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by bodyfour 14y ago
You narrowly missed the days when it was useful. When I started regularly sysadmining in the late 80s/early 90s (after being a mere user for the a few years) I found I had to learn ed. /usr was always a separate filesystem so any time the
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I actually thought the timing could have been good. When it was announced, MySpace was clearly in death-spiral mode but still a lot of bands were using it as their primary online presence. I thought Ping had at least a shot at being the p
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Think of it as saying "take fd 2 (stderr) and send it to the same place fd 1 is going now" So: $ command >file.txt 2>&1 first redirects fd=1 to file.txt and then has fd=2 go the same place. Where: $ command 2>&#
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Especially lenient, but not infinitely lenient.
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Huh? It's right there. Quote: The Russian-language pages were licensed to the Russian company SUP media, founded by US entrepreneur Andrew Paulson and a Russian banker thought to be close to the Kremlin, Alexander Mamut. Just over
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Yes, a firewire has the ability to do whatever DMA requests it wants. This is a thruput advantage (especially when processors were slower) since the host CPU only has to set up the data transfer and the rest can happen in hardware. Back i
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by bodyfour 14y ago
"Target mode" also works with Thunderbolt. In fact it used to work with SCSI as well; it far predates OS/X as a feature on Macs. It doesn't work over USB though. The stuff in the article about Firewire mode being involved is really a red
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I'm in the same boat; been using FileVault since day one. I just checked and, sure enough, my cleartext password is visible if I run: $ sudo cat /var/log/asl/* | strings | grep 'password =' So if my laptop were lost or stolen not onl
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by bodyfour 14y ago
"w" is standard on most UNIX machines, At one time, "f" was a link to "finger" on many machines, but I think that's mostly died out now. And of course there's "X", although you usually don't run that yourself at the command line unless you'
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Actually this is the opposite of my experience. It's actually "Run Anywhere, as long as you're on an Intel or ARM CPU". I know I'm in a tiny minority of HN readers, but I have to deal with a pretty wide variety of UNIX platforms.. my code
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I don't know if you're just trolling or not. There were UNIXes that ran on desktop hardware as far back as the early 80s. In particular, the certain TRS-80 models were sold with Xenix -- a port of UNIX that Microsoft did which later was p
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by bodyfour 15y ago
If the chart had been adjusted for population, the decline would been even more dramatic. 1950's $20B (2011) USD was in a country slightly less than half the size of the US today. In fact, if you look at the curve from 1950-2000 you see it
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I have the RP-DH1200's (aside: why does Panasonic insist on such similar product names?) which I think are a lot more comfortable, at least on my head. Both of them are DJ headphones so they aren't likely to win any prizes for fidelity. Ho
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I actually used a Razer Imperator, but I found it to be very flaky: about once an hour it would lose the plot completely and I'd have to unplug and reinsert the USB cable. Not a great experience in-game :-( I don't know if it was that p
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Depended completely on the site. The first UNIX machine I worked on (ca 1985-1986) still was putting them in /usr for instance. There were certainly sites that used /u for what is now commonly /home (or /export/home on Solaris, /Users on O
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Probably just a historical artifact; it's common at places with long Unix histories. The first UNIX machine that I used (circa 1985-1986) had one shell: /bin/sh. No command history, no anything. If you made a typo you had to re-type the
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by bodyfour 15y ago
> However unlike the US which requires that you pay taxes for 7 Not 7, "infinite". You can be a US citizen by birth, leave when you are a week old never to return, and owe tax on everything you earn in your lifetime above the ~$93K/yr
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Look at dtruss. Unfortunately you need to "sudo" to use it, since dtrace needs root permsisions.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
No need to miss it: http://www.viemu.com/ It's a pretty impressive emulation, even has some vim features. That package was the only thing keeping me sane during a year spent in VS.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
There was also http://www.blogbinders.com/ that made a go at the same idea ~8 years ago. Sadly they didn't survive.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I have a domain that's (shamefully) hosted on GoDaddy. Worse, I had the domain on a better registrar and I transferred it to godaddy. I needed a registrar that was able to handle IPv6 glue records, which was rare at the time. (The TUCOWS-
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by bodyfour 15y ago
The prerequisite is really "can print their own money AND can borrow, at a scale commensurate with their GDP, in that currency" The theory goes that a country like US/UK/Japan/etc always has the capability of paying their $/£/¥/etc debts
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by bodyfour 15y ago
At least in my OS/X terminal using the "Monaco" font (which I think is the default), the final one (U+2588) doesn't descend as far as the rest of the characters. It really produces some ugly output with that one included. Including the spa
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by bodyfour 15y ago
> That 68030/optical disk/40MB swap drive era didn't last very long. And rightly so. But given that the hardware was built (at great expense!) specifically to run that OS, I think it's fair to consider their performance together. Certa
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Well said. Back in the day, I actually used both the NeXTcube and a BeBox (although neither as a primary environment) The NeXT environment enamored everybody who was introduced to it... for a day or two. Them almost everybody moved away fr
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by bodyfour 15y ago
That reminds me of a couple tricks I used to use in the old days. As an alarm clock I'd do: $ sleep 28800; while :; do cat /etc/termcap; done >/dev/audio I found that termcap had just the right mix of structure and randomness to
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by bodyfour 15y ago
..and probably Crown Prince Al-Saud has the inside track for next weeks obit I'd wager. The print version of The Economist did cover a nice item about Richie in the letters section ("The death of a tech genius")
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by bodyfour 15y ago
It's also amusing/scary how many U.S. 'conservatives' consider The Economist to be some sort of lefty-pinko rag.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I can't argue that their ideological bent is pretty strong (and not one I altogether share, really) but the financial and international reporting is consistently superb. Even though I disagree with them often, I always learn something in t
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Based on the tone of the article I guess it was destined to be this weeks obituary, but Qaddafi died just before they went to press. So unfortunately it looks like dmr's obit is only online, unless they run it next week.

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