* Posts by ziggy

5 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2010

Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image. Repeat. Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image

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Re: @bazza

there is more to the Mac OSX kernel (XNU) than Mach, there is BSD code in there too for POSIX API, security including id and permissions, some of the BSD locking primitives, the virtual file system layer, crypto framework, the bsd flavor of System V IPC, and mandatory access control for kernel objects

New double-barrelled Taser unveiled

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WTF?

You must be a Taser International Shill and have TI Stock

You left out the part where upon occurrence of a Death by Taser Electrocution, the very well known fact that Taser International dispatches its legal time to bribe judges, coroners, and medical examiners to change the cause of death. Hence the over 400 Deaths by Taser Electrocution get altered to a much more public-relations friendly number of just a few dozen.

Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

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FAIL

Wrong Title - community washes its hands of Oracle

the developers and users and major distributions of open source OS have largely already left OpenOffice and went to LibreOffice, this is just Oracle realizing there is no point continuing after the loss of goodwill, developers, users, customers. Open Office was already dead, Oracle killed it. LibreOffice is of higher quality.

Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA

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Heart

ignorant author - situation very dire

Indeed a spent fuel pool fire would be worse than contained meltdown, the author of this article is technically ignorant and just aping what he has read. The dirty little secret of the nuclear power industry is that an uncontrolled spent fuel pool fire would release the contamination of a few Chernobyl, the 40% of 180 tons ejected from Chernobyl doesn't compare to the amount of contamination of 300 or more tons of spent fuel in a single pool in this disaster nor the 1800 total tons stored at Fukushima's six pools.

OpenSolaris axed by Ellison

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not a rename - Solaris Express Is Different

Solaris Express is a binary release, source code (for those portions that can be open sourced) will be released after official Solaris 11 release.

in other words, no more continuous access to source code being built