Comment: God Speed, You Fancy Bastard (Score 1) 1521
I really don't have anything more to add, but the spam filter insists that I type in *something*.
Comment: Re:Danger, Will Robinson! (Score 1) 102
I can't abide by Symbian, Windows Phone, Android nor whatever the hell Samsung, Motorola and Ericsson excrete into their phones.
Trust me, I've tried.
Comment: Re:Danger, Will Robinson! (Score 1) 102
I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't had 100% success on the other devices, but none of the other devices was the exact same, so I should have waited. Now she'll never jailbreak again.
Comment: Re:Danger, Will Robinson! (Score 1) 102
To be more precise, it was my GF's phone, and I had successfully traversed two other devices first.
Let's just say I am not popular at this very moment.
Comment: Danger, Will Robinson! (Score 1) 102
Worked fine on my iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS. iPhone 4 is now stuck in an Logo Loop of Death. I can access it through iRecovery, but I can't really salvage anything. Too bad I haven't backed it up for months, because there is soooo much data that I am going to lose if I have to Restore.
Comment: Re:It's a huge issue to app developers, not Google (Score 1) 211
Wow, you just made me re-animate my /. account.
You have just described some of the major reasons I have gone in a great big circle around the Android phones, even if I find the *idea* of a Linux-based phone OS by Google very appealing. I have an iPhone that has all the same advantages of the Apple computers, only amplified: Complete hardware control and testability. They might be a little more expensive, and Apple might be dickheads, but they still deliver a better end product to the users.
Maybe in a year or two
Comment: Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 178
Good thing you answered - I saw that the project home page hadn't been updated for 6 months, so I assumed that it had gone the way of the dodo, like so many other SF-projects.
I'll try to dig up my Qtek and see where that takes us :)
I'll try to dig up my Qtek and see where that takes us
Comment: Re:Why Linux? (Score 1) 178
Jeez. Troll? Come ON. Offtopic, may be, but definitely not troll.
Comment: Awesome! (Score 1) 178
I had completely forgotten about my near-useless Qtek 9100 (same as HTC Wizard, the slight difference being the casing, colours and market)
Is it any good, or is it just as treacle-slow as the Windows implementation?
Argh, who am I kidding, I'm probably going to dig it up and have a go either way. F/OSS FTW! :-D
Is it any good, or is it just as treacle-slow as the Windows implementation?
Argh, who am I kidding, I'm probably going to dig it up and have a go either way. F/OSS FTW!
+ - Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx->
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empaler writes "We all know the usual pro-copyright arguments. Most of them hinge on the fact that the individual or company that has a copyright needs an incentive to make something that is copyrightable, and therefore ensure a revenue stream in a period after the copyright has been granted. In a never-surpassed move, Egypt is working on legislation to extend copyright well above 3000 years — they are going to start claiming royalties for using likenesses of the Sphynx and the Pyramids. It is still unclear whether the original intent of the Pyramids included "making sure them bastards pay for a plastic copy in 3000 years" alongside "securing a pathway to the heavens for the God King". Speaking as a Greenlandic national, I want dibs on ice cubes."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
+ - Anyone still in the "just use root not sudo
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An anonymous reader writes "Some time ago, I saw some decent arguments in favor of just using a root account only on certain machines, not going for sudo and individual admin accounts. It may have been on an old OpenBSD mailing list. I can't find it now but it made me wonder, given the current landscape of SOX, ITIL, etc and the continuing misdirection by upper management, politician and consulting firms that the answer to corporate malfeasance and poor performance is in CCTV and keystroke monitoring of low level employees, is anyone still using and/or willing to admit to using root only? sudosh seems to be an interesting option, I've tried it and if it was a little more up to date, it appears to have some better logging features than other FOSS options for root level task logging.
Anonymous because I don't want to be torn to shreds by enthusiastic sudoers."
Anonymous because I don't want to be torn to shreds by enthusiastic sudoers."
+ - Microsoft can evade GPL 3 ..
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rs232 writes ""Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the new GPL 3, according to a leading Australian intellectual property lawyer"
"Unless there is something more specific in the certificate or the collaboration agreement between Novell and Microsoft, I would be very surprised to see this upheld. It was a nice try on the part of (the FSF), but at this stage, I'd say it's not going to be an effective strategy. It will be tough to hold up in court."
'In this case, she said, Microsoft never acted — never 'entered' into the agreement, and the terms and conditions can only apply to new actions by Microsoft, not older ones. She said: "Their actions so far are not enough to say that they are bound."'
http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39167957 ,00.htm"
"Unless there is something more specific in the certificate or the collaboration agreement between Novell and Microsoft, I would be very surprised to see this upheld. It was a nice try on the part of (the FSF), but at this stage, I'd say it's not going to be an effective strategy. It will be tough to hold up in court."
'In this case, she said, Microsoft never acted — never 'entered' into the agreement, and the terms and conditions can only apply to new actions by Microsoft, not older ones. She said: "Their actions so far are not enough to say that they are bound."'
http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,3916795
+ - Judge Lets RIAA Subpoena Defendant's Employer
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A judge has ruled that the RIAA can subpoena the defendant's employer in a case pending in Manhattan federal court, Atlantic v. Shutovsky. The judge's order (pdf) contained eight (8) separate rulings deciding 19 pages of discovery disputes (pdf), resolving virtually all of them in favor of the RIAA."
+ - Don't overlook command line processing
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An anonymous reader writes "Command-line processing is historically one of the most ignored areas in software development. Just about any relatively complicated software has dozens of available command-line options. The GNU tool gperf is a "perfect" hash function that, for a given set of user-provided strings, generates C/C++ code for a hash table, a hash function, and a lookup function. This article provides a reference for a good discussion on how to use gperf for effective command-line processing, and on command-line processing techniques in general."
+ - Robbie Williams to play Captain Kirk
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AxminsterLeuven writes "After yesterday's announcement that Leonard Nimoy will be playing Spock again, reports are coming in that none other than Robbie Williams will be cast as Captain Kirk. Here's just one example, that quotes director J.J. Abrams as saying: "I think (Williams)'d be a good Captain Kirk. The Kirk in my movie is quite young, it's like the early years.""