Comment Re:Blind Specific Distro? (Score 1) 138

by __aakqkc2748 on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @12:18AM (#40083451) Attached to: The State of Linux Accessibility

Look at knoppix, the lead guy's wife is blind and tests it.

Comment Re: Missing things (Score 1) 539

by __aakqkc2748 on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:28AM (#35376618) Attached to: Reminiscing Old School Linux

Well, I don't miss the version of KDE that came with Debian Slink. Three triangles and nothing else except me, confused as hell, going swiftly back to a virtual console. Sort of like my first look at Gnome-shell, last night.

Comment I'm sick, take to to the camp. (Score 1) 334

by __aakqkc2748 on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @10:52AM (#28957613) Attached to: Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp

This is how the treat the mentally ill? I gotta watch out, cause I'm crazy in about a hundred ways, but yeah that country is abominable.

Comment Spirit of GPL (Score 1) 782

by __aakqkc2748 on Saturday August 01, 2009 @01:03PM (#28909833) Attached to: The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone

I don't think this guy understands the GPL. Its essence is that you give up control of your software after the release. The beauty of that is that everyone gets freedom. He can post the earlier versions on his site, which, I gather he hasn't been doing, you can add to it, and I can download or not as I choose.

Spare Clock 2

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:14PM from the truck-time dept.

I look forward to Swatch's line of off-road tires.

Comment The definite article? (Score 1) 488

by __aakqkc2748 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @10:25PM (#26632995) Attached to: KDE 4.2 Is Released

"The desktop environment for Linux, Windows, Mac, and (Open)Solaris" The definite article! Oh Really?

Comment Re:Cost in the EULA? (Score 2, Funny) 543

by __aakqkc2748 on Thursday January 15, 2009 @06:09PM (#26474749) Attached to: Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org?

Deleting it would not be the same as a return, would it? Perhaps she should send it to them as an email attachment!

Comment Re:Second that! (Score 1) 183

by __aakqkc2748 on Monday December 29, 2008 @02:15PM (#26259863) Attached to: Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs?

My question is: If I can't read them, am i a robot?

Good question, I've wondered about myself once or twice, as I sometimes cannot prove that I am Human. I'm sure glad I got into slashdot before capthas came to town.

Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork 1104

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @02:55PM from the you-gotta-bit-kidding-me dept.

paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize the text input area has been removed; instead, it automatically resizes depending on how much is typed. It turns out that this feature, along with the uncompromising unwillingness of the developers to provide an option to turn it off, annoys the bejesus of very many users. One comment made by a Professor that teaches "Collaboration in an Open Source World" argued that 'It's easy to see why open source developers could develop dogmas. [...] The most dangerous dogma is the one exhibited here: the God feature. "One technological solution can meet every possible user-desired variation of a feature." [...] You [the developers] are ignoring the fan base with a dedication to your convictions that is alarmingly evident to even the most unobservant of followers, and as such, you are demonstrating that you no longer deserve to be in the position of servicing the needs of your user base.'" Does anyone besides me find this utterly ridiculous?

Comment Re:Regarding Portable HDs (Score 1) 450

by __aakqkc2748 on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @05:45PM (#13225898) Attached to: Using Technology to Protect Anonymous Sources?

My error, it is open source. But my other concerns will , if I am not mistaken, still apply. Kurt