reidrac

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1. 691.▲
   by reidrac 14y ago

   So I need to either start hacking the shell in Javascript or wait until someone else hacks it for me. If that's not user hostile, I'm afraid we have a different idea of what UX is. Besides that some of these add-ons cover functionality that
2. 692.▲
   by reidrac 14y ago

   All of them. cron sends a mail if: a) there's output (stdout or stderr) or b) the command exit code isn't 0. So I really don't understand the post when it says "Now when your cron job fails, you will never know about it.". Well, if you scri
3. 693.▲
   by reidrac 14y ago

   As I said, that means there is something definitely wrong in their security policies. That should not happen. Ever.
4. 694.▲
   by reidrac 14y ago

   If their applications break because of an upgrade of IE (or even if the apps doesn't work with a different browser/operating system), I'm not sure their problem is with security. It's true that after the attackers got the entry point, there
5. 695.▲
   by reidrac 15y ago

   Thanks for your answer! It's probably a country specific thing, but I looks like you're usually allowed to have some income that is tax free (up to a limit; ie UK income tax personal allowance is £8,105 for 2012 - as long as you total incom
6. 696.▲
   by reidrac 15y ago

   I guess you're employed and you're looking for some extra money. I have a boring question I'm afraid: what about taxes? How does it work in Austria?
7. 697.▲
   by reidrac 15y ago

   Seems to be related to the WebGL support. Here Chromium 17.0.963.79 doesn't work, but Firefox 12.0 works (actually, I think it's the first time ever a fancy WebGL thing works here). It's not playable though. I guess my graphic card (or the
8. 698.▲
   by reidrac 15y ago

   That's a good argumentation (I don't fully agree with 1, it may ruin someone's good mood anyway). I got distracted by the way he wrote the post. Edit: typo
9. 699.▲
   by reidrac 15y ago

   Besides the blog content license is CC BY-NC-SA. That's copyleft, isn't it? Interesting choice for a person with a strong opinion against the GPL.
10. 700.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I've always been a strong advocate of Red Hat support, and it never ceases to amaze me how many free software (as in freedom, and as in gratis) that I use in my day to day exists thanks to Red Hat. That said, "self-support subscription" per
11. 701.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    MinGW is awesome: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS It's not Cygwin "MinGW, being Minimalist, does not, and never will, attempt to provide a POSIX runtime environment for POSIX application deployment on MS-Windows. If you want POSIX applicat
12. 702.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Yep, what I was trying to say is that the poll is about what is your primary operative system and not about the OS family. The classification is arbitrary, definitely. I'm not using "Linux" but Ubuntu, in the same way Chrome OS is a valid a
13. 703.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Then I guess Chrome OS is a Unix-like too. So it would be Unix-like or Windows. Eh, and other. EDIT: I don't agree with your classification. Sorry, Monday morning before my first coffee.
14. 704.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I always wondered if that popularity is tied to Apple devices. I mean... are there projects using Obj-C out of an Apple context? Other sources: http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/languages
15. 705.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Actually that's my configuration of choice, being Spanish, I use a UK keyboard + AltGr and it's perfect. I find the UK layout more comfortable for programming, and still can type Spanish when needed.
16. 706.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    It looks like PolicyKit is a little bit unknown, although all major distributions have been using it for a while. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit The Wikipedia page works very well as TL;DR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
17. 707.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I think he made a point saying that lsb_release needs to spawn a process to get the result, while /etc/os-release it's just opening a simple text file and parsing it.
18. 708.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Oh, thanks. I was starting to feel weird because nobody was saying anything about the lack of tests. HN may or may not work as a code review platform, but I don't think I would use myself a 3rd party software that doesn't provide tests.
19. 709.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    There are other providers that are definitely cheaper. Specially thanks to OpenStack Object Storage you can find different services with the same API, so you have an open door to leave any time. ie. my employer offers a OS based service (sl
20. 710.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Yes, please. RSS feed for public posts would be awesome.
21. 711.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I always thought it was related to MSDOS compatibility. If I recall correctly cli, sti, in, out, ... are privileged operations in WinNT, but not in Win95. Why? Because these instructions can't work in virtual-8086 mode and need to be handle
22. 712.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    PyGTK will be maintained for a long time, and right now PyGObject it's not well supported in all distributions (and chances are that only the newest releases have a working version of PyGObject because it's been in heavy development for a l
23. 713.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I got all questions right, although I was not confident (so sizeof(int)is 4).
24. 714.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I don't think so. I looks like they plan to add some "enterprise" functionalities that will be available using a privative license.
25. 715.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    You're right, I shouldn't have copied the typo! :)
26. 716.▲
    100,000,000 million places of π in just under 10 minutes (with Python)(craig-wood.com)

    41 points by reidrac 15y ago|10 comments
27. 717.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    > [...] and the HIB is one of the best points of reference Linux gamers have to demonstrate that they're willing to pay for commercial games in order to encourage further development. And that's why I was happy to contribute, although I
28. 718.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    No docs at all; some of the games refused to start and after some research playing with ldd and some guessing I found I had to install 32bits libraries (the 64bits version -when available- didn't work either, I don't remember why). After th
29. 719.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    Besides... "All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux." Not completely true in my experience (Fedora 64bits) with previous bundle. I guess Linux support it's less important, and 3D makes everything more complicated :(
30. 720.▲
    by reidrac 15y ago

    I think ['a', 'a', 'ab'] is also valid, isn't it? So ['aa', 'ab'] would be one of the correct answers. (of course ['a', 'a', 'a'] it's not because the 'b' is not a valid word and it's not in the solutions)