ghaff

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by ghaff 5d ago
So use Ubuntu. Why do you care if other distros consider it too risky given different business positions/models?
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by ghaff 6d ago
There's also not a lot of money in Canonical for someone (Oracle) to sue for. Red Hat (now IBM/Red Hat) and I guess even SUSE is a different equation. Red Hat just wouldn't touch ZFS because of licensing.
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by ghaff 8d ago
As I wrote, they're adaptable. But there's a difference between true pack animals with an established hierarchy and being solitary but being open to other cats and species. Certainly, some cats are more pack-like (lions) and other
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by ghaff 8d ago
Cats are not really domesticated. I've heard various terms but semi-domesticated probably serves. They're very adaptable but not pack animals. You're sort of safe with house cats because they're small. You get less safe
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by ghaff 8d ago
All the wildcats (which basically include domestic cats) are very closely related based on my understanding. Even the whole box thing is related to a lot of wildcats having a liking for caves.
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by ghaff 10d ago
That was always my situation. Many of us didn't actually like to use corporate cards because we got a few percent back on our personal cards on probably tens of thousands of dollars of reimbursable travel expenses per year. Credit limi
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by ghaff 10d ago
Whenever I've had a company card, it's basically been for the company's benefit except to the degree that large purchases hit my personal credit limits. There may be exceptions like paying for events but I've never been
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by ghaff 10d ago
I used to have a company credit card which I didn't use much--and avoided using whenever I could because I got more personal benefits on my own card (and that was a pretty universal attitude among most people to the annoyance of the
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by ghaff 10d ago
It's different. I'd probably hesitate to use the term "good" even if maybe better than some of the more recent live action I've seen overall.
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by ghaff 11d ago
From the start, robots.txt has always been an indicator of a site's preference with no actual legal significance.
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by ghaff 11d ago
There is that. I think ReiserSF used to be the default that SUSE used. These days, it seems to be btrfs for root and XFS for everything else.
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by ghaff 11d ago
There were definitely some good episodes and it probably got better over time. I'd probably give it a mild thumbs up overall with reservations.
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by ghaff 11d ago
Well, Twitter/X is also a service with very large network effects. So many people I knew at some level tuned out that it became a very optional thing to glance at--and none of the replacements really took off in my estimation. The bott
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by ghaff 11d ago
TOS was what it was. Some episodes were better (and aged better) than others. After a pretty week start, TNG was pretty solid. DS9 was good too far more often than not. While other series had their strong points, I'm not going to go to
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by ghaff 11d ago
To be honest, I'm not sure to what degree my reaction to increasingly random dips into recent Trek has been around them just not being that good as a whole vs. just being tired of the franchise after many decades at this point.
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by ghaff 11d ago
That's probably a bit pedantic. Whether you draw a magic line with dinosaurs on one side and (avian) dinosaurs/birds on the other or just say that birds continued on from the avian dinosaur clade is pretty definitional.
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by ghaff 11d ago
I no longer have the direct relationships with storage folks at Red Hat that I once did and that stuff may all be over on the IBM side anyway. Stratis (which I wasn't familiar with) does seem to be designed with the intention of bringi
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by ghaff 11d ago
You may not believe it but it is true: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... I vaguely know some of the backstory of moving off ext4 (as default). As I understood it at the time, it was l
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by ghaff 12d ago
I don't know the whole history of btrfs (although its primary maintainer was I think at Oracle at one point) but ZFS was definitely built from a hierarchical storage enterprise mindset. Given different historical circumstances, it coul
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by ghaff 12d ago
I expect that there is enough history around ZFS that getting it into the kernel would be a pretty big move.
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by ghaff 12d ago
Yes, I was speaking of latterly and I could have been clearer with tenses.
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by ghaff 12d ago
I'm not super-plugged into Fedora these days. Red Hat has long been pretty comfortable with a more conventional file system (think it's still XFS out of SGI by default) plus volume management for RHEL. ZFS was a non-starter for li
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by ghaff 12d ago
I strongly suspect that broad enthusiasm for copy-on-write filesystems is largely past. Btrfs is out there and is the default for some Fedora editions. While I have no direct connections to that storage world any longer, I'm not convin
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by ghaff 12d ago
And probably no small part of the downturn of Dilbert (besides Adams going a bit nuts) is that Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize so it remains stuck largely in 90s cubeland.
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by ghaff 16d ago
Yep. It's easy to get into the mode of tossing everything into a big box and then you can't find anything anyway. After a tire, I tossed a lot but I find I still need to organize a lot of things down to a manageable remainder wher
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by ghaff 16d ago
Heh, never saw that. But I have had clickers etc. not work and I just have had the AV staff do stuff manually on signal and joke that "this is why you have high availability." But I think some people can't do it but that migh
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by ghaff 16d ago
There are SO many reasons why Casablanca should just have been a studio film that went through multiple directors with a bunch of unplanned casting decisions forced by existing contracts. But, of course, it didn't end up that way.
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by ghaff 16d ago
<Slightest of margins As someone who lives in a northern US state, there are so many other factors that affect winter road safety that aren't a binary above/below freezing temperature at sea level. I'm not really going to
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by ghaff 17d ago
Rehearsal is definitely real. I've certainly guilty of running through presentations mentally and then cringing here and there when I actually give them because some stuff that worked in my mind doesn't really work with an audienc
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by ghaff 17d ago
You're not going to get Steve. For which I'm genuinely sorry. But, yes, Apple has made the deliberate choice to have presenters who rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse. But many are not natural actors and will never be. You can mix t

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