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Comment Re:Just what WVa needs, a new variety of crazy (Score 1) 627

There is an actual case here in South Africa : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html Residents were complaining of the usual suspects, rash, headaches, etc. iBurst agreed to turn of the tower (having actually turned it off 6 weeks earlier) and the residents symptoms improved suddenly while they had not improved over the previous 6 weeks.
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Canonical Designer Demos Ubuntu Context-Aware UI 237

Blacklaw writes "Canonical's Christian Giordano has posted details of what he believes could be the future of user interface design in Ubuntu — a system that detects physical context. Designed to be paired with a webcam or other sensor system, the concept is that the computer is able to detect where a user is in proximity to the display along with an idea of roughly what he or she might be doing. Using this information, the operating system — in this case, Ubuntu Linux — can automatically make changes to the screen layout. For example, when the system detects that the user has leaned back in his or her chair, the system automatically makes the currently playing video full-screen. Lean forward again, and the video returns to its previous windowed mode."

Comment Re:Dodging questions about quality. Geez. (Score 1) 244

My reading of the answers is different to yours. He openly said he has only been using Ubuntu for about 100 days and that his experience with it has been great. It is obvious that he has had no experience with KDE or Kubuntu and that is what comes across in his responses. Would you rather have him fob you off with some garbage?

Comment Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. (Score 1) 244

I use terminal commands because it is often quicker and easier than using the GUI tools, and this goes equally for my Ubuntu machine or the Windows machines I have to use at work. Is using the terminal to tweak things any more difficult than having to wade through the registry on a windows machine?

Comment Will there ever be a closing multiple tabs warning (Score 1) 181

One of the earliest issues raised is for Chrome to have a warning when closing multiple tabs (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147) but this has been marked as "won't fix". This is because the developers feel having such a dialog will interrupt the flow of the browser. This can be a pain as the keyboard shortcut for close tab (ctrl-w) is right next to close window (ctrl-q) As many posters have pointed out, this could be made optional like other browsers and even off by default. Also the developers say the browser will reopen the closed tabs but again as people have pointed out, this does not always happen with state aware web sites or if you are in privacy mode. It is something as simple as this that can really frustrate people and is easily fixed (as was the case when they added a similar warning box when there are outstanding downloads)

Comment Re:What a surprise! (Score 2) 562

This sounds a typical comment by one of my fellow white South African. Sure our government has made mistakes and has some bizarre policies, but which countries government does not. The government has been resolute enough to put a decent fiscal policy in place that is seen by the international community as one of the best in the world, even though large parts of the population would have preferred a more socialist policy rather than a capitalist one. We have an economy poised for a major upturn where as most of the rest of the world is teetering on a depression. If you are no longer living in South Africa then good riddance, if you are then get off your whinny butt and do something for your country or emigrate if you think the rest of the world is going to be so much better!

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