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Comment · 13 years ago
In a word - Apple. IOS and OSX borrow heavily from BSD

Apple has made more money form free software than anyone else, and they can pressure FreeBSD to stay away from GPL3

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
It is interesting on slide 17 that the NSA can decrypt all VPN traffic.

Does this indicate that they have broken HTTPS, or simply that they own VPN companies like Private Internet Access?

Comment · 13 years ago
Seems like it is the NSA who has been lying
Comment · 13 years ago
Dropbox used Python for client portability?
Comment · 13 years ago
The Geoff Chappell article is great. Seems like he examined it in detail:

"The 32-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 all contain code for using physical memory above 4GB. Microsoft just doesn’t license you to use that code."

A huge pity he no longer blogs.

Comment · 13 years ago
MS gave users no upgrade path from 32bit to 64bit Windows.

You need a clean install, something many are hesitant to do, or can't do.

Comment · 13 years ago
Seems like it to me. Maybe they thought the whole drop quantam tunneled to the bottom

I guess you could have asked that if you find a tree that's fallen in a forrest, did it actually fall over if no one saw it?

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Comment · 13 years ago
ReactOS is great, but the project seems to have died in the last few years.
Comment · 13 years ago
Syncdocs and Boxcryptor are quite similar. What I like about Syncdocs is it enables EncFS for the folders selected to be encrypted, too.
Comment · 13 years ago
Irix with SoftPC was about the slowest thing I ever had the misfortune of using.

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