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Comment Re:To bad really (Score 1) 193

What the hell word is that even supposed to be? I guess "ruminate" would be the closest word that sounds remotely similar to "laminate" and also makes sense in context.

I'm guessing "lament" was the target word.

Comment Re:If the link worked... (Score 1) 174

AMCtv.com is using the latest version of Flash to bring you the best quality video. Please update your current flash player by clicking here

Does not update a x64 based linux OS nor can I find one on download sites.

Suggestions?

You should be able to find an x86_64 Linux version of the current flash. I'm running Debian Testing/Unstable and the current version of flashplugin-nonfree gets the 64bit Flash 10 plugin.

If you just want a tarball of it, you can download it from Adobe Labs.

Comment Re:Poorly Marketed Sector (Score 1) 257

The current Macbooks have a touchpad interface that supports multi-touch. You can right click on those by pressing and holding with one finger and then tapping with a second finger.

You can also set it up on the newer ones (that have no obvious button) so that a click on the right side of bottom part of the touchpad (which actually is also a button that clicks and everything) is a right click. A middle click still requires command+click, but two zones is still good.

Comment Re:Matt Groening (Score 2, Interesting) 94

A mention of Checkov actor, Walter Koenig, is appropriate here.

And also of House Minority Leader John Boehner. Or Wayne Newton's song Danke Shoen.

It seems to be American English standard for German names that have an o-umlaut or oe (which is the same thing; the umlaut started out as a small e laying on it's side on top of another vowel) to pronounce it like "ay", instead of like the German sound English lacks or even "ur", which is more like how I think most English speakers hear o-umlaut.

p.s. Curse /. and their lack of support for non-ascii characters.

Comment Re:It's a toughy (Score 1) 459

Really, by not forcing a codec on HTML5, what does that do/what impact? I don't really understand. Can someone clarify?

The biggest problem it causes is that you can't just stick one video inside a <video> tag and know it will work with all browsers. You can specify several videos of different formats and browsers will play the first one that they can (and right now you also have to put a flash based player or something in for IE, but that's a separate problem), but you still have to at least generate an h264 and a Theora video.

Comment Re:It's a toughy (Score 1) 459

Can you spell that out a little more? I mean, a few years ago, I was aware of a lot of services selling DRM wrapped WMAs, but I can't think of a service that uses DRM wrapped WMVs. Mostly I hear about people using Hulu, which isn't using Microsoft's DRM. It doesn't seem to me that DRM with video isn't any more prevalent than it was a couple years ago.

If you want an explicit Microsoft DRM video example, Netflix uses Silverlight DRM for their PC and Mac based player. It's basically the only part of Silverlight they haven't licensed to Novell for Moonlight. So, no Netflix for Linux, even once Moonlight 2 and 3 are ready.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 503

IronPython runs on the .NET framework. Dunno about Mono though.

The Mono package for MacOS X comes with IronPython. I haven't really tested it, but it does at least start. I don't see why it wouldn't work essentially the same as on Windows, except maybe with GUI stuff, if there's some Windows.Forms classes that Mono hasn't implemented yet.

Comment You left out a few in Ohio (Score 3, Insightful) 1385

Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati are core cities in Ohio on the Chicago Hub line, not just Cleveland. Five dots in Ohio. People never seem to realize that Ohio is actually a pretty highly populated state with six metro areas greater than 650K people. This rail plan is going to be great for my home (but not current) state.

Comment Re:Why not open it up (Score 2, Informative) 580

Technically Darwin includes the kernel, which Apple closed down when they started releasing an x86 edition, in the name of preventing people from running OSX on non-Apple computers. This of course failed.

Really? Because when I go to the Apple OpenSource page, the XNU kernel is there and under the APSL, which is an OSI approved license.

I think there was a kind of long delay after they released the first x86 Macs before they released the source, but it's there.

Comment Re:What about 64 bit. (Score 1) 111

Everything on my Ubuntu installation is 64 bit. Every single application. Since I'm using Chromium, I guess that I have V8 in 64 bit. Just add the Chromium repository to Apt, then apt-get the source. You don't even have to know how to compile. (I do know how to, sort of, but I'm certainly not proficient - just let your installer do the work!)

I suspect it's using ia32-libs and not actually 64 bit. I have two reasons for suspecting this.

1) Chrome does not support 64 bit builds

2) The Ubuntu Chrome Daily PPA page says "no native 64bit debs planed for now. The amd64 package is using ia32-libs."

Comment Re:The difference (Score 3, Informative) 821

The very thought of Mac OS being a server makes me ill. X is based on BSD, why not just use BSD?

Because they have some nice tools for server management (gui (Workgroup Manager) and commandline (e.g. dscl)) that don't exist in vanilla BSD?

I'm just running it for a lab with less than 10 computers and less than 30 users, but for someone like me who is only a part-time administrator with other duties to my job, the Mac OS X Server tools are great.

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