GalacticDomin8r

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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   FreeBSD...has been my primary desktop OS for about 7 years now. Overall very stable with occasional problems.
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   Repeat after me: RAID is not a backup.
3. 243.▲
   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   It also isn't a backup unless it's tested.
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   Careful, Jobs-hero worship is still quite high.
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   dump(8)/restore(8)
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   Actually there is HammerFS. Porters welcome, I'd love to see it more widespread.
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   More addon tools simply proves the point. Task / BSD / Linux set ip / ifconfig / ifconfig or now "ip" which is extremely confusing wifi / ifconfig / iwconfig speed / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool duplex / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool vlan
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   "BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC"
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   by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

   ext3 does suck for certain workloads, one of them being large scale db's. And by suck, I mean dangerous. Unless you really want to set barrier on the fs and watch your IO plummet to 45 record player speeds.
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    by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago

    This isn't the first time benchmarks like this have been done and these results are consistent with the earlier ones. It shouldn't surprise most people that enabling transparent compression gives these benefits. Why you ask? Well what is
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    by GalacticDomin8r 14y ago

    The source for this easter egg is from BSD, not Mac. Likely the import came from FreeBSD, but the LOTR calendar long predates FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57623