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by username42 13y ago
Sometimes, we can be proud to be french ;-) For interoperability purpose, "reverse engineering is a legal practice, and that the distribution of software using a protocol found in this way is not illegal"
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by username42 13y ago
ubuntu-gnome http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/13.10/releas...
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by username42 13y ago
I share your hate of unity, that is why I have switched to ubuntu-gnome. ubuntu-gnome is an official variant of ubuntu (not perfect, but reasonably easy to customized). As a result, it is already available here: http://cdimage.ub
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by username42 13y ago
1 point per upvote
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by username42 13y ago
I have tested voting ring: I have upvoted a friend who has upvoted me also. Result: both of us have lost karma :-<
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by username42 13y ago
That caused me to lose 4 points of karma. Seriously ????
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by username42 13y ago
This was humour.
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by username42 13y ago
I would agree with you, but the netiquette rule is: "whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress"
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by username42 13y ago
"refresh that component". That's the way of thinking in windows where you reinstall random stuff until system works as expected. In Linux, you will need to go through a lot of documentation and forum until you learn enough ab
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by username42 13y ago
Comic Sans is freeware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web Installation is trivial (apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer). I think it is a default package.
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by username42 13y ago
"computer with 178 transistors". What is the minimum number of transistors to be called a computer ?
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by username42 13y ago
how many times have we resolved the missing link ? Damn ! I should shut up, I will lose all my karma.
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by username42 13y ago
The bootloader can compile linux before booting : http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
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by username42 13y ago
Yes, I really think that the article "Programming Without Variables" does not deserve the first page of HN, but I do not have enough karma to mod it down. The title refers to an interesting subject, but the content is almost only
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by username42 13y ago
Please, add comments to explain why you are moding me down so much. I love when Gerald Jay Sussman explains the difference between recursion and iteration ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by username42 13y ago
I do not understand how this can be a recent article. Programming without variables was the hype in the early 90s with languages like graal ( http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-16442-1_6 ). Now, the most re
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by username42 13y ago
My job is "first level support". I have to analyse problems reported by users and often to read source code to find bugs. I have seen a lot of shitty code and a lot of very clean code, but most of the problems come from shitty spe
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by username42 13y ago
Good work, Long life to Ubuntu-Gnome, my favorite desktop since Ubuntu introduced Unity.
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by username42 13y ago
I am not expert, but I have listened to a course where the teacher said that we should use many frameworks. When you develop a project for a client, you select the current best framework and you do not change until you really need to change
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by username42 13y ago
I do not understand how they go from https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Selections where all the example are touchpad oriented (no middle button, just touch and long press) to the conclusion th
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by username42 13y ago
I am curious of your grief against gnome shell. Since Ubuntu has switched to unity, I have lost a lot of time to find an alternative. I am satisfied with Ubuntu-Gnome that I have installed on the computer of my father. I intend to switch al
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by username42 13y ago
I think that Microsoft has first grown to become a "monopoly". this has been done by killing (or buying or copying) concurrency and by providing software that were cheap or trivial to copy. In a second phase, they have been able t
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by username42 13y ago
Have you reported the bug ? Can you provide such an example, or is it FUD ?
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by username42 13y ago
Always the same training story. What is the percentage of microsoft office users who has received a training ? I do not know any. How many trainings have been given when migrating to the latest releases of MS O that are so different than th
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by username42 13y ago
Never had such error. Even in Linux 0.99pl10 (in 1992), network was working fine. I have always used a lot remote access to X servers. If network was broken, Linux would have been unusable.
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by username42 13y ago
Have you heard about Blue Coat filter ? Insane categories with insane definitions. For example http://sitereview.cwfservice.net/catdesc.jsp?catnum=38&catma... the 3 sites listed as example of the category, are not in th
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by username42 13y ago
The syntax of php was inspired by Perl (and C). Perl was inspired by sh/sed/awk.
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by username42 13y ago
Last time I encountered a coupon field, my wife told me that there was a coupon code on the main landing page. Result: I have reread the main landing page, entered the coupon and was happy to spare a couple of bucks.
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by username42 13y ago
Perl has the three argument open that is safe. The issue is well known by perl developers and well explained in the popular free book "Modern Perl".
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by username42 13y ago
I know, but for many people, pinging the remote host is their single idea for network issue analyse.

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