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UK Research Funders: Publicly Funded Research Must Be Publicly Available 61

scibri writes "The UK's research councils have put in place an open access policy similar to the one used by the US NIH. From April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come from work paid for by one of the UK's seven government-funded grant agencies, the research councils, which together spend about £2.8 billion each year on research (press release). The councils say authors should shun journals that don't allow such policies, though they haven't said how those who don't comply with the rules will be punished."

Comment The joy of installing drivers (Score 4, Funny) 1880

The joy of installing monitor drivers, cipset drivers, printer drivers, LAN drivers, WLAN drivers and many many more! I just love figuring out just exactly what drivers are needed to make my new laptop work. It's quite challenging and fun. FUCK, I forgot IE I just love his whole darn family! Hmmmm can I mark my own comment as troll? :D

Comment Re:Cue Apple fans saying "That could NEVER happen" (Score 1) 584

Apple sucks ass big time :) but this is a good idea ! I see 2 fears: 1) plugins: if apple implements this right then browsers and final cut and others might request get all permissions or they can recalculate all permissions based on the plugins they have. I would like to see each time I install a new plugin a message like "the application X wants this extra permission:read/write external files because - {insert some reason the developer wrote}. Do you agree to add the extra permission?Yes/No". This could mean less virus infections on Macs. 2) external apps cannot be installed: well this is a serious issue but most Mac users have iPhones so this is not new to them :). Most Apple fans are not experts in computers (see the haters/fanboys difference on slashdot comments) . They like a single place where to install everything. I have a Ubuntu laptop I love installing stuff from their software center. it is simple and painless. I like the freedom of installing extra .deb packages but I rarely use it.

Comment Unity is cool (Score 1) 798

I got that Unity wallpaper http://iloveubuntu.net/sites/default/files/field/image/unity_shortcuts_wallpaper_1.png and learned all the shortcut keys, I am also using Synapse since I don't think the lenses are yet mature enough for example they cannot return "Deja Dup" for a string like "DeDup". I have been using the mouse very rarely for the past year. Unity is not yet mature, is not configurable enough but it's really cool. I really don't understand why is the Linux community against Unity and Gnome3. I think I am going to try out Gnome 3 to see how that works. It looks cool. PS: I also shrunk all those dock bar icons to the minimum from ccsm.

Comment Re:dd (Score 1) 133

+1 I had Issues with Deja Dup. It seemd to have a partial restore of my files. I did not actually understand what happened. + Deja Dup has issues with soft/hard links. Clonezilla is OS agnostic (tested on Ubuntu and Win7) and works like a charm. It is not incremental. It takes a snapshot of the partition. I used only these 2 solutions.

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