Comment Re:Lifting fingers... (Score 1) 255
Christ on a crutch, do you think I haven't actually tried this?
Yes
Comment Re:Lifting fingers... (Score 1) 255
You don't even need to lift your left finger to right click. Hold it where it is while you push down with your right finger: as the shell moves down it separates from your left finger and a right click is registered. Holding a finger in place for half a second is perfectly natural.
Comment Re:Silly names (Score 1) 711
So for the foreseeable future your hard drive will be about 10% smaller than advertised.
Rather, your OS will misreport it's size by about 10%...
Comment Re:Halfway Competent (Score 1) 665
It could also be the power supply itself, or a loose internal power cable.
Richard Stallman Says No To Mono 1008
twitter writes "There's been a lot of fuss about mono lately. After SCO and MS suing over FAT patents, you would think avoiding anything MS would be a matter of common sense. RMS now steps into the fray to warn against a serious mistake: 'Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. .... This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. ... [writing and using applications in mono] is taking a gratuitous risk.'" Update: 06/27 20:22 GMT by T : Read on below for one Mono-eschewing attempt at getting the (excellent) Tomboy's functionality, via a similar program called Gnote. Update: 06/27 21:07 GMT by T: On the other side of the coin, reader im_thatoneguy writes "Jo Shields, a Mono Developer, has published an article on 'Why Mono Doesn't Suck,' why it is not a threat to FOSS, why it is desirable to developers and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default."
Comment Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete? (Score 2, Insightful) 266
but this was the operating system subverting the security of an application.
By using a documented API designed for silent installs?
Comment Re:X-WRT? (Score 5, Insightful) 217
This isn't a theme competition, it's a user interface competition - usability counts much more than the style of the buttons.
Comment Re:Why so hard to fix? (Score 1) 255
I don't get it. If they still have the data, why is it so hard for them to write up a script to fix the mistake?
Looks like they forgot how many features their old system had before it was re-built from scratch. For example, they used to support multiple aliases, so that you could have multiple names under one account (a personal alias, one for work, one where you're a 16 year old girl) but the new system only has one profile page per account, not one per alias, so it is impossible for them to merge all the data from the old accounts into the new ones, because it won't fit. So instead they "deleted" it. Oops.
