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Comment Unity or Cinnamon is Gnome 3 Without Gnome-Shell (Score 1) 535

With Unity or Cinnamon, you are still using Gnome3, just Gnome-Shell is out. I try all, and perhaps Unity and Cinnamon are more usable interface. Gnome3 system has horrible changes. First of all. They make keyboard settings a clone of Windows, and worst they remove the settings for the model of keyboard. Keyboard settings in Gnome2 was evolving in time and become concise and clear. Since for a long time, I did support Windows Users for a long time and keyboard settings was even a problem. They never know where to go, because keyboard settings that they need was not in ControlPanel Keyboard, :-/ ??? But, I guess that someone in GnomeTeam, wakeup after sleeping with his Windows Laptop, and decide to copy the crappy windows behavior. I try to told me vision to they, but they are not really receptive. I simple, does not use Gnome3 and any of many Linux Desktop of my work. I choose for most Linux-Mint-Mate, and some Ubuntu with Gnome-fallback with many may tweaks, like install "system.printer" ... They need to hear people

Comment Yes, Woman does not like so much IT .. (Score 1) 697

I do not understand why some people insist to make Man and Woman be equal in everything. Theres not so much Mans in many areas, where Womans are majority, and I never found some womans care about. Except for some countries (or religions) where Womans are forbidden to be womans. Free people (Mans and Womans), choose what they want to do based in their wish and feel.

Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 447

Not Scary, I live in a country, where tax loss are from 30-40%, almost all small and midle companies are tax offenders. Corruption are everywhere in high level. I am a pro activist to end of cash. I use Credit Card for all I could. With the end of cash and linking transitions with Tax system, will reduce the tax leach to a minimum. Thieves will cant do many things. Even sell stolen things will be more difficult. Drug dealers, corruption, etc... I really think that is a better way to be against many bad things. Of course, gold prices will rise Of course its more easy to travel faster than light than that evolution occurs in Brazil.

Comment Re:Article fule of junk - opinion (Score 1) 153

I am Brazilian, the currently economy growth, come mostly because goverment start to help poor people, with projects like "Bolsa Familia" which is a help of money (until R$173/month, less than a 100U$ for currently exchange) to help they eat and a project called "Minha Casa Minha Vida" which give money to buy new houses for less incoming people with subsiding interests. There are also a very huge investment in university education. But ..... Even, with high education or skill, does not mean that you can get basic level of life of an american or european with same level of income. Brazil is expensive! The big problem here is moral! And I cant see a cure for this. Employers pay ridiculous salaries even they get millions of profits, they also evade a lot of tax. Mostly justify their crime (of course, employers cant evade tax) saying that the politicians stole, or that they don't give good service from government. But, these very very corrupt politician are elected using money from these un-honest companies and people. Almost small and middle company evade tax. The big group in congress are "Ruralistas" people that represent the interest of big rural owners, that mostly are in the middle age era. Currently they are near to approve a new regulation in which they could throw away every tree that are remaining in the soil. .....
Open Source

Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs 133

An anonymous reader writes "In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn't find any that were open source (free). I did find some open source packages like CuneiForm and Exactimage that could in theory do the job, but they were hard to install and difficult to set up and use over a network. Then I stumbled upon WatchOCR. This is a Live CD distro that can easily create a server on your network that provides an OCR service using watched folders. Now all my scanners scan to a watched folder, WatchOCR picks up those files and OCRs them, and then spits them out into another folder. It uses CuneiForm and ExactImage but it is all configured and ready to deploy. It can even be remotely managed via the Web interface. Hope this proves helpful to someone else who has this same situation."
Businesses

Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm 117

imamac writes "It seems HP was only one of many bidders for the struggling Palm. The others included Apple, RIM and even Google. You may now commence speculation on why the various companies wanted Palm."

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