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  • #46
    Az:
    I've seen Aneeshm post here (and on topic at that IIRC) for some time already, so I don't think he's a DL.
    The Mac forum drama is quite well known in the forum, mostly thanks to the heated thread in the community forum
    "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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    • #47
      Originally posted by skywalker
      Even people who gloat over doing the RIGHT THING?!
      He gloated not over what he had done right , he gloated over how he "won" oner those other posters . Also , I don't like his methods .

      Check me for a DL if you want , I've registered way back when playing Civ2 .

      I also have checked out the Community forum and Spif's thread in OT , along with the counterglow forums , where Asher joked about this . I don't mind doing the right thing , I mind doing it the wrong way .

      I've been lurking for a long time , only now have I started really posting .

      Back on topic (this , coming from me )

      I've never had any problems with XP (though I don't use it here) .

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      • #48
        Also , I don't like his methods .


        Like informing the mods of a violation of the rules?

        I also have checked out the Community forum and Spif's thread in OT , along with the counterglow forums , where Asher joked about this . I don't mind doing the right thing , I mind doing it the wrong way .


        Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.

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        • #49
          This is good news. These type of embedded systems are very Linux hospitable. The wearable computing people are using Linux, so the military can reuse a lot of the code.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #50
            Except that it then has to RELEASE the code...

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Spiffor
              Az:
              I've seen Aneeshm post here (and on topic at that IIRC) for some time already, so I don't think he's a DL.
              The Mac forum drama is quite well known in the forum, mostly thanks to the heated thread in the community forum
              I am only kidding. If I really wanted to find out whether he was a DL, i'd PM him. He knows that I am not Asher a rat, (), and won't turn him over. Unless, I am Ming's DL.

              urgh.NSFW

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              • #52
                What is wrong with being, as you call it, a "rat"? Isn't it the RIGHT thing to report a violation of the rules?

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                • #53
                  I also have checked out the Community forum and Spif's thread in OT , along with the counterglow forums , where Asher joked about this . I don't mind doing the right thing , I mind doing it the wrong way .


                  What wrong way? Maybe you would have prefered a PM to a mod, but when asked the mod would have said he got a PM and all the Macheads would have suspected Asher (even if it wasn't him). Granted, if I came upon the forum, I would have just PMed Ming, but then Asher would take the heat anyway. The Macheads hate him for breaking up their parties with cold, hard facts .
                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #54
                    Except that it then has to RELEASE the code...
                    You only have to release changes to modules. If the military builds on top of those modules, they don't have to release.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #55
                      Still not a good thing.

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                      • #56
                        Why so?
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #57
                          Wow.

                          - I couldn't make a "swap" particion. I've let 520 Megs out of any partition in the past, and RedHat refused to use it as swap. A problem with Cylinders apparently (can't know more). Fortunately, my PC is generous with RAM (1024 Mb), so it's not that bad.

                          Sounds like a weird-ass BIOS, Linux often has a hard time understanding those. If you do need swap one day, and you have support for loopback devices in the userland and the kernel (and if you have RH, you ought to), you could configure a swap file (note: I'm not sure if these commands will work, even on my system - I'm just writing them from memory):
                          That's from the thread Spiffor linked to. First paragraph is his, second mine. There's only two possible explanations as to why I said what I said: Either I was asleep or several magnitudes more ignorant at that time than I am now. At the point you can even consider such things as paging to disk BIOS control has gone bye-bye long ago... hm... I guess I just assumed that it had something to do with similar things happening when loading the boot sector.

                          /me shakes his head at himself
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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by DanS
                            Why so?
                            It limits what they can do with the software.

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                            • #59
                              Why? Have any examples?
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #60
                                There is no advantage to using Open Source software in the military if you must release any modifications you make to it to anyone else, like China.

                                Being able to "build upon it" is something you can do with stock commercial apps.
                                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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