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  1. Re:Commodore engineers on Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No that was not why they died. The whole management was corrupt and Irving Gould used the company as his personal check book.

  2. well it only have to be used once per boot and who sais that this machine has ever been turned off?

  3. There is no such thing as a no-go or no-fly zone in Sweden. The police outguns any criminal by several orders of magnitude and not a single cop killer have ever escaped justice (not to mention that it was 17 years since the last police man where killed).

  4. Re:elites pimping nostalgia on Probe Of Leaked US NSA Hacking Tools Examines Operative's Mistake (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps by doing say industrial espionage against say the US?

  5. Re:Makes more sense on Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    And a data cap would solve that exactly how?

  6. Re:The other side of the coin on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    OMG, didn't see that one before :-D

  7. Re:The better to track you with on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So now Samsung can sue Apple for violating their design patents!

  8. Re:The other side of the coin on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, his final destination was not to Russia so the only reason that he ended up trapped in Russia was due to the American government since they revoked his password when he was in transit at the airport. And then they have the nerve to claim that he did it because of the Russians...

  9. Well you have to understand that the EU is blamed for all possible strange things by the European politicians so that might be why you as an outsider have a better view of EU than most of the people in it. I.e when national politicians wants to push some legislation that there is public outcry for they always say that they "have to do it due to EU" and for some reason people swallow this most of the time.

    Just look at the Brexit situation, there the anti EU people somehow managed to convince Brittons that the a country the political and economical size of UK would have no say in any EU decisions and they all lived like slaves under Germany when the real truth is that there was probably not a single EU decision ever made that wasn't OK:ed by the UK government. And then there exists these millions of EU myths that even otherwise sane news media have published as being true, for example the ones brought up on the BBC QI show: http://qi.com/infocloud/the-eu

  10. Re:Good, Bad And Ugly on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    So if the threats are well known by organisations with power like the GCHQ, why don't they instead do something about them? Yes the operate from within other countries but since when have that stopped the likes of GCHQ?

  11. Re: Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds more that lousy continuity was rampant among the screen writers in the 60ths.

  12. Re:Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the remastered versions of TOS before you call their recording technology grainy texture. TNG however was shot on video so there the source material is lacking in quality but not for TOS which was shot on film.

  13. Re: Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    No he traded commodities, in TOS he traded his slave girls for lithium crystals, not money.

  14. Re:Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that you are thinking about Gandalf

  15. Re:How do you generate different keys? on Million More Devices Sharing Known Private Keys For HTTPS, SSH Admin (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As others have mentioned if the OpenSSH daemon notices that there are no host keys it will automatically generate them when it's started so all you have to do really is to make sure that you do a

    rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*

    Before you create the image that you flash, and if you upgrade your embedded systems by flashing your image then you have to either move these keys to a location where they are not overwritten (i.e deleted) by your upgrade image or move them out before upgrade and then move them back after otherwise you might accidentally remove them on each upgrade and thus creating new keys on each upgrade.

  16. Re:Once again! on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe that where the case in the US, over here in Europe (and the Nordics in particular) the Volvo 240 sold like crazy.

  17. Re:The real issue is... on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Better option is to buy from a vendor that already does that. Let the idiots who wants Windows Vista to buy that laptop from Sony and just make fun of them, no need to go all SJW.

  18. Re:Is this software worth money? on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
  19. Registered as in your purchase being possible caught on camera in the store where you bought it, and somewhere in a database there will be an entry that this particular gift card where sold from store X at time Y so that backtracking can be possible. Next time you buy a gift card from another or the same store and this also gets registered and soon they would be able to pin point your possible location. Of course you could get a homeless person to buy it for you and make sure that you buy it in another state and so on but that is a whole other scenario than the parents "buy gift card, insert money from gift card".

  20. This is the original announcement back when the EGC fork was created. As you can clearly see the fork was not done in anger. If Oracle took all the pathes from LibreOffice and included it back into OpenOffice proper then exactly no one would be upset or angry, in fact since Apache is currently discussing if they should drop OO completely there have been some signs of interest from the LO camp to get hold of the OO trademark.

    A bunch of us (including Fortran, Linux, Intel and RTEMS hackers) have
    decided to start a more experimental development project, just like
    Cygnus and the FSF started the gcc2 project about 6 years ago. Only
    this time the net community with which we are working is larger! We
    are calling this project 'egcs' (pronounced 'eggs').

