Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Agreement?? (Score 1) 242

"Only four countries in the world — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were exempt from the agreement"

So, did the 193 sovereign countries all agree to be spied upon? Or did one American tell another American that they had every right to do so.

This guy can answer that question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Next Big Thing! (Score 1) 176

Practical? Take a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It looks like it just recognizes bash commands and dumps their output into the text buffer. You can then cut and paste it! You can even 'edit' the output: the example shows `df` returning 22% room free on the disk, and the user 'edits' it to 42%. Sounds practical, no?

For those already on VIM: Prefix your commands with `:r!` and VIM will already do this. Granted, you already need to know that `:` starts a command, `!` runs a Bash command, and prefixing it with `r` will dump the output into the current buffer.

Comment Re:Nook! (Score 1) 51

Have you the Nook SimpleTouch [with GlowLight] (the black one) or the Nook GlowLight (the white one)? I just upgraded from the SimpleTouch to the GlowLight and if I thought that the device couldn't be any more perfect, I was wrong!

Actually the new one has a better screen and runs better (faster), but the old one had a better body. I so missed the curved back that I modified the new one to have similar ridges.

Comment Re:Laundering (Score 5, Insightful) 232

Even worse than laundering: the US government is ensuring that only the rich have access to these bitcoins sold at a reduced price.

The coins should be sold on the open market and the proceeds put in the same coffers as tax money to reduce that burden. Instead of doing that, they are ensuring that the wealthy can acquire more items of value that can then be directly liquefied.

Comment Re:And the layout? (Score 1) 270

Doesn't work. Though Classic Theme Restorer let us move the address bar to the bottom of the screen in Firefox 29, in Firefox 30 the address bar is now _hidden_ if it is moved with Classic Theme Restorer! Luckily I also use Vimperator and can get by without the address bar, but for other users this could be a pain.

Note also that opening Firefox 30 the first time, Firefox lost all my tabs (80+). I was able to restore them, though, from the ~/.mozilla/firefox/****.default/sessionstore.bak file. Just use a bit of Python to parse that JSON file to get the URLs out.

Still a pain, everything took over an hour of my employer's time, and I _still_ don't have a solution to the address bar issue. Some people use Firefox to work, not play with Twitter and Faceschmuck all day (social media integration features are the major new features in Firefox). Looks like Mozilla doesn't consider that. If only Opera supported Tree Style Tabs I would move back.

Slashdot Top Deals

To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.

Working...