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A couple months after 22-month-old Justin Alvarez nearly died after falling into a backyard pool, the basketball-loving boy had the chance to meet the first responders who helped save his life during a ceremony honoring them.  It was a moment that was especially rewarding for the first responders, who were ecstatic to see that Justin had made a full recovery. Banner Thunderbird presented the Life Saving Award to Capt. Berry Morgan, Richard Robnett, Anthony Adelman, Matt Votow, Capt. Michael ...

Why? Lets assume that you’ve been a GNU+Linux and Free Software user for a very long time. Maybe 15 years. Maybe even more. What is the first thing that occurs to you when you encounter a problem? Or something breaks down? You search, you discuss on mailing lists, you read source code. Basically, you use all the resources you have the liberty to use. What you don’t do is accept the problem or dynfunction or break-down as a norm and build your life around it. However, there are also those th...

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Až dosud měli přispěvatelé do projektu GCC jistou jednu věc. Vedle samotné GPL licence to byla skutečnost, že veškeré příspěvky, které do projektu…

While most distros ship with systemd, init alternatives exist. Here are a few of the leading init systems available for Linux.

Linux Sun Feb 06 2000 at 20:23:40 Category: Sat May 06 2000 at 20:46:33 They say that GNU/Linux (hereafter referred to as Linux) is free if your time is worth nothing. I think that its like the difference between Legos and He-Mans. He-Mans were cool, but you had a limited number of positions and with rough play their limbs would break off. Legos were trippy because you could build whatever the hell you wanted to--but it takes a longer time, involves more work, and requires a greater ability f...

Posted May 6th, 2021 for Percona Raleigh, NC – May 6, 2021 – Enterprises have a deep appreciation for the value of open source software with 100% of the information technology (IT) decision-makers in a recent survey saying that “using open source provides benefits for their organization.” The survey of 200 IT decision-makers was conducted over the past month by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona , a leader in open source database software and services. Over the past disrupt...

see my "final pretrial Twitter thread"). Im not like those New Years resolutioners starting to smoke again a week later. This post is not about the trial itself or the antitrust matters involved, but about suspicious social media activity of the astroturfing kind. Its publicly discoverable that Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and I follow each other on Twitter, and sometimes retweet or like each others tweets. Other than that, I dont know him and Im 100% independent from Epic. I have my ...

Wave Ring for Work by Genki Hands-on Review: Game Changing Wearable Tech for Presenters By David Herbert Hands-on with the Wave Ring by Genki (Photo: IBTimes / Jeff Li) Wearable tech has not caught on as fast as everyone thought they would, or hoped they would. Weve already seen a whole slew of failed crowdfunding launches, from smart glasses to helmets to gloves, and none that has truly become mainstream so far. However theres a new wearable device thats making waves (pun intended) among...