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  1. Re:PDF import? Don't wait, use inkscape today! on OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    FYI, the brand new version of Inkscape (released 3 days ago) has very good PDF import (and export). You can modify text, modify vector-based drawings, remove or add pictures... all you've ever dreamed of.

    I think it's only possible to edit one page at a time, but with pdftk it shouldn't be much of a limitation.

  2. 158 on 158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry · · Score: 1

    Well, the PDF is in the article, and it's not a quantic one: 158 pages.

  3. Difference with readahead? on Preload Drastically Boosts Linux Performance · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Currently I use readhead which, at boot time, basically uses a special linux syscall to tell the kernel to read some files ahead whenever it has nothing else better to read.

    Does anyone knows the difference between the two projects? Does preload have a better algorithm for selecting the files to read? Does it also use this special syscall?

  4. Re:So where is the source code on Startup Offers Instant-Boot Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's (well hidden) there http://www.splashtop.com/developer.php. You need to give your email address so I haven't tried but you probably can :-)

  5. Isn't clippy also in OpenOffice? on Michael Meeks On ODF and OOXML · · Score: 2, Informative
    Unfortunately this clippy example is more showing how open source could be great. Right now, in OpenOffice, there is by default clippy activated! (of course it's not called 'clippy', it's called 'help agent'.) So, no, even open source is affected by clippy. Either human kind is doomed, or open source community is very tricky to understand.

    Well, at least the OpenOffice clippy hasn't told me anything so far. It's just there, on the bottom of my screen smiling and cheerfully eating up a little bit of the memory space and graphical space. Maybe it's there to appease the user by helping him to believe it's really like MS office? It's just not working on me...

  6. Re:RC is the new pre-alpha? on Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'm using this version right now and the only listed feature that seem missing is the hybrid suspend mode. IIRC, this feature is mostly implemented but there is still a little more work required. All the other features seem already here, excepted of course gnome 2.20 which is currently 2.19.92!

    So, no this is not a pre-alpha version ;-)

  7. Misleading summary: all this is about TLDs on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 1

    Actually, as the abstract of the paper correctly states, it's about non-ascii characters in TLDs. International characters already exist in the domain names, as some posters have pointed out.

    In this article they applied the same encoding used for domain names to TLDs, and they noticed it works fine. So to summarize, it's not about miçrósoft.com, it's about microsoft.çóm . That's much more fun!

  8. Daylight Saving Time patching ?! on Scheduling Large Scale Server Upgrades/Outages? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hi, I can't help you. I've no knowledge at all about this field. However, could someone make me a little bit less stupid and explain me those acronyms ? acronymattic has 197 TLAs for "DST" but I couldn't find the one which would fit for sure! SLA, that was standing for "Site Level Aggregator", right?

  9. You can try it yourself on OLPC Project Interface Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, although the youtube demo shows mostly everything, you can try it yourself using emulation (it runs on a x86 after all).
    Intructions are here. It uses QEMU and a special 100Mb system image.

    Happy slashdotting...

  10. (my) Current rule for Linux on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    I take care of few machines (for my surroundings), all under Linux, and with the current state of the art of the kernel my rule of thumb is that: swap = 2*RAM if swap > 1Gb swap = RAM I always put at least as much RAM as swap in order to allow for suspend to disk.