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- Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:06 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Netbooks, Netbooks, Netbooks...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 70111
Re: Netbooks, Netbooks, Netbooks...
netbooks i can understand, but what the hell are people buying pocket calculators for? they better put a phone or something in those things before people start wedging them under tables to keep them steady.
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net]
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3910
cool article
if google is using perforce over an open alternative, it must be an amazing system. ...aha, they're moving to git! it must be really amazing. free or non-free, it's not surprising to me that they rely on something that allows them to make and modify unlimited copies. i can't imagine them trying to g...
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: The Linux Unified Kernel
- Replies: 83
- Views: 75030
Re: The Linux Unified Kernel
There is nothing stopping us legally from arranging some deal with hardware manufacturers and getting permission to distribute binary drivers. are you completely sure? the gpl is confusing on finer points like this, but (if you're using any gpl code from outside the project,) i wonder if that doesn...
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Do we have any mentors?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7082
Re: Do we have any mentors?
I'd also like to learn python and ruby as well for later usage. i'm sure there are different reasons you and i are interested in python. i think it's the best language to get the largest number of people involved in coding, you have your own reasons. i don't know if python could ever help someone l...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is it possible to quantify the amount of ReactOS LEGOs?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6400
Re: Is it possible to quantify the amount of ReactOS LEGOs?
it's possible to build a roadmap of the project, the same way it's possible to build the fantastic roadmaps they use between pieces and the model to help you build lego projects. the problem that reactos has in the roadmap department is that there's a small town's worth of infrastructure to assemble...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:56 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: An analysis of the Windows kernel through ReactOS
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14634
Re: An analysis of the Windows kernel through ReactOS
think about this, it took several hundred years to translate Sun Tzu's - Art of War. And it's still not perfectly translated, chinese language is a conceptual language, not a spoken language. perfectly translated, all languages are conceptual languages, plus a "perfect" translation is pro...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:46 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Linux based Reactos
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22021
Re: Linux based Reactos
How many non-professional kernel developers in the world can program 2 kernels at once? i would guess it's almost as "easy" to work on two at once as it is to work on one... considering that you're not writing the entire kernel, only some of it. non-professional really has nothing to do w...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:39 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If ReactOS was a house would it look like this?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19011
Re: If ReactOS was a house would it look like this?
i'm sure that ros is more like a machine than a building. i can't think of any sufficient metaphor you could build with legos, either. houses just don't have enough small interoperating parts to be a metaphor for developing a new os on the level that ros is being developed. architects thought about ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Live USB
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6503
Re: Live USB
Are there any possibilities this dream become reality this year? no... but here's how you'd do it if there were enough tools available from outside the ros project: 1. minimal (just enough to run qemu) live usb distro of operating system that won't be mentioned here 2. qemu 3. ros-qemu technically,...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Security that WORKS!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9939
Re: Security that WORKS!!!
Run Admin accounts with guest Privileges on all the critical areas that malware attacks. i don't want to knock something that's working for you, but isn't this just a fancy kind of security from obscurity? locking down the half of the system that is attacked more (indeed, building a security model ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: I'm worried about some things... advapi.dll i think.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11295
Re: I'm worried about some things... advapi.dll i think.
Anything to back up this pointless libel? pointless? from a practical angle, sure. is it newsworthy if the nsa puts backdoors in operating systems? wired magazine thought it was... in 2007: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115 misunderstandi...
Re: poor nute
i may have spoken too soon when choosing nute as an example. ignoring someone when they're bothering them certainly seems more professional than trying to make an example of them. fox: i don't mind that the faq's are "not good enough." they're volunteered, right? they should be good enough...
- Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Different distros of ReactOS?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 37047
Re: Different distros of ReactOS?
at the end of the day, you cannot make an os for everyone. not even if you base it on the os "everyone" uses. for this reason people would (and some do) make their own "windows distros" and deploy them, legally, in the few ways and circumstances in which it's possible. with ros i...
poor nute
if you clicked on the title expecting a post that trashes nute, you wasted your time. i don't like or dislike (or know) the guy, he seems ok. i've been lurking on this forum for years now, and i still don't know what the point is. i used to be able to run ros from a livecd, now i can only run it fro...
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
- Topic: Audio Working on QEMU. ( AC97 )
- Replies: 55
- Views: 47369
Re: Audio Working on QEMU. ( AC97 )
i think you can have more than one definition of copyleft. we probably both prefer rms's definition, but lessig's definition is just as valid in my opinion. it's valid- whether or not it's better depends on whether the first priority is the 4 freedoms, or whether the first priority is making the mos...