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871.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
PowerPC/ppc64el, System z and ARM/Raspberry Pi server images available at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/
872.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
If Lyft ever expands to Australia, I will make a concerted effort to use them over Uber.
873.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I've used emacs as my main text editor at work for the past 9 months, and I can safely say I am still nowhere near proficient. I'm getting better, but I can fully appreciate why emacs has the reputation it has.
874.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm glad I live in a country where it's illegal not to pay out unused leave entitlements upon termination, and where there is a sensible statutory minimum leave entitlement...
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Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services(freedom-to-tinker.com)
495 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|165 comments
876.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
https://equipment.erac.gov.au/Registration/EquipmentSearch.a... isn't the database you're referring to?
877.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
CAPI allows an FPGA connected via PCIe to be treated as a coherent peer to the CPU cores that is able to hold cache lines and also use address translation. Among other things, from the application programmer's perspective, the CAPI acc
878.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Some IBM Power Systems machines can now be ordered online (at least for US customers) - https://www.ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/big-data-infrastructur... . [Disclosure: IBMer]
879.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Neither does IBM as of last year - all IBM POWER chips are fabricated by GlobalFoundries.
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LKML: New syscall: leftpad()(lkml.org)
237 points by ajdlinux 11y ago|73 comments
881.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I doubt any game developer decides not to release a Linux version purely because "oh, Wine exists".
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Since when did the GPL not cover non-code artifacts? The FSF's view at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOtherThanSoft... : "You can apply the GPL to any kind of work, as long as it is clear what
883.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
A PayPal email address, as opposed to a credit card number + expiry, is insufficient to make a transaction alone.
884.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Linus once introduced Tanenbaum on stage when he was the keynote speaker at Linux.conf.au 2007.
885.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I consider myself extremely lucky to have a job in a city where I can afford (on my fresh-graduate salary) to live near the city centre, 15 minutes' walk from the office. I know I'll probably have to move further away if I find my
886.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Oh, yeah, only for leaf functions. Obviously not for multiple levels of calls. My understanding is that PPC encourages register based parameter passing just by virtue of having a tonne of registers.
887.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
a) Return address is passed in the "link register" - our call instruction is "bl" (branch and link) and return is "blr" (branch link register) b) We have 32 general purpose registers - the ABI defines a certain
888.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I have a lot of fun explaining to people that the architecture I work on (IBM Power aka PowerPC) uses calling conventions that for many function calls doesn't touch the stack whatsoever. :)
889.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
To be clear, Temasek Holdings is owned by the Singapore government proper, not by any one political family, though the company's CEO is the wife of the prime minister and it's a vehicle through which the government and the ruling
890.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
"make help", as the Linux kernel does.
891.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
It's pretty much all done by emailed patches with git am - I maintain a personal tree on GitHub and one privately in my company, but they're purely for experimentation, not for sending pull requests. Email is how we submit code, d
892.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
The one hackathon event that I regularly participate in (GovHack) generally closes down between 11pm and 7am or thereabouts.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Huh, didn't know that - I'm starting to like GitLab more and more!
894.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
It's true that at the top level, most of Linus' commits are merge commits. However, on a per-subsystem level, we very much favour a nice linear history. In most parts of the kernel, it's rare to go beyond 2 levels of merging,
895.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Of the 9 commits listed there, 2 are removing LGPL headers, 2 are adding LGPL headers to scripts which aren't linked into the kernel, 1 is relicensing a header file so it can be used outside the kernel, 1 is changing from linking again
896.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I have fond memories of browsing the Austext service when I was younger - was sad but understandable to see it go in 2009. :(
897.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Benefits of being in a job with only moderate travel requirements - you have enough time left over that you can usually extend your stay over at least a weekend and have a bit of time for sightseeing while still benefiting from company-paid
898.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
This is one of the psychological barriers that keeps me from even trying to learn C++ - every time I hear friends talking about new C++ developments I can't help but feel that modern C++ is so incomprehensibly large that I'm just
899.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
There seems to still be too many people who cling to the romantic notion that Free Software must be produced for free, as a pure labour of love. It's absolute nonsense - so many of the most successful free/open source software pro
900.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
A huge chunk of the work going on in the Linux kernel is supporting specific hardware (device drivers, that kind of thing), which doesn't affect glibc and other core userspace things so much. That said, even excluding that, the kernel

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