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Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 1077

by en.ABCD (#27409641) Attached to: Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English?
The good news is that most of those strings also have numeric equivalents, so you can still (try) to get things to work - just as long as the variable names you chose do not conflict with reserved words in that language. For instance, in English, you would normally say:

setMode("GRAPH","FUNCTION")

but you could instead use

setMode("1","1")

to do the same thing in every language. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for every option.

Comment Re:Drivers??? (Score 1) 265

by en.ABCD (#27308241) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released

What I find really weird is that on Windows, the default paper size is always "letter", when most people use A4.

In the United States, just about everyone uses "US Letter" (8.5 in. × 11 in., or 216 × 279 mm), and not "A4" (210 × 297 mm), which means that oftentimes on Linux, you have to remember to switch from A4 to Letter. In other words, there isn't really a sensible default for everyone.

Comment Re:Ubuntu annoyances? (Score 1) 253

by en.ABCD (#26339389) Attached to: Ubuntu Kung Fu
It's actually udev that sets the permissions on that device, and you can edit udev's configuration to change the permissions and/or ownership of the device file: add the line

KERNEL=="raw1394", MODE="0666"

to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local.conf (create the file if it doesn't exist). Please note that there are 2 "=" after KERNEL, and 1 "=" after MODE (the first compares, the second sets). Also note that you almost definitely want 0666 instead of 0777 - you don't need to "execute" the device, only read from and write to it.
The Internet

Submission + - New Gmail users accounts disabled 11:30p EST

Submitted by dzd-n-confused
dzd-n-confused writes: At about 11:30pm yesterday Gmail locked out the accounts of new users that signed up in the last month maybe more. Everybody affected gets a message like this " Sign in to Gmail with your Google Account Sorry, your account has been disabled. For more information about Google Accounts, please consult our Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/. " It appears accounts more that a few months old are not affected. The accounts are no longer able to receive messages either, they just bounce back saying no such user. This is the link to one of the threads in the Gmail Groups http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/530927a08717557d/2caa9f48d5878f19
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Why do games still have levels? (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by a.d.venturer
a.d.venturer writes: Elite, the Metroid series, Dungeon Siege, God of War I and II, Half-Life (but not Half-Life 2), Shadow of the Colossus, the Grand Theft Auto series; some of the best games ever (and Dungeon Siege) have done away with the level mechanic and created uninterrupted game spaces devoid of loading screens and artificial breaks between periods of play. Much like cut scenes, level loads are anathema to enjoyment of game play, and a throwback to the era of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 when games were stored on cassette tapes, and memory was measured in kilobytes. So in this era of multi-megabyte and gigabyte memory and fast access storage devices why do we continue to have games that are dominated by the level structure, be they commercial (Portal, Team Fortress 2), independent (Darwinia) and amateur (Nethack, Angband)? Why do games still have levels?
Security

Submission + - Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "With little fanfare, section 202c of the German computer crime laws came into effect over the weekend. Worryingly for Security professionals, the laws make the mere possession of (creates, obtains or provides access to, sells, yields, distributes or otherwise allows access to) many useful tools illegal. A similar law was proposed for the UK, however it was modified prior to passing through parliament due to the outcry from the industry.

Phenoelit, KisMAC, the CCC, and the Month of PHP Bugs are just some of the relatively high profile projects and groups to have already taken measures to remove or modify content under this law."
Software

Submission + - LLVM 2.0 Released

Submitted by
MonkeyPox37
MonkeyPox37 writes: "LLVM , an open source compiler that's an alternative to GCC, has released a major new version. From the release announcement:

LLVM 2.0 is done! Download it here: http://llvm.org/releases/ or view the release notes: http://llvm.org/releases/2.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.htm l

LLVM 2.0 is a great release in many ways. It includes a wide range of new features, new optimizations, better codegen, and new targets. We were also able to signficantly revise several core aspects of the LLVM IR and design (such as the type system and bytecode format) based on lessons learned in the LLVM 1.x series."
Announcements

Submission + - Internet helps youths with personality disorders

Submitted by
amigoro
amigoro writes: "Youths with personality disorders who would've otherwise gone friendless turn to the Internet for social contacts and creating a positive impact on their lives by reducing their social isolation, according to a paper published in Schizophrenia Research. The researchers believe that their could be potential therapeutic uses of the Internet, perhaps as a virtual step in social skills training that can be later generalized to real-life interpersonal situations."
Music

Submission + - Another radio station offers free classical MP3s

Submitted by Petrushka
Petrushka writes: Following a couple of years after the BBC Philharmonic did it, Radio New Zealand is also offering free downloads of live performances by the Auckland Philharmonia. The downloads go through a monthly cycle: they began in April with Dvorak's "New World" symphony; currently they're offering Beethoven's 7th symphony. Recordings are in MP3 format at 192 kb/s, though the sample rate is a disappointing 32 kHz. What other stations are out there offering freebies like this?
Software

Submission + - Microsoft is using Linux for their Servers!

Submitted by jhepoy
jhepoy writes: http://pinoygeek.org/2007/05/27/microsoft-is-using -linux-for-their-servers/ Yahoo.com is a consistent FreeBSD on their servers. Apple.com which is known for OSX as based in Unix is not surprising to see MacOSX and Linux running on their servers. The most surprising part is when I looked for Microsoft.com statistics and found out that they are running Linux on some of their web servers. The irony is that Microsoft is attacking Linux as an insecure OS which can be found on their Get The Facts campaign.
Movies

Submission + - Finnish court rules CSS "ineffective"

Submitted by kimmop
kimmop writes: The Finnish/EU version of DMCA received a great blow today when the Helsinki District Court found two activists 'not quilty' of circumvention of "effective technological measures" of DRM. According to the court, CSS no longer achieves its protection objective. You can still expect two more rounds but its 1-0 now.

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