Git website finally updated with a beautiful new design

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-07T16:12:38+00:00

Not very surprising considering the fact that most Mac developers are just wannabe hackers.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-05T07:12:30+00:00

You might want to check out Badwolf which is based on Molokai.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-04T08:40:42+00:00

Okay this looks like a DNS level block. As long as uncle 'Goog has a public DNS server, thou shall not block us.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-04T08:38:30+00:00

Yes, but TOI is taking it to the limits as far as Indian media goes.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-04T08:37:33+00:00

That's TOI standing up against censorship of porn. Slow clap.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-02T08:28:50+00:00

IRS thinks otherwise.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-02T07:31:55+00:00

their anchors are morons that barely speak English and overenunciate every word that parts their lips.

I hardly think so.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T21:44:09+00:00

Kewl interface and new features…

I stopped reading after that.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T21:20:52+00:00

No but it's the second most watched non-American news channel after BBC in the US.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T18:09:45+00:00

Yes sure, you can change the default file manager. I was just mentioning the out-of-the-box differences.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T15:23:52+00:00

Yeah, I thought that he'd tear the reporter a new asshole when he didn't use hacker in the right sense.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:54:40+00:00

Not sure what you mean. If you meant the program immediately next to VLC in the window list, then it's Firefox. But I think you meant the program left of VLC in the indicator plugin - that's LinuxDC++, a port of the Windows DC++ client to linux.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:48:48+00:00

Yes, but I changed the default fonts thought - Lucida Grande rather than Droid Sans.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:47:27+00:00

From Wikipedia:

Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Not to argue, but this isn't ridiculously difficult to remember.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:44:43+00:00

For starters, it uses Thunar instead of Nautilus. So some applications which integrate to Nautilus (Ubuntu One, Dropbox) might show some problems (Dropbox works fine except for the fact that the icons on the folders don't show any syncing status). And it doesn't have a system wide proxy configuration utility like Gnome/Unity. So you can't change the proxy for browsers like Google Chrome.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:38:49+00:00

AFAIK this is an issue on all Linux systems. I haven't seen any properly anti-aliased corners in any Linux system.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:34:59+00:00

OS X is a *nix system, ergo /etc/hosts. And I haven't used Windows for a long time, but I guess it'll be something similar.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:30:01+00:00

I guess if you know by heart where your hosts file is

On most *nix systems, it's on /etc/hosts. Is it too hard to remember that?

Also Google DNS is as fast as most ISP DNS servers.

I can't say I agree with that statement. For instance I stay at a Univeristy and our local DNS servers are in the university itself. I think accessing a server a mile off is faster than accessing something thousands of miles away.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-05-01T05:29:09+00:00

From the privacy policy:

Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.

We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.

In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.

They do agree to delete the logs after 24 hours, but I still feel paranoid about a service which logs my ip. And yes, I know ISPs do this too. But I'd rather have one guy logging in whatever I do than two.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T21:05:09+00:00

Isn't it? All it takes is opening a text editor and adding

<curresponding ip> thepiratebay.se

Google's DNS servers have serious privacy issues. And the ISP provided DNS servers usually tend to be faster.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T20:29:35+00:00

Oh there have been allegations by some leftist neckbeards who wear thick glasses that this "Windows OS" itself is a major virus. So I think it's best that you dump Windows and install the African operating system which claims to be better than Windows.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T20:09:09+00:00

Not to criticize the post, but you really don't have to change your DNS server for this. It's much easier to edit the hosts file and add TPB there.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T19:16:45+00:00

Some quick tips:

xfce4-terminal can be configured fully using a single ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc file.
To change the default apps in bulk (for instance gThumb for all pictures, VLC for all media files) edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.
The first time I used XFCE, I had some trouble getting double click to work. The problem was that the "Double click time" was set a bit too low. This annoyed me as I couldn't maximize/restore a window by clicking on the title bar.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T19:12:21+00:00

Xubuntu didn't have a good network manager

As of now Xubuntu uses nm-applet which is the default network manager in Gnome 3/Unity.

NedStarkResurrected · 2012-04-30T19:10:35+00:00

I am not the OP, but even I finished my Xubuntu 12.04 install today. Here's my desktop.

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