I know this isn't the place for it. But a user was randomly looking up the user IP based on ID or something and it took down my ability to use catalog, and whatever he did made my internet shit out, and practically nothing would load for about 20 minutes now. I renewed IP and all this other shit but I just randomly fixed itself. What did he do to my system so I can prevent it? For the record I wasn't insulting anyone and was just browsing around.

Let's discuss Open Source Software as defined by the Open Source Initiative.

http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

You have have heard some FSF proprietors here criticize "open source" for not promoting "software freedom", but the OSI definition provides the same four freedoms as the FSF's free software definition.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Let's compare these two definitions:

* Freedom 0 -The freedom to run the program, for any purpose
** 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
** 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
** 8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
** 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
** 10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral

* Freedom 1 - The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish
** 2. Source Code
** 3. Derived Works

* Freedom 2 - The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
** 1. Free Redistribution

* Freedom 3 - The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
** 3. Derived Works

What do you guys think about this?

What are /g/'s views on ReactOS?
Found a recommendation for it when looking for some lightweight OS to host network shares since using a full blown Windows 7 or 2008 R2 VM seemed wasteful.

From a quick look it's been in Alpha since 2004 with no end in sight and its crowdfunding thing looks set to fail but the idea of pre-8 Windows without any ties to MS sounds strangely appealing

SO /g/ some guy has my IP and keeps booting me offline whilst im working, how can i fix this?

Are you ready?

Okay /g/ i don't like begging but you are literally my last option, and i'm not going to go on faggy reddit to beg, or at all for that matter.

Here is my situation, I'm poor as shit, college student (britfag college) who doesn't even have enough to buy a computer/laptop. I do a computing course at college and they only let poor people have a laptop for the first year. I was the only person who qualified for one. At the end of the first year i decided to repeat it so that i could keep the laptop for another year as i use it for alot of things. They're now asking for it back as i am doing second year at college doing Computing. I thought i'd try getting some money by selling some stuff. Xbox 360 + games then various things and got £150. On my way to a computer shop in manchester i was mugged and lost all moneys and bus pass, had to hitch a ride home.

tI;dr: I beg you if 60 of you could donate £1 to my paypal i can buy a cheap desktop from eBay so i can actually graduate from college

paypal: georgecantlow@live.co.uk

I have a Phenom II x4 965 BE that I'm doing some encoding with in handbrake. Before I started it was sitting at low 30s, after I started it jumped and stayed in the high 50s. I'm wondering if encoding overnight might hurt the processor.

Remember when /g/ was good?

Encoding guide:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/vpxEncodingGuide

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Why aren't more websites like reddit where they don't require an email to register an account nor do they require a password with numbers/uppercase/special characters ...