Tiksi

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by Tiksi 10y ago
Ok. I did read your posts, especially the one I replied to, and it does in fact seem relevant. However with that level of snark, I'm just gonna drop out of the conversation here as it's unlikely to be productive. Thanks.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
> and its escaping and context rules stem from a time when all we had was ASCII. My keyboard still only has ~ASCII on it, so having to input anything else is a huge barrier to entry. Regex syntax sucks, I'll be the first to agree w
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Granted, this is basically how wildfires are extinguished, though more trees/brush than houses.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
> I'd rather have some sort of standardized modular system where I can put my own tablet-sized computer in an appropriate place and have it get power, audio sync with the car's speakers I did pretty much this in my car, and it
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by Tiksi 10y ago
> What you've really invented is hardware drivers, which have been at home in the OS forever. Those drivers need to actually communicate with something though, that something is exactly what BMCs are. If the hardware physically pro
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of interference engines, especially OHC/OHV Interference designs. "Timing belt failure" is deeply anchored to Honda engines in my mind, which are pretty much all interference.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
A hypervisor isn't going to be able to interact with Option ROMs, change C states, change the CPU's vt-x/vt-d parameters, configure the HBA, change device addressing, configure port signaling speed, etc. That could all be imp
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Yes, but BMCs do more than just power machines on and off, and are used for more than powering machines on and off. Automatic hardware provisioning fully depends on BMCs. Intel is the party in control, and Dell, and Supermicro, and HP, and.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
I think we're talking about two different things. BMCs run separately from the rest of the system and are active even when the machine is halted. They provide remote mouse/keyboard/monitor, power control, remote device mounti
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Comparing Wake on LAN to a BMC is like comparing a text editor to an IDE. Most platforms don't have a way to change BIOS or firmware settings, and if they do, it's via the BMC anyways.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
It's not so much that I don't care, more that it's nothing new. I just don't understand why people are suddenly railing against IME instead of Dell, SuperMicro, HP, etc when there is far more hardware out there with far
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Because neither windows or linux restrict which hardware or vms you can install them on like osx does? Obviously you won't hear it from Mac owners, because they can still develop for windows or linux, the inverse isn't true thanks
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by Tiksi 10y ago
It's usually not much better if a timing belt snaps either. Two valves can't occupy the same space at the same time, so often you get shattered metal everywhere anyways. The difference is that timing chain failures are rare, timin
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by Tiksi 10y ago
There's no hypervisor that'll let you power up a halted server, change bios settings, change boot device or order, boot the system of pxe, etc, etc. It's not the same thing at all, and almost every server made in the last dec
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Yeah, I find it difficult to understand the hoopla around IME. It's not much different from the BMC that's on pretty much all server hardware.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
No doubt fiber is definitely the way to go if it's an option. Other than fiber, the closest you'll get is DOCSIS 3 theoretically runs at ~1gig downstream. Anecdotally, I've had Fios for a couple years and get faster than adve
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Eh, you're not gonna get 10 or 40Gbps over most FTTH installs. Most run GPON with beam splitters which maxes out at 2.5Gbps/line. To get 10/40/100 you need OS1/2 singlemode or OM3/4 multimode fiber which I&#x27
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by Tiksi 10y ago
The MacBook Air was almost entirely a reaction to the eeePC. Probably not really, but just as much as ultrabooks were to the macbook air.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
It's when you have to splice a cat4 and a cat5 together with scotch tape because your longest cable wont reach from the hub on the table to the couch where you had to set up because you got there late. I'm still actively using a L
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Oh man, the room full of CRTs brings back so many memories of nights spent playing chicken with a heart attack from the cocktail of energy drinks we consumed in the glow and buzz of CRTs on every surface in the room that could actually supp
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by Tiksi 10y ago
I don't think it's so much attractive in the physically attractive sense as attractive in the sense of taking care of your appearance. Nerd carries the implication that someone is so obsessed with their passion that they neglect o
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by Tiksi 10y ago
The plan still exists, you just have to jump through hoops to find it: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans Had to go to prepaid plans > Individual plan > Talk and text only Link underneath (even tho
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by Tiksi 10y ago
You could do something like unprivuser ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/bash /path/to/directory/with/files/* It'd be a mild annoyance to have to explicitly run them with bash: sudo bash &#x
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by Tiksi 10y ago
I didn't mean to imply that any individual has an obligation to explain why they're wrong, (though I do feel that as a society overall we do) but that it at least gives a chance to explain to people why their views might not actua
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by Tiksi 10y ago
I may still be too young at 25, but I can't think of a single time in my life where the threat of eventual death was a motivator of any kind. maybe as I get older it'll come, but only because it'll be just over the horizon. I
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Isn't this exactly what sudo / sudoers is for? You can specify a single command or even restrict down to which arguments an unprivileged user can pass to that one command.
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by Tiksi 10y ago
censor : to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages> censor: to examine books, movies, letters
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by Tiksi 10y ago
I never said or implied anyone was using weapons to threaten people. Maybe they are, I have no idea. But that's irrelevant as my point was that appealing to the lack of a law is a weak argument if your intent is to show a lack of censo
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by Tiksi 10y ago
Saying "But it's not a law" is a weak argument. If someone is holding a gun to my head and threatening to shoot if I say X, telling me "But there's no law that says you can't say X, see, no censorship" isn
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by Tiksi 10y ago
This holds for pretty much every government.

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