derekp7

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by derekp7 6y ago
What's to stop someone from throwing out a bunch of jagged glass or nails on the road to puncher someone's tire? Very cheap to deploy and extremely dangerous. The thing that stops this is human decency. And yes, that safeguard
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by derekp7 6y ago
I find that my skillet comes out really nice when I make a batch of cornbread. You grease it real good and get it hot before pouring in the batter, and during cooking the right amount is absorbed by the cornbread. This leaves behind a har
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by derekp7 6y ago
But also, when I search Google, I want to know if what category the results list is coming from. The recommendation engines have gotten so bad that I quite frequently will use private browsing on a lot of my searches that are intended for
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by derekp7 6y ago
I would think that the perfect setup for that size would involve a queen-sized loft bed, but with a flip-down catwalk so that getting out of bed, you swing your feet down and they hit the catwalk at what would feel like normal floor height.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Have you considered (or able to install) an adult loft bed so you can put an office underneath?
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by derekp7 6y ago
I started in 84 on a PCjr. Had the PCjr Technical Reference manual, which was amazing. It even had the BIOS assembly source in the back of it.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Why would you sync the VM image instead of doing a file level backup from within the VM? File-level backups lets you control include/exclude lists (no need to back up /var/tmp for example, or exclude *.dbf files as they shou
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by derekp7 6y ago
Yes, that is correct. You can either have the backup server ssh into your clients, or set up an account on the backup server for each client to use. In that case, 'snebu' is installed owned by the user ID snebu, and is set-uid t
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by derekp7 6y ago
Considering that humans evolved having most of their skin exposed to sunlight, and typically people have their hands and face only exposed (or arms if summer and wearing short sleeves), And combined with most people having indoor jobs -- wo
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by derekp7 6y ago
I'm pretty much in agreement, for the most part. Which is why I didn't put encryption as a priority on my backup tool for quite a while. Two things that you'd want encryption on 1) for compliance (dealing with customer data,
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by derekp7 6y ago
(Full disclosure -- I'm the primary maintainer / author of Snebu) I would like to see how these compare against Snebu ( https://www.snebu.com ), now that it supports encryption. The project has been around for a number
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by derekp7 6y ago
When you are young and inexperienced, you don't know the difficulty of a subject. So as long as each step you take to advance your skill is achievable, and the feedback loop is good enough, you'll keep going. But as soon as you
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by derekp7 6y ago
One use that I can think of (never tried it myself, though in theory it should work) is if you are trying to cross compile for a processor architecture that doesn't have decent speed (many embedded chips), and the package you are compi
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by derekp7 6y ago
My concern is when retirement comes, and it is time to start selling off stocks. If there are more retirees than employees buying stocks via their 401k, won't that cause a price crash?
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by derekp7 6y ago
> I would expect that when I made a backup, it contains whatever is needed for it to be restored The normal use case is for the Sqlite DB (the "backup catalog", labeled as the "meta" directory in /etc/snebu.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Just curious, how do you sync file ownership and permissions when going to a ZFS target server with a non privliged account? Or would you have all the files on the target owned by the user ID accessing the target server, then keep the meta
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by derekp7 6y ago
To address the question in your edit: When the key file is created, you are prompted for a password to encrypted the private key. That password is used (along with the public key) to generate the HMAC key which gets recorded in the keyfile
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by derekp7 6y ago
What about a split or shadow repository? That is, have a host-specific local cache of the metadata from the main backup server, so that a snapshot backup can be made locally (say to an attached thumb drive or SD card), then have a process
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by derekp7 6y ago
That was actually the original inspiration for Snebu (not rsnapshot specifically, but a custom script implementing similar functionality based on the original rsync snapshot paper). Snapshots are so much better than level-based backups (fu
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by derekp7 6y ago
The "simpleness" in Snebu comes from using standardized tools such as find and tar, file storage using LZOP, and the backup catalog in a standard SQLite3 DB, allowing manual recovery of files. However Restic and Borg do have the a
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by derekp7 6y ago
It uses standard "tar" and "find" commands on the client. If you have something like a database, then you should exclude the dbf files and uses the database's tools to put the DB in hot backup mode (using a snebu-c
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by derekp7 6y ago
Glad you asked. First, Snebu goes back about 8 years, although the encryption code was developed more recently. That also explains thy it the hash is sha1 (at the time the thinking was "it is good enough for Git"). Right now it
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Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility(snebu.com)
69 points by derekp7 6y ago|40 comments
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by derekp7 6y ago
From what I'm aware of, the cases to watch out for are companies that have an "all your base are belong to us" clause in their contract. Typically it is worded as "any invention, innovation or idea conceived solely by y
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by derekp7 6y ago
"Lead Developer" is just as accurate to put on your resume, no reason to put the exact technology in the title (job titles are often internal to companies anyway -- at one place my title was Senior Associate). For every time you w
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by derekp7 6y ago
Just a quick bit of info -- Snebu is an open source backup tool I put together a number of years ago, and have been using it in a lab backing up about 50 hosts. It is snapshot based, and maintains a database backed backup catalog (using SQ
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Show HN: Snebu Backup now supports client side public key encryption
3 points by derekp7 6y ago|1 comments
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by derekp7 6y ago
That, plus the shift to SAAS apps so that everything runs in a web browser. Basically, the two things I have open most of the time are Firefox and a bunch of terminal windows.
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by derekp7 6y ago
But MSG can make unhealthy food taste better also. Which leads to eating more unhealthy food. Counter-tip -- if your children prefer to eat fast food, that may be due to the additives that make the fast food more enjoyable than home-cooked
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by derekp7 6y ago
Ah yes, he was pissed off at the guy that typed in "help" after telneting to a BitKeeper repository, then using the docs that put out to make a clone of the client. Since he had a connection to the Linux Foundation, that caused M

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