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Comment Re:Kudos to Nokia (Score 2, Interesting) 263

by daveinthesky (#29257557) Attached to: Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt

More python apis would be great. If they followed PEP-8, even better.

Describing PyQt as "C++ without the segfaults" is only partially true, though. I've segfaulted the latest PyQt4 (by accident, of course), and it's not too hard to make it happen in different parts of the Qt4 api if you're not too careful.

See, for example:
http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/commit/944ca1252f2f5e6bbd17f8a6fc4718144138bd26

Undo that commit and you, too, can segfault PyQt4 4.5 ;-)

For the curious, there was a change in behavior between PyQt4 4.{3,4} and 4.5. Older versions coped with the original code without a problem. Fedora 11 users reported the problem; my debian install wasn't tickling the bug (probably cos my lib was too old?)

If pyside can help me do away with these workarounds then I'll be quite pleased.

Right now I'm even carrying around setup.py compatibility hacks for older versions of 'pyuic4' that shipped without a proper shebang line. Grr.

I'm sure porting to pyside's going to suck, but if I get a more stable lib then it's worth it. Until they've proven themselves, though, I'll have to deal with the hacks/workarounds[*].

The python guys came up with a py2to3 script for going from python2 to python3. If pyside can come up with a similar script for PyQt4 to pyside then they'll have an easier time winning over existing PyQt4 users.

BTW did anyone else wonder about the name? WTF is pyside? The FAQ doesn't even mention why it has that name.

[*] I know I'll be waiting a bit, though, since Mac and Win support aren't the top item on the pyside todo list a.t.m.

Comment Re:Apple losing a golden chance (Score 1) 586

by daveinthesky (#28510679) Attached to: Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys

caplock's location on the homerow would be much better served by the ctrl key,
which is how I have my keyboard setup.

        Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

Once you switch, you don't go back. I never leave the homerow for common ctrl-key sequences, and my pinky thanks me. The latest versions of mac os let you set the modifier keys through sys prefs. All that's left for apple/ibm/etc to do is change the default.

ctrl has my vote :-)
The Courts

RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails 222

Posted by kdawson from the first-get-the-facts-right dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "p2pnet.net reports that the RIAA has egg on its face. When the Electronic Frontier Foundation requested permission to file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Boston University students challenging the RIAA's ex parte discovery order, the RIAA lawyers attacked the blog 'Recording Industry vs. The People' for its criticism of the RIAA as seeking to 'abuse the American judicial system, distort copyright law, and frighten ordinary working people and their children' and then falsely claimed that the blog's author is an EFF attorney — this despite the fact that they know that the blog's author (known on Slashdot as NewYorkCountryLawyer) is a partner in a New York law firm and not an EFF attorney. Judge Gertner apparently wasn't impressed, and granted the EFF's motion, rejecting the RIAA's objections, since she felt amici curiae might 'shed light' on the 'copyright law' and 'computer technology' issues before her."
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Journal Journal: Google blunders April Fools Joke

Journal by VinnyLingham
Google tried to publicize their Google Paper (Printed Gmail) today, as an April Fool's Joke - not realising that in India, the Postal Service actually prints and delivers email! They now have a lot of Indians actually believing the joke!
Music

Submission + - Major Broadcasters hit with $12M Payola Fine

Submitted by Gr8Apes
Gr8Apes writes: Listeners and Indies may rejoice according to a just breaking story. According to the AP story:

Four major broadcast companies would pay the government $12.5 million and provide 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime for independent record labels and local artists, The Associated Press has learned.
Microsoft

Submission + - Is Vista a trap?

Submitted by logube
logube writes: BBC has an article about installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed "sucker for technology", this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get on the latest product of the evil empire. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam!
Windows

Submission + - Vista activation cracked by brute force

Submitted by Bengt
Bengt writes: The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack.

From TFA: The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people.

There is really no differentiating between a legit copy with a manually typed in wrong key and a hack attempt. Sure MS can throttle this by limiting key attempts to one a minute or so on new software, but the older variants are already burnt to disk. The cat is out of the bag. The crack was first mentioned on the Keznews forums, a step by step How-to can be found HERE
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Journal SPAM: Scramble for Iraq's oil begins as troops start to pull out 4

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

We are about to find out if the invasion of Iraq really was a war for oil. The country is on the verge of passing a petroleum law, which will set down rules for investing in its oil industry. That will set off a race among the foreign oil giants, scrambling for their slice of Iraq's vast oil riches. Britain's two world-leading oil companies, BP and Shell, both say they want to enter Iraq. Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Total, Russia's Lukoil and the Chinese

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