My wife's company would like to transfer her to an office in their Swiss office in Lucerne / Luzern, but she's got baggage -- me.

So, they're willing to sponsor her, take care of her visa & other paperwork, help set her/us up with an apartment, and bring her over for a couple of year, while she learns how the European side of her company works and she gradually makes her way up the management ladder.

So Google has finally offered a form of desktop search, but it only works on localhost. This seems reasonable for the average home user, but an obstacle to setting up something even cooler: a slick Google powered local LAN search engine. Think about it: even on a mostly Mac / Linux network, you can set up one Windows box that has Samba mounted your main network shares with the Google software, and through the magic

I think I've found a bug. I'm not sure if it's an ARD bug, a Fink bug,
or something else, but I definitely triggered some unwanted results.

I used ARD2 to install Fink (the 0.6.2 installer package) on two remote
machines, neither of which had a currently logged in user.

No one wants other people messing around with their computer when they're away from their desks, but what can you do? It's not practical to log out every time you want to go for a cup of coffee, so many people put a password lock on their screensaver instead.

It occurs to me that the recent Safari/Help security issue in OSX could be broader than is being generally portrayed so far.

There may be nothing to this, but it seems interesting anyway. I recently bought a PowerMac G5, and when I registered it with Apple, I was offered a free subscription to MacWorld. When signing up for the subscription, one of the questions you're asked is which Apple product you purchased most recently -- and one of the items on the list was "iMac G5". Does the MacWorld marketing department know something that the rest of us don't, yet? Very interesting...

GarageBand looks okay and all, but they totally dropped the ball on the name. For one thing, they broke then "clever" iName scheme that the rest of the iLife suite uses. For another thing, they missed a chance to get an oblique 80s punk rock reference, which clearly all software should aim for. How could they have fixed this?

iRock

Ooh, good line, must share:

"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
--Tom Stoppard

Not that it's cool to whine about moderation, but what exactly was wrong with these two comments?

Seen on the Slashdot footer right now:

Live Free or Live in Massachusettes.

Do I take it that the joke here is that the charming libertarian wackos from New Hampshire are too dumb to spell the name of their next door neighbor? :-)

Dear Aunty Slashdot,

Like many people, my wife and I have digital cameras that can record short mpeg video files in addition to traditional jpeg stills. Like any still camera, taking photos with the camera held vertically is a perfectly conventional thing to do, if the subject matter being photographed would be better framed that way. Caught up in the moment though, we've also got some video files that were shot this way, and fixing these is proving to be much harder to correct. Does an

Dear aunty Slashdot,

Does anyone here understand how Mozilla / Firebird's current security module system works? In particular, does anyone know what's up with the "software security device"?

So, much to the delight of every liberal in America, Rush Limbaugh has been caught in a wonderful pair of fuckups this week -- blatant racism, and abuse of a drug that can cause deafness (which it just so happens he came down with a sudden case of a year or two ago -- curious, eh?).

According to Macworld UK, Be, Inc. has settled its antitrust suit against Microsoft for $23 million. Microsoft, typically, admits no wrongdoing in the settlement. Readers may recall that Be, maker of the BeOS operating system, brought their suit against the Microsoft back in

It looks like the staff at E-Commerce Times have come up with a wonderful new logo for SCO articles, as scaled down to icon size by Google News (and I've stashed a