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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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That mirroring thing is really weird. I remember having extended desktops on the G5 iMacs and I assume no meaningful features were droppped (perhaps HD playback on external monitors). As for software …
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I want both versions to light up in the dark.
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Control in the Place God Intended. Now I want a version with "BELL" written on top of the G key.
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Don't all iMacs support a second display? Can't you daisy-chain two (or more) external drives in the FW800 port? I do that with FW400 on a PPC iMac. Doesn't OSX support RAID? I am quite sure the serve…
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Keep in mind you don't "remove the monitor" as the computer is inside it. But you can remove the keyboard/trackpad...
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Wouldn't PCI-e require a x86 processor or, at least, x86 emulation for initialization routines? I have a couple PPC Macs and many PCI boards (mostly video) are Mac or PC-specific.
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Just keep in mind that the other major GUI available when 7 launched was Windows 3.0. It has multitasking, virtual memory and peer-to-peer networking. Quite impressive for the time.
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You just have to deal with it. People _will_ get offended. Being several (quite a lot of) orders of magnitude less influential than TC (and you), I try hard not to deal with it. I will invariably offe…
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I only hope part #2 addresses the scalability problems #1 has before the site becomes a hit... ;-)
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Don't forget time dilation. If you move one end of the wormhole through space, both ends will be off in time too. It's more noticeable if you move it in relativistic speeds, but anything very fast sho…
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You can always teleport stuff through a wormhole when the two ends are 20 years apartm, duh. We have to explain everything here ;-)
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Well... I love my Aspire One. With a 160 GB hard-disk, 1.5 gigs of RAM and Ubuntu 8.10 it's a remarkably capable workstation that can hide in my bag in a way nobody would guess I am carrying a compute…
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I really don't think we need TC-like original content. That wouldn't be a step in the right direction.
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I cannot prove Windows had BSD code in its TCP stack as I never had access to its source code, but I never implied it must have been so _because_ ftp.exe has BSD code inside it. There seem to be numer…
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"GPL 3 which now includes hardware restrictions"?! WTF?! GPL3 _FORBIDS_ hardware restrictions! It protects _YOUR_ right to use _YOUR STUFF_ the way _YOU_ want. How that could possibly be construed as …
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I wouldn't call the GPL restrictive at all. It's restrictive in the sense that "you are forbidden to be a bad person". I can live with that.
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When exactly did I say all BSD-licensed software have small inferior communities? do I write so poorly people have trouble parsing my posts?
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As I pointed out myself (and apparently you never got that far down my post) it is possible to form vibrant communities around BSD-licensed products. I even mentioned Apache as one of them. My point w…
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Windows had BSD code in their TCP stack for a couple releases of NT. There is still some BSD code in it and you can see the authorship notice if you do a strings on FTP.EXE; I think Windows Vista got …
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"Because most web site designers assume 96DPI and set font sizes in pixels?" It's sad, but I had to lecture a web designer where I work. It's amazing how he insisted that was the only way and how ever…
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As much as the BSD developers should blame themselves, AT&T and Linus, I think most of BSD's lack of mindshare stems from the BSD license itself. The BSD license encourages (or, at the very least,…
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It's never really too early to think about performance. All you have to do is try not to act early on that. A lot of architecture ideas we have (sane URLs, caching servers etc) are rooted in performan…
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It will rot until someone needs it. Isn't this a beautiful form of preserving investment and pooling resources across barriers of time?
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"Business freedoms lead to human rights and general well-being" Business freedoms are also a consequence of other rights, like the right to property. They are nice, but not required.
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Meybe they were running it in a MacPro...
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Just imagine what would happen if any central bank (it doesn't even need to be the fed) issues a bulletin with "catastrophe" in it...
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At least for now, Linux can feel comfortable its users are a whole lot smarter than their average Windows counterparts... Maybe in Windows its common behavior to download a program that says installs …
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I would prefer something like Rails is a domain-specific language based on Ruby for building web applications. Django is a framework you can use to build web applications with Python.
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I am quite sure Python allows monkey patching. It looks ugly because, perhaps, it's better that way.
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Grumbling is one of the few ways grumblers can make the people who can effect change take some action. Be patient. Action will come.