I would assume he's talking about a power failure leaving him without electricity, not a hard drive getting busted up.

No, they were used by the Germans as well as other countries.

And what's even better is that every phone can be bought without contract, and there are many companies providing sanely priced subscriptions to be used with them. I bought an Android phone, was online with it at all times, looked up stuff on the web whenever there was something I wanted to check out while on the go, and I always paid around 40 NOK (~$7) a month. Now that I'm not living in Norway I opted for a dumb phone to avoid having all my living expenses eaten up by large phone bills.

According to PS3-Hacks, only the menu items for trophies, save data, etc were missing, and the hacker has apparently already released an update fixing this bug. http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2011/01/04/ps3-custom-firmware-creator-released-permanently-add-install-pkgs-to-the-xmb/

Did you even read the mail they sent him? Sony were being extremely nice about the whole thing.

I've never used a photo organizer for anything but personal pictures, and recognize that different people have different needs. What you want is definitely not too much to ask for, but then again I don't feel like the application is ready for widespread use in its current state.

>Why just limit this to JPEGs? People have a lot of images from a lot of different sources. It's foolish just to restrict an image manager just to one class of images or a very narrow use case.

I completely agree with this, even though it may not have seemed so from what I wrote. The intended meaning was that I think it is a good idea to focus on developing features, rather than just dropping in support for all kinds of obscure formats, before the project is useful enough in itself. At that point adding in support for absolutely everything should be easily doable using their respective libraries.

Looking at Shotwell's dependencies, I can't actually see any image libraries in the list, but it depends on libwebkit. That seems like a really weird thing to do, unless it's for the functionality to publish to Facebook and other online sites.

As I wrote, at the current state the project seems like it still has a ways to go, and putting Shutwell in a distro as the default image organizer seems like a stupid thing to do for the time being. On the bright side, this will probably fuel development.

I would assume the purpose of the application is to handle the user's own photo library, and how many digital cameras store photos in the PNG format? The software's initial release happened less than a year ago, and I respect their decision to focus on developing useful features instead of just adding support for every obscure format. Raws, on another hand...

Ran the thing over here, and it seems to work fine. Going fullscreen and back doesn't cause any problems, so I that might be a problem with old libraries on the current Ubuntu. It does however not seem like there's any way to zoom into pictures, and having separated date and event views would indeed be good, but being able to do background imports is at least one feature improvement over F-Spot. The application doesn't feel bloated either.

Let's just hope Shotwell will improve at a steady pace, because it'd be good to finally get rid of F-Spot. They might want to make it able to import F-Spot libraries to ease migration, like most web browsers are doing.

But they do have a pile of great old games which they refuse to put on Virtual Console.

Japanese use domestic anonymous software almost exclusively. After Winny came Share, attempting to solve the security issues of its predecessor, but Share's security system was cracked by some anti-file sharing organisation. Currently under heavy development is perfect dark, but there aren't many regular users of this software yet.