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No full libc or float / double support - what's the point then?
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Lawyer up!
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"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." http://catb.org/~esr&#x
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Solaris (and by extension illumos-based operating systems) solve that problem with the pNFS protocol.
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I use it for everything, from storing personal files to mass-provisioning systems and software. Works like a charm.
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That is because it was done by hand; if it had been done by a SVR4 package, it could have been easily queried by the existence of that package on systems, and removing them would unshare the NFS mounts.
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It's been that way since 2006 when ZFS hit production with Solaris 10 u2. It's nothing new. Works a treat, because it makes ZFS properties the central point of system administration for many mundane and disparate tasks, like compr
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by Annatar 5y ago
And LZX ended up as Microsoft CAB format, since Jonathan Forbes went on to work at Microsoft.
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Which practical uses could this have in production?
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Many.
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It was not sarcasm, but disgust.
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The lengths people will go to in order to avoid learning such an incredibly rewarding technology like operating system packaging boggle the mind.
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Must OOP be shoved down everyone's throat at every turn and opportunity? One of the great things about Lisp is that it's a champion of functional programming, whereas OOP is extremely complicated and it produces truly horrible mac
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Did I write somewhere that it couldn‘t?
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S3M is just a MODule in a different format, reflecting the hardware capabilities of the PC-bucket sound cards. It‘s a technical necessity since mechanically, the way this type of music is composed and played is tied to the hardware.
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We did that in the 1980’s and the 1990’s on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, only then the debugger was called a monitor and it was quickly discovered that programming in them was slow and error prone because they lacked the ability to recom
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by Annatar 5y ago
...Which would just perpetuate the PC-bucket monoculture. At our software company we used to use PlayStation 3 as a development server running YellowDog Linux. Just testing our RPM .spec files was a gargantuan eye opener as to how many thin
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I reached quite the opposite conclusion: the purpose of software is to make a computer do work. Then again, I purposely refrain from writing end-user software and focus on backend automation. It is a deliberate choice.
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This just tells me that the person "pushing for a better operating system" didn't have the technical chops to compile, link and cleanly package software for AIX she or he needed, so it's a matter of throwing money at the
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by Annatar 5y ago
Stick a Final Cartridge III or Action Replay MK VI on it and there are no slow floppies any more. But there are now solutions like SD2IEC or Ultimate II, so that's even faster. The mini and maxi aren't really the real thing.
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This is a communication and control library for iOS-based devices. For example, with this library you could program an application on Solaris which would control iOS devices or be able to transfer data to and from them, or do pedestrian thi
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"Designed" is taking it too far.
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"Compliance with these rules is not optional and cannot be sacrificed for the sake of innovation or a willingness to ‘break things’ and fix them later,” Good, finally some of these crooks are getting busted, and in this particular inst
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In the hands of an experienced UNIX programmer, PHP was a good, small, fast solution for writing web applications. However, using a framework is the worst kind of toxic advice one could provide: they are slow, bloated, and completely unnece
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It was, but in the end it couldn't, because as it turns out "developers" aren't really programmers and even the plan to make them responsible for their own messes is ultimately failing... very, very few people are truly
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"Devops" is nothing more than making "developers" responsible for supporting the mess they "release", because the model of them just shrugging off all responsibility for support, and the sysadmins (2nd level su
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Yes I read the essay. Did you in turn understand what the root cause of that essay is, id est do you understand why "Devops" even came to exist? It exists because "developers" do not want to learn anything about system a
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by Annatar 5y ago
It doesn't have to be complicated: deliver your work as operating system packages which you've integrated and tested to production and Bob's your uncle. If you invested the gargantuan amounts of time and effort to master &quo
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So instead of just going through http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/ and learning how to make RPM's, the author continues employing all this complex technology, because why keep it simple when it can be ultra-complex, hac
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I click on the link above and I get a seemingly blank page, all because the website uses some JavaScript garbage and violates W3C standards. That's the ridiculous, disgusting state of the information technology industry in the 21st cen

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