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posted by Laurence on Sat 13th Nov 2010 14:49
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posted by Laurence on Sat 16th Jan 2010 15:09
ESXi doesn't meet my requirements (long story - dont ask) so i basically need a Linux distro that's easy to maintain, lower foot-print, 64bit and VERY stable. I might just settle for Slackware, but if theres something better then i'm all ears.
posted by Laurence on Fri 15th Jan 2010 00:17
This might turn out to be an unpopular request, but is it possible to have some more formatting tags on comments? Specifically tags for bullet points would be a useful way to keep some lengthy posts tidy (rather than people resorting to '2/' or asterisks)
Also a way of embedding URLs much tidier (for cases when we have long URLs or need to put the link mid paragraph and don't want to ruin the flow of the sentence - much like you do with the article body)
posted by Laurence on Thu 1st Oct 2009 09:40
<quote> [Google] executives are accused of breaking Italian law in allowing a video of a teenager with Down's Syndrome to be posted online.
The video, showed a teenager with Down's Syndrome being bullied by four students in front of more than a dozen others.
Prosecutors argue that Google did not have adequate content filters or enough staff to monitor videos.
They also argue that Google broke Italian privacy law by uploading the content without the consent of all parties involved.
Google's lawyers point out that, in addition to withdrawing the video, the company provided information on who had posted it.
The four students were later expelled from the remainder of the academic year from their school in Turin, northern Italy.
The victim withdrew a complaint but the nearby city of Milan lodged a civil suit along with a Down's syndrome advocacy group, Vividown.
The executives face up to three years in jail if convicted.
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posted by Laurence on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 18:25
I must admit that in the last couple of weeks (or so) I've found page 2 articles more interesting than page 1 articles (generally speaking of course). So I find it a little disappointing that page 2 doesn't always get the emphasis it perhaps deserves - and thus few discussions arise on page 2 articles than their page 1 counterparts. So I guess the point of my starting this thread was to:
a/ ask Thom / Adam if there's any ideas / plans to raise page 2's status on OSNews' home page? (again, not a moan as I appreciate everyone has their own opinions on layouts)
b/ remind people that there is some excellent articles on page 2 (though I do get the irony of posting this "reminder" on an OSNews section that's even less frequented)
If there's no plans / desire to emphasise page 2 articles, then is it worth "recruiting" more writers to type up a few paragraphs to compliment said articles, thus allowing them to be page 1 items?
Laurence
posted by Laurence on Sat 4th Apr 2009 11:13
Is there any chance these can open in a new window / tab. I agree with the article links opening in the same window, but the user comment ones shouldn't - in my opinion.
posted by Laurence on Fri 5th Sep 2008 16:20
Not seen any for a while. Has this been discontinued indefinately or are the powers at be just a little too busy to have done regular updates lately?
posted by Laurence on Mon 21st Jul 2008 08:44
What's this currently set to and is it worth extending it (or possibly even removing it altogether?) While I see the point in a time limit on news items, because a conversation doesn't have to be (and often isn't) bleeding edge news plus the fact that most people don't check conversations frequently, I don't really see the point in a time limit on conversation threads before they're closed off.
posted by Laurence on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:55
'musician' isn't the term to use, but does anyone else here produce music on their computer? If so, what kind of music and what's your set up?
Currently I'm using FL Studio (not the greatest peice of kit, but it's doing the job for now) and Ableton to build up the individual tracks into an album peice. I also have a number of midi controllers hooked up, but other than that, not actual hardware as such.
The stuff I'm producing at the moment is an Aphex Twin inspired story. Kind of like war of the worlds, but without the narration.
I've not been at it for long though so I'm still relatively low down on the huuuuuge learning curve that is digital music.
It will be interesting to hear what other OS geeks are working on as I know there's a few audiophilles on there.
posted by Laurence on Fri 11th Apr 2008 12:05
ZFS is listed as "experimental support" - does anyone know how stable and reliable this support is (or know where I can look to find more information out about FBSD's ZFS support)?
posted by Laurence on Tue 1st Apr 2008 10:02
After recently being converted to the excellent Arch distro of Linux I'm slightly saddened to read the following announcement: http://www.archlinux.org/ (item in pink)
While I understand that the majority of Arch users are German speaking, I also can't help thinking that this move will only hinder the distro from gaining more "market share" (for want a better term).
While there are hundreds of other distro's available, Arch was the only one (aside Slackware) I've liked: it's package manager was simple and effective, it used BSD style init's (I've never agreed with Linux's excessively complex run-time modes). But despite all the simplicity, it never felt 'dumbed down' (like the more 'mainstream' of desktop distros can do – particularly Ubuntu), it's free from bloat and highly configurable.
Not being a German speaker, I feel my support is going to be somewhat neglected.
What are your thoughts Arch or distro langauges in general?
posted by Laurence on Mon 10th Mar 2008 22:05
Any chance of making this bigger? I'm often finding myself typing my comments out into a text editor so I can easier see my full post before submitting it.
