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Comment "out-of-the-box Windows application compatibility" (Score 1) 35

by nawcom (#64537683) Attached to: T2 Linux 24.6 Goes Desktop with Integrated Windows Binary Support

I actually RTFA. "out-of-the-box Windows application compatibility" = it has wine pre-installed. It makes no claims bigger than that. I quote, "ships LibreOffice, Wine and Thunderbird by default". It links Wine to https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft2sde.org%2Fpackages%2Fwin... which doesn't describe as anything special apart from it only supporting x86-based and arm-based archs. If you're not a fan of tweaking wine, well, don't think this is anything special having a Linux distro come with wine pre-installed.

Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

Submitted by CmdrTaco
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Comment Re:Fecal Transplants (Score 2) 105

by nawcom (#58692516) Attached to: Gut Bacteria May Contribute To Autism Symptoms, Mouse Study Finds

Nah, fecal transplants involve swallowing poop in capsules. It has to reach the long intestine. Sticking poop in your rectum won't do it.

But back to the topic, while it's helpful that this info is being found out I worry that it'll just reinforce those anti-vax moms' beliefs that giving their autistic kids bleach enemas is actually good. I can see it now, Facebook posts linking to this and saying, "See, it's backed by SCIENCE!"

Comment Re:So it has come to this (Score 1) 187

by nawcom (#58161222) Attached to: Nike Bricks Its Shoes With a Faulty Firmware Update

Have to say... Your sig.. Man it is annoying to hear plebs say "forward" slash. Or when people say backslash and they are talking about a normal slash.. Sucks being a nerd sometimes..

I suppose they don't fully comprehend us humans' perception of a line leaning forward (right) and backward (left) on a 2D plane, which is pretty sad. You don't have to be smart - you just have to be, well, human. It's wired into our way of thinking. I as well can't think of how many times I've heard someone read a URL and call them backslashes.

Comment Re:Homebrew driving you to drink? (Score 2) 76

by nawcom (#58065110) Attached to: Homebrew 2.0 is Here With Official Support For Linux and Windows

I've preferred MacPorts/DarwinPorts because it's very similar to BSD Ports in regards to it using libraries separate from the base install, unlike the way homebrew works in regards to a number of libraries. Also MacPorts has gone a long way when it comes to having precompiled packages ready. I remember the 10.6 days and how much you compiled but now - 95% (my personal estimate) of the dependencies and target ports you're trying to install has precompiled packages for your specific Darwin version ready to go. Many times there's no compiling involved at all.

Comment Re:Did it even work after 2013? (Score 2) 40

by nawcom (#57814996) Attached to: Cydia's App Store For Jailbroken iPhones Shuts Down Purchases

Yes, it did work after 2013. No issues that I experienced. If Cydia didn't work correctly then the jailbreak app which installs Cydia with it was faulty somehow. I remember a couple times where it didn't initially work and redoing the jailbreak would fix it. I've lost interest in it probably since iOS 11 but I actively jailbroke before then.

Comment Re:Containment Breach (Score 1) 317

by nawcom (#57743416) Attached to: Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th

Bring back USENET!

alt.binaries.* never went away, you just need to pay for a provider as no one is going to give you access to petabytes of data covering thousands of days of retention for free. Then there are the websites that index the content and provide generated NZBs, most of the decent ones being private these days. Binary content on usenet is very much alive and active.

Comment Re:Privilege escalation unlikely (Score 1) 114

by nawcom (#57543479) Attached to: Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems

As a side note, I'm pretty sure that Xorg isn't shipped on a default OpenBSD install, so it would have to be installed first from the ports.

OpenBSD install media comes with binary distribution sets xbase**, xfont**, xserv**, xshare** (** being the version number, latest being 64 for version 6.4) for installing Xorg support which you can select when you install the OS.

Comment Re:AirVPN has had compression disabled for a while (Score 2) 49

by nawcom (#57152448) Attached to: New VORACLE Attack Can Recover HTTP Data From Some VPN Connections

And I'll just add that it's annoying that on neither TFA or on this /. post is the actual setting comp-lzo specifically mentioned. You have to interpret the patch diff linked in TFA.

To disable lzo compression, make sure "comp-lzo no" is included in the config as mentioned in my parent post.

