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02.03.2020
ones with the information from the next disk images.
That worked fine until the installation failed on about the 50th disk.
I cried.
Then I saw an advertisement for another distribution named Red Hat
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05.07.2020
to get money to update systems that are "working fine," particularly when you cannot prove a cost savings in doing the job you are already doing.
So with those three caveats, I started drawing comparisons
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28.04.2021
for close to 50 years.
Yes, I know that somewhere emacs people are screaming, but I like vim.
Another fine example of a long-lived program is the RAND MH message handling system.
MH was really a series
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04.08.2020
learning the rules that apply to the software needs to spend more time pouring over the legal fine print. Ultimately, if too many unfamiliar licenses are in circulation, using an open source product would
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28.11.2021
snafu or a few bad actors, everything would have been fine. In fact, the system itself is the problem, and I'm not just talking about the kooky and often irrational Internet advertising economy (which
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07.04.2022
a problem by opening up another problem elsewhere on the system that they bury in the fine print and don't really explain to people. As a journalist, however, I would have to add that there are probably
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30.08.2021
of portability showed that it was better and cheaper to have the same interfaces across lots of computers rather than having the operating system finely tuned to the actual load.
Since Unix was not created
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05.03.2015
to track your Internet activities.
After my initial shock, or, more accurately, impatience, since I'm used to this kind of "privacy policy" fine print, I grew intrigued momentarily: I have long believed
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24.02.2016
something like a rake, or a front door, or a bucket that exhibits simple and logical behavior, but actually, our computer systems leak – a lot! If you want to say Linux leaks less, that's fine, but no system
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28.12.2024
these sections of code, or making them preemptible takes a lot of time and skill, particularly in a complex kernel that allows multiple threads of execution to be going through at the same time.
It was this fine
