Was he far from true? yes, openbsd is secure... but security objective makes many parts almost unusable...

Need something that already exists?! lets do it all over, because now it will be "secure" (not that the original was insecure, it was just NIH). Helping others fix the problems on their code? no, never! just use our unix and tools.

many BSD developers, specially Theo, just use the security flag as a way to show off how good they are, and how everyone else should thank then for the universe.

But forget Linus, imagine a flame war between Theo De Raadt and Daniel J. Bernstein about security!!! that would be FUN!!

Change to linux!!

Really, windows is just problems, not worthy the trouble.

I migrate my father computer to linux, using Kubuntu.

Before the migration, already changed the email to thunderbird and the office to openoffice (now libreoffice), saving as odt, but teaching to export documents as PDF when sending to others (and solve the .doc/.odt support by others). Média player also setup to VLC and browser firefox.

After more than half year using windows and open applications and solved any difficulty encountered, i finally replaced windows by linux.

In linux, the apps are the same they used in windows, so the migration was easy. I just configured quick-launch icons for the needed apps, associate file extensions to the correct apps (mostly videos to vlc), saved authentications in main sites and main bookmarks in bookmark bar and setup digikam to import the pictures from the camera.

they only had 3 problems: using floppies ( yes, it was some years ago :) ,they didn't umount then all the times... solved by using a sync option for floppies.
Another problem was the .exe files ... most of then are virus, so it IS a good thing they can't execute then. only once it was something useful, so i remotely setup the wine, so they could run the .exe and after that i disabled the wine ( i don't want then executing random things, even on wine).
The final problem was the login page, i was ready to remove it, as they use only one account, but after some days they got used to it and i let it there.

My father uses today linux even better than what he could use windows. My mother only uses the browser on some sites (mostly banking) and have the same difficulties as in windows.

Right now the also have a tablet (BQ edison), that help the quick email check and browsing, making the PC less used.
So migrate to linux if they really need a full PC, install every app they need and configure everything. If not already, replace in windows everything you don't have in linux, to ease the migration (changing less things at same time is always better)
If they don't really need a PC, buy a tablet.

yes, Origin is a sad excuse of DRM system... looking at desura and steam, it's so easy to work with... with Origin, it's a never ending install saga of apps (all full of spyware, just check your firewall logs) and then to play, you have to open the browser and install even more plugins (again heavy and with all sort of tracking).

Those guys need to trash it all and learn that KISS is (and stop trying to spy/track their users)

something that reports 3 axis movement... it looks just like a joystick to me! :)

forget about the name, joystick is the first and main 3 axis mapping device and never change the name with other things start to also do 3 axis mapping.

I'm a linux user and a free software supporter... i try to install everything as free as possible, even the graphic card drivers.
I try to use FLOSS games (and there are many that are fun!) but also play closed ones. If i have the game without DRM (from humblebundle or desura), i will prefer it, if not, the steam DRM isn't that bad... It would be better without any DRM, but steam is very transparent and most users will never see that it even exists.

Right now it's better to have DRM games than no games at all. Going from a totally closed platform (windows and other consoles) with DRM to a open platform with DRM is a step in the right direction. After people/games start ditch windows, the DRM problem can be fixed, specially by the "wallet voting" (ie: stop buying DRM games)

Anyway, game jump from windows to linux is important enough to allow some slack, specially if the main problem is the transparent steam DRM

10+ too late, postfix have since steamroller qmail in all fields

MNG is complex, it can encode the video/animated image in many, many ways, several of then useless for browsers/web, being so complex is hard to use and had no real usage (like all new formats)... and no fallback mechanism... but the MNG people agree to release a subset of MNG for browsers, simpler and with about 5 main encodings/compressions combinations and build plugins for other browsers. Yet then firefox devs reject it again, saying the lib uses too much space (about 200KB IIRC)... basically they simply didn't like the main guy behind the MNG format, nor the technology (NIH "Syndrome"), still saying it was too complex format (video is complex always) and as lame excuse broke the PNG to add the same stupid hack they had done in gif: append new images in the end of a static picture to fake a animation.

PNG group didn't like the idea, PNG it's a STILL image format, pointing that the animated image format equivalent to PNG is the MNG. So Mozilla team still uses APNG for animated images internally in firefox, and the APNG is ignored and unsupported almost elsewhere . Mozilla team still ignores MNG and now prefers to bet on the HTML5 for the future animated image support

MNG is complex, as it allows one to use several compressions methods, it can add alpha to any channel, it can use multiple codecs. It tried to cover all future possible usages and upgrades. But the web subset was "simple" enough to cover both simple image animations (to replace gifs) to small video clips. Compared with APNG, where it only loops by the existent images at different speeds and supported transparency, this format is very simple, but also bigger, not as smooth and not very good at video. Due the lack of a decent web video format, flash slowly took that market and only now, ~10 years later we have finally video support build in in the browser.

Actually should be the driver work to support this.

When a app asks to copy something to the GPU, it ask the GPU drivers, that can use that zero-copy/remap magic and tell the apps its done.

So yes, it should be supported out of the box if the drivers support it right.

For several years now, AMD is using islands names for the internal GPU names (being the type/location of island used to group families) and river names for the CPUs/APUs. Kaveri is a river in India... that just by luck is also a word in Polish and Scandinavia.

Go for Chef / Puppet, because you will never find people with the other ones skills.

you know, skills are learned, not born with.... you people with a little brain and dedication will learn whatever skill its needed

At least im East-Timor, when you ask something in a negative question ( "will not meet today?"), they usually reply directly to the question ("yes, we will not meet"), instead of the more usual negative confirmation ("no, we will not meet").

If the above example is already a little confusing, when you get a single "yes" or "no" reply, you are totally lost on what was really the reply... and learn very quickly that you must not ask negative questions if you really need a reply!! :)

for sure there are many other places were the same kind of think/talk exists

because when you start to have third party winning something, make other people think that maybe, just maybe voting on other parties is possible.

you have a two party system because you wanted to... vote on other party, promote other candidate, fight the stupid idea that alternative voting is a waste of votes.

Better yet, promote a reform of the election laws.

remember that all over the world you have multi-party elections and even multi-party government. It will not solve everything, but at least each party checks the other one bad moves.

No, no, to revive him... let him kill all those politics!!! Peace at last!!

If you agree to be conquered by him, Genghis Khan were a very good ruler, usually much better than the one they removed... just don't try to resist him or disobey to what was agreed, as he most likely would totally destroy everyone (and everything) that you one day touched, if not all your country, just to be sure!!

Actually he didn't need that... as the chief of a huge empire, many girls/women/families wanted to be connect to him, specially with kids, in hope to increase their power or guarantee the safety of their bloodlines