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Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 01, 2011 @08:04AM from the do-my-job-for-me dept.

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Comment Re:Dull surprise (Score 1) 213

by H.G.Blob on Friday May 28, 2010 @09:04AM (#32374906) Attached to: XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support

Actually it runs on the beagleboard too

Comment Re:I thought Europe didn't allow software patents? (Score 2, Informative) 113

by H.G.Blob on Friday April 23, 2010 @02:00PM (#31958064) Attached to: Microsoft Gets Back Its FAT Patent In Germany

The European Patent Office usually does not grant software only patents but that doesn't mean that each country can't have a diverging policy. If you RTFA, the original decision was in part motivated by the EU policy on software patents.

Comment Re:I'm surprised (Score 2, Informative) 271

by H.G.Blob on Friday December 18, 2009 @12:09PM (#30488274) Attached to: EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law

The summary is terrible, there is no DMCA style legislation in the EU. The article says:

The U.S. has proposed provisions that would mandate a DMCA-style implementation for the WIPO Internet treaties and encourage the adoption of a three-strikes and you're out system to cut off access where there are repeated allegations of infringement.

Comment Re:Why switch to openSuse? (Score 1) 207

by H.G.Blob on Thursday November 12, 2009 @02:22PM (#30076148) Attached to: openSUSE 11.2 Released

IMHO openSuse is the by far the most polished KDE distro out there and yast is a very useful tool if you don't like editing config files.

Comment Re:Two way street (Score 3, Informative) 367

by H.G.Blob on Thursday October 22, 2009 @01:48PM (#29837755) Attached to: Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone

Two things:
1)Nokia N900 hasn't been released yet
2)All Nokia smarphones have had the ability to sync with exchange for a long time.

Comment Re:Whatever comes out... (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Monday June 01, 2009 @01:45PM (#28170455) Attached to: Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities

Symbian has about 49% market share and linux another 8%(source).

Comment Re:Ye (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Monday June 01, 2009 @10:28AM (#28167797) Attached to: Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems?

Yup, running the experimental Kubuntu 9.04. Never had a problem with the stock kernel.

Comment Re:Ye (Score 1) 289

by H.G.Blob on Sunday May 31, 2009 @12:51AM (#28155651) Attached to: Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems?

I did it like that too until the last fsck took more than 15 minutes, then I switched /home too. No problems at all.

Comment troll maybe? (Score 1) 644

by H.G.Blob on Thursday May 28, 2009 @08:06AM (#28121783) Attached to: Asus Slaps Linux In the Face

The story broke on reddit a few days ago and someone pointed to the whois for the domain, which kinda looks like a troll. At least the hotmail address looks strange.

Michael Sharp 12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd. Box 238 Kent, Washington 98030 United States Administrative Contact: Sharp, Michael rdcpro@hotmail.com 12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd. Box 238 Kent, Washington 98030 United States (877) 788-8066 Fax --

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 315

by H.G.Blob on Thursday May 28, 2009 @08:02AM (#28121731) Attached to: EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention

Well, every power can be abused, this is why they need a warrant to access the data. I'm not saying it's a perfect law but at least they aren't doing it behind your back(NSA style) and they do require the ISPs to anonymize the logs.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 3, Interesting) 315

by H.G.Blob on Thursday May 28, 2009 @05:22AM (#28120807) Attached to: EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention

Could you please see this law in perspective for a moment:
1) This law requires the ISP to hold identification data for only 6 months - most ISPs keep it longer than that.
2) The only way to have access to this data is to have a court order.
3) I've never heard Slashdot complain about telcos that save call records for the exact same purpose because in the end we just want our privacy and not make it impossible for police to do their jobs.

My $.02

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