Comment AirVPN has had compression disabled for a while (Score 1) 49

by nawcom (#57152432) Attached to: New VORACLE Attack Can Recover HTTP Data From Some VPN Connections

My AirVPN configs have had "comp-lzo no" in it since I've been using them so no worries about that. Looking up more info, it seems some of the AirVPN ovpn files generated for specific devices have it enabled because it would otherwise not work on that device (eh what?), but they still have lzo compression disabled on their server end so it is not used regardless.

Source for this info: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fairvpn.org%2Ftopic%2F29036...

Comment Re: Good DRM, not bad DRM (Score 1) 49

what TFA is referring to:

Hi Dave,

This is probably the last pull request for 4.19 from our side.

Please remind about the gvt-fixes vs gvt-next conflict that I mentioned
yesterday on drm-intel-fixes pull request.

Here goes drm-intel-next-2018-07-12:
On GVT there's the addition of vGPU huge page support for guest,
with one BXT fix and gvt dependency handling.

On Display side there's:
- More PSR clean up and fixes (Rodrigo, DK and Tarun)
- GMBUS improvements for HDCP2.2 compliance (Ram)
- Fix strncpy truncation on intel_tv (Dominique)
- Cleanup modesetting on load-error path (Chris)

On GEM side:
- Gem init hw fix (Michal)
- More selftests fixes (Michal, Chris)
- Execlists optimizations (Chris)
- Introduce i915_address_space.mutex (Chris)
- Stolen memory support for Ice Lake (Paulo)
- Unwind HW init after GVT setup failure (Chris)
- Other fixes for gpu parking, gem_suspend, and handcheck reset (Chris)

drm-intel-next-2018-07-09:
Higlights here goes to many PSR fixes and improvements; to the Ice lake work with
power well support and begin of DSI support addition. Also there were many improvements
on execlists and interrupts for minimal latency on command submission; and many fixes
on selftests, mostly caught by our CI.

General driver:
- Clean-up on aux irq (Lucas)
- Mark expected switch fall-through for dealing with static analysis tools (Gustavo)

Gem:
- Different fixes for GuC (Chris, Anusha, Michal)
- Avoid self-relocation BIAS if no relocation (Chris)
- Improve debugging cases in on EINVAL return and vma allocation (Chris)
- Fixes and improvements on context destroying and freeing (Chris)
- Wait for engines to idle before retiring (Chris)
- Many improvements on execlists and interrupts for minimal latency on command submission (Chris)
- Many fixes in selftests, specially on cases highlighted on CI (Chris)
- Other fixes and improvements around GGTT (Chris)
- Prevent background reaping of active objects (Chris)

Display:
- Parallel modeset cleanup to fix driver reset (Chris)
- Get AUX power domain for DP main link (Imre)
- Clean-up on PSR unused func pointers (Rodrigo)
- Many PSR/PSR2 fixes and improvements (DK, Jose, Tarun)
- Add a PSR1 live status (Vathsala)
- Replace old drm_*_{un/reference} with put,get functions (Thomas)
- FBC fixes (Maarten)
- Abstract and document the usage of picking macros (Jani)
- Remove unnecessary check for unsupported modifiers for NV12. (DK)
- Interrupt fixes for display (Ville)
- Clean up on sdvo code (Ville)
- Clean up on current DSI code (Jani)
- Remove support for legacy debugfs crc interface (Maarten)
- Simplify get_encoder_power_domains (Imre)

Icelake:
- MG PLL fixes (Imre)
- Add hw workaround for alpha blending (Vandita)
- Add power well support (Imre)
- Add Interrupt Support (Anusha)
- Start to add support for DSI on Ice Lake (Madhav)

Thanks,
Rodrigo.

The following changes since commit e1cacec9d50d7299893eeab2d895189f3db625da:

    drm/i915: Update DRIVER_DATE to 20180620 (2018-06-20 14:10:48 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

    git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel tags/drm-intel-next-2018-07-12

for you to fetch changes up to f7cf1a1829f9ff776fb5504c9c5ffa0e9d2baf79:

    drm/i915: Update DRIVER_DATE to 20180712 (2018-07-12 23:54:26 -0700)

Well that's the most open source digital rights management I've ever seen. This is very specifically referring to direct rendering manager: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftorvalds%2Fli...

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