Toshio

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by Toshio 13y ago
> Oh, we're still fighting this "war"? I'm disenchanted with your double quotes. This war is real and it will remain so as long as motherboards of generic PCs/laptops come preinfected with microsoft's signing key (which is even more evi
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by Toshio 13y ago
Rate-limited by GitHub.
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by Toshio 13y ago
Everything is a graph.
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by Toshio 13y ago
That's interesting, but does the software industry agree or disagree?
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by Toshio 13y ago
Ya, generic PCs would be better without SecureBoot.
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by Toshio 13y ago
I've been in the software industry for 28 years. I was there when microsoft invented their particular flavor of aggressive marketing. Search keywords "Evangelism is war" in case you're not familiar with how it works.
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by Toshio 13y ago
OK, reposting my other comment here because the FUD is getting ridiculous. Here goes: It is a common misconception that if you have a very low opinion of microsoft you are automatically either a rabid Google fanboi or a rabid Apple fanboi.
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by Toshio 13y ago
It is a common misconception that if you have a very low opinion of microsoft you are automatically either a rabid Google fanboi or a rabid Apple fanboi. Myself, I don't hold either Google or Apple in especially high esteem. You have to und
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by Toshio 13y ago
Oh. My. F*. God. Just look at the comment section below the article. It's chockfull of microsoft's PR drones and MVPs saying all kinds of nasty things about Google and Apple and not really disclosing their affiliations with microsoft.
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Redhat puts Calxeda based ARM servers into production(semiaccurate.com)
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by Toshio 13y ago
What do consumer protection agencies have to say about this?
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "This isn't it. Is there one?" I don't think there can be one. Even if one existed, its value would be questionable since the rest of us are unable to prove or disprove the claims therein, seen as we don't have access to the nt kern
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by Toshio 13y ago
Supposing Datomic was open-source. Can you give a short summary of what you find so appealing about its design? Honest question, I'm curious.
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by Toshio 13y ago
Interesting. It looks like if you want to use enum in 2.7 you have to use a package called flufl[1]. [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~barry/flufl.enum/trunk/view/hea...
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by Toshio 13y ago
TL;DR No software industry for seasoned computer scientists.
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by Toshio 13y ago
Ya, the only thing I'm asking is that staid old tired microsoft use their enterprise customers as Guinea pigs for their SecureBoot and UI/UX experimentation, and leave us consumers with access to a clean marketplace for devices (read: no in
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by Toshio 13y ago
One thing I like to thank microsoft for is that they keep their overpriced productivity suite off the devices we actually use - iPads and Android tablets. They do that for their own selfish reasons (they are delusional enough to think it'll
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "Interesting how no one seems to talk about benefits of secure boot to real users in this discussion." Look, microsoft should be working to fix their software instead of leaving it as it is and instead making life miserable for those
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "If you're a business and want laptops without an OS" No, I'm a consumer who wants the same variety of laptops/specs/price points that are sold with windows eight preinstalled, to be available without microsoft's contraptions, be they
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by Toshio 13y ago
It's different. Apple and microsoft can do what they want with hardware/software bundles that they build themselves. That's why noone complains that those surface products are locked down, it's because microsoft manufactures them. Consumer
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "So Microsoft demands(!) that all x86 PCs and laptops which are sold in its certification program have to have Secure Boot easily disable-able in the BIOS/uEFI by the end user..." You say "easily disable-able" but that's not the case.
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "You forget to mention that secure boot can be disabled." Correct. But the steps to do so vary wildly from motherboard to motherboard and are not documented anywhere. In fact, one of the things HispaLinux requested is that OEMs provid
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by Toshio 13y ago
The thing is, high-end laptops used to be one expensive option among many before the whole SecureBoot thing. You had a choice. That choice has been killed. High-end laptops are now the only option if you want freedom, and that's not an acci
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by Toshio 13y ago
If you haven't been following this story as it developed over the past year and a half, microsoft corporation has leveraged their existing dominant position in the desktop OS market and mandated that OEMs include microsoft's encryption key
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by Toshio 13y ago
I'm with you. HispaLinux did send a memo to their local EC office, but the official position in Brussels seems to be that there's been no breach of law. Speaking for myself, I sent a private e-mail to Neelie Kroes saying that I support the
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by Toshio 13y ago
Thanks. Any tips if I want to stick with SQLite despite the strong recommendation not to?
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by Toshio 13y ago
When everything starts to fall apart for your business model of milking your customers for all they're worth and outsourcing all you can to cheap countries, have Carrie Underwood sing and make geeky movies about boys playing with atoms.
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by Toshio 13y ago
That's nice. Can we have the source code for Google Reader too, while we're at it?
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by Toshio 13y ago
I searched for Silicon Valley, just for kicks. It said I should learn Java. What gives?
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by Toshio 13y ago
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think it may be your overall half-sarcastic, half-arrogant tone that makes me think of that old adage "Pride comes before the fall". I think the gist of your comment is "We who write software for mic

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