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by hhw 13y ago
They'll normally list all the new features on the main website when the new -RELEASE version is actually available, this is just a -RC.
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by hhw 13y ago
Some like to wait until x.1 for production use, but FreeBSD development tends to be a good deal more conservative than Linux, and is usually already pretty solid for the x.0 release. They've also been more incremental with changes betw
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by hhw 13y ago
Sorry for your lost job. In all honesty though, I don't think ARM in the data centre will ever be anything more than a niche product. Considering Intel is 2 manufacturing processes ahead, the microarchitecture and any potential advanta
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by hhw 13y ago
1) Line length is arbitrary, and there is no finite limit 2) You can have an escape sequence for a new line With that said, I disagree that having to mark the end of a statement with a semi-colon is obsolete syntax. Statements and lines sho
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by hhw 13y ago
Somebody somewhere always has to pay for the infrastructure. I fail to see how the parent is confused between Amazon having infrastructure which they provide cloud services on, and TestingBot having infrastructure which they provide cloud s
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by hhw 13y ago
The reality is that once you reach a reasonable level of scale (multiple physical machines), the cost savings from going to your own cloud will easily allow you to afford that extra capacity and then some.
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by hhw 13y ago
Agreed. Just taking a look at their hardware: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2670 2.60GHz based systems (up to 32 vCPUs!)" That's clearly the v1 (Sandy Bridge) E5 2670 that came out in March 2012, with 8 cores per CPU, 16 cores per mac
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by hhw 13y ago
I guess you don't subscribe to innocent until proven guilty? Even after exhaustive investigation and efforts to prove such guilt?
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by hhw 13y ago
Not to mention, considerably lower in cost means considerably less revenue. How exactly is that supposed to be justification for a high valuation? Especially when NoSQL databases are a fairly small niche compared to RDBMS, so it's not
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by hhw 13y ago
Sure, and people will make the argument that taking the bus is much cheaper than taking a limousine, when comparing methods of transportation. However, people aren't generally comparing pricing between limousine company A and city of X
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by hhw 13y ago
GPL is hardly a neutral license. If anything, it's as extreme copyleft as there is. CDDL is actually quite neutral, and the compatibility issues between the two has more to do with the GPL, which is incompatible with pretty much all ot
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by hhw 13y ago
Newer disks use 4K instead of 512 byte sectors like older drives, so when you partition your disks you need to take care to align them accordingly.
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by hhw 13y ago
Low end and high end is just an extra dimension secondary to them being different products for different markets. Unmanaged dedicated hosting to managed hosting to cloud hosting are as different as a car rental to a limousine to a public tr
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by hhw 13y ago
Why would you compare a budget unmanaged dedicated server provider like OVH to a high end managed server provider like Rackspace or a cloud provider like GoGrid? It's an apples to oranges comparison. Hetzner and Burst.net would be more
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by hhw 13y ago
You continue to underestimate the importance of the original work as a product, and overestimate the importance of the license of the original work. The GPL doesn't guarantee that a potential derivative work would be open source. The d
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by hhw 13y ago
$120,000 worth of servers is maybe 2-3 cabinets. $1100/mo /w 40A @120V each in most major markets, so let's just say $3,300/mo. Add in a 1Gb commit on a 10Gb link of quality bandwidth for another $2,000/mo, and all-
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by hhw 13y ago
Sure cloud is extremely scalable. What they don't tell you though, is that it's only scalable in one direction, and that direction is down.
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by hhw 13y ago
What happens with forks of the code is not relevant. The original code and the original project continue to exist, and so would the community around it. There's no reason why they would abandon the existing, BSD-licensed project for th
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by hhw 13y ago
The tradeoff you are suggesting in this case is not valid. BSD-licensed software does not become any less free the moment someone uses it in a non-free project. It is only the changes to the code by the non-free project that are non-free, b
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by hhw 13y ago
No, it's disgraceful that Apple refuses to abide by FRAND terms i.e. cross-licensing, yet at the same time demands the same or better licensing costs as companies who do abide those terms, and then just uses the patented technology any
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by hhw 13y ago
It has nothing to do with abusing beginners, and everything about helping people who are actually willing to learn versus those that just want someone to do the work done for them, because the reality is there isn't enough of experts&#
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by hhw 13y ago
So expecting someone else to take 10 minutes of their time to explain something to you, when you could have just spent 5 minutes of your own makes the other guy a douche? Really? Anyone emotionally fragile enough to turn away over someone t
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by hhw 13y ago
I will concede that nobody posted the question, but I do think RTFM is still appropriate as a surprisingly large number of people here apparently have not done so. Because it's written in a man page, it's certainly not locked away
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by hhw 13y ago
Or maybe because I was once a neophyte that was shamed into RTFM, which had a very positive effect on my life, I'm advocating other people RTFM also? Which would hopefully help them as much as it did me? This is generally how things wo
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by hhw 13y ago
I'm hardly advocating reading every single man page; just the man pages for things you actually use. And 10x War and Peace's is hardly an extreme amount of reading to become a knowledgeable systems administrator. That would probab
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by hhw 13y ago
At the end of the day, RTFM is much more helpful than spoon feeding someone an answer. Maybe it comes off as being an asshole, but a little shame can be a good motivator for a neophyte to learn how to teach themselves, and they will be bett
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by hhw 13y ago
man 1 telnet on FreeBSD or OpenBSD contains: "When in rlogin mode, a line of the form ~. disconnects from the remote host; ~ is the telnet escape character. Similarly, the line ~^Z suspends the telnet session. The line ~^]
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by hhw 13y ago
I would agree if it were for some more obscure yet useful feature, but this is one of the basics, that's clearly documented. This should not be useful for anyone who's ever read the man page, and anyone who's used ssh should
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by hhw 13y ago
This is like not knowing the return or exit function, and is also used for telnet or serial console connections. If knowledge is so shallow on a particular tool, it should not count as being part of the toolset. There's nothing more ba
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by hhw 13y ago
The middle ground is Linus continuing to be who he is, and the corporate types can be as professional as their employers require. I strongly disagree with Sharp's premise that the entire kernel team should act professionally just becau

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