Comment or terminator... (Score 1) 289
terminator is awfully tough to beat. You can split one fullscreen console into as many consoles as you need
Comment Re:"looks a bit too cartoony"...."annoys the hell" (Score 1) 289
more accurate to say he liked the ability to configure every little thing, but has many gripes too about overall look & feel and defaults
I'd say his post overall is why many people still go to things like xfce4, mate, cinnamon, LXDE, etc.
IIRC Linus switched *from* XFCE.
Submission + - Firefox remarkably improved in latest browser showdown (tomshardware.com) 2
Billly Gates writes: Tomshardware did another benchmark showdown since several releases of both Firefox and Chrome came out since the last one. Did Mozilla clean up its act and listen to its users? The test results are listed here. Firefox 13.01 uses the least amount of ram with 40 tabs opened while Chrome uses the highest surprisingly. Overall it scored medium with memory efficiency which measures ram released after tabs are closed. What is also surprising is IE 9 still is king of the lowest ram usage for just 1 tab. Bear in mind in the comments below is that these tests were benchmarked in Windows 7. Windows XP and Linux users will have different results due to differences in memory management. It is too bad IE 10 which is almost finished wasn't available to benchmark.
Submission + - Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria - WHO (telegraph.co.uk)
smugfunt writes: A number of incidents at schools in Afghanistan, especially girl's schools, have been attributed to poisoning by the Taliban. The World Health Organization has investigated 32 of them but found no poison. "Mass Psychological Illness is the most probable cause," they conclude, the Telegraph reports.
The Taliban has consistently denied poisoning schools and have even consented to allow the education of girls in a deal with the government which allows significant Taliban control over the curriculum.
The Taliban has consistently denied poisoning schools and have even consented to allow the education of girls in a deal with the government which allows significant Taliban control over the curriculum.
Submission + - university sues student for graduating early (thelocal.de)
pointbeing writes: A private German economics and business university is suing one of its students for lost income after he finished his Bachelors and Masters degrees in about a quarter of the normal time.
Marcel Pohl completed 60 examinations in 20 months, gaining a grade of 2.3, and was officially ex-matriculated in August 2011. Such a course usually takes 11 semesters, but he only needed three.
Now the Essen-based School of Economics and Management (FOM) want the 22-year-old to pay his fees up the end of 2011 — an extra €3,000.
Marcel Pohl completed 60 examinations in 20 months, gaining a grade of 2.3, and was officially ex-matriculated in August 2011. Such a course usually takes 11 semesters, but he only needed three.
Now the Essen-based School of Economics and Management (FOM) want the 22-year-old to pay his fees up the end of 2011 — an extra €3,000.
Submission + - Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF: Thus Dropped Grub 2 For Secure Boot (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: Free Software Foundation, FSF, recently published a white paper criticizing Ubuntu's move to drop Grub 2 in order to support Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot. FSF also recommend that Ubuntu should reconsider their decision. Ubuntu's charismatic chief, Mark Shuttleworth, has finally responded stating the reason why they won't change their stand on dropping Grub 2 from Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth said "The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could require key disclosure if some OEM screwed up. As nice as it is that someone at the FSF says they would not, we have to plan for a world where leaders change and institutional priorities change. The FSF wrote a licence that would give them the rights to take specific actions, and it's hard for them to argue they never would!
So, does that FSF can't be trusted?"
So, does that FSF can't be trusted?"
Comment Re:Prison and games (Score 1) 337
...Meanwhile, #2 still applies - a game station is actually a very cheap distraction if it prevents a single serious incident. Figure $10k if somebody's stabbed, $100k+ for a prison riot, etc...
The reason they have cable TV in prisons is to reduce the number of guards required to manage prisoners. I don't have real numbers but I'd wager that paying a couple of prison guards for a year is considerably more expensive than a year's worth of cable TV.
Comment Re:WNDR3700v2 (Score 1) 196
ps - I use homeplug *and* WDS at the house - mainly because there are three walls and a floor between my home router and the rack where directv/PS3/xbox lives. There is a WDS node in the kitchen one floor below the my router and another one in my bedroom feeding a directv receiver. This is a fairly new house and the spousal unit won't allow me to pull wire through her walls.
Yet.
Comment Re:WNDR3700v2 (Score 1) 196
If the homeplug nodes are on opposite sides of the breaker box your signal goes through the transformer on the pole down the street.
Submission + - kubuntu 11.04 reviewed by distrowatch (distrowatch.com)
pointbeing writes: Earlier this year, in the wake of my Ubuntu review, several people suggested I try Kubuntu. I was repeatedly assured that while Ubuntu had some rough edges, the Kubuntu team had put together a first-class KDE release. I'm a trusting sort, so I decided to take the advice and downloaded Kubuntu 11.04.
Comment ^^^ this. (Score 1) 84
First thing I do on a new KDE installation is install wicd, even on wired connections. network-manager is just awful.
Comment having used muon for about six months already... (Score 1) 84
I find the product to be fairly robust and the developer has been pretty darned responsive - I had enough issues with 11.04 that I went back to Debian, but I digress
synaptic is still my go-to gooey package manager. Functionally I don't think synaptic is any better than muon and I'm not sure whether it's my own prejudices or the GUI really could use a little help, but I find muon a bit more difficult to use than synaptic. IMO GUI design is an art form anyway - and not a skill that all developers possess
I have no problem running GTK+ apps in KDE but know a few people who do - I've never been one of those "pure KDE" people.
I think muon's a great effort - and kudos to the developer, who's pretty quick to answer questions.
Comment you need to have the only key... (Score 1) 333
I have a problem with cloud sites that advertise encryption simply because you don't have control of the key - or of who has it. There's no doubt in my mind that all of these services can decrypt your files for you if you lose your key.
I personally just encrypt my own stuff and stick it in a folder in my gmail account.
Comment the end justifies the means? (Score 1) 232
No, thanks.
I prefer people with a bit stronger moral compass, myself. People who believe the end justifies the means brought us among other things, the Patriot Act and waterboarding. IM frequently less than HO if you do a bad thing for a good reason you're still doing a bad thing.
Comment Re:that's smokin' (Score 1) 197
write test on the same netbook:
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=256k && sudo rm
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 19.916 s, 108 MB/s
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$
