heidar

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by heidar 14y ago
I like a 80 column soft limit which I usually stick to and a 120 column hard limit which I use when I feel splitting the line and indenting would harm readability.
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by heidar 14y ago
Slackware is a great distro. Did you never try Gentoo during that period? Especially around 2002-2005 when the community was the most active. I'm asking since you loved compiling and troubleshooting. :)
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by heidar 14y ago
Good luck! I can't wait to be in the same boat. :)
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by heidar 14y ago
Apparently in the UK 1 in 3 people change their bed sheets every 3 months. I can't find the source but I read this somewhere a couple of years back or so...
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by heidar 14y ago
I do not think this would work on organisms that did not live and die in our atmosphere because the ratio of C12 and C14 is local to our atmosphere and might be very different where they come from.
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by heidar 14y ago
Last I heard it was: "Python where we can, C++ where we must"
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by heidar 14y ago
I believe that FreeBSD 9.X uses pf from OpenBSD 4.5 which might not have the latest features. Other than that I am not sure.
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by heidar 14y ago
fvwm is the default wm on OpenBSD. I think they are unlikely to replace that with either LXDE or XFCE due to the lack of a BSD-like license. I don't know what other options there are but perhaps they are happy with fvwm.
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by heidar 14y ago
As someone who relocated to the UK I would pack up tomorrow for a well paying and fairly interesting job. The numbers discussed in the comments on this post seem astronomical to someone living in the UK (outside London) and on top of that y
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by heidar 14y ago
For those in Europe, Hetzner do excellent FreeBSD dedicated servers. They are based in Germany. They have a server auction for older hardware as well where you can get decent dedicated servers for just over 20 euros per month.
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by heidar 14y ago
I agree with point three but that could be partially mitigated by throttling, could it not? I recall a good post about making a good API that developers enjoy using and query throttling was a an important point.
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by heidar 14y ago
OpenBSD have always encouraged the use of the pkg* tools to install binary packages rather than using ports: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports
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by heidar 15y ago
I listened to a talk he gave a few years ago and he started by going "Please turn off your global tracking devices." or something of that sort. People laughed but come to think of it, I don't think he was only joking.