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  1. Re:Is it just me? on Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels · · Score: 2, Informative

    TFA is the second link, but yes, the summary does not do much to help you figure it out.

  2. Re:Authorized by whom on HP Unveils Small Commercial Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    Sounds better in the ears of the uniformed parent than "Optical drives have been left out to save on space, weight and cost". It is all the same to me, though.

  3. Re:This is painfully obvious and hopelessly naive on Catching Spam by Looking at Traffic, Not Content · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I am going to say it anyway. Why can't people stop responding to spam in the first place? Is it too much to ask?

    People will stop buying from spam when they stop forwarding every hoax or urban legend they recieve through their company e-mail to everybody else on their address book.

    When someone finds a way to do it, please ping me.

  4. Re:Thunar... lacks SMB/NFS/Network support on XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That's the only (IMHO) problem with Thunar. It would be easy to integrate it with SMBCLIENT (like xffm does, by the way) but apparently they are too lazy to do that.

    Nope, this feature was intentionally held back for a proper and transparent implementation instead of some hackish solution that would happen to work for some.

    The idea is that the file manager does not have to be able to access anything else apart from a standard filesystem.
    Need access to a remote share? OK, mount it somewhere, and presto! Everything can access it, without any special care taken.

    Thunar (or some plugin) will get there, eventually.

  5. Re:Yay! on XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Autostart was in anyway. There is a nice GUI to manage it now, nothing more, nothing less.

  6. Re:Lightest? on XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed - the term 'Window Manager' is used wrongly here.
    You cannot argue though that as a desktop enviroment, Xfce *has* the smallest disk and memory footprint.

    And all this without leaving too much features, or configurability out

  7. Re:code or functionality on Large FLOSS Study Gets the Real Facts · · Score: 1
    On the other hand, would a closed system build 287 different end-user apps for playing mp3's?

    Actually, there are as many (even if some on that list are open source, the most significant portion isn't).
  8. Re:The weblog on Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested · · Score: 1
    Although Tsipropoulos gave no clues to the identity of the plaintiff, the only satirical blog known to appear in blogme.gr lampooned televangelist and national mysticist Dimosthenis Liakopoulos.
    But it couldn't be! Televangelists never go to extremes; when was the last time you heard of a religious evangelical wako with enough influence in government to get people arrested?

    It makes sense.

    He is selling some extreme ideas, but the whole package is is Christian Orthodox (the most prominent religion is Greece), and we locals all know that the official church would like to say these things themselves, but cannot do it to maintain a state of at least a minimum correctness.

    Furthermore, the current ruling party does not hide its close ties with the church, so if something bothers the church, it usually bothers the government, too.

  9. Re:wonderful screen shots... on Slackware 11.0 Almost Done · · Score: 1

    Does Xgl have very specific video card requirements, i.e. nothing higher than a Radeon 9500-level card? You'll probably need any video card that comes with 256MB of RAM or more, and its drivers support OpenGL. I tried Xgl on my FX5200 w/128MB RAM and while most effects run fine, the system is brought on its knees with any video playback. (Celeron D 2.66Mhz, 1024MB RAM) Regards,

  10. Re:You know its going to suck when... on New Debian-based Enterprise Linux? · · Score: 1

    Apart from that, it makes sence if they want to retain backwards compatibility. On another note, I'd be glad if I heard that they'll be moving their desktop distributions to apt, too. Mandrake is nice, even at the default theme, but the rpm packets just kills it.