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  1. Re: Switching on LibreOffice Turns Five · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >3) I don't trust LibreOffice to output documents that won't embarrass me in front of my boss. People will say "PDF", but bosses always want to edit things.

    Then you better use the same exact version of MS Office with the same fonts installed on your machine....

  2. Snowden on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would you pardon Edward Snowden?

  3. Why not run under the Democrats/Republican party? on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Third party runs in the US aren't really given a remotely fair shot.

    Specifically the republican party primary seems like you would have the best shot there... I would be shocked if you can't make it to the top 10...

  4. Re:Exchange on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    It's GPL. The community page makes that a bit clearer. Now I do believe they have some proprietary extensions for something but I can't seem to remember what now...
    http://www.zentyal.org/server/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://github.com/Zentyal/zen...

  5. Re:Exchange on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Give Zentyal a try - http://www.zentyal.com/

  6. Re:Visual Studio + g++ || Clang on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    This is the smaller "Code" version, but still - https://code.visualstudio.com/...

  7. Payback time on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    I used the newer video cards power improvements as one of the reasons to replace an older card*. The other reason for the upgrade was so I could play more of the new games coming out on Linux. I didn't factor in that I would spend more time gaming though...

    *Replaced a Radeon HD 3870 for an Geforce 750 Ti.

  8. Now this is a feature on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 2

    I'd like to see in Firefox by default...

  9. Re:ORLY? on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was curious...

    If you open the PDF and to to properties it says:
    Producer: OpenOffice.org 3.2
    Creator: Writer

    Now that is a very old version of OpenOffice... and most linux distros have switched to LibreOffice at this point. Does seem like they could use an update...

  10. Maybe try LibreOffice first? on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 2

    LibreOffice won the developers so it gets many more fixes
    https://phoronix.com/scan.php?...

  11. Don't worry.. on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    Their is a published EOL data for Flash... unfortunately it's just for Firefox (and other NPAPI browsers) on Linux.

    It's approximately February 2017. "Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."
    https://www.adobe.com/devnet/f...

    The first step (IMO) to ending Flash is to get it click-to-play. Firefox isn't willing to do this, yet [1].. AFAICT the holdup is Adobe with EME.. *sigh*.

    [1] https://groups.google.com/foru...

  12. I have the same question for... on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Thermostats (wifi or 3g enabled)
    Home Security Systems
    Banks (some of their website security makes me really wonder)
    Almost all "Internet of thing" smart home devices

    I even have basic questions for (mostly android) cell phones. How long do I get security updates for any of these devices?

  13. Re:DLC vs. Games on Valve Introduces Steam Refunds In Advance of Summer Sale · · Score: 2

    "The Steam refund offer, within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtime, applies to games and software applications on the Steam store."

    They have some specific additional requirements for DLC, but it definitely applies to games (as I read it).

  14. FAQ on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 2

    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

    Might be slightly out of date..

  15. Still on Earth... on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Relative to Mars, you might as well have not moved at all...

  16. You can't control the class, so you've failed. on University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class · · Score: 1

    Failing everyone in the class because you can't control the class is ridiculous (assuming the class size is not 10). If there are disruptive students that make you feel you need police protection, then you should do something about them (whatever's relevant for your schools policy, suspension, filling charges, etc).

  17. Or worse the mobile site just says "Here download our App!".

    Do not want.

  18. EFF Link on EFF: Wider Use of HTTPS Could Have Prevented Attack Against GitHub · · Score: 5, Informative
  19. Need more requirements.. on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the top end:
    https://system76.com/cart/conf...
    http://www.dell.com/us/busines...
    (customizable with Ubuntu 14.04)

    What do you recommend for running Linux?
    The latest Ubuntu LTS is a good start.

    For a C++ development environment?
    I really like Code::Blocks, but I'm thinking that wi'll be up to her...

    An nVidia GPU helps accelerate the only "gravitational wave" program I've ever run (https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/). Likely not relevant, but hey you did ask Slashdot.

  20. Re:Yes meanwhile.. on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 1

    I'm in the US on AT&T. Out of those vendors (exluding Google) being sold with AT&T subsidy who has *promised* to give you later Android versions? How about on non-flagship devices?

  21. US Tax deductible on Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94 · · Score: 1

    Just in case you were wondering.. (Handled by the Gnome Foundation)

    And they let you allocate the money to specific sub-projects..

    And slashdot posted a crowdfunding campaign before it was over!

  22. Visability into the boot on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Systemd during a normal boot is doing some detailed logging of the boot process that let's you do a simper version of bootchart. This allows you to find out how long each service took to boot and also do a graph of them.

    It's concerned complimentary to the actual bootchart...

    [1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projec...

  23. Open Source alternative to Bittorrent Sync on BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox · · Score: 3, Informative

    is https://ind.ie/pulse/ (was SyncThing).

  24. Push for more publically available resources on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 2
  25. Re:WTF is 14.02??? on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he meant 14.04.2..