UDIDs are commonly used in order to estimate how many users an application has, especially on applications that don't require people to register an account.

Tons of web sites and ad servers are also sending cookies for this very purpose. It's not bullet proof, but it's better than nothing.

UDIDs can be also useful in order to block users (spammers, people sending illegal content, etc) on social networks, as it's more difficult to buy a new device that it is to create a new account.

While it won't help for onroad routing, Pincaster might help you to store 2d geographic data and to easily display it on a map : http://github.com/jedisct1/Pincaster/blob/master/README.markdown

Seriously, why is Opera doing this?

Mplayer also supports the AALib for ages.

Date a native speaker.

Is there still a lot of Bind users out there?

NSD and Unbound are way better, but they aren't the only worthy alternatives.

They used to have 4 users, now that have 10. That's one dramatic rise.

Whoever hasn't coded with GfA-Basic or Omikron Basic never experienced how a fun and versatile language it was.

How come nobody realizes that ChromeOS isn't any different?

For the sake of security, I highly doubt that resources editors and hex editors (in order to patch executable files) would run on ChromeOS.

It's a tradeoff worth making.

Joe Hewitt's post about the iPad is worth a read: http://joehewitt.com/post/ipad/

Either it is a joke, or it was ages ago.

Nginx has a completely decent documentation: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

And some tutorials to begin with: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html - http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html - http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html

Right. Upgrade to a modern HTTP server like Nginx http://www.nginx.net/ or Lighttpd, you won't regret it.

And if for some reason you really need Apache 1.3.x, this code is maintained by OpenBSD and an enhanced version is shipped with the OS.

Looks like screens in Avatar!

(and for OpenBSD, etc.)

It's no biggie, just recompile it!

Oh wait...

> -> faster routing code (all juniper routers run a modified version of fbsd, for good reason)

    Yes, the good reason is the BSD license. They can use it for free and make money out of it without needing to opensource nor contribute back anything.

> -> actual coherent system

    Uh? Oh come I can't compile that software against OpenSSL? Ah, it's using OpenSSL from /usr/local/lib, not the one in /usr/lib . But how come OpenSSH is linked against the one in /usr/local/ ? Ah, because it's the one from ports that overwrote the one in /usr/bin thanks to the awesome OVERRIDE_BASE feature.

    Seriously, it's a real mess.

> > Linux emulation is broken and has been broken for ages.

> Works for me.

Try to run the Neko VM, then.

Segfault, segfault, segfault. While it of course works like a charm on a real Linux system.

"ahah, you stupid, Neko is in the ports tree, just install it and enjoy the native version"

Yeah, but while it's in the ports tree, it obviously was never tested because it can't even start a thread without immediately crashing. Oh and a bug report is open for years, but apparently nobody knows how to make it work and nobody wants to remove broken ports from the ports tree either.