> Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it. and >To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other things
He started working on it 30 years ago so it must be available somewhere. Where can I get the GNU kernel? What hardware does it run on?
Verbally abusing someone indicates a lack of verbal skills in the sense that the abuser can't express yourself properly. It also shows a lack of respect for other people.
It''s great conference - I've driven up from Seattle a couple times. In addition to Linux talks there are talks about languages and projects people are doing on Linux. One year I went to a talk by a guy who was writing a book on early computers (EDVAC I think)
About twenty years ago people were writing malware mostly because they could. I was working on a well known (at the time) product and one day someone joked that we write a virus that targeted our main competitor's product. This led to a serious discussion of what could happen if a team like ours of about 25 experienced professional programmers started writing viruses. It was not a pretty picture.
We now live in this world with Stuxnet/Flame/etc. It is even scarier now than it was tthen.
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Why does someone who won't give a username get to the front page?
Watch the WWDC sessions on power management in iOS and Mac OS X. You'll get an idea of how much work Apple put into this over the last decade or so.
-jcr
Math is hard.
-Barbie
The nastiest project I ever took over was written in Perl by ten diferent programmers eah using diferent features of Perl
Linus always says Linux is perfect. Linus can be wrong.
I had the source code to Adventure The Colossal Cave in 1981. There were already several versions floating around.
> Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it.
and
>To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other things
He started working on it 30 years ago so it must be available somewhere. Where can I get the GNU kernel? What hardware does it run on?
According to loopinsight.com Apple sold over 50 million iPads in the time it took Microsoft to sell 1.7 million Surface tablets.
The US and China fought against each other in Korea circa 1951.
Start time has been slow for me on OS X
Verbally abusing someone indicates a lack of verbal skills in the sense that the abuser can't express yourself properly. It also shows a lack of respect for other people.
Cooking is not an option if you can't afford to live in a place with a kitchen.
This is an excellent explanation and defense of the Fifth Amendment:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di8z7NC5sgik&ei=ti2yUZqsO8n2iQKo94DgBg&usg=AFQjCNEU_l3XnSCN0EexWxjjoYDWb8Spow&sig2=AcTjHFoacv48_7d7GhInUw&bvm=bv.47534661,d.cGE
OP writes:
" I install system updates almost daily"
Seems to me.that any OS requiring multiple updates per week is a fail.
*DUCKS*
" the government claimed that there were eight other outstanding indictments against me from jurisdictions scattered throughout the country"
How can they claim this without giving the person a list?
Android is better than iOS because it's open. Android is better than iOS because it has more malware.
Put your phone in an aluminum foil pouch. (See Faraday cage) Take it out to check messages/make calls.
The Supreme Court that says you can't sue if you can't prove you've been spied on and and FISA says you can't find out.
In the new iMacs.
Population is over 80,000.
It''s great conference - I've driven up from Seattle a couple times. In addition to Linux talks there are talks about languages and projects people are doing on Linux. One year I went to a talk by a guy who was writing a book on early computers (EDVAC I think)
About twenty years ago people were writing malware mostly because they could. I was working on a well known (at the time) product and one day someone joked that we write a virus that targeted our main competitor's product. This led to a serious discussion of what could happen if a team like ours of about 25 experienced professional programmers started writing viruses. It was not a pretty picture.
We now live in this world with Stuxnet/Flame/etc. It is even scarier now than it was tthen.
If you've read one Stallman interview you've read them all.
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... with new and better bugs? Just what I always wanted - not.
Stop moaning about the Government and:
Close Facebook and Twitter accounts
Start using PGP (and, if necessary, Tor)
Boeing did this 6 years ago.