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by meaty 14y ago
I was excited until I saw "use autotools". edit just bought it. Quick scan reveals some GNU extensions being used, lots of tripe about pkg-config, autotools, how to write a makefile properly without autoconf (commendable), gdb tutorial (l
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by meaty 14y ago
They better do as to be honest, I'll be fucked if I'm going to use it any more unless it happens. Historically, I have used Windows 8 from CP, to RP and now RTM exclusively. Unfortunately, I now have to use RDP and as a VMware guest regular
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by meaty 14y ago
Personally that pisses me off as it requires that I fully qualify all my local email addresses as what happens if I have the hostname 'nike' on my local net?
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by meaty 14y ago
I really don't care. We also, in automated test environments, send email to user@host so it doesn't escape the internal network. I don't have to use a regex if I use the methodology I specified. Simple Java implementation off the top of my
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by meaty 14y ago
I only check for an @ and at least one character either side. Anything else is the user's problem.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well it does until you fire up office, which appears to be glued on the side, badly.
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by meaty 14y ago
Odd. We had a couple of labs for each. This was years ago though (SunOS4 days).
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by meaty 14y ago
That's a bit silly. There are a couple of things to consider: 1. ACPI power saving modes draw very little current. As long as your computer is configured to drop to that, it's fine. It will resume within 1-2 seconds as well. 2. There are co
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by meaty 14y ago
I wonder what the total marketshare that corresponds to is? From what I've read, smartphones are still in a niche in china and they primarily use dumbphones and featurephones.
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by meaty 14y ago
We dont get this. All our desktops are left on 24/7 and laptops are hibernated. I don't get the obsession with boot times - its a rare occurrence.
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by meaty 14y ago
Until a profit is to be made... Yes that's a jab at capitalism and commercial healthcare.
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by meaty 14y ago
Which says the whole thing is a broken mess...
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by meaty 14y ago
I came here to have a rant about autotools being mentioned and found a lot of people doing the same. Thats a sign something needs to be taken out in the yard and shot if there ever was one.
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by meaty 14y ago
I agree with that point, but I think that the people who use the latest and greatest browser tend to upgrade their computers and operating systems regularly. The rest don't know or care. As technology experts on here, we tend to forget that
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by meaty 14y ago
Because they want to be able to read your shit.
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by meaty 14y ago
Versus the bullshit we have to put up from the other vendors who throw out new features which everyone else has to pick up via peer pressure even though they are poorly designed?
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by meaty 14y ago
Considering the amount of people who whinge incessantly about the latest and greatest browser not being used, why would they then whinge that the latest operating system isn't? So much double-think.
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by meaty 14y ago
I thought IE10 was a "modern browser"?
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by meaty 14y ago
I think there is something wrong with both him and the country. He's nuts and he didn't pay a large enough bribe.
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by meaty 14y ago
I got that impression during an interview with them in Cambridge in 2005. They genuinely couldn't promise that anything that was done was going to end up in a product or would actually be used. Fortunately I was too crap to be considered a
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by meaty 14y ago
> Make or take a desktop environment that those clamoring for GNOME 2 or KDE 3 love, integrate it very well with your base system, and make a very predictable ABI, ABI, and development schedule I think you nailed it. Genuinely conside
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by meaty 14y ago
Is it any more hacky than meta-programming in LISP? It's not elegant. Well some of it is, but most isn't. But it's well understood, matches the philosophy of the operating system and doesn't introduce any new tools or mechanisms which have
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by meaty 14y ago
I stand corrected :)
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by meaty 14y ago
I don't understand what is wrong with shell scripts. I mean after all, UNIX is designed to be put together using small programs wired together with scripts. What systemd does is replace that elegance with a monolithic black box.
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by meaty 14y ago
Indeed - I think that is the entire summary of my point. There is reinvention due to ego, not sound engineering.
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by meaty 14y ago
In my case, I have a wireless and PPTP VPN connection. I tried SSTP but couldn't even get a build working during to API breakages. The VPN configuration is a mess and hideously impossible to debug properly. There is no way an average end us
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by meaty 14y ago
I think, being a BSD user, we're probably not concerned much about that. Gnome 3 accounts for a miniscule proportion of users. It's less relevant that Gnome 3 doesn't work on BSD to the BSD projects than Gnome if you ask me. Bad PR for Gno
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by meaty 14y ago
In that case as a Gnome team member, please take the comments I made as complaints relating to things that need fixing. I wouldn't say them if I did't stand behind my opinion. In fact, my argument is that Gnome should adhere to sound engine
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by meaty 14y ago
As other people have said, userland ABI/API is solid. I should have clarified that. There is no reason the internal API would be as to be honest it's the Kernel's job to make the drivers sit behind that API and stay there regardless of the
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes that is correct.

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