On this topic, does anyone know how to set up something like an unRAID cache drive using only FOSS tools? bcache is the closest thing I've seen and it's not really the same thing either.
That's a totally valid argument to make from his voting history, but he did advertise himself as a liberal during his campaign (even if he never really was one).
CSHARP123 is another Microsoft shill. But he's not a front-line guy, rather more of a support guy, submitting pro-MS / anti-competition stories and doing "reputation management" in the firehose.
Stallman is possibly the most prescient (not best by a long shot, but most prescient) sci-fi writer ever. Everyone calls him a nut and then a couple decades later...he was totally, 100% right. Yeah it's not rocket science and he only writes near-future stuff, but still, he has a nearly flawless record.
Yeah buncha Chicken Littles. After all their talk of doom and gloom about locked-down mobile devices, you can still buy open phones and tablets today. Not like their crazy cyberpunk dystopia where only a few devices could even be hacked to allow an open OS to be installed.
Agreed, little more than shifting blame to the OEMs.
They'll be free to maintain exclusivity agreements with MS which may require bootloader locking, or they can not sell any Windows PCs. If Klupendorf Computers in Switzerland is the last company on earth selling unlocked PCs at Alienware prices, well, tough luck, that's capitalism.
I warned you fucking Apple fanboys this would happen. Thanks a lot, douchebags.
I saw it as "We're going to leave it up to the OEMs on what to do, just as we leave the choice of what OSes they sell up to them right now. They'll be completely free to choose whether to maintain exclusivity agreements with us which may require UEFI bootloader signing. See, it's not us, it's the OEMs. ^_^ "
I have to wonder if calling everyone "script kiddies" is part of the natural progression from the computing experience becoming more abstracted from the hardware. Did they call people "keyboard kiddies" when you didn't have to program a computer with switches or punch cards? Did they call people "compiler kiddies" when they didn't have to write in assembly and had no idea how assembly worked? Did the old guys scoff when noobs could buy pre-built computers off a shelf and had no idea how they worked at the circuit level? Let's say for the sake of argument that the next step computers were going to take was to be as easy to set up as iPads. Not closed in any way, just running something like a very polished pre-Karmic Ubuntu that Just Works with an ease never seen before. Would we mock them too for not knowing how to slog through wifi adapter problems and write sleep scripts to reset all their hardware after suspend?
I think Arduino hate might be basically the same thing too. I wonder if earlier hackers made fun of people who could buy components pre-made from Radio Shack ("shack kiddies?").
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The old computers probably just get sent to a scrap yard in China.
Actually, that makes you wonder what happens when they land there...
On this topic, does anyone know how to set up something like an unRAID cache drive using only FOSS tools? bcache is the closest thing I've seen and it's not really the same thing either.
Don't ask me how I hit the N on the other side of the keyboard -_-
In there a distinct difference between the two?
If they used power-efficient ARM CPUs it could have been a Stampede of Hummingbirds.
Well it has loopholes big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through, but it's a good start.
My First Posting through Fast Reactions experiment is a success!
That's a totally valid argument to make from his voting history, but he did advertise himself as a liberal during his campaign (even if he never really was one).
This was happening at the university I went to back when I was in it.
CSHARP123 is another Microsoft shill. But he's not a front-line guy, rather more of a support guy, submitting pro-MS / anti-competition stories and doing "reputation management" in the firehose.
http://slashdot.org/~CSHARP123
Because you voted with your wallets for curated computing.
Best translation yet.
Stallman is possibly the most prescient (not best by a long shot, but most prescient) sci-fi writer ever. Everyone calls him a nut and then a couple decades later...he was totally, 100% right. Yeah it's not rocket science and he only writes near-future stuff, but still, he has a nearly flawless record.
Yeah buncha Chicken Littles. After all their talk of doom and gloom about locked-down mobile devices, you can still buy open phones and tablets today. Not like their crazy cyberpunk dystopia where only a few devices could even be hacked to allow an open OS to be installed.
Agreed, little more than shifting blame to the OEMs.
They'll be free to maintain exclusivity agreements with MS which may require bootloader locking, or they can not sell any Windows PCs. If Klupendorf Computers in Switzerland is the last company on earth selling unlocked PCs at Alienware prices, well, tough luck, that's capitalism.
I warned you fucking Apple fanboys this would happen. Thanks a lot, douchebags.
I saw it as "We're going to leave it up to the OEMs on what to do, just as we leave the choice of what OSes they sell up to them right now. They'll be completely free to choose whether to maintain exclusivity agreements with us which may require UEFI bootloader signing. See, it's not us, it's the OEMs. ^_^ "
Check around the back of any building, there are often outdoor plugs.
Or if you wanna be l33t, smartphone + solar charger = infinite computing. U jelly, plugfags? *trollface*
I have to wonder if calling everyone "script kiddies" is part of the natural progression from the computing experience becoming more abstracted from the hardware. Did they call people "keyboard kiddies" when you didn't have to program a computer with switches or punch cards? Did they call people "compiler kiddies" when they didn't have to write in assembly and had no idea how assembly worked? Did the old guys scoff when noobs could buy pre-built computers off a shelf and had no idea how they worked at the circuit level? Let's say for the sake of argument that the next step computers were going to take was to be as easy to set up as iPads. Not closed in any way, just running something like a very polished pre-Karmic Ubuntu that Just Works with an ease never seen before. Would we mock them too for not knowing how to slog through wifi adapter problems and write sleep scripts to reset all their hardware after suspend?
I think Arduino hate might be basically the same thing too. I wonder if earlier hackers made fun of people who could buy components pre-made from Radio Shack ("shack kiddies?").
You're just making up scary names for things you can buy at Taco Bell.
Not that it makes them any *less* scary...
I don't know how people suffer with on-screen keyboards. I want to be able to type, fast.
I think everyone likes GSM better than CDMA, except the carriers of course.
They did that within sight of a road!? That's the most dangerous thing I've ever heard of being done with a bike.
Yeah that's why Wikileaks' .com domain and US-based hosting was taken down while the .cn stayed up. America, the freest country in the world!
They can do whatever they want...until the US government gets pissed at them.
Yeah I'd be more concerned about being put on a torture taxi.