al_form2000

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by al_form2000 7y ago
This has prompted me to look if floppies are even still available for purchase -they are (as are USB floppy drives). Also pretty expensive, at 1.5 euros apiece.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Aw, right. I'd forgotten about IPC::Open3. Because I did not want to think about it, mostly (and so, I usually do exactly what you say people do :-) )
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by al_form2000 7y ago
> Perl is probably the closest but still has some warts related to redirection. I wholehartedly agree on perl but can you expand on the redirection warts? I seldom had problems with perls' FHs, while, on the contrary I seem to be un
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Yes - and no. I find the shell is a useful glue language for procedural tasks (do this, run P1, then P2, and if blah) which can/had better be logically simple but rather long and heavy on the system interaction side. For these, being a
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Very nice recipes. I'd avoid shadowing actual executables with bash function names (see head in the book) as a harbinger of great grief.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
DRY in spades. More peace & power to the author and all that. However, as a putative user of the project, I'd like to know what would I gain by adopting it. Last time I looked, that was part of use case discussions. I'd happil
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by al_form2000 7y ago
How is this superior to <any_other_http_based_storage_engine_with_API>?
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by al_form2000 7y ago
I find this trend of applications packing their own resolver concerning. If nothing else, it widens greatly the attack surface to name resolution. I also foresee mayhem with perimeter firewalls and stuff. It should be possible to block this
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by al_form2000 7y ago
> I'm afraid I've lost the metaphor Then you should be way more careful, sir. Lost metaphors are seldom returned, in these uncivilized times.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
It was in fact a very popular concept in Victorian England.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Not only that, now we obviously have reliable sources to turn to to get the right opinion about stuff. O brave new world.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
And everybody can speak about anything. As long as they don't care being hounded by the neo-puritan prudes and lose job, career, social standing.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Nathaniel Hawthorn raising.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
You are reading it with the bias you mention, and, as a consequence, you are attaching overbroad significance to a sentence that weighs in at about 3% of a text dedicated to the discussion of an archaelogical atlas of Ancient Rome.
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Stallman dragged in the Epstein s*tstorm(thedailybeast.com)
19 points by al_form2000 7y ago|2 comments
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Yeah, that's the folk wisdom on sendmail. But really, since version 8.0, writing your own .cf (or reading it) should have been regarded as bizarre as crafting your own object files with an hex editor. And sendmail has served me well, o
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Which gets it apparently wrong, as bash executes the *profile stuff on interactive login shells also.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Also because doing the same thing over and over again "[because X for X in (consistency, security, esthetics, whatchamacallit)]" grows old fast - and by the time it's been fixed and running again, X is no longer there, or it&
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Character encodings using shift/unshift bytes were born out of serial transmission. ... Also check out those ^Zs at EOF, will ya.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Been a sysadmin for 25 years myself.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Suppose I wrote an article headlined "Being a DBA is not hard" and gave "dnf install mysql-server && systemctl enable mysqld" as proof. TFA is on par with this.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
I was the ISP, & they had BL'd one of my servers for delivering NDRs. They used to blacklist /16 netblocks wholesale for this kind of, "sins", and demand ransom for getting out.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Past (more than 5 years ago as I reckon) is when I locked horns with them. They may have switched policies, I may have gotten smarter than them, who knows.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
No, it does not. Read the thread to know why.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
On redhat derived systems, setting up a basic mailserver was never harder (post 2010) than service "sendmail start & & service dovecot start" + adding a couple of DNS records. Not knowing this means not having done one&#x2
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by al_form2000 7y ago
The config format is the least of your worries also if you're running sendmail - which I do.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
In short, no.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
UCEPROTECT was the pits and its operators were unprincipled lowlifes. Luckily they (like all the pay-to-delist BLs) never got more than minimal traction, so ignoring them and their BS mostly worked ('course you needed a /19 to be
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by al_form2000 7y ago
TFA is so wrong on so many levels, I do not even know where to begin with. It surely does not make me want to rush to test the author's MTA. Unless he's talking of a one mailbox server, accepting outgoing only from localhost and s
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by al_form2000 7y ago
I intensely dislike yaml's whitespace-based syntax because whitespace is white, and it gives very little visual context expecially in long, nested documents. Editors that expand/collapse branches do help some, but are no match for

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