Hi,
I own a laptop, that I run with Linux, using the ALSA for controlling the laptops built in sound card. The laptop comes with built in speakers and microphone, as well as two plugs for headphones and a microphone respectively. Those plugs would come in quite useful, for attaching a headset to talk on VoIP […]
… might have been not such a bad idea at all, actually:
If you have ever noticed that on the Apple MacOSX Dock, there is no distinction between application starters and tray icons. There is only one icon that serves both purposes, and in fact, that is how things should be.
And in other news, OpenBSD implemented […]
… Trying to clean out a spam folder with ~45.000 Mails, using Thunderbird on Dovecot IMAP, seems to be a bit flaky. Slowness I would’ve expected, but errors?
…or bowing before the whiners?
That is the question!
I think that the Mozilla Corp. bowed before their lawyer whinies. But now the freetard whinies whine back at them.
Yeah that happens, when you start listening to whiners, they come back to haunt you, and BANG, you’ve lost your edge.
Of course, showing a EULA dialog that nobody reads […]
Some things are just to absurd to tolerate.
Here a german news magazine complains that a motorbike magazine promotes speeding, and that this is irresponsible. God I hate those whiny bitches, just because someone writes about going fast, doesn’t necessarily mean that readers will try to imitate that. And even if, how about promoting thinking for […]
ungzip my pants and suck my tarballs
They are not worth the trouble.
Fortunately I was able to fix the 33mb vs. 1tb problem with my WD HDD, using the HDD Capacity Restore tool linked in this article. Data was not damaged, everything still there after the fix.
Cheers
-Richard
Appearently, I am not the only one:
Linus says:
No, the problem I’ve seen in gcc
is that _some_ of the developers seem to be total d*ckheads when it comes
to “language definition”, and seem to think that it’s more important to
read the language spec like a lawyer than it is to solve actual user
problems.
I’m not entierly sure, but this could be meant as a joke, read through the following quotes from the OSNews Entry: Dvorak: Vista’s 11 Pillars of Failure:
I am a happy Windows Vista user.
he brought me a new Quad-core processor and high-end Intel motherboard.
But perhaps my greatest reason for not having a problem with Vista is […]
Since Apple Macs ship without Crapware, it seems as if you need to buy that stuff yourself.
Sounds like a fair deal, right?
PS.: Also known as Shovelware.