jasomill

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by jasomill 11d ago
Redirection doesn't overwrite device files, so cat foo.img > /dev/sda works and should be portable. No control over the buffer size, though.
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by jasomill 12d ago
Has this been litigated, or is it just something tractor manufacturers have cooked up in the hopes that it'll stand up in court? Because I seem to recall printer manufacturers doing something similar with refilling toner cartridges and
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by jasomill 12d ago
"Limited liability" refers to shareholders' financial liability being limited to their investment, and has nothing to do with civil or criminal liability of employees for their own actions, whether "following orders&quot
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by jasomill 12d ago
This could be useful on its own to create an ISA-over-USB bridge in conjunction with either a kernel driver or a user-mode PC emulator.
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by jasomill 12d ago
The Boeing wag given to the US government. Not to Trump personally. It's stated explicitly in the wikipedia link you provided. Also stated in a news report[1] linked by Wikipedia, In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended
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by jasomill 12d ago
Unless doing something esoteric like updating firmware that requires manual intervention, Fedora Atomic distros should never need to reboot multiple times to update, as updates are staged as side-by-side replacements of the entire base syst
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by jasomill 13d ago
Non-malicious VPN software can be used by malicious actors to route packets through servers they control.
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by jasomill 13d ago
If it's anything like the key sounds on old DEC systems, it's more akin to the key click sound on an iPhone than a beep.
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by jasomill 13d ago
Apple used a mechanical variant of AUI called AAUI[1] with a smaller connector. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Attachment_Unit_Interfac...
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by jasomill 13d ago
Probably not, as modems connected to Macs via a round serial port identified by a phone icon and Ethernet ports were originally AAUI (D-shaped transciever port similar to AUI but with a smaller connector) or, on some of the old NuBus cards,
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by jasomill 13d ago
This is true, but I'm not sure if I trust users to preserve case in case-insensitive filenames when copying files around, possibly at some point passing through something like a web server that may apply case normalization. Sort of lik
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by jasomill 13d ago
I loved the custom engravings. I still have two red iPod shuffles with "STEAL THIS" engraved on them, one I occasionally use, one unopened it its box. Ironically, the reason I have two is because I accidentally ordered two, didn&#
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by jasomill 13d ago
That's a more common use, but the article's use is supported by dictionaries as acceptable. I'd personally prefer "bug" as a matter of style.
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by jasomill 13d ago
Floppies, superfloppies, removable hard disks (platter-only, as opposed to modern external hard drives that incorporate the entire drive mechanism), magneto-optical disks, rewritable CD/DVD, even today magnetic tape is still used as re
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by jasomill 13d ago
Both of these things are true: commands like diskcopy have special handling to allow the same drive to be used as both source and destination, and the DOS I/O has special handling to request disk changes from A: to B: on single-drive
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by jasomill 13d ago
It does. https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/2d04cacc5322951f187...
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by jasomill 13d ago
This. I'll never begrduge anyone for "selling out" until I'm given a similar opportunity to do so myself. Peter Norton clearly had interests other than running a software company, and I can't say I blame him. Speaki
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by jasomill 13d ago
Fallout 4 parodies the potential legal issue itself in one of its loading screens: Nuka-Cola's signature rocket-shaped bottle replaced the traditional curved bottle when a rival corporation successfully sued for patent infringement.
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by jasomill 14d ago
Maybe not exclusively, but I read it in grade school and was not alone.
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by jasomill 14d ago
"The Terrapin Turtle is designed for installation at no cost by children and elementary school teachers. We feel that military installation cost should be under $10,000/unit." In the '80s, Lego also worked with the MIT
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by jasomill 15d ago
CompuServe was in many ways its own single-source proprietary internet. And CDNs are by nature distributed, even if their ownership is not. Just as it's unreasonable to expect a site operator to maintain their own global network backbo
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by jasomill 15d ago
And they are, in fact, planning to continue to use RHEL and/or AlmaLinux on their desktop and datacenter machines, even going so far as to adapt Fedora's build system to support building Debian packages[1] to leverage their existi
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by jasomill 15d ago
The promise of eSIMs delivered for only $5/month. Honestly, a carrier charge for this feature doesn't sound any less reasonable than a variety of other near-zero marginal cost services providers have offered in the past, but $5 se
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by jasomill 16d ago
Forget YouTube. Google "windows xp source code leaks" and one of the top hits is a six-year old GitHub repo. Which sort of makes sense. I'm not sure technical trade secrets have ever played much of a role in Microsoft's
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by jasomill 16d ago
I imagine he's fine with it in terms of job satisfaction at the very least, as far as I can tell his areas of expertise are shell and related COM internals, and he clearly takes pride in the nuances of cleaning up other peoples' m
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by jasomill 16d ago
Interesting. The simplicity of the build process is inspiring. It literally took me less than five minutes to cobble together a build environment from thin air, cross-compile, and test: 1. Glance at the Makefile, notice that it's a sin
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by jasomill 16d ago
It works pretty well for greenfield projects on .NET, so long as you can live without third-party libraries that don't support AOT. Existing code bases can be a pain, though, especially applications that heavily rely on things like C++
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by jasomill 16d ago
A few years ago I had to use a pair of high-voltage to low-voltage differential SCSI converters to connect an external DEC TK50 tape drive to my PC, because while I had plenty of HD68-to-HD68 cables, and HD68-to-Centronics cables, and a wid
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by jasomill 16d ago
I do this. All my FireWire 400-to-800, 400-to-400, 400-to-dinky little Sony 400, etc. cables were all in one box, the FireWire 800-to-Thunderbolt adapter was in the box with my Thunderbolt cables and adapters, and I still didn't find t
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by jasomill 16d ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists [

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