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by orkoden 12y ago
Everybody runs away
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by orkoden 12y ago
If you use ImageAlpha before ImageOptim and reduce the colors, you will get even smaller files. Lot's of PNGs will not contain many colors anyway.
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Ask HN: Is this sponsored weeklong "hackathon" actually exploitation?
13 points by orkoden 12y ago|9 comments
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by orkoden 12y ago
There are many different kinds of paywall. Some sites have early access to content and the ability to comment only for paying users. Others have just one simple ad on the page, that is controlled by themselves, not a third party network.
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by orkoden 12y ago
Why is your upcoming version then based the last LTS version, not the current one.
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by orkoden 12y ago
Freiburg tried and gave up http://www.golem.de/news/open-source-freiburg-kehrt-zu-ms-of... The federal foreign ministry also canceled the transition http://www.golem.de/1102/81498.html
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by orkoden 12y ago
They are an entire LTS release behind for the new version coming later this year. 12.04 still has 3 years of support though.
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by orkoden 12y ago
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wi... > Now I'm sure you can tell me all the tricks to getting Windows to run faster, No, I can't. But it surely seems pretty slow. >but if I wa
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by orkoden 12y ago
That was part of their phased transition plan. 1. Transition to LibreOffice on Windows 2. Transition to Linux
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by orkoden 12y ago
They published a LibreOffice extension to help working with forms http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite
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by orkoden 12y ago
>And this is because governments and administration never choose any kind of product because it is "easy to use", "simple to maintain" or "easy to extend". The same is true for enterprise software. It's
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by orkoden 12y ago
> In my experience, switching over PC's to something like Ubuntu is no issue in most cases. If it's an issue or not depends on the software people use to do their work. If 90% of it is spent in a web app and the rest is e-mail
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by orkoden 12y ago
Munich took a decade to do a partial transition with doubtful benefits. Getting that kind of commitment in time and money is not an easy feat.
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by orkoden 12y ago
The OS is not the issue. Users mainly use applications not operating systems. Software that people need to accomplish their work is much harder to replace. The team in Munich had to develop their own extension to OpenOffice/LibreOffice
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by orkoden 12y ago
RTFA > “We have a very limited Wine installation, because there’s always the need to save the configuration of Wine together with the application. They’re deeply dependent. If you change the version of Wine, you have to do something with
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by orkoden 12y ago
Every time I try LXDE I switch back to XFCE. XFCE is a lot more rounded and integrated. LXDE always feels just like a hodge podge collection of tools, that don't really work together.
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by orkoden 12y ago
A great opportunity to revive the iPod Classic. iPod with Beats Audio
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by orkoden 12y ago
It was a huge opportunity to give lots of money to the local software industry.
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by orkoden 12y ago
So the result after more than 10 years is: - not all desktops can be transitionend to Linux because of the required Windows only software. - some of the Linux desktops run Wine to support Windows applications. Which is a huge hacky configur
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by orkoden 12y ago
I used to have a Nexus device where unlocking the boot loader and flashing a custom ROM is easiest. It took me several tries and reading of several tutorials, that were all omitting different crucial steps or assuming domain specific knowle
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by orkoden 12y ago
OpenSSL is at the base of the pyramid and it proved that that model can fail.
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by orkoden 12y ago
This was my first issue with it too. It makes it feel clunky and slow. The UI is generally not that great anyway. E.g. updating and upgrading is too complicated. There should be one button to do it. And it should update automatically when l
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by orkoden 12y ago
Your VMs don't contain the lastest version.
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by orkoden 13y ago
They are working on the next version.
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by orkoden 13y ago
There are enough alternatives already. It's true. We could all just move on.
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by orkoden 13y ago
That and >The ability to dial somebody directly from the call log. really baffled me.
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by orkoden 13y ago
... crappy experience everywhere.
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by orkoden 13y ago
So true. We're a bunch of horrible knowitall smartasses.
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Git manpage generator(git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net)
95 points by orkoden 13y ago|23 comments
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by orkoden 13y ago
I've been using TextMate 2 "alpha" for a while now. It's pretty usable.

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