It feels particularly small when I'm quoting a parent message as i'm often need deep in quote tags.
posted by Laurence on Wed 6th Feb 2008 00:19
In the Ubuntu virtulisation story summary, it announces that there is 1 comment yet at the bottom of the story no comments appear: http://www.armyofcrabs.com/snapshot5.jpg
posted by Laurence on Mon 4th Feb 2008 14:56
Lately (possibly since OSNews v4.1?) I've noticed the following characters creap in: "�€�s" At first I assumed it was Firefox on Slackware having a different charater set to the post in question, but it seems to do with my work desktop (IE7 on WinXP).
This is a known bug?
posted by Laurence on Thu 9th Aug 2007 11:56
As someone who is just starting out in OS development (purely as a hobby project) I would find articles on this subject extremely useful. Whether it be something as complicated as hints for coding your own kernel to something as brief as an overview / review of student OSs to study and learn from. I'd love to write a few articles on this myself, but clearly 1 week of building my own kernel is not even remotely enough experience to write anything informative to others starting out (or even just a passing interest).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/15/12 23:42 UTC
"Last week, I promised you an outline of the webOS governance model. Today, we're publishing that model and announcing the leaders of the Project Management Committees. As you will see below, we've based the model on the Apache Way." Open governance, something Android decidedly lacks. Too bad nobody (with money and factories) seems to give a toss about webOS. The world's an unfair place.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/15/12 23:40 UTC
"We learned on January 31 that Barnes & Noble had suffered a major setback in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Microsoft. That day, an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission had tossed out the company's key defense, that Microsoft was engaging in 'patent misuse' as part of a larger scheme to 'kill Android'. Today the full opinion has been made public." Microsoft's protection racket might be legal, but that doesn't make it moral. It's based on software patents, and is thus, by definition, morally reprehensible and sleazy.
Linked by David Adams on 02/14/12 17:25 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
It looks like a new "locally integrated menu" will make it into Unity, starting with version 5.6.0. There's basically no information about the new locally integrated menubar, except for two bug reports which link to some custom Unity, Compiz, Metacity and Light Themes branches so to see "LIM" in action, I've compiled all these branches and here's the result. The "locally integrated menubar" can be displayed on the panel (for maximized windows) as well as in the window decoration (unmaximized windows). But it's not displayed on both in the same time.
Linked by David Adams on 02/14/12 17:24 UTC
Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had managed to do after years of research.
Linked by snydeq on 02/14/12 17:23 UTC
What your interface communicates to users can be just as important as what your software does, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister in discussing the latest edition of the 'Microsoft Manual of Style,' a style guide aimed at designers and developers who create Microsoft software, as well as those who write about it. 'The gist of much of Microsoft's advice is that a user's relationship with computer software is a unique one, and it's important to craft the language of software UIs accordingly,' McAllister writes. 'Occasionally, Microsoft's recommendations verge on the absurd. For example, you might not think it necessary to admonish developers to "not use slang that may be considered profane or derogatory, such as 'pimp' or 'bitch,'" but apparently it is.'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/14/12 1:07 UTC
"It's tough being a journalist, especially if you're covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you're stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy. What's worse is that all these people who are getting rich don't seem to be any brighter than you are and in fact many of them don't seem very bright at all. So of course you get jealous. And then you start thinking maybe you could find a way to cash in on this gold rush. But how do you make gobs of money when your only marketable skill involves writing blog posts?" Absolutely brilliant down to the last letter. Coincidentally, I hold no shares, interests, or anything, in any company whatsoever. I'm a freelance translator by day. Not that anyone cares, but hey, full disclosure and all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:51 UTC
"A hybrid solution that takes the best parts of iOS's one-by-one acceptance and Android's expressed and obvious intents seems like a proper model here. In fact, Apple has many of the pieces in place elsewhere." This is a big issue. Nor Android's model (just list a bunch of confusing permissions), nor Apple's model (individual modal dialogs for each permission) is particularly workable - I doubt regular users check them on Android before installing an application, and in the case of iOS, Apple didn't think it was necessary to secure the address book, so every application has access to it without alerting users. Justin Williams proposes a hybrid solution.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:44 UTC
"Although current discussion of the Linux desktop tends to focus on the disharmony around Unity and the GNOME shell, the true revolution on the desktop is taking place out of sight of users. The Wayland display server is expected to reach version 1.0 later this year, and is seen by many as the long term replacement for the X Window System, with real potential to improve and transform the performance of the desktop for Linux users."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:40 UTC
Mozilla has announced plans to integrate its Firefox web browser with Metro for Windows 8 - including Gecko. "Windows 8 contains two application environments, 'Classic' and 'Metro'. Classic is very similar to the Windows 7 environment at this time, it requires a simple evolution of the current Firefox Windows product. Metro is an entirely new environment and requires a new Firefox front end and system integration points. The feature goal here is a new Gecko based browser built for and integrated with the Metro environment. Firefox on Metro, like all other Metro apps will be full screen, focused on touch interactions, and connected to the rest of the Metro environment through Windows 8 contracts." I haven't checked - does Microsoft allow different rendering engines?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/12/12 23:23 UTC
"One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we've done it in the past."More News »
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