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by CrLf 14y ago
Franky, I don't see the point of this. It opens an all-new can of worms, just like allowing unicode in DNS, while being useless even for marketing purposes (people are used to sites being ".com" and suspect anything else). So ".com" is crow
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by CrLf 14y ago
I don't know how to play chess. Guess I'm not human...
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by CrLf 14y ago
Major upgrades are a non-issue on RHEL for the simple fact that when you are thinking about upgrading, your hardware is already obsolete (expensive to support) and you just migrate to a new machine instead of upgrading the existing one. Hav
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by CrLf 14y ago
One very important difference I forgot... If you like to configure everything from the CLI, Debian's core configuration files are much nicer than RHEL's. Compare, for example, "/etc/network/interfaces" as opposed to "/etc/sysconfig/network-
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by CrLf 14y ago
Not to mention that some of that software is sensitive to which kernel you are using... For instance, for a while I couldn't update the kernel on an RHEL5 server that I have, because TSM I/O would drop like a rock. I could switch to newer k
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by CrLf 14y ago
I've used both Debian proper and RHEL/CentOS in production. At one point I preferred Debian, but some years later I don't have a preference anymore. One is "better" than the other in a case-by-case basis. Debian has an advantage on package
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by CrLf 14y ago
Regardless of that (which I haven't experienced, at the very least because I only got a Pi when they started selling the Rev 2), any platform has its issues at first. The important part is that they recognize them and fix them. People can c
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by CrLf 14y ago
What a bunch of naysayers... The Pi isn't the most modern board out there. It isn't the most powerful one or the smallest. It isn't the most open one... But, who cares? The Pi is readily available from a number of distributors in a number o
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by CrLf 14y ago
But it's that translation that makes x86 so successfull. If you remove that layer, you also lock yourself in to whatever internal instruction set is used. Even this being a console, it's still useful to be able to change the internal ISA in
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by CrLf 14y ago
For openssl 0.9.8, where "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256" and "AES128-GCM-SHA256" aren't supported, that cipher suite actually places RC4 40bit as the preferred cipher ("openssl ciphers -v").
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by CrLf 14y ago
In Portugal we already have something like this, but I bet it's completely unintentional... It's not uncommon for companies to split above a certain revenue level, in order to save on taxes. Now, this is a fake split as they mostly remain o
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Ask HN: Can a sysadmin switch into (full-time) programming?
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by CrLf 14y ago
It seems reality doesn't work quite like Hollywood movies, where the FBI just walks in whatever country and starts flashing their IDs, while random local citizens soil their pants.
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by CrLf 14y ago
"Every day, hundreds of millions of people go to work and hate the piece of shit software they have to use to perform their jobs." The problem is: they will hate it no matter what. Realizing this is the most important step - IMHO - to under
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by CrLf 14y ago
"I’m leaving bioinformatics to go work at a software company [...]" "[bioinformatics] software is written to be inefficient, to use memory poorly, and the cry goes up for bigger, faster machines! [...]" Well, the author is heading for a ver
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by CrLf 14y ago
Totally unlike the corporate world. (That's sarcasm, BTW.)
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by CrLf 14y ago
"Computers are so fast today that does this benchmarking business really matter?" Famous last words. Computers are much faster than they were years ago, but look at how much crap they have to deal with... So much crap in fact that we barely
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by CrLf 14y ago
Maybe I was wrong in using the term "transient error"... A bad block reallocation can be seen as a transient error from the controller's perspective, but it isn't silent provided the drive doesn't lie about it (and one would expect that a p
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by CrLf 14y ago
"The RAID card writes DCBs on disks that are read by the new RAID card upon replacement." Which also makes for very nice RAID failures, like this one that has happened to me on an HP controller: A drive fails because of some SCSI electronic
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by CrLf 14y ago
One thing I've learnt early on my career as a sysadmin is that disk quality is very important, and so is the quality of the RAID controller or software RAID subsystem. After you have a multiple drive failure on a supposedly safe RAID-1, a
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by CrLf 14y ago
Actually, Norway isn't part of the EU. They have rejected membership by referendum, twice.
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by CrLf 14y ago
You can have encrypted swap.
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by CrLf 14y ago
You know what I would like to contribute for? To bring the old Mac interface back. (BTW, I already contributed to VLC in the past. It's very useful and I think they deserve it.)
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by CrLf 14y ago
Then, in an emergency, some drivers won't know what to do or react erroneously, causing accidents. Just like what happens in aviation. Will drivers have to have the same kind of training for their self-driving cars that pilots have for mode
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by CrLf 14y ago
Mac desktops or also laptops? If it's only about the desktops, I suspect that they are preparing to lower the volumes below what's economical to build in China.
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by CrLf 14y ago
Don't know if github made things easier or harder. Want to contribute a patch? Fork the code, make your changes, do a pull request... In the old days, we just sent a diff to the maintainer and that was that. It could either be accepted or i
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by CrLf 14y ago
That has little to do with robustness. Linux may very well be as robust or even more robust than any OS considered for those purposes, but the question isn't robustness, it's predictability . I even go further and say that Linux is more
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by CrLf 14y ago
I don't even remember the last time I saw a Linux server crash... at least I can't think of any occasion in the last 10 years or so that wasn't directly related to some hardware failure (firmware bug or actual dead hardware). So, I don't un
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by CrLf 14y ago
ECC events are triggered by any memory error, be it the occasional cosmic ray or a not so good memory module. It isn't difficult to tell these two possibilities apart. Sometimes I get an ECC event on some server, and then it never happens a
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by CrLf 14y ago
I think they don't mention it because they think it to be obvious (I hope). However, with all the special built servers that big providers use to reduce costs, there is some margin to doubt. I think Google may be able to get away with it. W

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