felipeota

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by felipeota 15y ago
There are a lot more Windows desktops than UNIX servers. Just picture that every UNIX server is in average serving more than one Windows machine. Also, it is way easier to attack a desktop than a server. Desktop users are more careless than
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by felipeota 15y ago
Here in Uruguay the carrier is allowed to keep your phone locked after the contract expires. I have an Iphone from Movistar and they say they won't unlock it. It is a shame, because I used to travel and couldn't use my phone in countries wh
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by felipeota 15y ago
That's awful. What kind of response did you get when trying to prove them wrong? Did you talk only to your ISP or someone from the government?
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by felipeota 15y ago
Yes, that's true. But I need a sane build environment with development packages. I would like to be able to compile against libcurl and openssl as easy as it is on Ubuntu or Fedora. Something like Cygwin but without the GPL requirement on f
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by felipeota 15y ago
I am using the vanillia one and it is very good. The only problem I have with it is that I have to compile everything for it. Sometimes doing so is not so straight-forward and can take a lot of time, boost being one example.
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by felipeota 15y ago
Yes, but Cygwin makes your software GPL, and that's not something I can do.
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by felipeota 15y ago
I had high hopes when I saw the title. I was expecting something for getting MinGW precompiled libraries like openssl, curl or boost; which I find needing more than often.