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by gwu78 13y ago
Do you have a link to a tarball for "Private Cloud"? Then I'll tell you what I think.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Not sure if others agree, but I think these "privacy"- centered alternatives to "cloud" need to be open source to be taken seriously. Now that is only my opinion - and I am not in sales. But in my view, you cannot pitc
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by gwu78 13y ago
jhead. I haven't heard anything about that program for years. I always considered it one of those programs designed by and for people who can appreciate the command line. The world needs more programs like jhead.
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by gwu78 13y ago
That means the parent's comment is irrelevant in the context of what the article is discussing. As for getaddrinfo, Links, a text-based browser which preceded Chrome by many years, also has one. Links allows the user to turn asynchron
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by gwu78 13y ago
Another article is posted to HN right now about cloud storage. It seems significant but I guess it is not worthy of the front page: Tencent will apparently be offering up to 10TB of free storage, hosted on servers outside China. https:&#x
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by gwu78 13y ago
Can you turn this off? Does Chrome respect /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts? The user cannot choose their own DNS servers?
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by gwu78 13y ago
youtube-dl: https://yt-dl.org/downloads/ You'll need Python to run it. Or just write a script yourself in your language of choice. I wrote one using only shell, sed and ftp. 1. Download the video with your scr
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is beautiful. I'm not a Linux fan, but if I can get BSD to run on this, it's instantly more powerful[1] than any "smartphone" I can buy. 1. My definition of "powerful" includes IP forwarding and packet fi
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by gwu78 13y ago
You are right. The proper acronym is ECG. I guess you've never had a polysomnography. There are electrodes placed on the scalp, chest and leg.
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by gwu78 13y ago
This example for $file in *;do wc -l $file;done could be reduced to for $file in *; { wc -c $file ;} in some POSIX-like shells. Is the for loop even necessary? echo wc -l * |sh But... http://www.in-ulm.de&
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by gwu78 13y ago
A valid point. Perhaps what's compelling here is that Google's core business is not selling books, that they have super-sized legal resources and that they chose to devote siginificant resources to this even when it does not appea
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by gwu78 13y ago
"The current practice... will I predict, be replaced by manufacturers who are willing to warrant their code." You should run that prediction by some of your friends in the legal department and see what they think.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Most difficult part of "personal EEG" going forward seems to be the pasting of the electrodes to the front and back of the scalp and the chest. In hospital, someone else does that for you.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Maybe the future is in making calls over the Internet, not a private cellular network? Or maybe the future is in open source software defined radio? I never tried it, but I heard OpenMoko could run BSD. In any event, I hope the future is on
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by gwu78 13y ago
As a client, it's easy to be your own CA. Then you can just obtain the remote server certificates you need and, if you trust those endpoints, sign them yourself. The problem is how to get those certificates and be sure they are the ri
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by gwu78 13y ago
Surely there must be a solid reason why endpoint authentication and transport encryption must be extricably combined into one program. Personally, I would find great use for the authentication function of OpenSSH as a separate program. In o
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by gwu78 13y ago
Does Apple's view of Apple matter more than an objective view of Apple? The Apple Store sure sells a lot of hardware - proprietary hardware, no less - for a "software" company. How much software in the App Store is written by
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by gwu78 13y ago
My system has only one user: me. I am the only one using it. Multiuser UNIX is a relic from a long past era of shared computing. The "root" concept creates more security issues than it solves. That's why Plan 9 did away wi
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by gwu78 13y ago
mfs or tmpfs, and multilog Also, I like to dd the OS to the card as an image (1 write). I have no desire to untar 100's or 1000's of files (100's or 1000's of writes) to install an OS on a card.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why is it "ultimate bravery"? Unless you compile your own kernel, the Linux kernel many of you are using right now is "arbitrary". That is, someone else compiled it and you are trusting that what it will do (or initiat
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by gwu78 13y ago
setuidgid luser mknod ... Are you sure?
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Is there ever a reason to have more than one..." Yes. It's called a chroot jail. One often needs mknod to build chroot jails because the program or programs that one intends to run in the chrooted in the jail directory requ
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by gwu78 13y ago
From the comments, it often seems that there are a lot of HN readers who really like Windows as an OS. Is it true that "distaste for Windows" was a motivating factor behind Viaweb? For me, Windows was an enormous itch. I scratche
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Why?" Why not? In my case, the reason is because it's shorter to type. I would expect most longtime UNIX users have experienced what happens when, for one reason or another, /dev/null is not a null character devic
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by gwu78 13y ago
One reason I am not a devfs fan is because I'm a mknod(1) user. For example, FreeBSD has one of those famous "_________ is deprecated" bold warnings regarding mknod. It is not deprecated in my usage. I use it all the time.
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by gwu78 13y ago
The article refers to a move several years ago by one biotech company, Amgen, to attempt to validate the results of some well-known studies. Where can we find the list of these studies?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Will it compile on BSD/Solaris?
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by gwu78 13y ago
So the descriptive domainname is probably only to influence Google's ranking methodology? The domainname itself being a factor in the inferred "relevancy" of the content. Your explanation of this scam shows some of the flaws
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... it doesn't look like they're getting even a single digit number of visitors from Google." So? What if that is not the goal? Is it possible that some users might not type their searches in a Google-sponsored search
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Do these people exist?" This is spot on. When you hear NetBSD developers arguing about proposals (or commits, ex post facto, like here), there is often mention of "users". But these are mostly fictional. I think it&#x

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