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  1. Re:The main reason is lack of clear knowledge on Management 'Scared' by Open Source · · Score: 1

    Suppose you introduce feature A inspired by the GPL library.

    You are confusing copyright and patents. The GPL covers copyright- A feature inspired by any product under any license is OK, as long as that feature is implemented by your company, and of course, no patent covers it.
    (IANAL, ofc)
  2. Re:Uh, complain? on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guys, why is every Ask Slashdot item answered with "dont waste your time on slashdot, instead go bug $some_seemingly_appropriate_person". If that is you attitude, just dont read any "Ask Slashdot" threads. Perhaps he just wants ammunition for his blazing letter to the university board =)

  3. Re:On What Hardware? on Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP · · Score: 1

    Its also a partial implementation - for instance try connecting to your mac via xdmcp out of the box? Or connect to another unix machine via xsession?

    You can have Unix without X11, and X11 without Unix.
  4. Re:Ohh...didn't think of that... on Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as 'Porn Portal' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a squid proxy with different users?

  5. Re:The number is high on One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine · · Score: 1

    Well - I've never seen a non-genuine install. How can you make one? Pretend you're installing? Install only parts of it? Non-lawful installs is another matter.

  6. Re:Dumb Editor on Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers · · Score: 1

    You dont have to use a source-based distribution to get incremental updates, look at archlinux (and probably frugalware, not sure).

  7. Only 6.6? on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 1

    You need over 6.6 Tflop/s to make it into the top 100.
    Then they forgot my botfarm! arggghhhh

  8. Re:What Linux can do and Windows cannot on The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won · · Score: 1

    in a Unix system it's more complicated, for i in *.jpeg; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/jpeg$/jpg/ - ` ; done or something like that would do it

    Ehm.
    #> rename .jpeg .jpg *.jpeg

    :)

  9. Re:That annoying guy in the subway on A Hands-On Zune Review · · Score: 1

    Siddle up a little closer, slip a little, bump into the person non-offensively... then go for their wallet.

    +4 Insightful.
    Ahh, slashdot.

  10. Re:killed the format on The GIF Format is Finally Patent-Free · · Score: 1
    Let's say you have that same logo, and you want to animate it for 3 frames. What's a better solution than animated GIF?

    Not animating it.
  11. Re:no. on The GIF Format is Finally Patent-Free · · Score: 1

    Exatcly. Because of how Burrows-Wheeler_transform works, bzip2 is not suited for compressing streams.

  12. Re:Ultra fast desktop, same old slow applications on FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Avoid Nautilus (use Thunar from XFCE), perhaps try the embedded browser-only build of konqueror (no kde, just qt), use cdrecord, use mpd, etc. I mean, if you need all the full-blown desktop enviroment functionality, use KDE (or Gnome if you swing that way).

    Some sort of disclaimer/advice/whatever:
    Earlier i used Openbox and gtk-only apps. Now i use KDE with openbox (much snappier than vanilla kde, kdewin is slooowww:), and avoid gtk-apps. I think i'm gonna stay with KDE/Openbox. You should try it out. In .xinitrc:
    export KDEWM=openbox
    startkde

  13. Re:Dealing with UI on IronPython 1.0 is Born · · Score: 1

    The ironpython faq explains how to load native python libraries. So I expect you can use wxPython (or even better, pyqt :)

  14. Yes, but.... on IronPython 1.0 is Born · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...does it run on Mono?

  15. Re:Parent post is moronic. on Has Anyone Seen the Moon Pictures? · · Score: 1

    Nothing can ever be proven to be.

    You haven't heard of Descartes? Since you are willing and able to doubt the existance ov everything, you must exist(in some form). If you did not exists, you could not doubt.
  16. Re:Safety on DC Power Saves 15% Energy and Cost @ Data Center · · Score: 1

    Well, if you really want to, I guess it could kill you. But when I tasted some blue juice from the cable to my parents vcr, it hurt like hell, but passed in 10 minutes.

  17. Re:non-GPL Kernel modules on An Early Look at Freespire Linux · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. As I understand it, the kernel module has source aviable, but the license is _not_ gpl-compatible. Nvidia ditributes it under it's own license, but it's still linked to the kernel. This is legal as long as the linking is performed by the end user. When distributed however, this looks as an GPL violation to me, although IANAL.

  18. Re:Google logo archive... on The Man Behind Google Artwork · · Score: 1

    That one reminded me of a wonderful comic strip - http://www.start.no/tegneserier/m/?1152741600

  19. Re:User/role management on Pro PHP Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    When will people learn to check the PEAR before asking for PHP functionality?
    http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser supports users from multiple sources (at the same time), group permissions and per-user-permissions.

  20. Re:Actually... on Problems at the W3C · · Score: 1

    No, the user of the standard would be the developer. The user of what a browser that (hopefully) implements the standard, would be the kid in the public library.

  21. Re:Work on Firefox Usage Climbing · · Score: 1

    If you're in that situation, use Portable Firefox. Just check the cookie/history settings, as they suck.

  22. Re:Settlers 2 on The Multi-Pointer X server · · Score: 1

    Yes, Settlers read the raw mouse data from the COM port. I never used it, but remember the dialog where you could specify a port.

  23. Re:Oh I get it on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't tried ubuntu-calendar :)

  24. Re:Why not just use pure C++? on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    I don't get why parent recommended pyGTK, but for wxPython or pyQT, you have gui builders.
    WxPython has some commercial offerings, plus wxglade (it can output pure python code or xml) and boa constructor.
    pyQt has Qt designer and pyuic (py user interface compiler, compiles the designers .ui file to python code).

  25. Re:Not if... on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 1

    Actually, I would submit that the only person in that situation _not_ being a jackass is the person driving at 70.