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by reidrac 14y ago
The BSD has a "non-endorsement clause" prohibiting the use of the name of the copyright holders in promotion. The OSI approved version of the MIT license doesn't include an equivalent clause (that's the one I usually use in my projects), bu
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by reidrac 14y ago
I loved the text until he got to the GPL. Honestly, I really don't care what licence you're using in your project as long as the result is open source software. It is your work, so use any licence you want, I won't say if in my opinion it
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't seem to get the UI, it feels cluttered to me. Some actions have several variations that sound almost the same and apparently do different things (ie. send to device). I guess that because I don't use it frequently, I always have to
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by reidrac 14y ago
The installer made me feel really stupid. I think the only other UI that has that effect is Calibre's. EDIT: interesting read about the installer redesign: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2011/06/16/making-fedora-easier-to...
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by reidrac 14y ago
I totally agree with half of your comment, Mega will fix all these glitches and the service will be better (eventually). I'm not sure about the trust part. Both your bank and the policeman have are committed to follow strict regulation, and
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by reidrac 14y ago
I've never used Basecamp, but... Teambox? Last version seems SaaS only, but previous ones are OSS: http://teambox.com/ https://github.com/teambox/teambox
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by reidrac 14y ago
To be honest, I don't know what the author means; but I've seen web exploits using /dev/shm as alternative location to dump scripts (the other usual suspects are /tmp and /var/tmp). The web server process can write there, spawn a new proces
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by reidrac 14y ago
It really doesn't matter, its permissions are 0664 and the uid/guid are 0/0 (root.root). It may protect you in case of a mistake, your editor should warn you that the file is read-only. I don't like the post, it's too complicated for small
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by reidrac 14y ago
I haven't checked YibiKey myself, but it is been supported by Fedora for some time now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Yubikeys_with_Fedora According to Fedora wiki they're used to create OTPs (one time passwords), but still... I do
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by reidrac 14y ago
This reminds me to RSA SecurID: "In a 21 March 2011 email to customers, RSA essentially admitted that the information stolen from their internal network could allow an attacker to compromise a SecurID-protected system without having physica
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by reidrac 14y ago
You could argue the same about Linux. I installed my first distro back in 1998. I wasn't forced to buy a PC with Linux installed in order to start using it, and it was easier than it is today to install any OS in your mobile phone. How ma
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by reidrac 14y ago
> Not the software vendor, it is Apple who does not allow all but Apple's own machines to run Mac OS. I'm confused here. I thought Apple is Mac OS' vendor. So, yes... as I said it's because Apple. If the OS vendor wants it to be run on
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by reidrac 14y ago
Well, if you can't install Mac OS on a PC is because the software vendor doesn't want you to do so. But get any PC and you can install several OSes without being too picky on the hardware. It's accepted that the hardware and the software ar
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by reidrac 14y ago
I think you're missing one point. The PC market is open to OS developers and users, there's a well known spec and the user can install any OS he wants, but that's not possible (with some minor exceptions, and you may depend on Android) in t
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by reidrac 14y ago
Well, archive.org has a version of the "about" page from Oct 2011 that reads almost the same. According to the Wikipedia the Tizen project was created back in Sep 2011 (renamed from LiMO, that was founded in 2007 and had released several ve
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by reidrac 14y ago
Cinnamon is not installed by default (it is based on Gnome 3 that it is the default ), you need to run: yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop" Check the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_N...
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by reidrac 14y ago
I think you can just dd the CD ISO into the USB. That's what I do, and it's supported: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installat... I'm sure you can find the same info for Ubuntu.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Fedora 18 includes Cinnamon: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ I think it is a very good option if you don't like Gnome 3 but want to benefit from all the new stuff (ie. GTK+ 3) with a more traditional desktop interface.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yes, that's true. Most people misunderstand the license, being my favourite: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos... EDIT: just in case... "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a c
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by reidrac 14y ago
I'm honestly surprised that Charles Arthur's article is being referenced in so many places without taking into account that Arthur is well known for being an Apple fan (there are several examples in the tech section of the Guardian; ie. the
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by reidrac 14y ago
That's a good list! When I start a side project I tend to forget that after it's "done" I have to maintain it. In fact I've been delaying the inevitable and I should kill a couple of them ASAP (hey, that's a good new year's resolution!). My
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by reidrac 14y ago
This is Canonical we're talking about, not Ubuntu. I've found myself forgetting that there are hundreds of volunteers behind Ubuntu, it's not just Canonical and their "product" decisions.
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by reidrac 14y ago
The whole point of an anonymous donation is that is anonymous. I agree that it is a corporate user, and it's possible that using FreeBSD is a strategic advantage they don't want to disclose. Or is just that they don't want the PR part of it
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by reidrac 14y ago
I've never had that problem until I bought my current laptop about 2 years ago. Gnome 3 seems to make things worse because of the 3D effects (switching between vim and Firefox seems enough to turn the fan on). I'm Ardour user and almost in
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by reidrac 14y ago
I also follow: - Planet Python: http://planet.python.org/ - Planet Django: http://www.planetdjango.org/ The following are interesting if you're user of the Linux distribution and sometimes overlap with other planets (ie. Gnome): - Plane
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by reidrac 14y ago
"Google needs to provide a box for the user to upload the mail servers public certificate." This looks like a brilliant idea. In that way the self-signed cert gets verified without the hassle of getting CA signed certificate that it's not a
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by reidrac 14y ago
Your "curl roots.cx/get | sh" installation method is not as easy as it seems because it requires node.js but current text seems to imply that only a Linux or Mac system is requited :) May be it's just me being stupid, but... Besides it didn
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by reidrac 14y ago
Besides the "Mono wave" on Gnome seems gone. Now there are some guys pushing Vala, and it reminds me the time when Mono was the future of Gnome. https://live.gnome.org/Vala Several Gnome applications have been rewritten in Vala and, havin
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by reidrac 14y ago
It's Red Hat that it's not including stuff in RHEL, not that CentOS is slow tracking features. So you get the same stuff with Scientific Linux (mostly, both SL and CentOS package some extra bits, but overall is RHEL). It's API/ABI stability
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by reidrac 14y ago
Canonical isn't Ubuntu either, they just happen to own the brand, but not the community.

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