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by chungy 2y ago
> whenever an organization exercises the rights that a permissive license gives them there is s big outcry ([1], [2] are just two examples Both examples you cited are not related to exercising rights given under a permissive license: i
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by chungy 2y ago
"Viral" is the word Steve Ballmer used to describe the GPL as a negative thing. It remains that the owner of the copyright can release the software under any terms they deem fit. Including changing their mind about what license to
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by chungy 2y ago
This guy seems to fundamentally misunderstand open source. It was not at all about permissive licenses, but it _was_ about "rebranding" free software to sound less ideologically-driven, while still pretty much meeting the same cri
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by chungy 2y ago
The article's pretty weird for presenting little-endian UTF-16 as normal and barely even mentioning that big-endian is an option (in fact, seems to refer to it as "backwards"), even though big-endian is a much more human read
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by chungy 2y ago
From NT 3.1 until Windows 8.0. Windows 8.1 removed it, and Windows 10 offered WSL1 as its replacement.
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by chungy 2y ago
> With some amount of luck, Voyager might last ten more years beyond that: Oh, good, it won't have to suffer a year 2038 problem :) Also: what's with that last link? Definitely didn't expect something to make my browser sl
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by chungy 2y ago
Everything you listed was fixed in NFSv4. Don't use the ancient versions of NFS.
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by chungy 3y ago
Indeed; Windows 2000 changed the card backgrounds, but it otherwise remained virtually unchanged from 1990 until 2007 when Vista changed it to be Direct3D accelerated and new graphics.
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by chungy 3y ago
Windows 95's DOS virtual machines provided pretty close to a full 640KB of free conventional memory to each VM launched. You could even control how much they get through PIF settings (right click the shortcut, go to Properties). There
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by chungy 3y ago
Well, file that under the creepiest software I've seen. :)
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by chungy 3y ago
It's pretty well documented with a pretty simple configuration language (if you already use a bourne shell (and you probably do), you already know how GRUB's syntax works). I guess reading the manual isn't popular these days,
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by chungy 3y ago
Vista didn't quite allow that, but it did have a dumb workaround: you could still install Vista, but it wouldn't activate until you proved that you owned an older product. Well, from the unactivated Vista, you can run Vista setup,
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by chungy 3y ago
I know, it's probably a bit late now, but you can clean install from the upgrade media. The setup program merely asks you to insert the installation floppy or CD into the computer to verify that you actually own an older qualifying ope
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by chungy 3y ago
> Under the hood they were almost the same exact same kernel Literally the exact same kernel if you count XP x64 Edition. Even the exact same Windows Updates apply to both. :) But yeah, Windows XP (32-bit; NT 5.1) and Server 2003 (NT 5.2
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by chungy 3y ago
the ext4 driver doesn't (in fact, cannot) upgrade file systems missing features. If you mount an ext2 file system from the 1990s with the ext4 driver, it'll stay at the old feature set, for better and worse. You can use tune2fs to
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by chungy 3y ago
Not sure what system you've used, but I've never seen automounting fail to work on ext4 volumes. That being said, basically every file system ever is vulnerable to the malicious image. Kernel drivers assume that the metadata is sa
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by chungy 3y ago
Basically they're all ext2 with different implied feature flags enabled.
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by chungy 3y ago
The X server is fairly portable, and XWayland is built directly from the X.Org sources. It also has ports to Windows and Mac OS X ...
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by chungy 3y ago
Even better, Freedoom.
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by chungy 3y ago
Transmission has Qt and Win32-native GUI clients as an alternative to its GTK client. I don't think Transmission is a good example.
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by chungy 3y ago
That's a take I've certainly never heard before. Among support for the death penalty in the United States, is the fact that some criminals, particularly the serial killer type, have committed crimes so heinous that there is no cha
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by chungy 3y ago
> 2TiB is only the limit if you stick to 512 byte blocks, the filesystem supports up to 4096 byte blocks giving 16TiB. Aye, I'm aware, but a 16TiB FAT32 file system in that configuration is only usable on Linux, at which point... wh
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by chungy 3y ago
I am denying that it is as serious as you say. exFAT has been around for nearly two decades, and nearly everything from the past 15 years supports it. If you choose to format an SD card as FAT32 because your 20 year old device doesn't
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by chungy 3y ago
If you have some random set-top box or camera that doesn't support exFAT, fair enough, but the situations are becoming few and far between. Windows, Mac, Linux all have native support for it. No (practical) volume size or file size lim
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by chungy 3y ago
As an aside, and connected to the failing memory thing, Raymond Chen has repeated multiple times that Space Cadet Pinball couldn't get working on a 64-bit build and never shipped with any version of Windows, and that's why it was
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by chungy 3y ago
Memory is a fickle thing, but the format dialog enforcing a FAT32 limit is probably Dave's biggest failing when it comes to telling old stories. I don't know if FAT32 was in development in late 1994, it's possible, but it sur
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by chungy 3y ago
Who doesn't want exFAT? It's all around better.
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by chungy 3y ago
Cygwin also offers this through /dev/clipboard, bidirectional. You can do "cat /dev/clipboard > file.txt" as well as "ls > /dev/clipboard"
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by chungy 3y ago
It shows belonging, at the very least. The quote from Jim Salter was "The project belonged to Mason, not to his employer " (emphasis added). The copyright line demonstrably and incontestably refutes this claim. btrfs belongs to O
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by chungy 3y ago
That's countered by btrfs's source code always beginning with "Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle." Maybe it was Mason's pet project within the company, but there is no ambiguity that Oracle owns it. It is an Oracle project.

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