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Re:GNU social and GNU FM on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:12PM (#9750601)
It's only a guess, but I think some OSS projects are more often "based" in Europe as we do not have Software Patents here.
Re:What will C++17 be? on Sunday April 26, 2015 @08:04AM (#9441475)
You can use something like vagrant for you dev environment.
Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:32AM (#9303849)
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Re:Learning Vim while playing a game on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:21AM (#9250695)
It's broken for me as I have "start searching as soon as you start typing" feature on in my browser. It's searching instead of moving. Latest Firefox on GNU/Linux.
Re:Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:55PM (#8627525)
He mentions it's only in some pool configurations. I imagine there might be configurations where 512b or 4k makes a difference and isn't compatible.
Re:Ask HN: What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown? on Saturday June 14, 2014 @12:55PM (#7893126)
I think you have mixed "Open-Source" and "Free Software".

TrueCrypt IS Open-Source. You can read the source.

It is not, however, free software. It's free to use, but not free as in GPL.

Re:Ask HN: What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown? on Saturday June 14, 2014 @12:53PM (#7893119)
Well if encryption is that important you either buy a version of Windows which has FDE or you buy some other proprietary software which can do FDE. You can just keep using TrueCrypt until you need to upgrade Windows and get BitLocker supported edition.
Re:4chan demands 4chan.com domain name on Monday March 31, 2014 @01:35PM (#7502909)
yes, trademarks do not need to be registered and can be used before filing for it.
Re:Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:41AM (#7378861)
Yeah but this does not help if you want to port older games.
Re:Download Atom without invite on Sunday March 02, 2014 @05:20AM (#7328587)
Any instructions for linux?
Re:Linux Containers, Docker, and Security on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:33PM (#7162695)
Interesting to see this as just today I have decided to setup a new server with LXC.