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by dedward 16y ago
They did say it was the exact same touchpad, just bigger... so very likely.
872.
by dedward 16y ago
Yup... (not that there aren't plenty of smug people to go around....) I quit drinking for quite a long time - and in some situations it was impossible for me NOT to be rude. I very politely said "Nope, just a diet coke thanks!" when first
873.
by dedward 16y ago
Yup... (not that there aren't plenty of smug people to go around....) I quit drinking for quite a long time - and in some situations it was impossible for me NOT to be rude. I very politely said "Nope, just a diet coke thanks!" when first
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by dedward 16y ago
You'll be chasing that feeling forever, friend..... about all you can do is go buy some old amiga gear and/or emulate and play your old games and whatnot. That magic you remember was a combination of the times, place, market, and age of co
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by dedward 16y ago
If a patent is transferrable in some form, and has some value, then there will be a market for it - one can hardly fault someone for exploiting this to commercial advantage. The patent system itself is broken..... let's fix that...
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by dedward 16y ago
It's a big deal - but most places that concerned about security, the ones that worry heavily about arp-spoofing and detection probably don't allow wireless in the first place..... at least that's been my experience.
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm not sure anyone really ever considered an inside user on a wifi network, however it's encrypted, any different than a user on a regular wired lan... you can sniff their traffic and spoof arp, and all that wonderful stuff.... being on th
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by dedward 16y ago
Hypocrite has nothing to do with it. He's free, as a developer, to create derived works from GPL code, and nobody else is free to claim ownership of his work but him. He can use the stuff he created all he wants. What he's not free to do i
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by dedward 16y ago
Plus, you can't get smaller blocks allocated even w hen you need them.... I have a legitimate need for an independent /24 that I can BGP route around to a few datacenters. ARIN says I can only apply for a /22 at the smallest. People are
880.
by dedward 16y ago
No corporation or shares existed at the time the work for hire was done....
881.
by dedward 16y ago
This is especially useful when dealing with directories with too many files in them - say around a million files. Regular globbing won't work, and most regular tools won't work - but tar works great. Also - another trick is to give it -c b
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by dedward 16y ago
So are you suggesting that a fundamental property of any workable currency system is the ability for the government to track and control where every unit of currency goes and how it is used?
883.
by dedward 16y ago
It's not paranoia... it's justified. The problem is - there is no clear solution. Technology is going to advance.... and it's a fact of life that there are going to, one way or the other, be cheap, high-res, always-on recording devices al
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by dedward 16y ago
Sure.. but _why kinda up and disappeared, didn't he....
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by dedward 16y ago
As a colleague who lived through conflict in Serbia once told me of a conversation he had with an opposition soldier with a gun.... long story short - the soldier said "I have no choice, I'm just following orders"... and my friend said "YO
886.
by dedward 16y ago
What are you going to work with instead, just curious?
887.
by dedward 16y ago
I think the real lesson in here is that the key is the deployment tools - or rather the fact that you need to spend time setting those up as an integral part of your workflow - it's not something to do "some day later". This can be as simpl
888.
by dedward 16y ago
You should absolutely learn C - you don't need to be an expert, but you should fully grasp the use of pointers and memory allocation, and how the compiler really works (intermediate stages and all that). This, for the same reason you should
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by dedward 16y ago
Which parts of it are really valuable to the FOSS community. The "zones" stuff is really only valuable for the big-iron systems, which you probably want/need support from Sun for anyway..... and if it's ZFS, the other big killer factor, Fre
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by dedward 16y ago
As a long-time user of Open/FreeBSD & Linux & solaris/opensolaris.... The point about # of devs is true - linux is the new nix reference platform (well, not new anymore I guess). It used to be SunOS/Solaris. OpenBSD has a small num
891.
by dedward 16y ago
What about: Punchcards, magnetic wire, wax cylinder, paper tape, piano scrolls, all kinds of film...the polaroid....
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by dedward 16y ago
I was always pissed that Sony didn't let Minidisc become the new floppy disk alternative.... it was perfect. I know you could get data drives for them - but they were uncommon in the extreme. Plus, every TV show and movie that wanted to sho
893.
by dedward 16y ago
"The processes end up with incorrect states pretty much immediately." Concurrency failure.
894.
by dedward 16y ago
Those are still different issues - threading & concurrency in one memory area -vs- distributed computing. Clojure is attempting to optimize for the former... it's easy to write thread-safe applications.
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by dedward 16y ago
Anyone notice the BP or whoever spokespeople deliberately referring to it as "Hydrocarbon release" rather than "Oil volcano" or "oil spill" now? "uncontrolled hydrocarbon emission" and things like that..... that MUST be a deliberate PR mov
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by dedward 16y ago
Not needed because of this section I imagine - straight from GPLv2. "However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major compon
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by dedward 16y ago
That's not nuts - I mean, proper nutrition (bananas are good food) and good sleep are necessary for good mental health. Sometimes just some proper food and sleep is all you need.
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by dedward 16y ago
Don't freak out, and seek therapy - and don't get bummed out about the fact that you are seeking therapy. That's a good thing. We could all guess a million causes for this (drugs/alcohol/etc) - but in the end it doesn't matter. You've not
899.
by dedward 16y ago
I think that's a great question, and one that could probably spawn a ton of interesting legal/logical arguments. At what point does dynamic linking make something a derived work - and how is dynamic linking fundamentally different, than, sa
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by dedward 16y ago
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