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Comment Re:Bad GUI and no CLI: way too common (Score 1) 617

by adam872 on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:04PM (#33791110) Attached to: Take This GUI and Shove It

Oracle's Enterprise Manager used to do this (maybe still does). I agree, it's a great feature.

Comment Re:Its kind of funny that... (Score 1) 57

by adam872 on Monday September 20, 2010 @08:35PM (#33644504) Attached to: Xerox PARC Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Totally agree with this recommendation. I have the book and love it.

After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21, 2010 @05:22PM from the terminal-velocity dept.

The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."

Comment Re:Brings back memories... (Score 1) 326

by adam872 on Thursday February 18, 2010 @07:37PM (#31193724) Attached to: <em>Civilization V</em> Announced For This Fall

I am so hearing that. I've wasted (?) more hours of my life on that game than I would care to tally up. It has ruled for many years and still does. The only game I play on a regular basis.

Comment Re:Moddability = Success (Score 1) 326

by adam872 on Thursday February 18, 2010 @07:23PM (#31193584) Attached to: <em>Civilization V</em> Announced For This Fall

Me too. Civ is the only game I have installed on my home machine (everything else is on the Wii). Been playing it since I was a Uni student back in the early 90's. I love this game, though I would say that it took me a while to like Civ IV as much as I liked I and III. I imagine I'll be buying V when it comes out too. Sid rocks. Anyone remember the game Colonization? That was cool too.

Comment Re:And free content....well, sort of. (Score 1) 469

by adam872 on Thursday December 20, 2007 @07:39PM (#21773396) Attached to: Which eBook Reader is the Best?

Amen to that. I've held off getting ebooks for the longest time, as the reading devices were inadequate. This e-ink technology looks the business though and I'm interested for sure. The single biggest advantage? Being able to carry around multiple books on one device. The exact same reason I love my iPod so much (I carry my entire music collection with me wherever I go on a small device with an 80GB HDD).

Piracy Stats Don't Add Up 258

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @04:31AM from the someone-went-out-on-a-limb dept.

arenam writes to tell us Australian IT is reporting that a recent briefing for the Attorney-General's Department prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology draws certain piracy statistics into question. From the article: "The draft of the institute's intellectual property crime report, sighted by The Australian shows that copyright owners 'failed to explain' how they reached financial loss statistics used in lobbying activities and court cases. Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are 'unverified and epistemologically unreliable,' the report says."

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