Comment: Re:I liked Ubuntu when it was "polished" Debian (Score 2) 449
And now Mint is polished Ubuntu. Wonder how many layers we can go?
Comment: Re:Answer, in brief: (Score 2) 556
Your boned what? Your boned (Minecraft slang) plants will sprout? Your bone daemon will tell you when you're out of bones? Come on, don't keep us waiting!
Reporting companies which leak email addresses to
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l0b0 writes "In December I sent an email to a Spanish company to arrange a visit at an astronomic observatory, which was subsequently completed. Recently I have received a lot of Spanish spam messages. While this is probably not court-admissible evidence, I have a very strong suspicion that spammers have got access to their customer emails.
I have tried notifying them about the situation:
After sending an email to [redacted] in December, I have suddenly started receiving a *lot* of Spanish spam email. You might want to review who has access to your customers' email addresses.
This was completely misunderstood:
we sent you a email on the 14th of December and no one answer, The next visit began on April.
I have tried to clarify the situation in another reply, but unless and until they do something about it, anyone else who contacts them is probably at risk. What is the most effective way to warn others that they should not contact this company directly, and to revert this statement once the company has got its act together?"
Comment: Modern VCS (Score 3, Insightful) 33
GitHub repos? Looks like somebody over there has a clue.
Comment: Re:As someone once said... (Score 1) 988
Richard Stallman quoting Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. It's not that long ago...
Comment: The Golden Years (Score 1) 455
Wow, I'm glad I started using Ubuntu in 2007 - Finally painless display setup. 2008 brought painless stereo audio setup, and 2009 painless 5.1 sound via S/PDIF: Glory be! 2010 brought
Comment: Re:Moderation system (Score 1) 763
This could go on forever. CmdrTaco, you're needed!
Comment: Re:How about neither? (Score 1) 482
Seems to me this is why real OSes have a repository of third-party software, to be downloaded about as quickly as you can find the page within a government web site. What am I saying - Quicker.
BioWare forums hacked->
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l0b0 writes "Early this morning (CET), BioWare informed their forum users by email that they "recently learned that hackers gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums." Their FAQ has more information, one of the important bits being that "no credit card data was compromised.""
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Comment: Digital + physical folders (Score 1) 371
Anything really important (ownership documents, job contracts) is scanned + distributed to all my machines with Git, and a physical copy is kept in a small folder dedicated to that theme (one for each insurance, each bank, warranties, diplomas, etc.). Less important documents are just scanned (or retrieved electronically, when possible) and the physical copy discarded. A well organized digital library is great when you don't want to shuffle through a huge stack all the time.