morganvachon

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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   I wouldn't say that it's "hot". It's recently become more popular since Google started forcing it on Android 4.4+ users as the only SMS option on their phones. Personally, I wouldn't use it at all if not for ea
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   > We've moved from irc, to ICQ, to Microsoft Messenger, to ..., to Skype, to (what's hot now) You forgot Hangouts, which works on Android, iOS, and the desktop. It supports text, voice, and video, just like Wire. Its only negat
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   So you probably know the store I'm talking about, then.
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   Depends; how many of you are willing to travel to the back woods of northwest Georgia? :)
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   Well like I said, he'll just revert back to the original name, "<Hometown> Electronics" (where <Hometown> is the name of my hometown). He answers the phone as "<Hometown> Electronics RadioShack" as
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   It's such a small town that I doubt that would work. That said, he's the only place in town to get things like scanner radios, small electronic parts, certain tools, and a wide selection of batteries. He'll probably just reve
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   I'd be willing to bet that this is exactly the way it was at most, if not all, corporate RadioShack stores. On the other hand, the franchise stores (which mostly no longer exist) could be great places to shop and to work, because they
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   Surprisingly, PC-BSD doesn't generate a ~/.xinitrc file, I had to create one. I just put that line in mine, and restarted X. Seems to be working well, I loaded up a 4K image in Firefox with no stuttering, pausing, or other noticea
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   by morganvachon 12y ago

   FYI, this issue exists in PC-BSD too. I tend to use Chromium anyway and Firefox as a backup, so it doesn't bite me as much when I'm in that OS. But it's definitely a big one.
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    You're right of course, I meant to write "packages" and I honestly don't know why I wrote "jails" instead. Call it Saturday morning brain fuzz, I guess.
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    Here's a couple: https://www.cloudsigma.com/landing/freebsd-cloud-hosting/ https://www.rootbsd.net/
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    My personal (limited) experience with FreeBSD vs my (extensive) experience with GNU/Linux: FreeBSD pros: Very stable Excellent network support Friendly, knowledgeable devs and tightly knit community Runs most GNU/Linux apps via po
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    > I've been running FBSD and Linux in VMs Then you're abstracting away from the video hardware, and not getting the same results as you would on bare metal. The only thing really lacking in Intel video versus Nvidia is proper
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    Ditto for small ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi. When the RPi version of Arch Linux went to systemd, the system actually got slower in my experience. On such an already limited device, it was a quantifiable difference; before systemd, Arc
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    > Because it does not have broken half-assed binary only drivers by obscure vendor X that don't actually work. I've always found it interesting that Nvidia offers a more complete and stable BSD driver than its GNU/Linux
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    The thing is though, back then in the early 90s FreeBSD could have been good enough; most x86 computers didn't have a GUI at all, and if they did it was OS/2 or Windows over DOS. Hardware was arguably much simpler too. Linux was c
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I think the article got one thing wrong: That sooner or later every GNU/Linux distro will switch to systemd. I can think of three that most likely will not: Slackware, Crux, and Gentoo. Granted, the more that systemd binds itself to fo
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I may be wrong, but I took GP to mean that FreeBSD is a good enough OS to use daily, hence Torvalds wouldn't have had a need to create Linux. Obviously, Torvalds hasn't abandoned Linux in favor of FreeBSD today, and no one said he
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    That's my take on it as well. We've created fiction that explores the idea ( The Matrix is the most obvious recent entry), we've created games which are simulations themselves, and pretty soon we'll be able to create co
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    How so? Debian runs on more architectures and with more flexibility (prior to current events) than any other GNU/Linux. NetBSD also runs on just about anything, including toasters, but systemd isn't an issue there since it won&#x2
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I think you missed the point. Prior to systemd, Debian was truly the universal operating system in the sense that it ran on just about anything, and you could swap out the kernel (not a trivial thing to do, but possible) for the FreeBSD ker
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    Sorry, I didn't mean it as baiting, just venting a little. Just based on this conversation and his other posts, it's obvious what he is.
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I thought that was the other juvenile defendant, the one not being tried as an adult; maybe I misread it. Edit: I did misread it, sorry. It was Taylor who confessed. I wouldn't be surprised though, if the defense still uses the near-co
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    > Even the author of the story said it was hypothetical. Multiple times. Really? Hmm...Ctrl+F "hypothetical" 0 of 0 results. And here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifydpomabnm8ijb/bfss
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    IANAL either but I do have some experience with court proceedings. I'm surprised the defense didn't jump on this opportunity to file a motion to dismiss the case for lack of evidence (or maybe they did after the article was writte
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I'll respectfully disagree. There's nothing "hypothetical" about it, the guy laid out a budget and a game plan for targeted harassment and intimidation of journalists who dared to write negative press. There were multipl
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    You're right of course, these changes didn't happen with the flip of a switch. It just seems that so much good has happened at/from Microsoft in the relatively short time since Nadella took over, it's almost as if that w
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    I would say on Microsoft's part it was when Ballmer was ousted and Nadella took the reins. Nadella seems to be genuinely open to working with instead of against other companies and open source projects. I think he realized the ship was
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    The US is "at war" with the entire world, even their so-called friends. You don't spy on your friends, you spy on your enemies. You don't do secret raids and secret bombings on third parties, you do that to your enemies.
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    by morganvachon 12y ago

    > can I sue them if they refuse to sell me one? No, and you can't sue any company for refusing to sell you their product. In some cases you can sue if they refuse to serve you based on discrimination (i.e. a restaurant or hotel) und