AlexMax

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by AlexMax 16y ago
I'm curious why you would recommend qmail these days. The last official version was released in 1998, and it seemed like it was stuck in some weird licence limbo until 2007, making forks unable to be distributed with linux distributions.
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by AlexMax 16y ago
"As long as the police stick to preventing robbery, forcible rape, and other assaults on liberty and property, corruption is not a problem. It is only when they begin interfering with the free market..." What happens when a company grows so
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by AlexMax 16y ago
I've got fond memories of Linode, as it was the first VPS I tried out. Having an always-on Linux box turned out to be a lot handier than I had anticipated, and these days I can't imagine being without a shell _somewhere_. That said, I ran
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by AlexMax 16y ago
I wonder if there is an equivalent for somebody who misspells ls -l as ls- l. That's one that nails me quite a bit, and all I can do is grumble as it takes few seconds for bash to realize that no, that's not a valid command anywhere in the
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by AlexMax 16y ago
GNU Go is probably not the only app on the app store that makes use of GPL code. In particular, Doom Classic is also based on a GPL fork of Doom called PrBoom.
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by AlexMax 16y ago
It's not always vast emptiness beyond the flagpole. In level A-3 of Super Mario Bros. "Lost Levels", there is a strategically placed spring board and red koopa that you can use to jump over the flagpole and warp to world C. http://www.you
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by AlexMax 17y ago
What "format war"? Everyone already standardized on h264 years ago, and there is a built in h264 decoder on damn near everything these days. Keeping two copies of every movie would be a waste of CPU cycles, disk space and bandwidth (Theora
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by AlexMax 17y ago
"Three sir!" A windows version was made as well, and last I checked it runs fine in XP, dunno about Vista/7/64-bit though.
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by AlexMax 17y ago
It does, and it works on any platform Adobe Air works on. It's 30-something bucks for a whole year, and totally worth it for not having your music tied to the browser being open.