SageRaven

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by SageRaven 14y ago
Reminded me of the tiniest "Hello, world" ELF binary: http://timelessname.com/elfbin I love posts like this.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
One of the big arguments for banning child porn is that having the material "out there" causes continual anguish to the victim. In fact, victims have been awarded financial damages from those convicted of possession. (Can't find the sourc
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by SageRaven 14y ago
There's a huge difference between looking at a map and seeing anonymous, aggregate stats on crimes and having a database of individuals who have committed those crimes. For example, imagine Google Maps with overlays for different types
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I disagree. With most discussion sites (the likes of slashcode, phpBB3, vBulletin, etc.), daily re-visiting of the site and trying to pick up where you left off the previous visit is a maddening experience. With reddit, it's easy to see at
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I've been using FreeBSD as a primary workstation since '04 or so. Virtualbox works pretty well, as does Firefox 14, Chromium 20, and Opera 12. Flash and Java work fine on all 3. This is on FreeBSD 9.0/amd64. What necessitates your need f
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I recall the days where I'd start mp3-encoding a freshly-ripped CD and find something to do for an hour or two. I recall the days where I'd render the demo files for PoV-Ray at the highest quality at my PC's max VGA resolution (800x600) an
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Yeah, it's in the plan. I will probably phase out disks as they fail with WD blue or blacks.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
To steal terminology from git, I'd say that brtfs has a lot of similar plumbing as ZFS, but hardly any of the porcelain. I think the lack of striped raid is the killer for a lot of people, in spite of the hate RAID5 seems to have gained la
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by SageRaven 14y ago
SEEKING WORK: Salt Lake City / Remote / Part-Time Seeking part-time remote work in the care and feeding of Unix servers. Strong generalist Unix admin w/ 20 years experience. Have worked for large and small shops, typical IT stuff as well a
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by SageRaven 14y ago
The last event I watched was in '96. Then I became aware of the IOC behaving like the RIAA/MPAA asshats by restricting the 'net (blogging, photos, domain names, etc.). I've been living in SLC since that time, and my family totally boycotted
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Just post GPG-encrypted messages to USENET. There's always the Mixmaster type-2 remailer network, though its current state seems to be in neglect. It's a shame the 90s-era cypherpunks haven't moved on to build more visible tools for protec
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by SageRaven 14y ago
What I want to know is: 1. How to get a copy of your own dossier 2. What's the most practical way to protect your internet traffic? TOR? Routing through a VPN tunnel outside of the US? If this surveillance is even half as extensive as t
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Point #1 is pretty cool. I worked as an IT intern for Pratt and Whitney in the Middletown, CT plant in the mid 90's. I got to see samples of the blades straight from the factory floor, and indeed they had those cool-looking grooves and cha
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I spent 5 years grossing $20k/yr or less (often much less), working from home, part-time, on small-potatoes remote sysadmin 1099 jobs. Then, last spring, I got a full-time "real" job as a senior-level admin/engineer in the retail/PoS manag
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Reminds me of one of the "extras" clips on a DVD season of Star Trek: TNG . One of the special effects dudes said something like, "If you can't make it cool, make it blue." Maybe there is something inherently more likeable about the coole
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I picked up a HP LaserJet 4000 for $10 at a thrift store a few years ago. $40 for some RAM, a NIC, new toner cart, and a duplexer and I've enjoyed one hell of a great printer. The 3rd party black toner carts have never given me issues. Is
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Awesome storyteller. My personal favorite was the short story "The Fog Horn". Don't know why. Maybe the bleak, lonely atmosphere of the story appealed to my then-young sense of angst. Who knows.
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by SageRaven 15y ago
That's pretty awesome. So... how does one convert those records into something you can feed into a client?
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by SageRaven 15y ago
When the hell am I gonna be able to buy an 8.5x11" e-paper device for reading conference papers and other full-sized PDFs? I know this isn't as sexy and glossy as the likes of tablets, but I can't be the only on who's been impatiently wait
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by SageRaven 15y ago
It's all perspective, I guess. I was pissed when I joined a shop that wouldn't give me a phone. I had been cell phone free for 5 years and didn't want my own. Instead, I get a per-paycheck stipend to cover work-induced costs. The up-si
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by SageRaven 15y ago
There's paperwork? I was independent pulling in random 1099 work for 5 years and the only extra paperwork I did was "Schedule C". I assume that owning a business proper would require a ton of forms and licensing. But just doing odd jobs f
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by SageRaven 15y ago
We had a great replacement for caffeine -- ephedrine. Mini-Thins were a staple of my college life. Then they banned it (I blame media hysteria), and now I'm stuck with the steeping ephedra plant leaves (known as "Mormon tea" in these part
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by SageRaven 15y ago
What if "*.java" expands to something too large? Or is that only a relevant concern on the command line itself ("Argument list too long" error) and not within a script?
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by SageRaven 15y ago
Personally, I just want a cheaper Kindle DX. I've been waiting for years for those suckers to get down to a reasonable price. I want to be able to read conference papers, the Linux Journal, and my O'Reilly ebook collection on something of
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by SageRaven 15y ago
Reminds me of this little service I used briefly before the Napster shit hit the fan. For the life of me, I can't recall the name, but it was a directory of links (mostly MP3s at the time) and the client appeared to be a SMB client which c
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by SageRaven 15y ago
Is there a valid design reason for a site to render zero content if the browser has JavaScript disabled? Ok, so the top bar shows up, but not the actual post. And if I select View->Page Style->No Style, I can find the text, as well
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by SageRaven 15y ago
You got a link about these shoes? I've recently begun walking to work (about 2 miles one way), and have been seriously considering plunking down $350 or so for a pair of the American-made leather-soled Wolverine 1000-mile boots. I don't wan
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by SageRaven 15y ago
Isn't it a shame? I once regularly toted my Swiss Army knife on plane trips. I'd toss it into the basket with my keys and wallet and be waved through the metal detector (with shoes still on, mind you), and it was never given a second glanc
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by SageRaven 15y ago
Is this now state-wide or still only within the "Constitution-Free Zone" within 200 miles of Mexico's border? I was in Nogales looking for property in winter of '04, and I noted how many of the law enforcement were all dolled up in their mi
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by SageRaven 15y ago
This is a very cool development. I hope the OpenSSL project verifies this method and imports it so that more projects can benefit from this. Being a FreeBSD fan, I also hope this can be made to work with the "geli" device crypto driver. Ou

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