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  1. Re:I liked Ubuntu when it was "polished" Debian on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 2

    And now Mint is polished Ubuntu. Wonder how many layers we can go?

  2. Re:Answer, in brief: on Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion? · · Score: 2

    Your boned what? Your boned (Minecraft slang) plants will sprout? Your bone daemon will tell you when you're out of bones? Come on, don't keep us waiting!

  3. Modern VCS on NASA Launches Open Source Portal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GitHub repos? Looks like somebody over there has a clue.

  4. Re:As someone once said... on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1
  5. The Golden Years on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm glad I started using Ubuntu in 2007 - Finally painless display setup. 2008 brought painless stereo audio setup, and 2009 painless 5.1 sound via S/PDIF: Glory be! 2010 brought ... Unity?! I usually love experimenting with new interfaces, but this clearly had not been tested by real humans on real hardware.

  6. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    This could go on forever. CmdrTaco, you're needed!

  7. Re:How about neither? on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    Seems to me this is why real OSes have a repository of third-party software, to be downloaded about as quickly as you can find the page within a government web site. What am I saying - Quicker.

  8. Digital + physical folders on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Anything really important (ownership documents, job contracts) is scanned + distributed to all my machines with Git, and a physical copy is kept in a small folder dedicated to that theme (one for each insurance, each bank, warranties, diplomas, etc.). Less important documents are just scanned (or retrieved electronically, when possible) and the physical copy discarded. A well organized digital library is great when you don't want to shuffle through a huge stack all the time.

  9. Re:Great idea... on Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    Whoah, that's a great idea! Let's see... Profit is divided among the musicians on perhaps a monthly basis calculated from sales metrics. Prices and salaries would be decided by a board of directors or some such, containing plenty of active musicians (anyone who's on tour could partake via webcam) on a round-robin basis to make sure both the high and low earners get a say. Some sort of bonus scheme would probably be in order for the employees to encourage both the finding of new music and the proliferation and freeing of old music.

    The organization would have to plan for rapid growth, with the administration overhead that would generate. For example, round-robin meeting participation would be laughable if the members would have to wait years between attending. Maybe a sort of member voting system would be in order on top of the board, a bit like the Swiss political system.

  10. Re:plain-text OS? on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    Hmm, why not store it in one of the many ways available in which the method of recovery is known but prohibitively long? Or are the companies mandated to provide the passwords before the heat-death of the universe?

  11. Re:Just a thought. on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    First, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever killed anybody else in the so-called "religious wars" we techies tend to get into. And your thinly veiled attempt to divert attention to "worse" religions completely ignores the fact that science seems to have thrived much better under other religions than christianity (look up the history of mathematics some time). And if your argument is about scientific progress today, consider that the western world is more secular than ever.

  12. Ubuntu 10.10 on 35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week · · Score: 2

    Here's what it has to say about that:

    Lenovo ubuntu 10.10 is a motherboard. This product is available from Lenovo. The Lenovo ubuntu 10.10 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

    Let me know when they've sanitized their DB.

  13. Re:Preorder now! on Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up · · Score: 1

    I just tested in mian (disclaimer: shameless self-promotion), and it looks like the distribution is identical: Sharp rise in the first five blocks from the bottom of the map, then flat until about 50, and tapering off to zero around 70.

  14. Browsing the Delicious backup file on Yahoo! To Close Delicious · · Score: 1

    If you've made a backup of all your files, you can browse/filter them with filterous (disclaimer: I made it). It's a shell tool, but it's a lot faster than delicious.com ever was, and can do some searches that Delicious never could. With >13,000 bookmarks, Delicious+filterous have been my most useful knowledge management tools in the last five years.

    Now how to get as much as possible of the Flickr metadata out?

  15. Re:You can't have it both ways on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, those who have the power to suspend the law are rarely the ones who have to be worried of it turning against them. At least until and unless there's a political takeover by the people.

  16. Re:Use of Caps Lock key on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    I hope they didn't patent that, because I've been doing that ever since I realized it was the only sane use of Caps Lock. Not that anyone thinks I'm sane to use Dvorak, but hey...

  17. Re:Discrete sound card? on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Analog of course. They've got this new qbits that can have literally any value between 0 and 1!

  18. Re:Source control is so political on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    Show, don't tell. git-gui, TortoiseSVN, gitk, Trac+Git plugin, git interactive rebase. Then demonstrate the awesome speed of a DVCS to someone who does hundreds of commands per day - It'll blow their minds.

  19. For home projects... on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    the most useful languages I've learned are Bash and Python. Bash for anything shuffling files around a lot, changing access rights, running Git commands in several repositories, and creating symlinks. Python was the first language where implementing ideas outside of Bash's scope (vCard validator, Delicious filtering) didn't feel like a chore. List and text handling is especially beautiful, as long as you don't have to deal with Unicode (I did, and it took quite a while to get reasonable unit tests that didn't fail). 3.0 should fix that though. In short, Python is the most fun language I've ever used.

  20. Re:Googlewin? My attempt at a nuanced opinion. on New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance · · Score: 1

    Google has indeed shown us that reinventing the wheel can be innovation, if done properly. As someone who is only occasionally uncomfortable with their handling of privacy, it is for now a small price to pay - Especially when their innovations are not tied to advertising, such as this.

  21. After 10 years... on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1

    For everything that doesn't need to be on your own machine, find web equivalents that let you download regular backups: Bookmarks on Delicious, photos on Picasa, blog on WordPress, books on LibraryThing, development projects on GitHub, feeds on Google Reader, and CAD drawings on Thingiverse.

    The ultimate tool at home has gone from CVS via Subversion to Git. The learning curve is steep, but it's liberating at the end to know that all the data, in all its versions, are on all my machines and will not get lost bar some really serious happenings. This is for the personal documents, application settings (useful to have the same everywhere) and of course development projects. If you want to forget old stuff, a git rebase --interactive is just the thing. To handle multiple projects which mostly just need to be pulled from a different machine, I've developed fgit, a simple script to run a git command on all repositories below the specified directory (or the current one, by default). Thus, to update everything when moving to a new machine, it's simply fgit pull -- ~.

  22. Re:Something I find interesting on Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but have you seen the executable?

  23. What to do about it (financially) on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    This is a grave day for democracy, but instead of bemoaning the known failure of the US to uphold democracy, and the known failure of WL being perfect in all that they do, what should be done on a financial level? The first obvious thing would be to spread out the finances - Send some of it to Norway, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, and others that have more trusted governments. An investor knows to spread the risk, and unfortunately it looks like Wikileaks will have to learn as well.

  24. Re:Fast disappearing ? on NASA Plans Mission To Study Martian Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    More like "There will not be humans then."

  25. Re:Bushehr as target on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    His conclusion from the graph is not sound at all - Only a small percentage of the centrifuges went offline at the time. At the same time, they received lots of new centrifuges for installation, so it seems to me that work was simply diverted to installing those.