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by alrs 14y ago
ruby1.9.1 on Debian isn't ruby 1.9.1. The Ruby language changed between 1.9 and 1.9.1, so a new package name had to be created. If 1.9.1 was just called "1.9" it would break all of the packages in Debian that depend on whatever language fea
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Using the UDF as a successor of FAT for USB sticks(tanguy.ortolo.eu)
2 points by alrs 14y ago|0 comments
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Rails Is Omakase: A Dramatic Reading (youtube.com)
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Lenovo Removing Thinkpad Trackpoint Buttons(forums.lenovo.com)
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by alrs 14y ago
Poster previously requested help after death, coma, physical rehabilitation, and drug abuse. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312566
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by alrs 14y ago
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/aaron-swartz-felony...
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by alrs 14y ago
Fuck this country. EDIT: The guy was facing 13 felony counts for downloading academic articles.
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by alrs 14y ago
Linux has the wizardpen driver that is supposed to work with UC Logic digitizers. http://www.xpd259.co.uk/2011/04/wizardpen-graphics-tablet-an...
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by alrs 14y ago
Steve Jobs was a great salesman. I've never encountered any record that said he was a great programmer, let alone a shitty one.
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by alrs 14y ago
If I read the article correctly, the House has already passed this, so there isn't any reason to call your representative. It's only your senators that matter at this point. Call both of them.
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Microsoft Stonewalls NSA_KEY Questions (2000)(cryptome.org)
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by alrs 14y ago
I live in California. I just called Feinstein's office and registered my opinion. According to the staffer, Feinstein supports the extension. Her office can be reached at (202) 224-3841. I called Boxer's office as well. After dialing <
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by alrs 14y ago
You can't sell a generation on the never-say-die entrepreneur ethos and then tsk-tsk when they show up at your office uninvited.
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The Boxee Box: too free to live?(lwn.net)
1 points by alrs 14y ago|0 comments
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Content-centric networking with CCNx(lwn.net)
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EFF Criticizes Online Shopping in Ubuntu 12.10(thevarguy.com)
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How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL(lwn.net)
221 points by alrs 14y ago|51 comments
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by alrs 14y ago
Wishful thinking says that they're taking a kick at Adobe because they're aware of an effort to port Creative Suite to Linux.
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by alrs 14y ago
Only a few more years now before the patents run out on the trackpoint, at which point it will be "reimagined" by Apple.
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SoCal Edison to cut management jobs in wake of 2011 shooting(latimes.com)
1 points by alrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by alrs 14y ago
The best way to improve Ubuntu is to get involved with Debian. That's where the heavy lifting is.
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by alrs 14y ago
It may read as tangential, but this feels like the beginning of end of "forget free software, let's get Macs."
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Judge Koh suggests Apple is “smoking crack” in Samsung case(slashgear.com)
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by alrs 14y ago
I have a Debian laptop. ls -alh | wc -l returns 89. I can subtract "..", ".", and the "totals" lines, so that's 86 init scripts. Big O for 86 scripts is 86 * n, which simplifies to "n". I'm not concerned.
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by alrs 14y ago
Of my two friends who started using heroin as teenagers, both destroyed their pancreas by their early thirties. As of now (age 37), one of them has died from an overdose. The other is intermittently homeless.
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by alrs 14y ago
Useful Idiots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
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by alrs 14y ago
Cached: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
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Is Malcolm Gladwell America's Most Successful Propagandist and Corporate Shill?(alternet.org)
4 points by alrs 14y ago|2 comments
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by alrs 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
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by alrs 14y ago
PSA: Stuff like rvm exists so that you can get your Macbook's software versions in sync with whatever BSD or Linux distribution you're using in production. RVM in production is a case of doing it wrong.

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