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by wendroid 17y ago
You think it's bad on BSD, try porting stuff to Plan9!
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by wendroid 17y ago
So wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to un-censor the cinemas and bookshops ?
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by wendroid 17y ago
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html Doesn't say anthing about BOM.
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by wendroid 17y ago
The fallacies are summarized as follows: 1. The network is reliable. ...
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by wendroid 17y ago
> The problem is that most software applications couldn't take advantage of all those cores, even after investing hundreds of millions of dollars in computer science. This is such a tired argument. All these problems have been long solv
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by wendroid 17y ago
pwning Chrome would give you more Kudos than pwning either of the other two. "IE on Windows was owned, yawn"
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by wendroid 17y ago
I'm getting bored of ex-MySQL guys pontificating. Your one-hit-wonder days are over and, tbh., it wasn't even that good a product.
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by wendroid 17y ago
Human experimenters are full of themselves. See recent experiments in self awareness in crows / apes / etc. The vivesectors would have it that it's ok to use animals because they are lower forms of life and yet assert that doesn't affect th
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by wendroid 17y ago
> I still believe that Microsoft lost a great opportunity of having .NET become the universal runtime of the net Phew, I'm sure glad we dodged that bullet. Imagine that !
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by wendroid 17y ago
Everything he has ever done for FOSS is a waste of time. Bonobo and Mono are utterly pointless. It might not be a direct bribe but taking MS' money via Novell and pissing ten years on it is exactly what I expect from a developer of Miguel
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by wendroid 17y ago
Aggh it makes me so mad, these people are either fools or take me for one.
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by wendroid 17y ago
Impressive. You too can have Linux 3s boot time on one of 214 supported motherboards from the likes of Asus, MSI, SuperMicro, Intel and Tyan with Coreboot (GPL) http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
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by wendroid 17y ago
Full employment is a threat, not a promise.
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by wendroid 17y ago
As we already know that physical access = game over so design your systems accordingly. Plan 9 does this by having a central auth server. You lock the it a cupboard and add some armed guards if you need. In fact, booting a Plan9 terminal do
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by wendroid 17y ago
You can read write system memory at addresses that fit in 32bits even when the Kernel has crashed.
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by wendroid 17y ago
Ah, stupid me. I was going by the copyright notices. I was using it before Dec 2009 when I had my concerns. Go Chickenfoot !
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by wendroid 17y ago
over 40 million people have died in car crashes. That license thing doesn't work so well.
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by wendroid 17y ago
I have used it before now. I made it write the URL of the currentp age to a listener than processed it and sent back any js it decided to run (whcih sounds a bit inner platform but I had my reasons). It is a nifty little tool though I have
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by wendroid 17y ago
Epiphany
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by wendroid 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access And the description of how to exploit it http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/hacking_comput... The FireWire version http://www.storm.net.nz/static/files/ab_firewire_rux2k6-fin
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by wendroid 17y ago
Something like Flash but not Flash ?
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by wendroid 17y ago
get a better manual
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by wendroid 17y ago
How about this one from Ars Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/google-keeps...
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by wendroid 17y ago
man dma
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by wendroid 17y ago
Can do you 1 million http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/sandia-co... They use that to model Botnets etc.
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by wendroid 17y ago
It's easy with CSP http://www.usingcsp.com/ Esp. if your language has primitives for it e.g. Erlang, Limbo, Go Or C libs e.g Plan9, libtask
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by wendroid 17y ago
My 1999 book on parallel architectures concluded 4 CPUs is the cut-off for diminishing return speedup on general purpose code. The market has maybe shifted to virtualisation, not anticipated, where the workload is different.
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by wendroid 17y ago
Yeah, those were fun times when they were on 64kbps! I have a "Integrity, we've heard of it" t-shirt :)
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by wendroid 17y ago
"on the" not "off of the"
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by wendroid 17y ago
> Argos said that it "takes the security of its customers’ data extremely seriously The straightness of face or otherwise was not reported

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