At home installing via the .zip/web installer was fine. If you have way too many files you may need to tweak some php params for the import to work. Took me a weekend afternoon to move everything over. The author of Gallery's GreyDragon theme recommends it, moved over his stuff, and recreated his theme, though I actually now use modus instead.

  6. Driving? From London? on Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    One can't drive from London to (continental) Europe that I know off. Ferry or train. through the chunnel, can bring a car over, but by that definition one can already "drive" from London to NYC.

  7. Only in America on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    Money also flows one way for cell service in most of the world, except ... in the USA where both ends pay, so that's not unique to what Comcast is trying to do with internet service.
    Remember landline service? One didn't have to pay to receive calls (not even from the telemarketers).

  8. Meanwhile in the rest of the world ... on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    I'm on vacation on a place far away from the RIAA and MPAA tentacles. Walking back from the beach today I walked into a store where I could get any DVD I wanted, in a little plastic wrap with a color photocopy of the original DVD, for the equivalent of about $1.17, any CD I wanted for $1.75 Who needs napster, limewire, etc?

  9. I don't get the rage on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 2

    I'm a long time Netflix costumer. I started with the 2 or 3 DVD at home plan and later moved on to the 1 DVD at home plan.
    Sometime along the line they gave me free streaming, but it is Windows (them Mac) only. I didn't ask for it
    I mostly run linux at home so I don't bother. I get the DVD, dump stream to my disk, watch it later on demand (no sharing with anyone, delete the file later).
    I get 2 to 3 DVDs per week, build a huge backog, suspend my membership, resume it later.
    They raised my monthly fee a couple of bucks, now they want to recoup the money for the streaming part, and they're given me my couple of bucks back.
    I stopped the streaming immediately and for $9.99/month I get to eventually see 8 to 12 movies a month.
    Seems reasonable.

  10. Re:Space analogy on Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing To Lending Books · · Score: 2, Informative

    Already done. Fahrenheit 451

  11. Re:Answers to Some of the Complaints on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    If you press "ALT" the File / Edit / View menus show up in IE and Windows Explorer. It actually works well, hiding the bars when they aren't used gives you more screen space. Not when it is replaced by another toolbar twice as high that one can't hide.
  12. HP 1x Calculators on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    HP 1xC calculator series, e.g. 12, 15, 16, etc. My HP15C is 22 years old and runs on the original set of batteries.

  13. quietly ... on Flaws In Intel Processors Quietly Patched · · Score: 1

    > has been quietly released...

    One of the files in the update is called Update-bf.mum. That's why they're keeping it quiet :-)