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  1. I can't tell if you're joking. OP is referring to this scene from Scorsese's 1973 "Mean Streets" - not the 1986 movie with Whoopi Goldberg you seem to be referencing.

  2. The Whistle InterJet called... on Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    ...from 18 years ago.

  3. Re:So I have no plan to use AMD processors on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 1

    POWER9 is open.

    What's the least expensive POWER9 system an individual or small business can buy?

  4. Re:Meanwhile at the University of Washington on After 19 Years CMU Discontinues Cyrus IMAP In Favor Of Microsoft Exchange And Gmail (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I hope he's not pine-ing away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. CE / WMI / ETC / other telemetry on Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (microsoft.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Parent poster summarizes things well.

    Debian's PopCon is similar ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/co... )

  6. Comes with no blobs, & Coreboot, right? on Dell's Next Rev for Project Sputnik: Ubuntu 14.04 On XPS 13 Developer Edition (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    ...riightttt?

    Oh, it doesn't. Maybe instead Dell will actually get the Coreboot developers full development details so they can port it. Right? They'll do that?

    Didn't think so.

  7. Re:Has anyone checked on Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go (github.io) · · Score: 1
  8. Does it offload work to the IMAP server yet? on Mutt 1.5.24 Released · · Score: 2

    I've got several Cyrus IMAP hosted mailboxes with tens of thousands of messages in them.

    Last time I tried Mutt it could only do "slurp all mailbox contents to local machine" Can Mutt offload searches to the IMAP server, fetch only 1 page of data at a time (not download all headers) etc yet?

    It'd be nice for there to be competition besides Alpine.

  9. Smarthost out via SMTP.Comcast.net on 465 or 587 on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 2

    You're being blocked because any mail leaving Comcast's IP spaces is expected to come from Comcast's mailservers only.

    Configure your mailserver with a "smarthost" option, have it deliver using Authenticated SMTP (with your Comcast account's username and password hardcoded, yes) over SSL on 465, or if you can't do SSL, use 587.

    Source: Am currently running Postfix on Comcast successfully delivering to Yahoo Mail with no spamfolder problem via this method. (Am using SPF, no DomainKeys yet.)

    More from Comcast on this: http://corporate.comcast.com/c...

  10. Google & ISC have MeasurementLab.NET on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 2

    The Network Diagnostic Test was able to see performance problems on my cablemodem connection that Ookla's speedtests did not.

    http://www.measurementlab.net/...

    Unfortunately, the number of ridiculous hoops you need to go through to let an unsigned Java applet run an arbitrary network I/O makes it much less useful.

  11. Re:Graphics appear to be closed/proprietary. on Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle · · Score: 2

    From the Matchstick SDK download agreement: (abridged)

    4. Restrictions. You agree not to exploit ... content provided to you as a Registered Matchstick Developer, in any unauthorized way ... other than for authorized purposes. Copyright and other intellectual property laws protect ... content provided to you, and you agree to abide by and maintain all notices, license information, and restrictions contained therein. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of any software or software components of the Matchstick software including the Matchstick SDK software.

    "Open Source Hardware" ?

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. — Inigo Montoya

  12. Graphics appear to be closed/proprietary. on Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Rockchip 3066 appears to use ARM's proprietary Mali T-series graphics. No, thanks.

    Quote from the dev lead on the Mali graphics:

    "I really do understand your frustration and I'm sorry that this makes life harder for you and similar developers. We are genuinely not against Open Source, as I hope I've tried to explain. I myself spent a long time working on the Linux kernel in the past and I wish I could give you a simple answer. Unfortunately, it is a genuinely complex problem, with a lot of trade-offs and judgements to be made as well as economic and legal issues. Ultimately I cannot easily reduce this to an answer here, and probably not to one that will satisfy you. Rest assured that you are not being ignored. However, as a relatively small company with a business model that is Partner driven, the resources that we have, need to be applied to projects in ways that meet Partner requirements."
    (2014-09) ARM Still Not Doing Open Drivers

  13. Proprietary firmware blob? on Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Kickstarter page, the computer they are trying to fund is going to be based around a Rockchip 3066 SoC.

    Will this have the same proprietary blob required to function / use video like the various Broadcom (Videocore in Raspberry Pi) / Marvell chips are stuck with?

    If so, it's not actually Free/Open hardware, because that mystery embedded RTOS can do anything to my system at any time. If Mozilla and/or Matchstick are working with Rockchip (or whomever Rockchip licenses their cores from) to fully document the toolchain, I'd be delighted. (I'm not holding my breath.)

    I don't just want a Free and open-source graphics device driver, I want the full documented toolchain for everything on the chip.

