mansr

27 ms·

241.
by mansr 16y ago
I don't think there are any legal issues here (but IANAL), and I can see a free Windows clone being useful to some people. However, Microsoft has a 25-year head start so these guys have some serious catching up to do. Until Microsoft goes
242.
by mansr 16y ago
Try qt-faststart in the tools directory of FFmpeg.
243.
by mansr 16y ago
People like complaining and crucifying. For many years, Microsoft was the obvious target, but the last couple of years they've become ever harder to fault on principle (they still produce bad software), so the pitchfork mobs need a new bad
244.
by mansr 16y ago
Webkit is KHTML.
245.
by mansr 16y ago
There's always the risk that they'd prefer hanging out with the hoodies.
246.
by mansr 16y ago
It's often simply a matter of protecting the company's secrets. The longer you stay, the more you might learn and potentially use against the company if later working for a competitor. A policy like that does not at all have to be rooted
247.
by mansr 17y ago
If you don't want people to see your WiFi MAC address, don't broadcast it into public spaces. Besides, there is no way to tie a MAC address to a personal identity, so where's the damage? This is really no different from house numbers print
248.
by mansr 17y ago
This reminds me of what happened when Microsoft decided to trim known suffixes off displayed filenames. Has everybody forgotten the hot-babe.jpg.exe viruses? With unicode allowed in domain names, it's only a matter of time before someone
249.
by mansr 17y ago
British Airways are refunding tickets.
250.
VP8: The Savior Codec(multimedia.cx)
56 points by mansr 17y ago|22 comments
251.
by mansr 17y ago
1. This is nothing but a rumour, this instance seemingly made up out of thin air by that website. 2. There is no evidence whatsoever that VP8 even exists, let alone performs anywhere close to H.264. 3. Even if it does exist, and even if it
252.
by mansr 17y ago
Without virtual memory, you run into memory fragmentation issues quickly , especially with allocation-happy object oriented code. Multitasking or not makes no difference.
253.
by mansr 17y ago
HDMI does have error correction. Every 8 bits of video data are sent as 10 bits on the wire.
254.
by mansr 17y ago
OK, there are probably corner cases where Linux isn't quite compliant. However, in my day to day work, I encounter far more problems with BSD than with Linux. I don't know how I'd go about proving that to you.
255.
by mansr 17y ago
The glibc headers work perfectly in strict C99 mode. The BSD headers do not.
256.
by mansr 17y ago
The details where they differ are not standardised. If you stick to the standards, you will have no problems. The problem with BSD is that following standards is what gets you in trouble.
257.
by mansr 17y ago
POSIX compliance is much better in Linux than in BSD. End of story. If you stick to standard POSIX features, your code will work without change on any modern Linux distribution.
258.
by mansr 17y ago
OK, off the top of my head (not all apply to all forks): - The math library (libm) is incomplete. - The 'nm' command has non-standard syntax. - The 'od' command has non-standard syntax. - System headers require -D_BSD_SOURCE or similar. - S
259.
by mansr 17y ago
There's a bit more to it than that. An HDMI cable contains three serial data links, each operating at roughly 1.5Gbps. At rates that high, some shielding is required, or the cable will pick up enough noise to damage the signal. The HDMI
260.
by mansr 17y ago
Who, me? NetBSD and OpenBSD are the worst. FreeBSD is a bit better, and Dragonfly is the least broken of the ones I've had to deal with. It's hard to keep track of all the BSDs, though, with the number of BSD developers and the number of
261.
by mansr 17y ago
It's worse still. Even on a Linux system with GNU tools, the slightest deviation from the author's system causes "interesting" failures. One recent one I encountered was glibc refusing to build with GNU binutils 2.20. The configure scrip
262.
by mansr 17y ago
My main issue with tcl is the "everything is a string" approach and the resulting quoting hell.
263.
by mansr 17y ago
A 64-bit instruction set is about more than just the size of a pointer. A 64-bit CPU has 64-bit general-purpose registers, and it has versions of arithmetic and logic instructions operating on these. Because 32 bits is enough for most pur