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by gvozd 9y ago
Coils, by Zelazny & Saberhagen? It was first published in 1982.
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by gvozd 11y ago
It aligns with what we know about the history of the Celtic languages. The ancestor to the remaining Celtic languages first appeared in Central Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language
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by gvozd 11y ago
And the word "piracy" has been applied to unauthorized copying of books since at least 1735. I own an old copy of the London Magazine that contains the usage.
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by gvozd 11y ago
For the uninitiated, "spam spam spam humbug" brought up a cheat menu in Ultima VI.
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by gvozd 11y ago
So the biometric information used to identify an individual can't be stolen? How is that possible? I can change a password, and I can replace a hardware token.
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by gvozd 11y ago
That's not a cheetah. That's an electric sheep.
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by gvozd 11y ago
There are quite a few variations in regional pizza styles. http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/01/a-list-of-regi...
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by gvozd 12y ago
I've had the same experience running my own pair of iRedMail servers in FreeBSD jails. It was easy to set up, and not hard to secure. I haven't had trouble with spam so far, and it has allowed me to migrate off of gmail. Setting u
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by gvozd 12y ago
It's a P25W with 16 GB RAM and 3T SSD (I dual boot with a Steam-only Windows install). I don't care about the nvidia card in OpenBSD-- the Intel card works fine with xfce. I haven't figured out how to make the internal speak
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by gvozd 12y ago
Another anecdote: I had the same experience with my new Gigabyte laptop. OpenBSD 5.6 supported the hardware better than FreeBSD or Linux (Qubes-OS, which is based on Fedora). I ended up running OpenBSD on my laptop and FreeBSD on my servers
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by gvozd 12y ago
Cory Doctorow also put together a well-written account of his views in the recently published "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age." He covers DRM, copyright, publishing, the music industry, etc. Th
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by gvozd 14y ago
It's about time they did this. Harvard's was about the only major library that didn't allow Z39.50 access to their full MARC21 records. As a private individual with a large rare and antiquarian book collection, I welcome the news, since I'v