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Why do women study computer science? Same reasons men do(ottawacitizen.com)
2 points by emaste 13y ago|1 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
Intel has recently released a permissively-licensed OpenMP runtime ( http://www.openmprtl.org/ ) though, and Intel's compiler team is working on OpenMP support ( http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/391189 , slides at http://llvm.
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by emaste 13y ago
Once pkgng is available in a release pkgng will really improve the binary upgrade case, and the multiple repository support will also be of interest to anyone deploying an appliance using a number of stock packages and a few custom ones.
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by emaste 13y ago
Yes - the Foundation is interested in ensuring FreeBSD works well in both virtualization guest and host capacities. Newer EC2 instance types don't tie the Windows license fee to HVM mode and FreeBSD can be run on those, for no additional co
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by emaste 13y ago
A much improved binary package management system, known as "pkgng," is on the horizon. More information is available at https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng . Pkgng will feel very natural to anyone familiar with apt. If you'd like an introduct
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by emaste 13y ago
Donations can go right here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate :-)
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by emaste 13y ago
Investing in staff is a primary goal for the Foundation for 2013. The staff members who have been announced so far are Konstantin Belousov and Edward Tomasz Napierała, with announcements at http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/03/fo
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FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in(itwire.com)
111 points by emaste 13y ago|75 comments
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FreeBSD Foundation announces second technical staff member and iSCSI project(freebsdfoundation.blogspot.ca)
8 points by emaste 13y ago|0 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
Many people are worried about the switch to a chicklet-style keyboard. I've been very happy with my previous employer-provided Thinkpad T-series laptops and purchased an X220 online, knowing the keyboard would be great. I wouldn't order o
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by emaste 13y ago
In Feb 2012 ostatic had a look at the most "interesting" projects, and found that of the top 49 or 50 projects only 2 are GPL: the Linux kernel, and Diaspora. http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github
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by emaste 14y ago
Indeed, this is one of the things Capsicum is intended to address. Quoting from Robert Watson's PhD thesis, "A purely system-centric view, however, fails to address the observation that the security interactions of "users" are decreasingly
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by emaste 14y ago
Another important point is that the attacker already has the ability to affect the decompressed output, since they are presumably responsible for the compressed input.
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by emaste 14y ago
Note that there's nearly a decade of experience, research, and development between the "UNIX security holes" course djb mentions in that paper, and today; Capsicum is not just an implementation of mid-2000s privilege separation. I believe
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by emaste 14y ago
$1,000,000 is an ambitious goal for 2013, due in large part to the plan to invest in staff. As stated in the 2012 end-of-year newsletter the Foundation plans to hire on a number of full-time staff, in addition to increases in project, conf
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by emaste 14y ago
Some background on Capsicum, from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ Capsicum is a lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supported by a grant from Go
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by emaste 14y ago
That's certainly fair, although the error message gives no indication of that and appears to be a problem with the FreeBSD-update infrastructure.
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by emaste 14y ago
For anyone else looking to learn about what to expect during childbirth, let me recommend Erica Lyon's "The Big Book of Birth." http://www.amazon.ca/The-Book-Birth-Erica-Lyon/dp/0452287685 As the reviews suggest she tries to present all o
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by emaste 14y ago
Thanks for that link. The PiHAT page does a much better job of explaining the details of how this works to me (as someone with a lot of hardware experience but not a lot of familiarity with the Broadcom SOC on the Pi).
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by emaste 14y ago
Unfortunately there are are many contributors to suburban sprawl other than market forces. Zoning and regulations like parking minimums contribute to suburban development and prevent developers from building housing that would otherwise be
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by emaste 14y ago
Right now suspend / resume is non-functional from a user's perspective: that is, suspend works, and I can resume, but the screen does not turn back on. I hope that this can be fixed for 9.2. Some related recent links: http://lists.freebsd
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by emaste 14y ago
I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT on a Thinkpad X220 and have no issues with any of the built-in peripherals. This laptop has an i5-2540M. The e1000 Ethernet is supported by the em(4) driver and I have a "Centrino Ultimate-N 6300" supported by
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by emaste 14y ago
Keep in mind these are not official until the announcement is released - until that time there is the possibility that the images will be replaced if a last-minute critical issue is found.
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by emaste 14y ago
A number of donations typically come in late in the year - it's really not possible to draw year-over-year conclusions until the year's over.
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by emaste 14y ago
A couple of more recent posts on the state of the fundraising campaign: "FreeBSD end-of-year fund raiser on target" http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FreeBSD-end-of-year-f... "FreeBSD veteran confident of reaching fund-raising goal"
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by emaste 14y ago
You are correct that it is cheaper and easier to just give back, but that is generally true and isn't unique to the GPL. There are a great number of companies using the BSDs as the basis for their embedded projects, and they contribute the
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by emaste 15y ago
FreeBSD has made a lot of progress with clang in the base system (which consists of both the kernel and standard userland); I run a clang-compiled FreeBSD on my laptop. But that said, we have a lot more clang coverage through the work done
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by emaste 15y ago
I really like the use of DTrace in #if 0'd out code for identifying the highest priorities on porting. Having faced a similar task that seemed impenetrable at the start I would have really liked to have this technique available. Nice work
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by emaste 15y ago
Actually, if you don't run test your generator regularly it's very unlikely to work when you do need it. Here's a doc from cummins, a generator mfgr: http://www.cumminspower.com/www/literature/technicalpapers/P... It claims that the gener