Comment Re:yes.. (Score 1) 480
Nope, instead they leave archives of the information on trains...
Comment Re:Could try (Score 1) 302
JCreator is not open source and the light edition is only free if you are using it in academia. The free version also doesn't have a built in CVS client. In this situation there are many other IDE's out there which are Open Source and have many more features (Netbeans or Eclipse) and are cross platform for an added bonus.
Comment Groups (Score 1) 302
As part of my degree we had to do some group development projects and chose to set up a google group to put all the work on as it allowed us to upload any type of file. We also used the page creator in it to make links to versions as they changed. This was pretty simple to set up and use though slightly tedious as times.
Comment Re:Let's just blow up the moon. (Score 1) 432
Umm... yes both for aesthetic and practical reasons.
Comment Re:What a load of rubbish (Score 1) 313
Sorry about that, the son was a genuine spelling mistake.
Comment Re:What a load of rubbish (Score 1) 313
Its interesting that recently references were found to a Pharaoh who changed Egyptian culture completely to Worshiping a monotheistic God (which was embodied by the son). After his death they reverted to Polytheism. Both the monotheistic Pharaoh and the one before him seem to have etched out of history.
Comment Re:save UK taxpayers 22m? (Score 1) 725
Just to make the slight point that this is a military organisation who has been running their own custom Operating Systems prior to this. I am sure their support teams would be able to handle adapting to Linux.
Comment Re:Seems a little strange (Score 1) 857
Looking at my family tree I find that going back to 1806 most of my family were born to a mother who was in her late 30's or early 40's. The only reason people are more concerned about down syndrome now is because it can be tested for in the womb and aborted, also people don't hide it as much. In the past children born with defects would be suitably disposed of either in an institute or some kind of drowning.
IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All 434
dotne writes "CNET has published an article called Acid2, Acid3 and the power of default. The article predicts that IE8 will not pass the Acid2 test after all: '[Another] scenario could be that Microsoft requires Web pages to change the default settings by flagging that they really, really want to be rendered correctly. Web pages already have a way to say this (called doctype switching, which is supported by all browsers), but Microsoft has all but announced that IE8 will support yet another scheme. If the company decides to implement the new scheme, the Acid2 test — and all the other pages that use doctype switching — will not be rendered correctly.' Microsoft's IE8 render modes have been discussed here previously, and they've caused an uproar in the web development community. According to the scheme, authors must put Microsoft-specific <meta> tags into their pages in order for them to be rendered correctly. I doubt Acid2, nor Acid3 will have Microsoft extensions in them."
Submission + - After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad
mrcgran writes: "An interesting article with some advantages of using Ubuntu over Windows:
After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly. From the article: "My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go — easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it — bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before.""
