Sorpigal

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by Sorpigal 15y ago
How about we stop mincing around and make some gut-wrenching modifications? As long as you're going to go through all the trouble of shuffling things around let's kill more than one bird at a time. Let's not worry about legacy needs, let's
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
Partitioning has some security and performance gains. Different filesystems for different workload (e.g. perhaps xfs for database files and reisterfs for /tmp), mounting with noexec or ro in some cases.
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
In Windows from a cmd.exe prompt you rely on the contents of %PATH% to access programs. This is a holdover. In Windows proper there are other methods; from cmd.exe you can use the 'start' program to invoke executables in a Windowsy way. The
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
BSD is in a position to differentiate in a way that Linux just isn't. In Linux all* software is third party, except for the kernel and util-linux (and maybe fileutuls or some other set of GNU software). To me the BSD distinction doesn't m
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
This is why it is essential for people who are concerned about privacy to use run Firefox and install the RequestPolicy extension. I simply don't whitelist facebook's domains and thus couldn't be tracked even if I had a Facebook account.
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
Read it again, they are. Quote from the proposal: "For example, the adoption of Universal Time would give new flexibility to economic management in the vast East-West expanse of Russia: everyone would know exactly what time it is everywhere
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
The real innovation in this calendar, which I don't rememebr seeing in previous perpetual calendar proposals, is the system for 7-day-week seasonal drift adjustment. Adding an "extra" 5 days to every year is much more common, but not popula
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
Compliance with biblical mandates is a popularity hack. You need popularity if you want a new calendar to be adopted (or you need massive power on the level of an emperor^Wdictator.
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by Sorpigal 15y ago
For people who are apparently enlightened enough to realize that no calendar, however rational and perfect, will be accepted if it violates a certain religious rule (the sabbath), they are apparently quite ignorant in their advocacy of UTC