renanbirck

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by renanbirck 13y ago
Nearly forever. You don't have JavaScript, most malware isn't designed for platforms that old etc...
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by renanbirck 13y ago
I have been taking it. So far I've found it pretty good (I took linear algebra many years ago in college and didn't remember most of it), even though I don't really like the amount of reinventing-the-wheel (e.g. writing your
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by renanbirck 13y ago
In Windows 3.1, CTRL-ALT-DEL will allow you to kill a hung application. If no application is hung, it will tell you to press CTRL-ALT-DEL again to reboot. Check this by Raymond Chen where he explains better than me: https://blogs
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Sounds like an useful board for uses other than a laptop (e.g. robotics, DSP).
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by renanbirck 13y ago
While I wish Matlab just disappeared, Python is still far from replacing it in some fields (e.g. electrical engineering), in no part due to the massive amount of toolbox available for it.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Maybe, but quite a few stuff (enough to implement DRM) is different.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Ubuntu 13.04 with MATE, but most of my work is done on virtual machines (all sorts of Windows and Linux) and on servers I ssh to (mostly Linux).
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by renanbirck 13y ago
I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics. At most they might be useful for someone looking to do reverse engineering.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Not quite servers, but I used to work in a lab where we used mostly RHEL/CentOS for our scientific computing work. I found myself gravitating towards RPM-based distros during that time.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Used to run Arch until recently, but moved to Ubuntu when 13.04 came out. Currently using Ubuntu with MATE (haven't bothered with Unity in quite a while, considering my experience with it in previous Ubuntu versions was quite underwhelming
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by renanbirck 13y ago
I have lost some Pentium 4 motherboards (and video cards from the same era) to this. Don't remember the specific models, sadly.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
This begs for a teardown for possible reuse after the 15-day trial.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Quite an uncommon situation as far as I have seen. Can you actually provide an example of a book (or anything else) that nobody bought, but that was heavily pirated?
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by renanbirck 13y ago
I do. I save files in the right place as soon as they are downloaded: that way you never have a messy Downloads folder or a crowded desktop.
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by renanbirck 13y ago
It is not exactly Linux on an 8-bit micro; it's Linux on an ARM emulator on an 8-bit micro. Still good to see an use for ancient memory modules :)
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by renanbirck 13y ago
I stopped using Google Reader recently; this has had the side effect of making me read much less news and, thus, being less buzzed to write a scathing or snarky comment/reply. I browse a few news sites once or twice a day, read the 1 or 2 n
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by renanbirck 13y ago
Only in India? I'd be inclined to think that elites everywhere have the same sense of entitlement.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Whoa, it was still alive? I thought all the cool kids had migrated to Ask.fm.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Most Brazilian banks still use Java applets - which sometimes don't work in newer browser versions and have odd bugs with 32-/64-bit compatibility.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
No crash on either Chrome or Firefox on Arch Linux.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Working nicely (from cursory testing of non-graphics-demanding games, anyway) on Arch + Intel graphics.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Unfortunately, not all of the Humble Bundle games are available on Steam for Linux, even if they have Linux versions.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
From what I see, anything in SO that doesn't have code in it and that attracts attention will eventually get locked. I sometimes notice this pattern on other Stack Exchange sites: non-technical questions, with some rare exceptions, tend to
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Personally, I like that Mathematica uses capitals for functions: it means that the entire namespace of lower-case variables is free - unlike in Sage, MATLAB etc... In fact, this is how you're supposed to name your variables in Mathematica.
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by renanbirck 14y ago
Licensing costs (and the student version is full of limitations - compare to the student version of Mathematica, which has almost no limitations), missing features (e.g. weak OO), vendor lock-in (specially when 99% of your coworkers "just u
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by renanbirck 14y ago
This is the major problem I have while trying to tell people about Linux (and other open-source software). It's hard to argue against "my [proprietary software] copy was free" - when effectively, it was, since nothing will happen to them.