Comment Caps lock - Ctrl (Score 1) 698
I always remap CapsLock to Ctrl.
I am an Emacs user.
Comment Re:State of the cat? (Score 1) 83
I was actually trying to do a cat analogy. Schödinger's cat actually, (re)tard or not.
FWIW, I am a long time Fedora user, but have never bothered with GNOME 2 or 3 or MATE, since I like KDE.
I am hoping for some more KDE love from the core Fedora team, although Rex Dieter is doing a great job.
Comment State of the cat? (Score 2) 83
Q: Is Fedora dead?
A: Yes and no.
Comment What is a driver's life worth? (Score 3, Insightful) 285
Let me be the first to come with a car analogy:
What is a driver's life worth?
Comment IPTV: A reality today (+Data Retention Directive) (Score 1) 168
Having Big Brother knowing whatever you watch on TV is a reality today already for those who have a fiber connection and use IPTV. With the Data Retention Directive that EU is pushing (although it is found to be in conflict with the constitution in eg. Germany), what you are watching (live TV or your recordings), and when you are watching it is likely to be stored "forever". This despite the fact that this kind of information is not part of the directive, but since the IPTV providers also provide you with the internet connection, it is likely they store the TV logs just the same way.
Welcome to 1984.
Comment Re:This is the reason why... (Score 1) 171
Not a problem at all, in fact, as you say, it's the opposite; people know the stuff.
My comment was merely directed to the previous poster.
Comment Re:This is the reason why... (Score 2) 171
No normal user would ever read /.
Comment Some info, but no solution (Score 1) 1
I found this link, which contains some quite interesting info, but not any solution.
Submission + - Intel Insider DRM Risks Monopoly Investigations (thinq.co.uk)
Blacklaw writes: Intel's Sandy Bridge line of processors is impressing the tech community with its power, but a sneaky little feature designed to appease Hollywood has some concerned about Intel's intentions: Intel Insider.
If a major video streaming service, such as Lovefilm or the US-based Hulu, were to implement Intel Insider technology on their movie streams — as a way of convincing Hollywood to release films sooner and in high definition without worrying about piracy — it would mean that only those who use Intel's very latest Sandy Bridge CPUs would be able to stream movies. Not only would those using older Intel chips that don't support the technology be cut off from the service, but those on systems featuring CPUs from rival manufacturers such as AMD and low-power specialist VIA would also be excluded.
If a major video streaming service, such as Lovefilm or the US-based Hulu, were to implement Intel Insider technology on their movie streams — as a way of convincing Hollywood to release films sooner and in high definition without worrying about piracy — it would mean that only those who use Intel's very latest Sandy Bridge CPUs would be able to stream movies. Not only would those using older Intel chips that don't support the technology be cut off from the service, but those on systems featuring CPUs from rival manufacturers such as AMD and low-power specialist VIA would also be excluded.
Comment How should *I* prepare before takeoff then? (Score 1) 464
I mean - what are the basic "yum install *list of codecs*", "apt-get install *list of codecs*", "opkg install *list of codecs*", etc?
Seriously - this could be quite useful, even for a weekend trip down here at the surface...
(And yes, I do not live in the USA, not even Sweden. Damn, I'm a lucky boy.)
Seriously - this could be quite useful, even for a weekend trip down here at the surface...
(And yes, I do not live in the USA, not even Sweden. Damn, I'm a lucky boy.)
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