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  1. Re:Why do people underthink memory usage? on Preliminary Benchmarks: Unity vs. Gnome-Shell · · Score: 1

    you pay more and more performance, for less and less productivity gain. Assembler to C is the biggest jump at the smallest cost.

    I'm sorry to say this but i do believe C -> python/perl is a huge productivity gain !

  2. Re:Meh on Confessions of a Computer Repairman · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I get the gems like "somebody dropped a bowling ball on the laptop," but honestly most people lack the skill to really break something. That takes a professional :)

    Or a klutz with a bowling ball :D

  3. Re:Ubuntu Vista defies expectations on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 1

    I prefer the opposite: menu (dock) in the side bar.
    I dont have many icons so it all fits, plus if your dock is at the side
    your maximised applications get more vertical space, which on a widescreen 13.1 inch laptop
    matters a lot

  4. Re:Hire competent admins on Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users" · · Score: 1

    also check out policykit

  5. Re:Hire competent admins on Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users" · · Score: 1

    How do you disable USB storage devices on thousands of Ubuntu (or Chrome) desktops because you don't want your sensitive documents walking out on portable storage devices? And then how do you easily enable it again just for your research department because they have a business need for external storage?

    Don't let them mount it: remove them from the plugdev group (udev)
    or disable usb storage device support in the kernel (blacklist the module or remove it entirely).

  6. Re:"Foreigners" beating up Chinese on Idle: Four Injured In iPad Fight At Beijing Apple Store · · Score: 1

    to acknowledge the superior innate characteristics of the Chinese people.

    There was this guy in germany with a mustache not so long ago, who thought the same about his nation's people.

  7. Re:Not bad. on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    This is a chicken and egg problem, and it took Windows quite some time to be in this position as well
    a lot of AAA studio's refused to leave DOS.

  8. Re:Every improvement is highly needed, FF4 sux on Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows · · Score: 1

    what website uses 200MB worth of pictures besides (maybe) google maps?

    Try some devianart contests, although now they have it split, it used to be that all the entrants were displayed on the same page with comments intermixed iirc.

  9. Re:YES! on Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot, here you have people being pedantic/precise about the math, spelling, grammar and punctuation of your posts !

  10. Re:Linux on laptop on Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? · · Score: 1

    out of curiosity could you post your script ?

  11. Re:What's funny is on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    your math is off

  12. Re:OK, maybe I'm a bit grumpy today. on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 1

    Science-fiction reaches many and makes us all, to some degree, to at least read the educational sections from time to time.
    I know it's badly worded but I'm celebrating his birthday in my own way.

  13. Re:$1000 a PC? on Generic PCs For Corporate Use? · · Score: 1

    bullshit ( a pack of tobacco is like 4-5 x the amount of tobacco of that in a pre-rolled)
    anyone who can roll doesn't spend more than 1 minute on a cigarette and is also able
    to do other stuff while doing, even when windy.

    besides there is also the point of taste and the fact that pre-rolleds are designed to smoke themselfs.

  14. Re:Better test! on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    Linux still has a long way to go in the arena of centralized management of desktops. Most centralized Linux management schemes I've seen were cobbled together unique solutions that only one guy actually knew how it worked.

    what about cfengine or the newer stuff like chef, puppet, bcnf2 ?

  15. Re:Do this with your GUI on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    on issue 3, what i think he means is that if you
    ls a file which has terminal control codes in its name
    or you cat something like a binary

    your terminal can go haywire and suddenly
    have something that looks like klingon as font

    PS: if someone knows how to restore from that situation
    (tput reset doesn't work) i would greatly appreciate it.

  16. Re:Are variants a bad thing? on Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now · · Score: 1

    i should have said: acquire a nexus one's build toolchain.

  17. Re:Are variants a bad thing? on Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now · · Score: 1

    so you can do what ? build a cross platform compiler, patch the nexus one's source
    ( if you can get it), and be more secure (patchwise and services wise) than those
    'upstream carriers' ?

    unlimited access is nice for adding features or doing different things with them ... not
    so for locking down the (purpose-specific) system-util for better security on your OWN.

  18. Re:buy compatible cartridges on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    out of curiosity what exact printer did you get ?

  19. Re:It does harm!!!! on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    here here but let's be frank except for the BOINC and the proxy
    stuff he's doing stuff most of us have already thoughed about once upon time

  20. Re:Transferability on Harvard Says Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money · · Score: 1

    a phd is not a masters' degree with an end year thesis
    a phd still requires a professor that wants to promote you and you doing research
    and delivering results periodically so they can be reviewed by your peers and promotor

    if they're not happy with the results then you're not getting your phd!
    don't dismiss it because you blew your chance

  21. Re:It does harm!!!! on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    you may be able to install into .bashrc but it's not going to work in cron without privilege escalation or a security hole; usually only widosers mindlessly type in privelged account passwords to install software to run in limited accounts. In fact I'm calling BS on this, you don't have this malware, you just have a plausible idea for it that you've not bothered to implement.

    huh, crontab is runnable by normal desktop users in most desktop distro's out of the box anyway

  22. Re:Tempest in a teapot on Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened · · Score: 1

    not only that sudo can be configured to run commands as another user instead of root, it
    can also be configured to disable shell escapes so :! /bin/sh doesn't work in vim

  23. Re:Source doesn't run on Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code · · Score: 1

    the thing that bothers me is this, assume that you have this process running
    it modifies some of your binaries, making it 'better'
    then i want to add features ..., so i code some more and recompile ?
    now the magic code fixing process has to do all it's magic again ...

    why bother with binary patches, if the enhancements don't get it into the development chain ? (i'm assuming here and in this entire post :D)
    unless this process is 'the development team', or is able to find and change the code into the versioning control tree as well
    i don't really see any use of it for my purpose

    this stuff does have it uses tho, there is quite some legacy (binary-only) code going around

  24. Re:Registry Danger! on Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk · · Score: 1

    several backups of the registry ?

    exactly one iirc (that i know of)

    in %systemroot%\repair

    they are split in different files for the different hives tho

    and it's exactly the backup after the mini setup, eg it contains a blank slate which isn't what you would want in most repair situations

    if i'm wrong please tell me so since it would be very useful to know for further troubleshooting/fixing purposes

  25. Re:Yes, dissolve the EU. on The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users · · Score: 1

    out of curiousity what was so bad about the kyoto accords (except that it costs us money ) ?
    and economicaly the EU is a very good thing