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Comment Re:Turn your CAPS into another CTRL key (Score 1) 968

Google's doing something better.

You change your capslock key because it's not just a waste of space, it's a negative function and it's in the way.

Best to not put them on the keyboard in the first place.

The reason they are removing the key is so people stop writing all in uppercase, not because is a waste of space or it's in the way (and you are probably referring to a different sort of negative function, not it's use to type comments in uppercase).

How to say this, we want that key there, we just don't want the current functionality that it has by default, it is a very convenient space in the keyboard.

Comment Re:Turn your CAPS into another CTRL key (Score 1) 968

If you are on Windows there is a reg change you can make that will turn you CAPS into a CTRL key and it is the greatest thing I've ever done to my computer.

If you are on Linux is ridiculously easy to change the Caps Locks key to something different.

http://www.jveweb.net/en/archives/2010/11/making-better-use-of-the-caps-lock-key-in-linux.html

As a heavy Vim (and also a Vimperator) user who turned his Caps Lock key into an Escape key, this was also the greatest thing I have done, and my ability to work would be severely hindered by the lose of this key now. That alone means I wouldn't get a Google Netbook, but I am sure I am not their target market anyway (nor the iPad's).

Botnet

Submission + - Computer health certificates to surf the Internet (technet.com)

Lord Juan writes: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Trustworthy Computing is proposing that computers should obtain a "heal certificate" in order to access the Internet, and that people who refuse to get their computers certificated are throttled or forbidden access. While it is true that botnets and malware are a huge problem this days, I fail to see why people who takes care of their own computers and specially people who is not using Microsoft products at all should be subject to this health checks upon the menace of end with their connections affected. The BBC just ran an article about this proposals, from the BBC article:

His proposal, presented at the International Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) Conference in Berlin, Germany, is for all computers to have a "health certificate" to prove that it is uninfected before it connects to the net.

"Although the conditions to be checked may change over time, current experience suggests that such health checks should ensure that software patches are applied, a firewall is installed and configured correctly, an antivirus program with current signatures is running, and the machine is not currently infected with known malware," he wrote in the accompanying paper.

The BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11483008
The paper: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/endtoendtrust/vision/

Comment Re:About Software (Score 2, Funny) 126

Really? Can you find a bug in this...

  #include <stdio.h>
  int main()
  {
        printf("hello, world");
        return 0;
  }

But Microsoft did not write that routine, had they done it, it would read something like:

#include <stdio.h>
  int main()
  {
        printf("hello, world");
        get_administrative_privileges();
        collapse_system();
        return 0;
  }

Linux

Submission + - Managing editor of linuxtoday: Copying is Stealing (linuxtoday.com) 2

Lord Juan writes: My eyes could not believe when I read the same old tired argument of "Copying is Stealing" we are all used to hear coming from the entertainment industry, coming from the Managing Editor of the Linux Today website. Linux and the entire Free Software ecosystem is based on the idea of Copy and Share. I wouldn't have expected that a Linux related website would take a position regarding the legality or illegality of the entertainment content, but to plainly say that "Copying is Stealing" and use the argument that "Linux and Free/Open Source software are entirely dependent on copyrights, and some FOSS fans get pretty righteous on the subject, especially for GPL violations. And yet when it comes to music, movies, and books some think the same respect for copyrights doesn't apply, and it's OK to collect copies of works without paying for them. We can hardly criticize the RIAA, MPAA, ASCAP, Sony BMG, and all the other hostile, clueless over-reaching forces of darkness without having clean hands ourselves." thus missing the point that the GPL is intended to allow the copying and sharing of the source code by using copyright law against itself, it just something that is beyond my comprehension.

Comment Re:Yet another application rewritten in Gnome... (Score 1) 361

That is one of the reasons I like KDE, I know that it isn't complete yet, and I sure have experienced some annoyances and bugs when it passed from 3 to 4, but there is consistency and it offers an experience that gnome won't offer, not to mention it counts with some excellent apps for a variety of things.

Comment Re:Gqview (Score 1) 361

It's one of the few image viewers in linux I enjoy using, it's fast and does what is supposed to well, tho I am trying to get, accustomed, to gwenview, as geeqie can't do everything that I want, still, it is a good program to see pictures.

Comment I do want the PIM finished (Score 2, Interesting) 122

I know that the vast majority of people don't care about it, but I honestly want the PIM finished, if they are going to integrate akonadi with it, then fine, but finish it already...

Other than that, it was about time to make a big release with mostly bug fixes in it, maybe it's me but I don't find it as unstable or as memory hungry as people are claiming here, it was some versions ago, no argument there, but now it's pretty decent, for me, what is left are mostly annoyances, and I have suffer a lot of them, but I keep the faith, I like the way it's going.

Comment Re:Guild Wars (Score 1) 463

The one thing I love about Guild Wars it's not the fact that there is no grinding, because, there is grinding, a lot of grinding, but the fact that the grinding does not affect PvP in any way, neither other add-ons you may buy. As people previously mention, in a pair of weeks you are PvPing, even sooner if you create a PvP character.

I can stop playing Guild Wars for a month, get back online, and join some PvP matches with friends who spend that month playing, and I don't feel like an outcast. Sure, if they were into PvE they may have a new shiny armor/weapon/title, if they were into PvP they may have a shiny new title, but I am by no means underpowered and unable to go have fun with them.

Guild Wars got it right, the fact WoW have more players only means there is a lot of people who loves grinding, but when it comes to competitive playing, Guild Wars so far is the only game that got it right.

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