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by jdub 16y ago
Well, the crux of the article is about what the radio hackers actually did do, so that story isn't bogus. It does mention some of their claims, but points out that they're unverified.
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Two Italian radio hackers vs. The Soviet Union's space program(forteantimes.com)
60 points by jdub 16y ago|17 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
Yeah, I'd strongly recommend sticking with 10.04 LTS for any production servers -- unless you require a particular and/or peculiar feature in 10.10, that is. LTS == Long Term Support == security fixes for 5 years. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
You'll be pleased to find that Nautilus in 10.10 has a split pane view. Just hit View > Extra Pane (or F3). :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
Confirmed by Glyn: http://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/26934516909
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by jdub 16y ago
If you're upgrading a server, just run "do-release-upgrade -m server".
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by jdub 16y ago
The correct way to upgrade Ubuntu from the command line is "do-release-upgrade" (which includes extra upgrading smarts that apt alone does not).
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by jdub 16y ago
"Choice and variety are good, but they need to be balanced against the principle of trying to produce the maximum amount of value from an investment of time and energy." vs. "I feel like writing a high performance, multi-node key value stor
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by jdub 16y ago
Note: That was the announcement of the shift from Gecko to WebKit, not the launch of Epiphany itself (which was years earlier).
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by jdub 16y ago
A few thoughts from a former GNOME release manager... FLOSS developers, particularly those writing code in their spare time, hack on whatever they feel like. Usually because they find it fun. This is why we have jokes about the number of
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by jdub 16y ago
Practically every Linux distro uses DejaVu Sans (previously Bitstream Vera Sans), which is not Helvetica-like. Windows and OS X don't use Helvetica-like fonts either. I think you might be smoking an Arial hash pipe... because Helvetica is c
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by jdub 16y ago
Netcraft concurs: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/09/21/twitter-users-f...
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by jdub 16y ago
If by "tell" you do not mean a cynical public reveal for the sake of product promotion and by "people" you mean the organisation running the platform (Twitter), I'd agree with you. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
I wouldn't be terribly surprised, based on the timeline of exploits I've seen, if the wider abuse of this is due to the incredibly stupid exploit demonstration at the launch of @RainbowTwtr. My related tweets from earlier tonight... ah, a
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by jdub 16y ago
If you want to keep track of hot, fresh node-y goodness independently of the Ubuntu release cycle (as I do), then please enjoy my nodejs PPA builds. They're built for lucid, but run fine on maverick, and like everything else in that PPA, ar
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Implementing full duplex and in WebKit (browserphone)(labs.ericsson.com)
1 points by jdub 16y ago|0 comments
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Packet and Denby(bethesignal.org)
5 points by jdub 16y ago|0 comments
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Socket.IO 0.5 is out (and looking delicious)(groups.google.com)
2 points by jdub 16y ago|0 comments
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Scale Stack vs. Eventlet vs. Twisted vs. node.js(oddments.org)
6 points by jdub 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
Was sorely tempted to write in a new headline: "Taiwanese physicist's theory threatens much-loved TV show, common understanding of the universe."
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Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe(technologyreview.com)
185 points by jdub 16y ago|105 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
Note that this document and story are actually about a recent EU-style data retention proposal, not the internet filtering / web censorship policy (which has been bumbling along for quite a while now).
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by jdub 16y ago
PHP has had a fastcgi implementation for ages, but this adds process management to it.
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Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum(businessweek.com)
112 points by jdub 16y ago|50 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
Excuse the jargon, but... gnome-shell is a plugin for mutter, which is a fork of metacity, built on top of Clutter (thus "mutter") for awesome 3D scene/animation support. In fewer words: Yes, it has some 3Ds in it. ;-)
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by jdub 16y ago
... plus, the incredibly good Android "Droid" typeface is available under an open license and looks fantastic on mobile and desktop screens. So the new Ubuntu font certainly gives them/us something unique, but I'm not yet convinced that
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by jdub 16y ago
Look at the byline: Ashlee Vance. It should matter that the masthead is NYT, but the byline matters much more. Ashlee has a rep for this kind of stuff, across numerous mastheads. (Sorry to "play the person, not the ball", but it's the write
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by jdub 16y ago
No user interface for the multisite/multiuser functionality appears until a constant is set in the configuration file. So most users will never see it, and those who do really wanted to. :-)