Month: June 2010
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Book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Actually they’re more interested in freedom, to be no longer slaves to humans. I don’t think it’s any spoiler to mention that an electric sheep does appear in the book. This is a classic science fiction story of a dark not-so-distant future. In fact given that it’s over 40 years old it could be set…
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Helping Free Software: Translations
Well the latest version of PSmisc is almost finished, so I pushed the tar archive up to the spot for the translators, waiting for the updates before it gets released. It reminded me that perhaps a lot of people don’t know how their programs get translated. Perhaps there are some that could even contribute. The…
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Australian Internet Censorship and Data Retention
Just going on how they treat matters regarding the internet, it seems that the current Australian government is trying to beat the previous government’s poor record. Where the previous government seemed to think the internet a scary and unimportant thing that they didn’t really understand and therefore ignored it, the current government seems to be…
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Does your program use gethostbyname() ?
There has been some discussion on the Debian IPv6 list about how the function gethostbyname() has changed. The manual page says this function is obsolete and with good reason. A new feature of the function is that if a hostname has both IPv4 and IPv6 entries then the order of the return values is not…