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by geoka9 12y ago
Do you have any plans on replacing your hard drives as they get old? Or you just wait for them to fail?
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by geoka9 12y ago
There's OVH that has a big data center in Montreal.
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I like using rsnapshot. I think it's a great rsync wrapper.
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by geoka9 12y ago
Daemontools is a gift from the unix gods. Having been a unix user for most of my professional life, I haven't even heard of it until a project for which it was exactly what I needed. When I found it, within an hour I was ready to deplo
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by geoka9 12y ago
> Sending directly from a Digital Ocean VPS? Yeah good luck with that bounce rate. I do. Gmail spam-flagged the messages for a while, but after a couple of months it learned they're not spam. Surprisingly, other email providers (yah
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by geoka9 12y ago
I wonder if sfconservancy (or any other free software group) be able to benefit if vmware is fined? Who'll get the money?
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by geoka9 12y ago
> Is there a department of Russia that you trust? If you mean any department within the Government, then no, there isn't. If you mean "mass media", there are a couple that I trust (not unreservedly, though, but I consider
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> The forces that currently have power in Kiev had a choice back then - violent coup vs. fully democratic impeachment of the democratically elected president. I don't buy the argument that it was a coup. It was a mass protest which
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by geoka9 12y ago
I apologize in advance since I'm a bit short for time at the moment and I'll just post a short(-ish) reply to the questions I can answer from the top of my head (more or less). > Girkin's presence in the Crimea before the
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> You can see how it would be considered 'irresponsible' to remove him from office Again, the country was in a political crisis. The president has just been snatched by the military of the aggressor who was invading the country
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> ok, so non-following of the full set of details of a full-fledged democratic process makes the will of the people illegitimate. It makes the referendum illegitimate and its results questionable. > Are you kidding me? No, I'm no
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by geoka9 12y ago
> because it has been made clear by Crimea and Donbass... I'm sorry, but all of this is pure Kremlin propaganda. You can't blame nazism on a nation that has people of various ethnicities (including Russian) fighting in its Army
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> they made it illegal (outlawed) to have schools in Russian This is not true. > various government proceedings Always been like that. But the officials could always talk in Russian if they felt like it. The rest is just propaganda.
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> and the parliament didn't have enough votes to remove him from office (it was done anyway). It would be kind of irresponsible not to appoint an acting president, considering that the incumbent one has just been removed from the co
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> why wait for the genocide to actually happen? The "South-East of Ukraine", which Russia claims is threatened by "genocide", is 9 regions in addition to Donbass and Crimea. None of the 9 regions have seen any ethnic
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> Can you explain why such a thing can be called a farce? Mostly because people were to choose between two options both of which meant that Crimea would secede from Ukraine (the first one meant outright separation, the second a disguised
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> when they outlawed Russian language How do you mean? Half of Kiev (Ukrainian capital) speaks Russian as their first language. Half of the Ukrainian army and National Guard (including the volunteers) speak Russian as their fist language
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There was no "democratically voted separation of Crimea", it was a farce.
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by geoka9 12y ago
> the deal was signed and not followed up on. Yanukovich left the country (illegally, BTW), before the deal could even be followed upon. There wasn't anything for the parliament to do, but appoint an acting president and call for ne
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> the February 21st deal to keep Yanukovych in power... was reneged It wasn't. The annexation of Crimea started before the deal was signed (Feb. 20) and Yanukovich decided to close shop and flee soon afterwards[1]. > and a world
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One third of the country? Please get your facts straight. It's not even one third of the Donbass region that's affected by the hostilities, and Donbass is only 2 of the 24 regions ("oblasts") of Ukraine.
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The Party of Regions basically rebranded itself as "Opposition Block" and got 29 seats in the Parliament. All of the country voted (including the Eastern regions). A smaller part of the Donbass region couldn't vote because th
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by geoka9 12y ago
Is the battery controller programmable from Linux? E.g. can you set charging thresholds? Is there any hardware in it that doesn't work in Linux?
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Wow, a very impressive lineup. Their performance laptop even has the optional second GPU - never seen that in a laptop before. If only they had a trackpoint style pointing device, that would be my perfect next laptop!
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Why does lenovo thinkpad have to be the only line of laptops that has a trackpoint by default? How hard can it be to include it for other brands? This is a very important feature for some people and it limits their choice to thinkpads and (
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Shopping in Beriozka: Consumer Society in the Soviet Union(zeithistorische-forschungen.de)
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That's a powerful idea, thanks!
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Bash process substitution(tldp.org)
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What thinkpad model do you use? What card? Is there a performance hit because of the ExpressCard limitations?
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by geoka9 12y ago
That "Graphics Amplifier" is a pretty cool idea, I've been looking for something like this. But it uses an proprietary connector which means it can only be used with an Alienware laptop :(

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