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Explain to me why you think that having ALL software be free is a good and/or reasonable idea.
Do this using principles of economics.
>>54880108
>ALL
No can do. This development model doesn't work under our current economic model
>>54880542
>economic model
Tech illiterate spotted.
Free software means the people have the freedom to help themselves and one another. With this freedom includes the ability to charge money for providing the service of software.
Previously on: >>54872912
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>>54880001
https://youtu.be/5Z2O1PUuRGE?t=1m35s
>>54880022
err I put the .iso on to my regular hard drive, then used Rufus to configure the usb drive as a bootable. Seemed to work, and it took me to the Ubuntu installer. I'll try the install again and report back. The problem before was that it was stuck on creating ext4 directory or something like that. New to all this.
Does USC offer a good CS program, /g/?
>>54879962
This guy is such a sack of shit.
>>54879962
assuming you're talking about socal, i'd say that it's not awful.
>>54881029
Yeah im talking about SoCal
From what I've heard their CS program is bretty good at making sure you get a job and marketable skills.
https://owncloud.com/owncloud-statement-concerning-formation-nextcloud-frank-karlitschek/
Hahahahaa
>owncloud
>$1.99
Can't they just slap ads on it to make it free for the mobile client ?
>>54879945
Come home.
https://drive.google.com/
In three months you won't even remember what an "OwnCloud" even was. You'll be surprised to find out you never even really wanted it, you only thought you did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/4m6ca2/lpt_set_a_shutdown_timer_in_windows_with_no/
Reddit discovers the command line and it immediately makes the front page.
Is this really what the world is coming to?
>>54879926
Nobody uses command line, that's why it's a discovery
>expecting a non-technical subreddit to know about command line wizardry
neck yourself
Why would we care about a cancerous website
No, it doesn't.
Why are you not using Ubuntu LTS 16.04 yet, /g/?
I'm using Debian Jessie instead.
>>54879904
I'm actually considering switching from Arch to it. All it needs is a nice flat theme and icons, default Ubuntu theme is outdated as shit
Because Jessie Is better.
Attached Photograph related.
who here /4kmasterrace/?
just joined today. Samsung has a fucking great deal on amazon
I'm considering pulling the grigger on one once the rx480 comes out so my shit tier r9 280x doesn't gimp the experience.
Sadly no, unless this deal is some good shit, link to Amazon?
>>54879552
4K is such a meme that it isn't even proper 4K, wasted money.
Post moe technology
If everything went right in IT and computing, how would computers and their software look right now, in your opinion?
e.g.:
* no x86
* title bar never would be handled by the wm
* C would have symbolic imported modules instead of header/implementation
* hardware vendors like Intel wouldn't pretend they could do security
You continue, anon.
>C would have symbolic imported modules instead of header/implementation
hahaha fuck off
>>54879553
I know, Ritchies ghost, the truth hurts.
>>54879469
I follow your link
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431
awesome ans so true
Every time I boot up my windows 8.1 computer it does this, and it's stuck, and I don't know what to do. This started happening after I installed a few updates today. Halp!
Install gentoo.
install gentoo
Install gentoo
Hey /g/
What are your thoughts on the DEFCON conferences?
For anyone that doesn't know it's a yearly hacking conference that happens in Las Vegas at the end of July early August.
It's so intriguing to me, currently my favorite speaker was Jayson Street at DEFCON 19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE
Check it out and tell me what you think.. This presentation was about social engineering/penetration testing.
I can't follow the encryption panels for shit. But as far as all the others I love it. SE panels have got to be my favorite.
>>54879316
>hacking conference
I always wanted to go there, but I'm not a hacker, don't live in USA and don't have the $ for a trip.
How do I stop Firefox from gradually trashing most of my RAM after a few hours of use? Having to restart it daily is getting annoying. Having limited amounts of tabs and bartab aren't being helpful
>>54879244
Stop spreading your lies.
>>54879255
Stop thinking I'm some chrome shill. I realize there's probably something fucked up in my config and I'd like to rule out some of the more obvious causes
Uninstall chrome and your problems should go away.
If not, install Gentoo.
Does anybody here have any tips for learning Prolog?
When I start learning a language, the first thing I do is work through the first few Project Euler problems. Thing is, it's become pretty obvious that Prolog isn't a very good language for cute math problems. Can any of you /g/entlemen suggest some small projects where Prolog might really shine, or tell me some things that Prolog is really good for?
>>54879166
Sudoku solver?
>>54879405
Beautiful.
>>54879166
I worked with prolog back in college.
Back in the 1980s.
Prolog is long gone. You need to keep up with the times.
who designed this os? two choices that open the same fucking window!!!
>need to enter control panel to change some settings
>navigate to it
>get a simplified menu for illiterates
>have to click through 300 pages to get through the one I want
what were they thinking? what the fuck were they smoking?
>>54879123
They should rename it to Windows xD
>>54879123
Nevermind the fact that there's two completely separate control panels and the new one just opens shit in the old one because they were to lazy to upgrade
Still a pretty nice OS though
>one of first rpms
>comes with great support for both kde/gnome/xfce
>great stability(Leap 42.1)
>bleeding edge(Tumbleweed)
>YaST
Why haven't you tried it yet?
How is Tumbleweed compared to Arch/Antergos?
>>54879019
I have tried it once! rally liked it. KDE buggy tho...
>>54879032
In Arch you have to compile your shit and even fuck up your system. Forget that with Tumbleweed
>falling fot the arch meme
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