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Personally, I am not a big fan of widescreen monitors, although I can work with them. I loved the 1280x1024 monitor I used to have on my previous PC.
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In addition to the BeOS Bible, Scot Hacker also created the BeOS Tip Server, which was a great resource at the time. He also wrote a book for O'Reilly on MP3 (MP3: The Definitive Guide) that I found very useful. And he created RipEnc,
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They made it from 1989 to 2001 so it must have been okay for the embedded market that it targeted.
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Have you ever discussed the public domain with an average person? I don’t think the general public cares.
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Is RISC-V vaporware? It’s on HN all the time but I never see where it is available for purchase.
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Being able to find and converse with people who share my niche interests is one of my favorite things about the Internet. It was depressing to be interested in something and having no one to talk to about it.
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In today's world, yes, I would expect a patent holder to sue.
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The decision to donate to a BSD project shouldn't have anything to do with what other users are donating but with how useful you personally find it to be. Your whole comment is sad.
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> I like to think the majority of NetBSD users either track -current, compile their own custom kernels or can learn to do as much. I generally run the newest snapshot of the current NetBSD release (currently 7.1.1). I've had really
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Is crypto-currency considered to be the most innovative use of blockchains? Is there anything that currently doesn't use blockchains that could see a benefit from doing so?
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They were making us do some Six Sigma training at work a few months ago, and the entire time, it felt like nothing more than business porn.
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> Intel ME is frequently featured here on HN, but the general population is completely clueless. That's what they want: a backdoor advertised as a feature.
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To me, the worst part is that it introduces a library dependency, which itself can introduce security issues unless they intend to audit it. I don't under this choice at all.
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That sounds awesome.
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I was just reading this last night: https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-p...
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I hope you are right because I feel that the Android ecosystem is a quagmire.
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It doesn't really matter what OS you use so long as it works for you. In my opinion, the really important thing is keeping your data in open formats, so that you are never trapped.
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EFI is a fucking soup sandwich. In my opinion, it suffers from complexity and too much ambition.
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It's a crying shame when you need a VPN to protect yourself from you ISP.
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Corrupt as hell.
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I am learning Postgresl for the fun of it and I hadn’t heard of pgcli before. Thanks for mentioning it.
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I totally agree with you but at the same time - we can't tell people something is free and then get upset when they treat it as such.
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Think Secret? Wow, that takes me back.
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In my opinion, FCC chairman Ajit Pai is corrupt as hell. The only reason to make this change is corporate donors.
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Interesting. Thanks.
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On OpenBSD, the default shell is their fork of pdksh. On NetBSD, it is Almquist Shell, and on FreeBSD, it is Tcsh (IIRC).
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I’ve read the TECO was a nightmare to use.
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This issue occurred to me as well (especially for encrypted tarballs). My workaround was to create a listing of the files that accompanies the tarball, such as: "backup.tar" and "backup.list".
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Publishers have it hard but tech publishers especially so - considering all of the free sources of information on the Internet. Between online documentation, blogs, forums, and tutorials, one can generally find the information they are look
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If NetBSD gets ported to it, I would seriously consider getting one.
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