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by webreac 12y ago
That is the usual commercial bullshit, but when you have a recent computer bought with windows 7 that can not upgrade to windows 8, you understand your pain.
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by webreac 12y ago
I have finished my studies in 1993. I have seen all the innovation between 1982 and 1990 (Commodore, Amstrad, Oric, ZX, Turbo Pascal, ...) and how Bill Gates has killed software I was using (Stacker, dr dos, gem, ...). I think he has contri
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by webreac 12y ago
I have contributed to a git project on bitbucket where the process was well explained (enough for a git beginner): https://bitbucket.org/LukasKnuth/backslide/src/5313b2c63a3da... Bitbucket is often slower tha
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by webreac 12y ago
One day, MSFT will become a bad long-term investment. Selling regurlarly is a good way to disengage without triggering any panic among shareholders. I do not like the man, but Bill Gates has always been very clever for business. BTW, I wish
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by webreac 13y ago
to be clear (I am not english). Ratelimit means drop some logs. Lennart Poettering is commplaining because he wants the kernel to be happy with him flooding the kernel with logs. When I debug software, I do not want to lose logs and I do no
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by webreac 13y ago
wayland is less negative about network transparency than mir. I am ALWAYS using network transparency (none of my X clients are running localy). When I am over "slow" network (for example to provide support to Portugal from France)
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by webreac 13y ago
Not exactly the same approach. The separation of power means that politic shall not use this spying for their own interest.
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by webreac 13y ago
That is commpletely my point. I think there is more resistence for word, excel, outlook, powerpoint than for windows.
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by webreac 13y ago
fast typists are more regular. This should create patterns easier to recognise.
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by webreac 13y ago
I think the main difficulty in migration from windows XP to linux is leaving word, excel, outlook, ie and powerpoint. If users have already migrated to open alternatives (libre office, ...), the OS switch is almost transparent.
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by webreac 13y ago
Does anyone know if all the security issues that have given bad reputation to java are fixed in java 8 ? Is it safe again to develop java applets ?
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by webreac 13y ago
whois exelion.net is your friend.
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by webreac 13y ago
We do not have the full story. Maybe 36M$ is very cheap for these 900 patents and IBM was very kind. We will probably not know before many years.
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by webreac 13y ago
The minor cuts and bruises is not the strong point of the French system. The solidarity principle applies mainly for serious diseases, like the example of the article. I think US system is superior for tooth care.
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by webreac 13y ago
I administer my system with apt-get, ... But when I develop for an old release of redhat, I need to compile some packages to have a couple of recent libraries.
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by webreac 13y ago
yes ! There is a "goto considered harmful", but utf-16 is a lot more harmful.
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by webreac 13y ago
photoshop (I had never the time to learn gimp and I have only one life) powerpoint viewer Some small programs I have developped on windows years ago
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by webreac 13y ago
I have ideas about a new language since I finished school in 1993. I had many ideas, some of them got implemented in java. Recently, I discovered scala. All my vague ideas are in scala. The only complaint I have against scala is the slownes
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by webreac 13y ago
Have you heard about the difference between the English adversarial system and the inquisitorial system ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
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by webreac 13y ago
That's exactly what I did. My fixed code is smaller than the original code and fast enough to go to level 1. It is in perl (I am not fluent in ruby).
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by webreac 13y ago
I fully agree with you. Unity's dock is really what makes me hate unity. For me, gnome is the best desktop, but my problem is that I want to have a mainstream distribution to avoid having to debug my linux installation. ubuntu-gnome se
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by webreac 13y ago
It seems it is the first device to really deserve the term "artificial heart". Before, it was blood pump.
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by webreac 13y ago
Terrorism and paedophilia are the usual scapegoats to justify unacceptable policies.
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by webreac 13y ago
I am always surprised to see that the stance toward Monsanto is so different in US than in France. In France, we have quite often TV documentaries about ecology and monsanto. Almost everybody in France associates Monsanto with devil.
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by webreac 13y ago
My company (in fact client company) is using bluecoat filter. This is insane crap that block randomly many sites. Hopefully, the company does not block ssh. Bluecoat filter is so much annoying that I have installed a proxy on my home comput
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by webreac 13y ago
I love this distro, but I do not have the competencies to help ;-(
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by webreac 13y ago
Sun, ... I can not find any other compagny that have produced repeatedly software that did not suck (NFS, NIS, SunOS, SunWindows, Java).
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by webreac 13y ago
It is not easy, but should be possible. Your best friend will be boot repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair After a very long sequence of strange incantations, my laptop was fully ok.
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by webreac 13y ago
"I can't rotate text inside a table". My memory is perhaps wrong, but I thought it was possible earlier in openoffice than in word. For information, in the menu "Paragraph style", you have a tab "Position"
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by webreac 13y ago
The UTF-8 hack is beautifull. All the problem of corruption range come from standardization commities. The only purpose of corruption range is to not admit that UCS2 and UTF16 were very bad ideas that should be killed.

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