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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It was a fix in PCI error handling on powerpc for a reasonably rare situation where the PCI card doesn't successfully come back up after we reset the slot or the PCI controller... https://github.com/torvalds/linux&
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The Kernel Newbies LinuxChanges page hasn't been updated yet, but when it is, it'll be at https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges .
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Indeed - when you go and look at the individual commits, the commit messages tend to be a lot more complex :) My worst commit-message-to-code-changed ratio is a commit in the kernel with a 1307 char/175 word commit message, and a singl
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The amdgpu driver is open source, not proprietary.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Interns in tech in the United States .
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Yep - useful on any kind of binary. I've used strings on exes, pdfs, database files...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Can you manually Force Stop the Uber app to avoid this as a somewhat-awful workaround?
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004115589/verbati...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
My recollection from history class was that the proportion of civilian:military deaths in war in the 2000s is basically the inverse of how it was in the early 1900s.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
> WHAT? Adobe ships (to them!) unknown, unauditable binary crap to users? Security by obscurity or what? This is totally irresponsible of Adobe. I understood this to mean that James' Adobe contact doesn't have access to their
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It's not just proprietary software that's problematic - until we have practical solutions for end-to-end verifiable voting, you can't guarantee that the software and hardware that has been audited and certified isn't bei
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Tencent Cloud Breaks World Record for Data Sorting with IBM and Mellanox(insidehpc.com)
2 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Ironically, Glenn Beck is one of the more sensible voices on that end of politics this election cycle...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Among other things, getting into a coding bootcamp tends to be both a selective and a self-selecting process. Many of the people who go into coding bootcamps would do acceptably in conventional educational settings too. School education is
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I didn't say US Government. Australia :)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
A friend of mine working for the government told me that in one major government agency, the most popular version of IE used on their website is IE11. The second most popular version? IE 6 . Not even 8. IE 6. Who still uses it? Employees o
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I think you'll find most developers wanting to get stuff working on Power will just try and get their hands on a POWER8 VM rather than relying on an ancient PowerPC box.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I agree with you, but in defence of my grandmother... A) Things were a bit different 30 years ago. Flying from Australia to Europe is expensive now, it was even worse then. B) Things are particularly different when, like my grandmother, you
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
When you're doing maintenance on a production environment which is serving hundreds or thousands of customers, in many cases you can't just "reinstall the OS anytime". Sure, ideally your environment is set up with redund
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
On the one hand, I think you're right to an extent - when I travel, I've almost always booked all my accommodation, car hire and so on in advance, all mediated through the Internet, and making my plans relatively inflexible. The i
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Personally, I've given in and just let Google raid my emails, but I have heard very good things about FastMail from quite a few people. The FastMail devs are pretty well known within the Australian open source community for being qui
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Slack, IBM Partner to Bring Watson to Developers(www-03.ibm.com)
1 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Speaking of Australian death codes: http://deathmatch.me/
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I would assume internal network security and audit trail purposes.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
IDK, I've used Amex in Australia for >50% of my credit card spend. All major supermarkets, department stores, most petrol stations and fast food chains accept it. I assume outside of those categories it really depends where you are
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
IBM is already building two new supercomputers for DoE based on Power. (Look up the CORAL Project.) (disclaimer: I work for IBM, opinions my own)
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OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces(anandtech.com)
133 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|54 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
"Wire transfers usually have zero fees for the merchant, and usually low or zero fees for the purchaser" Domestically? Sure. Internationally? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Direct link to PDF report: https://www.wosign.com/report/WoSign_Incident_Report_Update_...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Kendrick and Jaimyn recently gave a talk about this at a student conference ( https://compcon.net.au ) - we're working on getting video of their talk up soon.

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