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by darkr 11y ago
db2 used to support/recommend raw block devices (this was ~8 years ago). I believe nowadays they are recommending using regular filesystems again.
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by darkr 11y ago
> No. See CentOS. I'd argue otherwise[1]. Also, as of ~2 years ago, CentOS is just another Red Hat supported project. [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT
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by darkr 11y ago
Plenty of successful businesses are built around providing support, services or premium features for an otherwise open-source project.
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by darkr 11y ago
Though this news is pretty shocking, I don't think that the horsemen are nigh until MS releases SQL server under GPL. If that happens then I'm packing up and heading for the hills, this world is done for.
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by darkr 11y ago
In a hostile Internet, where ISPs performing egress reverse path validation is the exception, rather than the rule, public UDP- based services are doomed.
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by darkr 11y ago
Yup, used Cubase extensively back in the day, was pretty much my go-to for a number of years. I've the opposite experience to you with seeing it in use at studios though.
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by darkr 11y ago
Yup, I can remember several companies settling and being forced to comply for violations of busybox GPL'd code in the US off the top of my head - Verizon, Extreme Networks and Xterasys. There are likely quite a few other examples of GP
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by darkr 11y ago
Pro Tools is still pretty much _the_ standard for audio recording, mixing and AV post-production. If you're just producing electronic music, want VSTs, and/or just using a few live tracks, then yeah; you're probably far bette
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by darkr 11y ago
Discourse?
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by darkr 11y ago
This is all well and good until you call your bank, and taking a look in your password database you discover that your first pet's name is Adolf Hitler. The conversation that follows becomes somewhat awkward..
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by darkr 11y ago
I just got a notification that new builds for CentOS 6 and 7 were being pushed out to the mirrors now..
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by darkr 11y ago
I meant her alleged base income was $2k _before_ commission.
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by darkr 11y ago
Though things have improved considerably a while back with docker dropping most capabilities before starting a container, but without user namespacing on a shared kernel, ultimately root in the container == root in the host machine. More sp
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by darkr 11y ago
Maybe it's $2k basic before commission (as sales salaries are often largely composed of commission), and that fact wasn't disclosed in this post?
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by darkr 11y ago
Non-envelope headers on emails are arbitrary. "From" (as opposed to Envelope-From) is one of these. Some mail clients looking at you, Outlook) just display the minimum amount of data including From, and make it non-obvious that th
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by darkr 11y ago
It's in the process of joining the EU (a process that started in 1959, had various setbacks and then restarted in 2004): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur... As to whether it's &quo
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by darkr 11y ago
Yeah - I was confused by that. Bradford has a population of 293,277, whereas Leeds (15 miles down the road, border to border and included in the larger West Yorkshire stats) has a population of 751,500. It seems a bit of a push to categoris
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by darkr 11y ago
Lots of distributed filesystems (I guess I'm talking about distributed object stores here rather than an actual clustered network filesystem) rely on a regular POSIX filesystem for the storage of blobs. A huge amount of work has gone i
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by darkr 11y ago
> (i.e. 10 downing street). Status of the exchange: no plan for optic fiber roll out. I imagine the entirety of Downing Street is connected back into the larger Whitehall network via redundant private gigabit circuits.
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by darkr 11y ago
I have this gripe too. I recently received a letter from BT to say that my line rental was increasing by £1/month so that they could offer more "great services and a wider selection of content". The only reason I have the lin
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by darkr 11y ago
It's largely irrelevant that 21CN runs IPv4 as it's implemented as MPLS VPN switching network. What the customer (i.e an ISP) gets presented with is basically an L2 ethernet connection, over which they can run whatever protocol th
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by darkr 11y ago
> I wonder if there will be 100TB spinning read/write drives by 2020, an exponential leap instead of incremental The problem with spinning disks is that speed and reliability has not increased in line with capacity. There comes a po
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by darkr 11y ago
Yeah, you're right. I am generalising and cynically caricaturing; though a fair bit of that stuff does go on. The current system of self-regulation is sorely in need of reform and legislation, but those tasked with legislating are the
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by darkr 11y ago
There's no board for UK government IT projects. The process starts with lobbyists (from the likes of Fujitsu, CSC etc) offering fancy dinners, a few trips to the opera, family holiday in Barbados, and crucially a revolving door, behind
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by darkr 11y ago
> But this article makes me worry, especially for the kids. And, that you can't distinguish b/w a regular candy and one with marijuana in it. There's still a minimum age (21 I believe) for purchasing. Same argument (irresp
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by darkr 11y ago
> That stuff (checking hashes, etc) is currently mostly theatre because, as you say, a nation-state can easily serve you different hashes to check. This is why as well as serving those hashes over HTTPS, you sign the hashes with a key, t
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by darkr 11y ago
Not afaik, but there's this: https://github.com/kisom/dotconf/blob/master/.vim/colors/ein...
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by darkr 11y ago
Our prime minister had the same problem, often signing off his text messages "LOL, DC". As a country, we collectively lol'd
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by darkr 11y ago
> I was part of a group who campaigned relentlessly for years to oust these vermin So someone who holds a different view from you on the future direction for Linux are "vermin"? Sounds like the rantings of a certain someone wit
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by darkr 11y ago
Because taxes aren't a personal payment for government services for yourself. You're paying into a shared fund on a capacity basis so that _everyone_ can have access to those services.

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