aquayellow

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by aquayellow 12y ago
Virtualbox is an out-of-tree module and hence needs to be compiled. The base package is GPLv2 and is compatible with the Linux kernel license, but I don't know if Virtualbox developers ever tried to "upstream" their module. T
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by aquayellow 12y ago
True. If you follow LKML, you will notice that the majority of changes are to the device drivers code. And it makes sense, after all, you want the kernel to run on a wide variety of hardware. So, it's not just what fraction of develope
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by aquayellow 13y ago
>The thesis is that things like Linux belong to a category of >human endeavours that are opposite in nature to most of what >regular consumers are exposed to nowadays But this is true for any open source project, why just Linux ? T
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by aquayellow 13y ago
Yes, I learned it the hard way when I had around 200 BTC stolen from the online service I was using. I kept blaming the service but the fact is it's stupid to think of bitcoins = hard currencies and online wallet services = bank.
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Agreed, this is through wine, but if this is real, it's awesome! Edit : Actually, it does look real : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyO... Basically, silverlight through a patched version of wine. Good Work!
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by aquayellow 14y ago
The reason I won't accuse Linus of not being open even though he doesn't support my feature-of-choice is because while he ditches my idea saying it is crap, he still gives me the source to mess with. So, I or a friend can make the change fo
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Not everyone who advocates opensource is a developer. I am an end user of Netflix. I would like to see Netflix run on my Linux laptop and I don't care if Netflix talks about the underlying architecture in open source conferences (M$ does th
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Sorry for being melodramatic. I meant Linux :D. And evinugur has listed exactly what my problem with Netflix is.
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Exactly. Associating "Netflix" with "opensource" is kind of ironic considering they still haven't been able to deliver any workable streaming solution for the free OS.
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Not that there aren't any keyloggers for Linux, I never found anything suspicious, nor have any of my other accounts been breached into. But yeah, if there is a keylogger, I bet it got installed from the Mt.Gox website itself ;)
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by aquayellow 14y ago
Putting aside the way the Bitcoinica account got compromised, I wanted to mention that I learned the hard way that either Mt.Gox is rife with security holes or a lot of these breaches are actually insider jobs from someone working at MtGox
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by aquayellow 15y ago
Technically, anyone who has contributed to the Linux kernel can drag them to court. Probably not something an average developer will jump into :) That said, Harald Welte has a dedicated site for this : http://gpl-violations.org/ and he is
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by aquayellow 15y ago
"Some of you may think such a test is a waste of time but I assure you it is not. It's astonishing how many people can't do this." Well, I can assure you that as a kernel programmer, I think it IS indeed a waste of time. It's also astonishi
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by aquayellow 15y ago
"Another funny thing about US immigration law is, that if you are an international student in the USA (on an F1 visa) you are entitled to work only for the university that has issued you this visa." Isn't this all part of the 9/11 hysteria
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by aquayellow 15y ago
And please don't think of forking the FSF because RMS made fun of Steve Jobs if that is what people think he did.
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by aquayellow 15y ago
No it's not. It has its own set of problems. And bugs too! KVM has its pluses too, I agree, it's a VMM in kernel mode which apparently makes it faster, it is very non-intrusive to the rest of the kernel and hence got readily accepted upstr
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by aquayellow 15y ago
Yes, you are right. Actually, it's just the bootloader. So, technically Microsoft can come up with a bootloader (GPLed) that can boot Linux or modify the current one. My bad! Regarding the "kernel is part of the bootloader" idea, I think th
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by aquayellow 15y ago
Not just the bootloader, from what I understand, the whole OS needs to be signed : drivers in particular or anything else that could talk to the firmware. So, they need to be signed too. With OSes such as Linux, I don't even know if it's te
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by aquayellow 15y ago
And UEFI fans can still use it as a payload to coreboot! Although I am not sure why anyone would be a fan of UEFI. An extra layer of abstraction on top of BIOS ? Wait, why ?
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Show HN: Personal Weather Bug(stuff.makefile.in)
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by aquayellow 15y ago
That is true. But being on H1B myself, I have rarely come across any employer who's willing to hire me part time. But again, it's possible.
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by aquayellow 15y ago
I came here exactly with the same question! To build my company from ground up, I need to work for it. But how can I do that if I am already working full time for my current employer ?