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by tobiasu 13y ago
The n in strncpy describes to what size the destination buffer (not string) should be padded with '\0'. This is useful for copying a string into a fixed size buffer that is sent over the network, to give an example. It's not
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Yes seriously. The US and EU are the reason why Russia sees the need to defends its western borders. This conflict is as much about internal politics in Ukraine as it is about geopolitical failures. If the EU members would cling less to the
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by tobiasu 13y ago
What is the point of life? Before you declare others selfish, maybe start at your own front door.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
I find the assertion that the general public will curate high quality content pretty amusing. One only needs to look at the front page of reddit or youtube to see what kind of an intellectual world we live in.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
The author ( https://twitter.com/marisahtaylor ) looks as American as it gets. Your smoke screen in the form of Quatar criticism is pathetic. Look! The leader of the free world is better than North Korea. Everyone should shut
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Grants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Honors_and_awa... It's said he has some serious cash in the bank. Given his eccentric but modest lifestyle, I doubt he'll ever have financial problems.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
OpenBSD has more expenses than just an electricity bill.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
I've written some stuff about that in the other thread you got linked to, but I would like to add something: A single rack costs $1900/month in Calgary, and has insufficient power (15A) for dense packing. So a commercial rack alre
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by tobiasu 13y ago
If you follow this link, you will find a whole sub-culture whose existance must've been the driving motivation behind the invention of the flame thrower.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
I know nothing about the last one, but the two others I imagine lots of people can do without... This for-profit free-content model also ruins a lot of paid business models, which might otherwise be successful. We get rid of the overhead of
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by tobiasu 13y ago
JavaScript, holds PDFs hostage, adds zero value (my browser can display PDFs just fine, thank you very much), operates a business based on copyright violation.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
I don't think so. The foundation probably doesn't have anyone anywhere in Asia with a bank account that can receive Paypal donations. The idea is to save transaction costs, not limit donations to certain parts of the world.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
You appear not to realise that SGI hardware contains MIPS CPUs. A large amount of code is shared between these platforms: http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html http://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html http:/&#x2F
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Yes, AC is required. Machines need to be shut down whenever it fails.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
This discussion comes up every time only because some people seem to think OS development is like racking new x86 servers running RHEL. Many of the machines do not have LOM. They have hardware failures instead. They hang because they get tr
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Theo has a german bank account right here: http://www.openbsd.org/bank-donation.html
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Because discussions are deadly dull when everyone agrees.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Implementing Erlang on bare metal would be a good idea for an OS class, writing code in it, not so much.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
The command preceding this outburst was: $ sudo braindump bachback.core|tail ;-)
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by tobiasu 13y ago
glibc has a fork/flavour called eglibc because Ulrich consistently refused to integrate work that wasn't relevant to his big iron Red Hat server world. For example he's "famous" for refusing to patch ldd to work wit
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Because the argument why they are "stupid" is missing entirely. Much of the second paragraph was edited in later.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
If the world wrote perfect code, nobody would have ever needed to replace strcpy. Water is wet. Yet somehow, even you admit that they have some use because "almost no value" is infinitely more value than "no value". The
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by tobiasu 13y ago
strl* fail just like any other C function in libc. They return, like snprintf(), the total length of the string and let the programmer deal with it. strlcpy(buf, s, sizeof(buf)) >= sizeof(buf) Rocket science. Ulrichs reputation is well d
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by tobiasu 13y ago
This is quite common when working on unshielded electronics. Standing up from a chair, depending on clothes and chair fabric, generates a huge amount of static. Even just walking past can be enough. Proper hardware development labs have ant
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Can extremetech please be added to the list of websites blocked by default on HN. There is never any original content from that site, it's always rehashed crap, littered with buzzwords and reeking of the dead corpse of journalistic int
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by tobiasu 13y ago
But it should be.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
It's pretty easy to divide the world in black and white, but rarely helps anyone.
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Something completely lost on tons of nerds seems to be that people genuinely enjoy operating their cars (and motorcycles).
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by tobiasu 13y ago
You can't wait for Canada to put a 100+% tax on gas-powered vehicles? I have bad news for you...
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by tobiasu 13y ago
Instead of wasting money on this sexist crap, build a real dollhouse with your kids from scratch. The process involves the whole family and has interesting parts for any gender.

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