Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition

Post by ori_b » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #354

ori_b wrote: post #301

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Did anyone here manage to snag the code before the open source program was shut down?

Even if, it all depends on the terms of the license whether or not it could have been used to fork it or to base a free version of it. " Access to QNX source code is free, but commercial deployments of QNX Neutrino runtime components still require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for QNX Momentics® development seats. However, noncommercial developers, academic faculty members, and qualified p…

Post by touristtam » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 11:21 AM UTC

daave wrote: post #173

When visiting this blog post on my Android phone, the ads (or something) redirect me to a page with popups telling me my phone has a virus and encouraging me to install an app to 'clean' it, using Google branding on some dodgy domain. I seem to get a different one each time. Reported it at https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ but mentioning here so that others don't fall victim to it.

Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 2:39 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #209

jacquesm wrote: post #193

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Not for my stuff, I do have it (obviously) but it is definitely not worth sharing in the state it is in. Essentially it is a kernel, some userland device drivers and a rudimentary (but functional) network stack cobbled together from various bits and pieces. The toolchain was GCC and djgpp to bootstrap the development until it was capable of self hosting. It would need serious work (several man-months) before it could…

Wasn't there a patent on the message passing part of the QnX kernel?

Post by chx » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

yohui wrote: post #328

chx wrote: post #224

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Does Intel make USB bluetooth sticks? If my laptop didn't come with a combo miniPCIe card I doubt the necessary antenna is there. In a desktop, I looked for mPCIe - PCIe x1 adapters with lots of antennas but I can't really find any in low profile. So... how did you do that?

For desktop, perhaps the Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I? Specs: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5157 Price: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-wireless-network-card... It's basically an Intel 7260 Wireless-AC/Bluetooth chip plus a PCIe adapter.

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Jan 05, 2016, 12:28 PM UTC

eschaton wrote: post #337

sandGorgon wrote: post #122

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no please - I'm not talking about ctrl-C. I'm talking about CUA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access Even on OSX, the bindings that are used are cmd-c and cmd-v. It is universal - if you have never used the terminal, vim and firefox on a mac... I really urge you to do that. you'll see what i mean.

You've got the causality reversed. The Apple Lisa introduced the command-Z/X/C/V keyboard equivalents for undo/cut/copy/paste, and they were kept with the Macintosh and Apple IIgs. IBM CUA and Microsoft Windows adopted them afterwards, adapted to the PC keyboard; I think Windows only adopted them with Windows 95 and NT4.