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Comment The real reason the judge was annoyed (Score 4, Interesting) 227

Instead, Plaintiff merely submitted 252 raw pages of documents obtained through discovery without so much as a summary of the information contained in those documents or an explanation to the Court how any of the line items contained therein directly relate to Kumar’s UMaple activities.

Seems to me that's the real reason the judge wasn't feeling like awarding any more damages, not some kind of protest against the DMCA or statutory damages.

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Submission + - openSUSE 12.1 released (opensuse.org) 1

MasterPatricko writes: The openSUSE project is proud to present the release of openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international community and brings you the best Free Software has to offer. Improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop as well as the newest from KDE, XFCE and LXDE; your ownCloud made easy with mirall; Snapper-shots of your file system on btrfs; and much, much more. Other notable changes include moving from sysvinit to systemd, improving the boot process, and being built on GCC 4.6.2 including link-time optimization. More packages than ever are available from the openSUSE instance of the Open Build Service, and soon you'll be able to create customised respins on SUSE Studio.

Comment Re:Violence (Score 1) 485

Contrary to popular belief, violence is the solution, If you are sure you know who it is, go to town on them. Give me a baseball bat and 5 minutes with any cocksucker that steals my shit, and he'll wish he didn't. Sure you might have my laptop, but I just knocked out all of your teeth and broke your legs. Fair trade.

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Comment Re:What will this do to version numbering? (Score 5, Informative) 142

"this guy" is Greg K-H, second-in-command to Linus and the maintainer of the -stable tree. His arguments were one of the main reasons Linus changed the 3.0 numbering. Greg is just proposing that he maintains another tree officially, not a "fork".
As for version numbering, I think there will be 3 numbers - first two for mainline releases, and one more for stable/longterm patch level. I don't think -longterm will be needing an extra number.

Comment Control panel? (Score 3, Informative) 274

The tarball contents have changed relative to previous releases:
  libflashplayer.so
  usr/bin/flash-player-properties
  usr/share/pixmaps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_adobe_flash_player.desktop
  usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop
  usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png
  usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so

Looks like it provides some sort of control panel now, and attempts to integrate into KDE's SystemSettings. All you really need is to copy libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins though (openSUSE).

Comment What standards are we really comparing against? (Score 1) 375

On my 2GB RAM linux machine, with 7 tabs open, Firefox having been open for about 6 hours, about:memory says

Memory mapped: 287,309,824
Memory in use: 237,087,826

Is that really unreasonable? Every other web browser I've tried gives similar numbers. Or are people just comparing to some ideal standard of 15 years ago where everything is supposed to run in 500kB?

Comment Things are great over here (Score 1) 432

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/

Most university computer lab machines dual-boot Windows XP and customised openSUSE. All students get ssh shell access to multiple Linux servers in various departments and public webspace. For Maths, Physics, and CompSci courses most of the programming is strongly recommended to be done on Linux machines, and the university gives free classes to staff and students on everything from basic Python to LaTeX.

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