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  1. Re: What will become of GTK2 and any projects that choose to stay with it?

    gtk2 will still be around for a long time (like gtk1 was after gtk2 was released). Redhat EL6 has gnome2 and will be supported until 2020. RHEL7 will still have gtk2 (unless they are planning some...
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    Re: Ongoing crowdfunding campaigns

    OpenStreetMap
    [OSM] want to raise £40,000 (47k EUR, 61k USD) for server infrastructure to improve reliability and performance of OpenStreetMap, and to help the project continue to grow and thrive.
    ...
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    Re: Cheapest place to get flash drives?

    you might want to look at isostick. its designed for just this sort of thing.
  4. Re: Parallella, the $99 Linux-powered supercomputer.

    the makers have just got the first 10 prototype boards http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/456048?ref=email&show_token=89caf0c07627d711 so it...
  5. Re: Parallella, the $99 Linux-powered supercomputer.

    I ordered one when it was on kickstarter :-)
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    [ubuntu] Re: BTRFS - "Best Practice"

    First read as much as you can on https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

    don't use a 3.2 kernel. a lot has changed in btrfs since then, and the developers are more concerned with getting...
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    Re: Millennium Falcon as PC case

    the website is not great to navigate, but if you look down the column on the right side of http://www.mini-itx.com/ there are a lot of good case mods, you might like...
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    Google Summer of Code

    The list of organisations involved in this years summer of code is released.
    https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013

    Anyone planning to apply?
  9. Re: Virtually unlimited cloud storage as introductory offer, from Copy

    or buy a multi-terabyte hard disk, and install owncloud :-)
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    Re: How to use gcc option -fwhole-program

    Sorry if i was not clear. i was not trying to say that the optimiser makes you code pretty. I mean often when programming there is a choice between various ways of writing an expression. Some people...
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    Re: How to use gcc option -fwhole-program

    I disagree. the optimiser lets you write neater more understandable code, and let the compile worry about the nitty gritty of whether 'pow(x,4)' will execute faster than 'x*x*x*x'. also if you have...
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    Re: new open source audio codec

    its been in gstreamer for a year now http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/ :-)
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    Re: Where to get on time linux news?

    LWN.net is great for the more technical side of things. (you need a subscription to see all the articles immediately, but everything is freely available after a week)
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    Re: Forking Unity-2d - Is it possible?

    https://launchpad.net/unity-2d says GPLv3
  15. Thread: lap top camera?

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    [ubuntu] Re: lap top camera?

    10.04 is from 2010, that very old in linux years. I'd recommend trying again with 12.10. the see if cheese can recognise the camera.
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    [ubuntu] Re: help with gimp ufraw or dcraw

    dcraw is a command line program that can convert a raw to an image. ufraw is quite an advanced graphical program that lets you open the raw and adjust it. ufraw uses dcraw to do the actual work. if...
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    Re: Ongoing crowdfunding campaigns

    Yorba (the folk behind shotwell) are gearing up for a crowdfunder for Geary (their email client). The are currently asking for videos about Shotwell or Geary....
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    Re: LibreOffice 4.0.1 Final (2013-03-06)

    I guess that is this issue https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36117

    If you have a simple doc/docx file with vertically aligned text that LO fails to open attach it to the bug.
  19. Re: Concept possible? Could Ubuntu run across multiple CPUs, one x86, the other ARM?

    The closest that currently exists is ARMs big.LITTLE https://lwn.net/Articles/481055/ that uses different core types (A15 and A7), but running the same instruction set. I guess in theory it might be...
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    Re: Ubuntu To Investigate Digital Rights Management

    If you write an opensource video player that implements Digital 'rights' management, then i can patch it so that instead of sending the decrypted data to the screen, it writes it to disk. You could...
  21. Re: MIR will be the new display server, and Unity will be ported to Qt

    youtube has plenty of demos of wayland (my favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjuPn7MXMs )

    its a big step from showing a demo, to having something supports all the features a display...
  22. Re: MIR will be the new display server, and Unity will be ported to Qt

    Writing a display server is a big task. A large team taking 5 years is not unreasonable. It would be very impressive if Canonical can get anything working in 1 year.

    Their aims are very close to...
  23. [SOLVED] Re: Conventional name for hard disk tray mountpoint?

    According to the standard /media is the place to mount removable drives.
    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT
    /mnt is for when you want to do a temporary one off mount of...
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    Matthew Garretts explanation of the patch he submitted.
    http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/23400.html

    Its worth noting that the issue being discussed now is not about booting linux on a secureboot...
  25. Re: Mac Address Filtering and Hidden Network Overkill?

    you might want to have a read through this recent discusion.
    http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/02/20/2058235/ask-slashdot-dealing-with-an-advanced-wi-fi-leech

    some points worth noting:
    * MAC...
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