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by darkr 12y ago
Gitlab is gaining some traction, and should be considered indirect competition, and direct vs. github enterprise
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by darkr 12y ago
Riak (enterprise version) does that, and has pluggable stores (albeit limited to in-memory, bitcask + eleveldb)
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by darkr 12y ago
I use shutter heavily, and have been doing for years - recommended.
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by darkr 12y ago
I agree in principal, but unfortunately taxing dividends is a necessity in the defence against tax avoidance. Were the practice to be abolished I could see companies using this as yet another loophole; faciltiating avoidance of both corpora
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by darkr 12y ago
I particularly liked the DHCP server on USB hack for DNS hijacking.
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by darkr 12y ago
Correct, to have the instance itself running under HVM virtualisation, the AMI needs to have been registered with --virtualization-type hvm.
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by darkr 12y ago
All of the current generation of AWS instances (m3 type) are HVM.
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by darkr 12y ago
Not AFAIK - last time I looked it requires one or more AWS autoscaling groups, and works by semi-randomly terminating instances that match configured criteria.
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by darkr 12y ago
CentOS released a patched bash package around 2AM GMT, something like an hour after RedHat.
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by darkr 12y ago
pre 3.5 it doesn't actually disable swap, it will only use it when it's about to OOM. post 3.5 it does actually hard-disable, but setting swappiness to 1 gives the same behaviour as swappiness=0 in < 3.5
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by darkr 12y ago
It is indeed absurd, when swapping can be avoided entirely by setting kernel swappiness to 0: sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0 to make permanent, set vm.swappiness=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf Though for a desktop machine, disabling swap probab
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by darkr 12y ago
I find teamocil[1] for this use case, usually with one window opening a vimsplit of TODO, README, CHANGELOG etc, one window to launch a vagrant machine (which then runs all the daemons), another for guard/rspec output, and other window
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by darkr 12y ago
The current desktop client runs atop a JVM
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by darkr 12y ago
Your website has an error: "NetworkError: 401 Unauthorized - https://www.prehash.com/users/current.json"
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by darkr 12y ago
eu-west-1 had some network connectivity issues earlier on that are now thankfully resolved. We were seeing particular issues with instances that were behind ELBs that had x-zone balancing enabled (only to instances in eu-west-1b).
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by darkr 12y ago
Looks like they've cut their prices with that home::1 offering, I would seriously consider moving back there if I wasn't really satisfied with my current ISP. (I'm with goscomb.net at the moment due to my higher bandwidth req
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by darkr 12y ago
Netflix is reportedly looking into this already: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/netfli...
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by darkr 13y ago
Whereas you drop a meter and it costs the same as a sandwich to replace, it's a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by darkr 13y ago
> What exactly does “viable for redirection” mean? It means you're at something of a crossroads in your acting career and have been invited to feature in a particularly terrible Michael Bay disaster movie.
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by darkr 13y ago
link to the post that links to the google cache: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7359526
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by darkr 13y ago
What happened to IBM's 'SmartCloud Enterprise'? edit: Ahh > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/why-ibm-phasing-o...
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by darkr 13y ago
Setting up /etc/cron.allow with only specified users (I.E _not_ your webserver user) is a good thing to do on servers generally. If you have cronjobs that need to run as a webserver user, setup another user specifically for the ta
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by darkr 13y ago
> It's great that someone is finally disrupting the squatting market. You mean _anti_-squatting market? These kind of companies have thrived in Europe over the past few years due to a wholescale clampdown of squatters rights, with t
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by darkr 13y ago
s/ a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can//
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by darkr 13y ago
/8 is CIDR notation, CIDR standing for ClassLESS Inter-Domain Routing. Classful network architecture died a couple of decades ago, I'm not sure the term still persists with people erroneously substituting class A/B/C to
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by darkr 13y ago
Yeah.. Anything early 2012 onwards (x230/x1 and later) has the new style keyboard. I've heard reports that it's not that bad, but I don't know why they would do such a blasphemous thing..
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by darkr 13y ago
> Therefore to say Margeret Thatcher is not a terrorist is like saying "blue things are not yellow." Duh. The term exists specifically to describe violence conducted by people who are not Thatchers. Unless you're Mark That
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by darkr 13y ago
I read 'intimate friends' as a metaphor for homosexuality; or at least what is now known as. Although buggery in itself was a capital offense, AFAIA before the later part of the century there was no prescribed behavioural or other
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by darkr 13y ago
In majority of cases yes, but there were also several instances of basic social engineering to obtain pin resets. That was about the only thing remotely approaching 'a hack'. Mulcaire was no Mitnick, that's for sure.
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by darkr 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4

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