  14. Re:will they play this when awarding it? on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Roger Waters - The bravery of being out of range

    ... Best reply in thread. Well done, sir.

  15. Re:Stallman bitches, film at eleven on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    GNU was an interesting philosophy when it was started, but it's not as if it was the only open source ideology or that other open source movements wouldn't have taken hold.

    I really don't think it would have.

    I think without both GPL, and GNU (especially Readline and GCC), programmers would still be trading pirate copies of compilers from Borland, Microsoft, and Watcom the way people pirate Photoshop today.

    MySQL is only GPL because Monty wanted to use Readline initially.

    Objective C compilers were only GPL because RMS refused a request from Jobs to let NeXT make a proprietary fork.

    To see what people were doing with "open source ideology", look at how well the BSD / MIT licenses served X11, in the pre-Linux era. Every vendor shipped horribly incompatible versions of things.

    Look at how people treat OpenSSH. How many people accept money for shipping it, vs. how many people sending money upstream, or patches.

    Yes, he sure as hell could use a spin doctor to phrase his statements in a more palatable way. But his position is key, and without it, we'd still be in the "bad old days".

  16. Linus' follow up... on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/TTeQKFPrCQU?hl=en

    Linus Torvalds - 3:19 PM - Public

    Ok, since I publicly called the guy a f*cking moron, I guess I should also publicly follow up: it does seem Romney was joking.

    Whew.

    ...Move along. Can we get back to hating on proprietary blobs now?

  17. Re:And, cue shitstorm.. on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that it was probably an electrical fault. A reactor cooling pump trip and secondary pumps could be powered from the same electrical buses since they are not considered safeguards equipment

    Dude, you always won at SCRAM didn't you?

  18. The KDE4 breakage on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    When I switched to KDE, it was a breath of fresh air.

    ALL of the keyboard shortcuts in my apps Just Worked, and they worked /right/. And Konsole had support for the bitmap CP437 font I like, and working "fullscreen" mode. It seemed great. ...Then KDE4 happened, and they made the decision to:

    1. Not put "beta" in front of the .0 release which had /huge/ amounts of features dropped out
    2. Effectively stop all forward progress on 3.x

    ...at that point, toughing my way out through the GNOME stack and getting the "less nice but good enough" running was what I did.

  19. Re:The usual on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? · · Score: 1

    1. smartctl -AH
    Get an initial baseline report.

    2. mke2fs -c -c
    Perform a read/write test on the drive.

    3. smartctl -AH
    Get a final report to compare to the initial report.

    "mke2fs -c -c" is running badblocks -s -w for you.

    If you want more to stare at, you can also add -v , or specify your own test patterns with (multiple) -t options. ( -t 0xCAFEBABE -t 0xDEADBEEF or whatever)

    Badblocks does fill a full disk with the pattern, then read it all back confirming no changes.
    This does miss flaky devices that, for example are writing over other parts of themselves. (Fake USB flash drives that misreport their size have been known to do this.)

    Not sure what a good test would be... first thing that comes to mind is:

    1. openssl enc -rc4 -nosalt -K 0 -iv 0 < /dev/zero > /dev/sdXX
    2. openssl enc -d -rc4 -nosalt -K 0 -iv 0 < /dev/sdXX | tr -d '\0' | wc -c (should return '0' w/o errors)
  20. ...not an Amiga fan... on How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    An Atari ST fan. Calling them an Amiga fan is just about the most egregious trolling you could do! ...IIRC, Linus was an Amiga hacker before he got his 386 to work on Linux. The Atari community had TOS (GEM gui, GEMDOS disk/filesystem, and other syscalls).

  21. Re:People continue to underestimate the Internet on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the 1 start bit and 1 stop bit. 240 chars per sec.

  22. ...and Slashdot wonders... on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...will this article be enough to make CleverNickName log back on after 2.5 years? :-)

  23. Re:Hardly a fair comparison on The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List · · Score: 1

    ...And it's a glorified rental that they can take back from you at any time.

    Well stated!

  24. Re:Not EGL. on IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools · · Score: 1

    Also, not that EGL, nothing to see here, move along weeaboo.

  25. With Steve Jobs dead, who will call for no-DRM? on How Publishers Are Cutting Their Own Throats With eBook DRM · · Score: 2

    Go give the 2007 open letter "Thoughts on Music" a read.

    I somehow doubt Jeff Bezos will publish a similar article.

    DRM-free MP3 sales from Amazon only happened as a "fight back" against the "evil single source for music" that was iTunes at the time.

    If we-the-public have got to rely on some similar benevolent dictator demanding DRM-free choices, is it gonna be Barnes and Noble's Leonard Riggio? I'm not holding my breath. :-/