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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Anandtech, as usual, has a good article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11227/intel-launches-optane-me... > The Optane Memory products are squeezing into a relatively small niche for limited budgets that require
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
> - Actually finding an XPS with Ubuntu in their shop Problem is that you're looking for XPS, I think they only do XPS + Ubuntu under their Sputnik program. If you look-up the Precision line, Ubuntu 16.04 from the factory is an opt
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck! I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Background on the speaker [0] > Mark Eugene Russinovich (born c. 1966) is CTO of Microsoft Azure. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before it was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Seems like a great person to be in charge
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Linux and Windows Kernel Comparison (2003)(youtube.com)
10 points by 2bluesc 10y ago|1 comments
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> I think people just want to help others, and do something useful with their spare resources. I run a relay on a server on my home internet connection, so it doesn't cost me anything. Same. The devs the contribute their time to bu
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I created a Docker syncthing relay image[0][1] to enable quick deployment to put on some of my servers with extra bandwidth and memory (alot (>500) of connections quickly exhausts a cheap 512MB instance doing other things and the OOM kil
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I live in SF and freelance from home the majority of the time. Side note: the commutes seem shorter then I expected. Is there a reporting bias with long Transit time people?
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I owned the previous 14" 1080p Haswell powered Galago Ultra Pro built by Clevo. Build quality was terrible and battery life was horrific when compared to Dell Precision 15 (aka XPS). I quick quickly sold it and haven't missed it
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Docs: https://www.vultr.com/news/Protect-Your-Cloud-with-Vultr-Fir...
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VULTR Adds Cloud Firewall Support(vultr.com)
1 points by 2bluesc 10y ago|1 comments
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> Because they get exploded in single-threaded performances, so they have to pit their 8-core parts against Intel's 4 cores. I assume that they are getting blown out of the water on single core performance and hence picked up an i7-
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
This article appears very WordPress centric. While I assume they'd add ads to the Javascript downloaded and run on the page, there is a possibility of this only applying to the plugin, does anyone know for sure? I use Disqus on a stat
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Which people? Those instituting the policies or those accused of the crimes?
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I bought this monitor the other week after hearing things like this but I couldn't get over two things: 1) It doesn't power off or on automatically. I need the remote 2) The viewing angle made seeing the corners difficult on my a
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
> Drivers != Linux drivers. Can you elaborate on this? In theory they should be equal and the less userspace supporting tools for hardware the better. I guess I don't count userspace "drivers" as real drivers. Almost eve
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I'd love to know of SoC vendor that does. Intel and Wolfson are the only chip vendor that delivers above and beyond for Linux drivers that come to mind. Everything else is hack city in proprietary kernel forks that never see the light
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Maintainers Don't Scale (Presentation)(kernel-recipes.org)
1 points by 2bluesc 10y ago|0 comments
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I take my old drives and put them in a RAID1 btrfs volume that serves as large back-up volume consisting of miscellaneous drives. I only need that volume when my main drives fail, and then one other drive in the btrfs volume fails. Seemed
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I've used KeePassX for offline/cold storage for years. I like KeePassX so much wrote a YubiKey extension [0] years ago but it was never merged. I assume the maintainer wasn't interested, never responded, but allowed the dis
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Could probably automate this on a Linux VM using netem[0] [0] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/netem
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Pretty much[0]: > After working with Apple over the holidays, Consumer Reports now says that the problem was caused by an "obscure" Safari bug specific to page caching, which the publication disables when it runs its battery te
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Out of the box, most Linux boxes are broke, especially with new hardware when compared to the status quo Macbook Pro. You have to wrestle with kernels, hardware, software updates, different pkg repos, GPU power management, GPU drivers, tou
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Not so sure people that take Consumer Reports seriously run Linux.
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
From the article: > Amazon says that it will upgrade current Rewards Visa Signature card members with eligible Prime memberships to the new card, but they’ll be able to take advantage of the benefits immediately — even before the card ar
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Ironically I signed up for the store card a few months ago because it seemed like a no brainer to save 5% and I shop often at Amazon. Now this. I wish there was a way to upgrade (even forfeit $70 gift card promo bonus). Instead it seems d
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
Gitlab is exploring moving their cloud setup to baremetal https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
> I'm interested in buying hardware for my own nefarious purposes. Can you post links? Checkout some of the insane setups on DSLReports [0], check out the pics. Here's an example [1]. [0] https://www.dslreports.com&
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by 2bluesc 10y ago
I just run `curl -v http://google.com` in my termainl and click the redirect link. No risk of caching that way.
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Last wish is for Linux driver support for the Quadro card to render to the integrated GPU (or whatever is necessary to display on the LCD) with KVM PCI pass through from Windows. Then I'd be able to run the few remaining Windows apps

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