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2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? 460

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:15PM from the anything-you-set-your-mind-to dept.

Borov writes "I'm planning to buy a second monitor in near future and I was searching for ways to configure it under Linux. It seems there are two main ways: 1) to have one 'big' desktop, which means I have single workspace — changing virtual desktop switches both monitors or 2) to have separate X sessions for each display — which means I have separate workspaces, but I can't move applications between them. I need something in the middle — a separate workspace for each screen, so that I can have independent virtual desktops on each screen, but still have the ability to move applications between monitors (no need to strech one app across both of them). I've read that some tiling window managers can do this kind of thing, but I'd rather go with 'classical' window managers, like Openbox/Gnome/KDE or similar."

GM Is Selling Saab To Spyker Cars 264

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @10:16PM from the joy-in-trollhatten dept.

johncadengo writes "General Motors said today that it has struck a preliminary deal to sell Saab to Spyker Cars, a tiny Dutch maker of high-end sports cars, saving the Swedish automaker from what seemed like certain extinction after previous bids for it collapsed. A previous bid from Spyker was rejected by GM in late December because GM was uncomfortable with Spyker's Russian backers. The biggest investor in Spyker is the Russian bank Convers Group, which is controlled by Alexander Antonov. In March, Mr. Antonov was shot seven times and reportedly lost a finger in an attempt on his life in Moscow. No arrests have been made. His son Vladimir, 34, is a top executive at Convers and the chairman of Spyker." GM is taking a bath on the deal, financially speaking.

Comment Stani's talk at python user group meeting (Score 2, Informative) 187

by Reinout on Friday October 31, 2008 @09:04AM (#25582069) Attached to: How To Make Money With Free Software

Stani explained the way he made the coin at a Dutch python user group meeting in Amsterdam. Everyone attending was really enthousiastic about it. http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2008/09/12/python-calculated-coin

Good to see that he's written an article himself with the full explanation and graphs! Nicely done.

SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing 411

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 14, 2008 @05:34PM from the this-is-just-a-touch-unexpected dept.

AmIAnAi writes "Just when you thought it was all over, the SCO story takes a new twist. SCO has received $100 million financing from Stephen Norris Capital Partners to get them out of Chapter 11 and go private 'The move gives Stephen Norris, whose namesake founder was a co-founder of private equity giant The Carlyle Group, a controlling interest in SCO, which now has a platform to continue its court battle with Novell Inc. over royalties from the Unix server operating system, SCO's main business ... According to a statement from the company, SNCP already has a business plan for SCO that includes pursuing its legal claims.'"

Mandles, Candles for Men 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 14, 2008 @02:52PM

samzenpus writes "The perfect Valentines Day gift for that special man in your life who likes smelling manly things."

Comment But does vLite remove... (Score 1) 472

by Lord Custos on Monday January 28, 2008 @01:36PM (#22209712) Attached to: Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones

But does vLite remove:
Tilt Bits and AACS

Comment Re:Analogs (Score 1) 724

by extra the woos on Friday January 04, 2008 @02:30AM (#21906422) Attached to: Cocaine Vaccine In the Works

"and contrary to common belief, most 13 year olds don't know dozens of drug dealers."

No, you're right, they don't. Personally.

However every high school student I knew when I was in public high school knew one person who had the dealer's number. At least one.

Of course, we also knew people who were old enough to buy alcohol and ciggs. However, contrary to drug dealers WHO DON'T CARE HOW OLD YOU ARE, most 21 year olds take a lot more cash to convince to get you alcohol than it takes to get the weed guy to come to your house. I know, I used to get alcohol for some friends every now and then. Yeah I was evil. However, I would always refuse to buy them ciggarettes. They smoked weed all the time, it would just get delivered to their house. When buying alchy they had to get me alchy too.

Journal Journal: CCAGW Rebuttal

Journal by Lord Custos on Friday October 03, 2003 @11:40AM

Mass. Taxpayers Hurt by Proposed Software Monopoly

[You obviously are using a very weird definiton of the word 'Monopoly' when you speak of Open Source software. One of the major tenets of that style of software development is that its not logically feasable for any organization, group or faction to ever *get* a Monopoly in the Open Source space.]

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