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LeeLorean··on Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?
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

LeeLorean··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Yes, it seems like they have broken VPN or SSL in some way.

Perhaps they own or subsidize many of the cheaper VPN like has been rumoured for Private Internet Access? https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

LeeLorean··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
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?

LeeLorean··on Snowden's "I had the authorities to wiretap anyone" wasn't a lie
Seems like it is the NSA who has been lying
LeeLorean··on Dropbox: A case study for Not using python
Dropbox used Python for client portability?
LeeLorean··on Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
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.

LeeLorean··on Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
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.

LeeLorean··on Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years
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?

LeeLorean··on Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
You will make Microsoft angry if you do this. They have various versions of Windows 8, and some are more crippled than others.

It enables PAE which is 36bit addressing Microsoft brought in for their server product line. You still only have 4GB per process, though.

I've been using this one for Windows 7. Gives me 64GB http://www.adminsehow.com/2011/03/windows-7-32-bit-pae-patch...

LeeLorean··on Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
ReactOS is great, but the project seems to have died in the last few years.
LeeLorean··on Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
Syncdocs and Boxcryptor are quite similar. What I like about Syncdocs is it enables EncFS for the folders selected to be encrypted, too.
LeeLorean··on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"
Irix with SoftPC was about the slowest thing I ever had the misfortune of using.