    Why are we doing this? It's become increasingly clear in the course
    of hacking events that the FSF's needs for gcc2 are at odds with the
    objectives of many in the community who have done lots of hacking and
    improvement over the years. GCC is part of the FSF's publicity for the
    GNU project, as well as being the GNU system's compiler, so stability
    is paramount for them. On the other hand, Cygnus, the Linux folks,
    the pgcc folks, the Fortran folks and many others have done
    development work which has not yet gone into the GCC2 tree despite
    years of efforts to make it possible.

    This situation has resulted in a lot of strong words on the gcc2
    mailing list which really is a shame since at the heart we all want
    the same thing: the continued success of gcc, the FSF, and Free
    Software in general. Apart from ill will, this is leading to great
    divergence which is increasingly making it harder for us all to work
    together -- It is almost as if we each had a proprietary compiler!
    Thus we are merging our efforts, building something that won't damage
    the stability of gcc2, so that we can have the best of both worlds.

    As you can see from the list below, we represent a diverse collection
    of streams of GCC development. These forks are painful and waste
    time; we are bringing our efforts together to simplify the development
    of new features. We expect that the gcc2 and egcs communities will
    continue to overlap to a great extent, since they're both working on
    GCC and both working on Free Software. All code will continue to be
    assigned to the FSF exactly as before and will be passed on to the
    gcc2 maintainers for ultimate inclusion into the gcc2 tree.

    Because the two projects have different objectives, there will be
    different sets of maintainers. Provisionally we have agreed that Jim
    Wilson is to act as the egcs maintainer and Jason Merrill as the
    maintainer of the egcs C++ front end. Craig Burley will continue to
    maintain the Fortran front end code in both efforts.

    What new features will be coming up soon? There is such a backlog of
    tested, un-merged-in features that we have been able to pick a useful
    initial set:

    New alias analysis support from John F. Carr.
    g77 (with some performance patches).
    A C++ repository for G++.
    A new instruction scheduler from IBM Haifa.
    A regmove pass (2-address machine optimizations that in future
    will help with compilation for the x86 and for now
    will help with some RISC machines).

    This will use the development snapshot of 3 August 97 as its base --
    in other words we're not starting from the 18 month old gcc-2.7
    release, but from a recent development snapshot with all the last 18
    months' improvements, including major work on G++.

    We plan an initial release for the end of August. The second release
    will include some subset of the following:
    global cse and partial redundancy elimination.
    live range splitting.
    More features of IBM Haifa's instruction scheduling,
    including software pipelining, and branch scheduling.
    sibling call opts.
    various new embedded targets.
    Further work on regmove.
    The egcs mailing list at cygnus.com will be used to discuss and
    prioritize these features.

  21. And where did egcs come from? There could be a hint in the actual name of the project, "Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System". It was a fork of GCC and the people who created is saw it as GCC:

    We expect that the gcc2 and egcs communities will continue to overlap to a great extent, since they're both working on GCC and both working on Free Software. All code will continue to be assigned to the FSF exactly as before and will be passed on to the gcc2 maintainers for ultimate inclusion into the gcc2 tree.

  22. Your purchase of the gift credit card is registered somewhere and the "load funds from the gift card to bc wallet" transaction is registered and now there is a permanent link from your gift credit card purchase and your hash key in your bc wallet.

  23. Re:25 years, still garbage for the mainstream on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course not but do check the parent post that started this all. The "IT stuff" was a reference to fix things as the parent post thought that "Linux will NEVER be taken seriously by anyone other than you bunch of greasy nerds if you need to use the Terminal all the time whenever the slightest issue come up". It was never a point in trying to say that web surfing, photo editing and so on should be done via the terminal.

  24. Re:User friendly on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never understood the "Visual Studio blows every other IDE out the water", is this related to projects that use C++, Net and other forms of object oriented programming languages where you have tons of classes, members and files? Or for visual type of programming where you design GUI:s by drag and drop?

    Because for me (back when I did code for Windows), Visual Studio 6.0 was the last version that I could comfortable use, but then I code in C so that might explain why I don't see the benefits of VS.

  25. Re:User friendly on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that it says "May stop" and not "Does Stop". This all played out in 1997/1998 so obviously that person didn't experience this particular problem. Win98 (but it could be Windows Millenium actually) however could not survive 24 hours running our application (stock trading terminal) without completely freezing regardless of patch level. Thinking about it some more I actually think that it was WindowsME and not 98.