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Opera 11.50 Released 129

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:18PM from the opera-50.11-to-be-released-next-week dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With a shiny new version of Presto that's apparently up to 20% faster, cool tweaks to Speed Dial, and a bunch of other features and bug fixes, the crazy Norwegians have just launched the latest version of desktop Opera."

Comment Re:Why redirect them? (Score 1) 512

by Jesselnz on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @12:09PM (#31086686) Attached to: Is Internet Explorer 6/7 Support Required Now?

My school refuses to upgrade from IE6, and as a result a lot of us have been running portable Firefox from usb flash drives. So what does the brilliant administration do? They actively put measures in place to prevent us from running anything except IE; now they have the systems set up to instantly kill your session if any window has the word "Mozilla", "Firefox", "Iceweasel", or "Chrome" in the window title (I guess they're not aware of the Firesomething extension).

Comment Re:I blame birth control (Score 1) 411

by Jesselnz on Sunday November 01, 2009 @11:11AM (#29941739) Attached to: Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women

Aren't all people descended from those who wanted kids or had bad impulse control?

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 440

by Jesselnz on Saturday October 03, 2009 @10:23PM (#29632019) Attached to: "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

Nonsense, KDE 4.3 with a few apps running uses a few hundred MB at most. Firefox is the only real memory hog, but even with 30+ tabs open I barely touch my swap space.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 440

by Jesselnz on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:43PM (#29623933) Attached to: "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

Flash was one of the ONLY issues with 64-bit Linux, and it was resolved about a year ago.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 440

by Jesselnz on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:39PM (#29623907) Attached to: "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

I don't know about Visual Studio, but there are several professional-quality digital audio workstations for Linux, and Blender is just as good if not better than 3DSMax.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Insightful) 440

by Jesselnz on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:01PM (#29623715) Attached to: "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

Unfortunately 2 GBs *ain't* enough for anybody, and the 32-bit address space is a bit short for properly managing more than that.

Right now I'm running Firefox with 12 tabs, listening to music, and editing a lengthy file in OpenOffice, while running KDE with full composing effects enabled... and I'm using about half of my 1GB. What use could I possibly have for 4GB?

Comment Re:"Hate" speech is Free Speech (Score 1) 651

by Jesselnz on Thursday September 03, 2009 @10:21PM (#29307185) Attached to: Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights

This is Canada. It's *not* the USA. We do not have absolute rights here when it comes to freedom of expression. Those rights are tempered by the reality that such expression can bring about great social harm. The right to freedom of expression can be infringed if is necessary to serve the goals of a multicultural, free and democratic society.

To criticize Soviet policy goes against the will of the people, and opposition to the people cannot be allowed in a free socialist society.

Comment Re:Holy shit! (Score 2, Funny) 420

by Jesselnz on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:30PM (#28351225) Attached to: A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany

This really isn't a big deal. If the Germans want Internet, they can just take it from Poland, or maybe France (they could connect the tubes through Belgium). It worked last time, didn't it?

Comment It's a good idea, but... (Score 2, Funny) 170

by Jesselnz on Monday May 25, 2009 @03:11PM (#28086519) Attached to: ZigBee Pro, the New Home Automation Standard?

...ZigBee? Who the hell came up with that name?

Comment Re:on behalf of Europe (Score 1) 290

by Jesselnz on Saturday June 28, 2008 @09:45PM (#23986691) Attached to: US To Get EU Private Citizen Data

Why are you pissed? At least you're not the ones paying for this shenanigans.

Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code 462

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 24, 2007 @08:56PM from the open-letter dept.

DigDuality writes "A new campaign, Showusthecode.com, requests every leader in the Linux world, and companies invested in Linux, to stand up and demand that Steve Ballmer show the world where Linux violates Microsoft's intellectual property. He has been making these claims since the Novell-Microsoft deal. If Microsoft answers this challenge — by May 1st — then Linux developers will be able to modify the code so that it remains 'free' software. If such infringing code doesn't exist, we will have called Microsoft's bluff. And if the campaign garners enough attention and if Steve Ballmer maintains silence, then the community and companies behind Linux can take the silence for the admission that it is."

RIAA Appeals Award of Attorneys' Fees 156

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:14PM from the first-up-against-the-wall dept.

Fishing Expedition writes in with a story in Ars reporting that the RIAA has decided to appeal a judge's decision to award attorneys' fees to defendant Debbie Foster in Capitol Records v. Foster. If the award stands, the RIAA could find itself in trouble in numerous other cases, and they know it. Their real fear, more than the attorneys' fees, is the judge's finding that the RIAA's arguments for contributory and vicarious infringement claims in cases like this one are not viable.

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