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Comment Re:not happy to ditch for windows 7 (Score 1) 471

I never got this working consistently (XP, Vista or Win7) so if I need to order files by date I name the files something like filename_YYYYMMDD and then globally sort by name (which works).
The strange thing is that on my boss' computer (Win7) with sort and group by date everything just works... never understood how or why.

Comment Re:Fuck you Italy (Score 2) 459

Damm between Berlusconi's shenanigans, the terrible state of Italian politics and now this I'm starting to be ashamed to be Italian.

Would someone from Italy like to explain why you voted this authoritarian cunt into the EU. Go on! I'd love to hear it!

Anyhow, most of the people voted into the EU are unknown to the voters because most people just vote the Party (Motti is part of the Christian Democrat Union -- UDC). Now you can express one or more preferences (up to 3 I think) for a single person and the vote goes to the political party and to the person(s). Total votes to the political party determine the number of seats, and total personal votes determine who gets elected. In case of a tie, the position in an internal list determines who goes so, in the extreme case where votes are only given to the party and no candidates receive a personal vote, the people that get elected are the first ones on the list... the list is obviously determined by the Party.
Now not many voters in Italy know that they can express a personal preference in the EU elections (because in the national elections you cannot express a preference for a candidate -- you vote the party and the party chooses who gets elected according to the list) the above situation is not far-fetched. Add to this that most people in Italy honestly don't give a fuck about who is elected and tend to vote by "habit" (as in "I'm a Christian so I have to vote the Christian Party...") and you can see how a bunch of fascist, racist, close-minded cunts; some shady persons and even showgirls can get elected to the EU.

Space

Submission + - Gravity Doesn't Exist, The Earth Just Sucks.

bs0d3 writes: A new theory states that dark matter exists all around us, but is too small to be detectable or seen by light. One of it's effects is that it slightly pushes us, creating the sensation we call gravity. The dark matter theory also helps to explain why the outer edge of our universe is expanding at an accelerated rate without the need to invent new concepts like dark energy. According to 3pp0; "Dark energy, is something that we've made up recently, to explain why the outer edge of the universe is defying "gravity's" pulling effect. If the universe was expanding, fueled by the big bang, it should be gradually slowing down. Scientists recently discovered that the outer edge of the universe is accelerating, or expanding even faster on a daily basis. Dark energy is suppose to be this unknown form of energy that causes things to magically defy gravity for no reason sometimes. What's actually happening at the edge of our universe is simple, the dark matter is diffusing into the vacuum of space, and it's pulling the planets with it."

Comment Re:obviously (Score 1) 725

Mod parent funny not insightful, the only link that that relates to the discussion is the riots in the UK, where a bunch of kids decided "Fuck all, let's riot" and proceeded to pillage the stores around in their own neighborhood. The other links are legitimate protests to the government fucking up, the citizens having to pay the price and the police cracking down heavy on the protesters.
Programming

Submission + - Ten of the world's most disastrous IT mistakes (pcauthority.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: The Airbus A380 is now lauded as the world’s biggest passenger plane, and a high-tech passenger aircraft at that. But in the spring of 2005, however, just as the Airbus A380 was taking shape in hangars, engineers came across a jumbo software issue that reportedly cost the company $6bn by delaying the first flight by two years. The French and German production facilities had been using different versions of the industry standard design software, CATIA 5, for their CAD designs. When they matched up their halves of the plane, it was like trying to weld the front of a Ford Mondeo to the back of a Mini Moke. The wiring plans were completely incompatible. This fascinating article at PC & Tech Authority covers some of the world's most disastrous IT mistakes, from time-bombed software for Russian gas pipes, to the coding flaw that triggered a power failure across multiple states.

Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 283

I find a mix of both works best: reference on a PC (MSDN, pdf, etc.) with a paper book with loads of post-its on relevant pages, light reading on a reader (kindle or even a tablet). I'm usually reading 2 o 3 fiction books at a time, while I need reference mostly while I'm coding.
Though you can't beat the dead tree format while you're in the ..ahem.. private reading room.
Google

Submission + - It's Official: Google+ Has Over 10 Million Users (gizmocrazed.com)

Mightee writes: "Google+ now has more than 10 million users, sharing over 1 billion items (photos, video and status updates) per day, Google's CEO Larry Page has announced at this quarter's earnings call, that took place earlier today. This figure is expected to cross 20 million by the end of this week."
Google

Submission + - The massive mystery of Google's Finance (siliconvalleywatcher.com)

kai_hiwatari writes: "The partner sites are part of Google's AdSense network and include large media companies such as The New York Times.

Google's own sites, such as search, gmail, etc showed 39% growth in the most recent quarter compared with the year ago quarter, to $6.23 billion.

Google partner sites grew at nearly half the rate: just 20% compared with a year ago, to $2.48 billion.

This huge disparity between the growth rates of Google sites and partner sites is without precedent for most of its history. For example, in 2010, Google sites never exceeded the growth rate of partner sites"

Submission + - Clean without Destroying the Nature (cleanerconfessions.com)

amberJames writes: "It is modern to be green nowadays. But what does it mean? Everybody talks about green cleaning and everyone tells us how to exchange the products we use with healthier ones. But let’s face the truth and admit that it is not as easy as it looks, because you cannot wash your clothes using baking soda or vinegar. Then how can we save the nature and have a clean home at the same time?"

Submission + - "HackingShield" and why it is bad for you (grafchokolo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: HackShield is an “anti-hacking” toolkit created by a South Korean security company known as Ahnlab Inc. It hooks deep inside your computer rootkit style and even sniffs your keyboard input, tampers with the entire Windows system security mechanics and does a lot of other shaddy stuff to your system. How far are protections allowed to go these days? Ahnlab seriously crossed the line.
Open Source

Submission + - PuTTY 0.61 Released (net-security.org)

Orome1 writes: After four long years, here comes a new version of PuTTY, the popular free telnet/SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms. PuTTY 0.61 brings new features, bug fixes, and compatibility updates for Windows 7 and various SSH server software. The new version supports SSH-2 authentication using GSSAPI, on both Windows and Unix. Users in a Kerberos realm should now be able to use their existing Kerberos single sign-on in their PuTTY SSH connections.

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