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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
"But if you're not home, your phone sends the command to a server in China,..." Do any "smart" devices not try to connect to remote servers, automatically, without asking the user for permission? Do users care tha
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
Maybe it's an homage to Bill Gates who campaigned so hard for using intellectual property laws to protect closed source software.
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
Could it be that the ability to more fully control a computer, e.g., a router, makes the computer more valuable? What use are greater feature specifications if the user does not have anything close to full control over the computer? How abo
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
"Who can..." ICANN. Yes it can be whenever they want. No one ever stops them. They added several in 2001. Now they've opened the floodgates. "At no real cost..." True. Except the cost of running one of the 13
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
I like to compile and install my own OS images on the hardware I purchase. Of course the smartphone industry does not make that easy, if at all possible. Hence I am forced to choose other form factors. It would be nice to flash my own choi
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
I'll bet a lot of folks would keep paying those prices even if all they did was use email. I'll bet further that is still the main reason many people have a home internet connection. That and internet banking, etc. Things subs
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
There's a couple of comments showing hostname followed by IP address. Are commenters really putting entries in this format into their HOSTS file? And it works? The correct format, at least on BSD UNIX and Windows, is IP address foll
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
echo "93.174.95.27 elsevier.com" >> /etc/hosts http://elsevier.com/scimag
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
It is a known fact that Apple tries the same ideas more than once, sometimes years apart. If at first they fail, they will try again. I recall an idea from the past where they wanted users to disclose to them all the user's non-itunes
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
You nailed it. I rarely make use of the BSD scripts provided but I like them as simple examples of how various services are intended to be run. I find there is a certain amount of uniformity and consistency and arguably coherence to the rc.
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
"... software bloat almost always comes from smart, often the smartest, devs who are technically the most competent." I am quite happy with software written by people who who do not view themselves as "devs" who are &quo
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
From init/main.c: "The Bourne shell can be used instead of init..." An easy way to avoid systemd if the user is more comfortable with using a BSD-style /etc/rc approach to starting services?
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
"What _every browser_ ..." How about text-only browsers? How about homemade "browsers" that are powered by netcat? As one informal poll appeared to show, many users questioned on the streets of an American city did not e
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by alwaysdownvoted 10y ago
I still use SUA every day when I'm forced to use Windows. (I also run Linux binaries on BSD.) SUA is based on an old version of BSD, not GNU. tcsh, csh and sh. The compiler works. There is an old version of lex. For some of the us
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by alwaysdownvoted 11y ago
"I don't know anythng about IPFilter, nor do I know anyone who uses it, so we'll pretend it doesn't exist." If alternatives exist that would address the author's complaints (and they do), but he doesn't kn
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by alwaysdownvoted 11y ago
In 1880 there was no Federal Reserve system. "Money" was backed by commodities of finite quantity.
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by alwaysdownvoted 11y ago
One solution is not to use Bash. There are more basic shells that are equally as, or more, POSIX-like.