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Comment Re:Glad it's delayed. It's rubbish. (Score 1) 419

by moreati (#30096276) Attached to: GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

I'm missing desktop sharing and conferencing software like Livemeeting. I'm also missing some ease-of-use dealing with very simple things like cutting and pasting a link to a windows share and using it to look at a remote directory without having to edit all the slashes.

Regarding desktop sharing, are you aware of the newer features in Empathy? It can do video/voice and desktop sharing (for xmmp at least).I believe (like Livemeeting), both end would need to have Empathy installed.

Regarding the link clicking, I'm guessing you mean UNC paths like \\smbserver\share\somefile.doc now you've mentioned it, I'm missing it too. A bug was filed in 2007 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446136, nothing has happened unfortunately.

Alex
The Almighty Buck

eBay For Millionaires 118

Posted by samzenpus from the auction-site-of-substance dept.
AC writes "Got $2 million in assets? Then you can join BillionaireXchange; just the place to find a 2006 Bugatti Veyron with a Start Bid of $1,050,000.00. Or perhaps you are looking for a boat like the Disco Volante (from James Bond), for example the 2000 Azimut Motor Yacht, a lovely 85-footer with a Start Bid of $2,700,000.00. On the other end of the deal, did your hedge fund leave you in the lurch? This is the place to sell those extravagant toys you thought you could afford."

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 231

by moreati (#30068670) Attached to: HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion

My first thought, without RTFA, was:

Cisco: Look our routers can run Linux and look at these x86 modules, we're getting into the server market.
HP: Well screw you, we'll go and buy some networking market share.

No idea how accurate that is, but it felt right.

Comment Re:As one of the few (non-tech) lawyers..... (Score 1) 907

by moreati (#29190255) Attached to: Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor?

Can anyone explain why my initial gut sense is an over-reaction?

Switching from Windows or OS X does have trade offs. The most noticable ones for me are poor flash performance, patchy 2D/3D acceleration support, less reliable hibernation, and the topic at hand - shorter battery life. Similarly staying with Windows or OS X has trade offs. Principally for me is their complexity, their black box nature, the culture of control and cost/hassle of per seat licensing.

Should my replacement computer (another laptop) be Linux (other than Apple)?

Only you can answer that question. Some things to consider though:
- Are you happy/content with your current OS, or are you finding yourself to be frustrated by it's limits?
- Do you value having things that just work, or having greater control of your system?
- Is a computer a means to an end, or do you enjoy the challenge of making it do your bidding?

For me Linux is the best balance of control and functionality. I would like it to be more rounded on the desktop, similarly I'd like Windows to not be so overly complex. Both a serviceable, neither is ideal.
Earth

Submission + - Solving the Energy Crisis by Tripling Electricity (withouthotair.com) 2

Submitted by __aajbyc7391
__aajbyc7391 writes: Sounds crazy, but as with all of University of Cambridge Prof. David J. C. MacKay's thinking, there's logic to back it up, along with a welcome dollop of British wit. His new book, "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" (available free online and in hard copy and released under a Creative Commons license), is a roadmap for kicking our fossil fuel habit. Along the way, MacKay demolishes "codswallop" arguments on both sides of the debate, and explains why tripling electricity demand is the solution. In MacKay's holistic approach, transportation and space heating move from fossil fuels to renewable electricity. The beauty of consuming very large amounts of extra electricity for transport and heating is that these two forms of demand are "easily-switch-off-and-on-able," MacKay says. A smart grid that controls vehicle charging and pumping into heat-stores matches demand to renewables' fluctuating supply, overcoming one of their biggest drawbacks. A recent review in Science magazine (PDF download) calls the book "a must-read analysis" and "found MacKay's book by turns exhilarating and terrifying."

Comment Re:Having finished a Flex/Air app... (Score 3, Insightful) 231

by moreati (#26167001) Attached to: iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux

Sorry to pick on you, but this is a bugbear of mine.

Applications written in AIR/Silverlight/whatever are not web applications. They're thick client applications that happen to use a bit of http and javascript.

Web applications run in web browsers. Not in one particular browser, and not in a third party runtime.

I'm glad AIR was a good fit for your problem.
Encryption

BD+ Successfully Resealed 443

Posted by Soulskill from the effort-vs.-reward dept.
IamTheRealMike writes "A month on from the story that BD+ had been completely broken, it appears a new generation of BD+ programs has re-secured the system. A SlySoft developer now estimates February 2009 until support is available. There's a list of unrippable movies on the SlySoft forums; currently there are 16. Meanwhile, one of the open source VM developers seems to have given up on direct emulation attacks, and is now attempting to break the RSA algorithm itself. Back in March SlySoft confidently proclaimed BD+ was finished and said the worst case scenario was 3 months' work: apparently they underestimated the BD+ developers."
Medicine

Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun 285

Posted by kdawson from the you-must-remember-this dept.
Science Daily is reporting that the virus behind cold sores has been found to be a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers. Researchers believe the herpes simplex virus is a significant factor in developing the debilitating disease and could be treated by antiviral agents such as acyclovir, which is already used to treat cold sores and other diseases caused by the herpes virus. Another future possibility is vaccination against the virus to prevent the development of Alzheimer's in the first place. The research was just published in the Journal of Pathology (abstract).
Security

Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection 351

Posted by kdawson from the way-past-time-to-update dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld and others are reporting that Firefox 2.0.0.19, the last security update to be released before 2.0 goes end-of-life, will remove the phishing detection at the request of Google. The browser is using an older version of the Safe Browsing protocol that Google will discontinue. According to the latest NetApplications report, about 25% of all Firefox users were still on version 2.0. This move ought to result in an increased adoption of Firefox 3.0 and other browsers, unless it goes unnoticed by most users."

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