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by mverwijs 14y ago
As I (a dutchman) understand US law a plea bargain is only that. A bargain that has the prosecution make a plea to the judge. The judge, however, is free to ignore that plea. There is no guarantee whatsoever that a judge will follow the rec
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by mverwijs 14y ago
4. And if you need to do anything extensive as root on a any machine, you might want to consider doing it with a configuration management system (puppet, chef, ansible).
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by mverwijs 14y ago
The screenshots, to me, look like an accurate reflection of how the desktop looks when configured to look the most professional and estatically pleasing.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
Does it though? One could argue that even without making the copy I am depriving artists from income. Perhaps one or two of those CDs you would actually have bought yourself had you not received them from me for free. Follow that line of th
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by mverwijs 14y ago
What is your homeaddress? I'll send you 10 random CD's that I own. Am I now stealing from the artists? Are you?
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by mverwijs 14y ago
So what is the homedir for? "Home directories for users". See 'man hier'. This to me means it is not a directory for services. This doesn't answer your question of course. There is still the 'why' of it. Why has this become the standard? Th
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by mverwijs 14y ago
Not so dated IMHO. My default reaction to sound issues on Ubuntu 12.04 is to kill all pulseaudio processes. And everytime, without fail, audio starts working again.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
I don't like the idea of anyone running mission critical services from their homedir.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
I also find it telling how he closes the ticket asking everyone to go upstream and use PulseAudio's ticket system ( http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/606 ), which gives me this error: ------------------------------- Internal Server Error Tra
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by mverwijs 14y ago
"Yes, that's a wonderful family you have there. Shame if anything, you know, were to happen to it." That is how this whole wording of 2011 comes across to me.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
Isn't the max penalty dependant on what the charges were? Those charges were in the hands of the procecutors. If they really did not wish to come across as threatening, they could have charged him with less (as far as I understand it).
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by mverwijs 14y ago
Even worse: I can't recall the number of times I've clicked 'No thanks' on a 'Download our app'-page, only to get redirected to the homepage, instead of the page I was originally supposed to view. Server attention span is still terrible, as
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by mverwijs 14y ago
> There is of course the Alt+Tab switch window To be more precise, the ALT+Tab works as in Mac (I believe). It switches between windows of the same application. Not between applications themselves. Which I just don't get. Whenever doing
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by mverwijs 14y ago
And since limited choice works for you it should also work for the rest of the world?
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by mverwijs 14y ago
I was thinking on using CentOS6 on the desktop for this very reason. I'm sad.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
For all fans of fantasy and science fiction, the dragonmount.com is also a DRM free webshop for ebooks. (I have no affiliation with said site, btw. Just a happy customer).
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by mverwijs 14y ago
I' ve been using WhatsApp well over a year on Android. I got a free renewal in june. Never paid a cent.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
Check their blog. It's more descriptive than their website. http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready
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by mverwijs 14y ago
> There are plenty of easy ways to legally buy and > download movies - certainly a lot easier than > torrenting. The Oatmeal disagrees: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
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by mverwijs 14y ago
> Violating the written or unwritten rules of the society Considering the amount of people out there that are torrenting, an argument can be made that it is an unwritten rule of society that this is perfectly fine.
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by mverwijs 14y ago
I used to work for a bunch of astronomers. Here's some of the software I remember them using a lot. Not sure about the licenses though most of them provide sourcecode: * http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ * http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/ *
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by mverwijs 14y ago
There was a TED talk on that: "How to buy happiness " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsihkFWDt3Y
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by mverwijs 15y ago
> You'll have to forgive me for being blunt. "You'll have to forgive me for being rude, obnoxious, conclusion-jumping." Fixed that for ya. You're welcome.
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by mverwijs 15y ago
Today I learned that surfing with different firefox profiles out of privacy concerns is only useful if you disable Flash. Or any other plugin, for that matter.
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by mverwijs 15y ago
You, madam/sir, are awesome. Thank you for this.
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by mverwijs 15y ago
> geared towards everyday folks, not techies. See, that is what I do not get. Google claims to be able to create a better product experience based on all that datamining they do. If that is the case, why don't they change the user inter
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by mverwijs 15y ago
"Hackathons are nonsense" ... ... for trying to achieve /what/ excactly? Nuance. I know. Nuance is overrated. Especially on the interwebs. Sorry about that.
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by mverwijs 15y ago
Tried? Yes. Failed? Miserably. I've happily used Horde for well over 5 years. I was really really looking forward to Horde4. Once it came out, I immediately tried it. Tried to install it, that is. I failed. The lack of clear documentation
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by mverwijs 15y ago
> These women believe it's normal, natural ... That's because it is natural.
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by mverwijs 15y ago
The way I see it the buyer/destroyer should be sued. A sale was agreed upon. The goods were delivered. The money wasn't. Buyer simply did not hold up his end of the bargain and should be taken to court. In my simple view, PayPal does not ev

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