Comment Or as RMS will say (Score 1) 52
I joke that the inward-facing crowd might soon call it “Free/Libre Open Source Hardware” or FLOSHW.
That's GNU/FLOSHW...
I joke that the inward-facing crowd might soon call it “Free/Libre Open Source Hardware” or FLOSHW.
That's GNU/FLOSHW...
SLS on Floppies
Slackware
RedHat
Fedora
Addison Wesley 1976.
It showed the Unix Philosophy to a larger audience than Version 6 could reach at the time.
Best programming book ever if you want to go for pragmatic influence rather than computer science.
It also came with the ability to get the code. While the code is now dated, the philosophy is still leading edge. And lots of us played with that code.
Ah the memories! Fortran was still ubiquitous. It made Fortran usable. Kind of makes me want to go dig up RATFOR and do something...
I fly myself in my own plane. I make sure to give myself a good security check before each flight to make sure I'm not a terrorist.
The whole point of Microsoft developing
"Java". Microsoft took their marbles and went off to play in their own yard creating
The only difference here is that Sun sued over calling something "Java" that wasn't exactly Java. Oracle is doing something a bit deeper in that they are saying that Google can't fork the language even if they call it something different.
But Java has already been forked into "real-java" vs ".net/mono/etc". If this suit were being done in some dream world where a still-existing Sun were suing Microsoft over the Java-like structure of
Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. The School Committee approved the move last year, and Hayes said he's getting the news out now so families can prepare. 'We have one platform,' Hayes said. 'And that's going to be the Mac.'"
I didn't vote for Obama, hell I didn't even vote. Crap like this is why.
You figured Obama would pull some "crap", so you didn't oppose him, despite having a consequence- and cost-free way of doing that? I fail to follow your logic here.
"Yes we can!" - take over your Internets?
Well, since it seems that his opponents can't even be bothered to haul their arse a few blocks over to the closest voting place... yeah, I guess he can.
Let me clarify that. You didn't have to stand against the Persian army with your 299 comrades.
Yet
You didn't have to engage in sabotage against the Nazi army in occupied France.
Yet
You didn't have to express a political opinion that could get you fired. All you had to do was haul your ass a few blocks away to cast a vote that could not be traced back to you.
And the longer you refuse to haul your sorry ass down to vote, the closer the "Yets" get.
I picked up an Asus EEEBox 202, burned the Fedora-10 dvd to a USB key, and made a home server for DNS, DHCP, wireless, etc. Needed to get updated drivers for the wireless but that was trivial...
Love the box. Low power. Runs everything.
Asimov: "Not as we know it". Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept 1961.
Reprinted in View from a Height, Doubleday, 1963.
Asimov did his usual concise job of working through alternative chemistries. Better than this article in my opinion.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
