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Livejournal disables right-click (the bastards)
Some sites like to disable the right click menu in the hope they can prevent the average Joe from copying pics and other shenanigans.
OK fine. LJ disables the right click menu... stopping me from correcting the spelling of my posts. Way to go LJ. Fortunately there is a way of disabling this rubbish in Firefox: Go to Edit -> Preferences, "then click ( Read more... ) -
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Apple based their Safari webbrowser off the Linux-centric Konqueror web-browser. Unfortunately they didn't work with the Konqueror developers so we ended up with two similar but incompatible webbrowsers (E.g. Gmail supports Safari but Konqueror doesn't work right).
Anyway it was reported that Konqueror will be using the "Webkit" renderer used by ( Read more... ) -
Mandatory US Election spoiler.
It looks like our shadowy overlords did decide to pick a different winner.
Personally I am glad, it did add to the suspense after all. -
Of one thing I am sure.
Obama will never be described as the USA's first White president despite having a white mother.
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Bought a Radeon 4650
I bought a Radeon 4650 on the basis that ATI has good support for Linux these days. However the 4650 (infact all of the 4xxx series except for the 48xx) needs a hotfix that ATI hasn't released for Linux. Also the opensource drivers only have VESA support. I am currently using the un-hotfixed ATI driver, but this crashes to often to do any real 3D ( Read more... ) -
Linux around the world.
Italian trains run linux. The computer at Lollis homestay in Dresden runs Ubuntu. -
Big Brother
Poll Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough
