User: oso

Re: Need Clarity

On: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released

"What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux."

Wow. This statement is absolute proof that marketing spin works.

Re: Response

On: Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters

Can't stop the signal Mal

Known defect?

On: The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug

What really intrigues me is that this had been discovered, years earlier, by the Samba folk.
Did the Samba folk not tell the BSD folk of the issue?

Incredibly valuable

On: Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC

Wow, what an incredible leap forward :-).

I do hope Microsoft patents this valuable technology... in order to prevent hordes of idiots from attempting something similarly moronic.

Sigh.

Re:win32 has 1 thing i want pthreads to have

On: Pthreads vs Win32 threads

I agree. Join with timeout would be very nice for proper process cleanup and termination. You can simulate it 98% with timed cond wait, but this isn't atomic and requires complicated upper layer logic.

In other words, it's better or print out "Thread failed to terminate" than to simply hang forever :-)

Re:is anyone taking responsibility?

On: TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus

You could take them to court... if you can show that you have been damaged. In this case, I don't think that you will get far, as there appears to be no way to "get infected" by attaching the device to your computer and using it in a regular fashion.

I suppose that you could purposefully infect your computer by actually launching the virus files... but I'm sure somewhere along the court process someone will ask you why you executed the program :)

Re:Why EXT4 ?

On: EXT4 Is Coming

Holy It's GA So It Must Be Proven Batman!

ZFS proven? Give me a break.