JeremyChase

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by JeremyChase 17y ago
My read of the article describes a Linux desktop as a system that can be maintained without opening a terminal window. That entails a lot of GUI and a distribution that works well underneath it. Why exactly is that a good thing? Are all of
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Yes; we should all DOS the competition. Brilliant plan.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
I currently host on an VPS and have been considering a switch to an Atom based server. Some of the reasons for me: * With VPS systems you generally have to run one of their kernels, or at least Linux. Very few BSD VPS sites and none allow m
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple , for something he has a legal leg to stand on.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Sure, that is possible. Lets imagine that he simply stopped talking about the back door. Is this something he is asked about a lot? If so, he would have to recant eventually, why not now? You are correct, and I shouldn't have assumed anythi
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Please read RMS's original letter here: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/mac-osx-mistakes-and-malfeature... and here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849789 I can't see a motivation for him to post a retraction for something he can't con
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Screen is an amazingly useful tool. If you aren't using it or something like it, you are really making life more difficult for yourself. If you want something that isn't GNU or GPL'd, take a look at `tmux`.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
I think the author is in error to assume that all people attend elite schools for the same reasons. Some people are honestly the best in their field and will gravitate to the best schools, others simply desire the best pedigree, and some pe
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Sorry about that.. Although, by posting the 3rd page it shows I actually read it before submitting. :p
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RMS comes under attack again(itwire.com)
21 points by JeremyChase 17y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Purchase small site as launchpad?
9 points by JeremyChase 17y ago|5 comments
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Yes, thank you for sharing. I had a lot of fun poking around your head. I hope that whatever was ailing you has subsided.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Have any of you tried it? I haven't played around with it, but it is supposed to be pretty good.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
I especially like how critical this article is of having so many 'flavors' of Ubuntu, when all they really have are different window managers.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Getting it to work could be a fun project, but I don't understand the desire beyond that. I thought the point of running OS X was that it "just worked"; if so a hackintosh makes absolutely no sense to me. Compound that with the licensing le
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Security from external threats is what most people tend to look at, but OpenBSD takes security of local users just as seriously. Personally I would feel very uneasy about giving other users accounts on most *nix machines, but I wouldn't wor
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
If you can dedicated an entire disk to OpenBSD the installation is amazingly simple; I highly recommend going that route.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
The results of a poll don't mean squat. The only thing that matters if people will use or pay for your product.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Yes, even the guy in the video looked wobbly.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
OpenBSD has done it 26 times in a row: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2322203/Why-OpenBSDs... PS: This article was written before 4.6 has was minted; it will actually be released a full month early.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
I have to echo this as well. Most products have a flat line, with perhaps a spike from publicity.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
You know full well that karma is tracked on HN.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
You think it is fine to touch the screen, but this thread is showing you that many people do not agree. Please do not touch my screen.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
For what it's worth any of the Linux/GNU or BSD's will run on older hardware; provided you don't go overboard with X. If you forgo Gnome or KDE in favor of FVWM2 or XFCE the system will run very well on less than 256Megs of ram. Unfortunate
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
This link from the article was more interesting to me: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_vs_Others
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Glad it worked out for you, but in the scheme of things the amount of class time per week is really very little. Where I did my undergrad (RIT) each class met about 4-5 hours per week, and you took 4-5 classes a semester. So that means betw
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
You should value your time, and if you are spending too much doing an unproductive activity you should change your habits. This goes beyond college, but the college experience is often the first time you are fully in control of your schedul
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Yes, be flexible. I started out in Computer Engineering, and was miserable for 1.5 years. After switching to Computer Science I was much happier as it was a better fit for me.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
Don't skip class. College is easy if you actually go to class and pay attention.
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by JeremyChase 17y ago
I would suspect most typical systems do not have ssh authenticated users users who can not get to a login shell. If you are making accounts like this I think you should have a firm enough grasp on systems administration to avoid this proble

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