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Comment Gah. (Score 4, Informative) 175

the printer’s fuser – which is designed to dry the ink once it’s applied to paper

Stupid submitter makes my head hurt.

There is no ink in laser printers. There is toner, a bone-dry powder that is fused to the paper by the fuser, generally a very warm cylinder.

Ink-jet printers use ink, but those droplets are so small they dry into the paper without having to be heated.

Facts, use them.

Comment Re:This is not unique. (Score 1) 622

I think you're mixing copyright, patents and trademarks. They are actually quite different in scope, subject matter and duration so please try to keep them apart. From your description, I'd guess that your story concerned a trademark. The USPTO can very well deny a trademark application for a name that can be mistaken for a name already registered in a different, but similar, category. Or grant it, as you say it's a bit of a crapshoot.

One real-world example: Apple Records could not keep Apple Computer from trademarking their name until Apple Computer went into the music business with iTunes. It's still not the same category (record company/recording vs music distribution/sales) but close enough to possibly cause confusion and a court date.

Comment Re:This is like GM removing the spare in trunk (Score 1) 862

I have both Win 7 and Ubuntu running on this system (concurrently, the Ubuntu is a VirtualBox fullscreened on the second monitor), and I find your post interesting because on Windows side I have like 2 dozen icons pinned to the taskbar. Basically anything I need even semiregularly. On the Ubuntu, I have 2 icons in the Gnome panel: Firefox and gnome-terminal. I never use the Firefox icon. I think it was there by default. If I need Firefox on the Ubuntu for some reason (usually I browse with Chrome from the Windows) I'll do the same thing I do with any program other than terminal (which I usually have around 10 open on each of the 4 virtual desktops): open yet another terminal and type: firefox &

Comment Re:Virtualization (Score 1) 239

My thoughts exactly. At work (as a sysadmin) I'm running a Windows desktop with 2 screens. On the second screen (which isn't really essential, but still nice) I have a VirtualBox Ubuntu installation fullscreened 24/7. So I basically have two systems side-by-side except:
  • I have one mouse and one keyboard.
  • I can see what's going on in both OS at the same time
  • I only need to lock/unlock my console once
  • I can seamlessly copy-paste between them.
  • If I need to remote from home, I can just take normal RDP and the Ubuntu is available in a window too.

Even useless eye-candy in compiz works fine (though it's a bit slowish with RDP over interwebs). Both systems run all the time (well, the Windows needs to be booted occasionally where as KSplice deals with the Ubuntu pretty well), and they work just fine. From work-flow point of view it's mostly like working with a single system.

I also have a console switch so I can access a separate Mac (for OSX) from the same console. It works too, but it's such a pain to hop from one system to another that I usually try to avoid having to bother. What this "hot switching" sounds like is basically like using such a console switch. Doesn't sound so great when you're used to being able to just focus another window.

Comment Re:Why.... (Score 2) 543

But it can be mitigated by using external USB drives and the 'dd' command, which allows an entire file system to be stored as an image file and then restored or even mounted temporarily.

No need to use 'dd' as you can just take a tar-ball of one filesystem. That way you don't waste space on storing (and more importantly moving) the garbage in unallocated space. There's nothing special about any of it, except whatever the bootloader (ie. grub hopefully) requires. You can use some Live ISO (usually the same one you used to copy the data over) to chroot into the system once the data is copied over and tell grub to reinstall itself (update-grub). The only other tweak required is patching new UUIDs to /etc/fstab (or you can give the old UUID to mkfs too I guess, though this could cause problems if you try to connect both drives at the same time).

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