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by iigs 17y ago
Client-server applications such as the Web and e-mail will work just fine through CGNs and IPv6-to-IPv4 translators, but peer-to-peer applications such as VoIP and BitTorrent, not so much. ... So enjoy your peer-to-peer applications while
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by iigs 17y ago
Some of these are pretty cool. One piece of experience I'd like to offer: Don't ever use ">" in your prompts, particularly as root. A coworker had spent several days working on* an important script with a tight deadline that was almost
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by iigs 17y ago
This topic is as fascinating to me as it is impenetrable. I'd love to understand what he's saying but get balled up in the abbreviations and not understanding how to calculate how much lithium is usable from each mined mineral. Not to be to
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by iigs 17y ago
So, could one really do this OpenDNS thing behind a pay-for-internet-service? Yes but it requires the pay-for-internet provider to think about their real usage scenarios and plan for them appropriately. I'm involved in the engineering of
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by iigs 17y ago
For a while my FreeBSD 7 ZFS FS would be empty every time I rebooted -- as if it was reformatted in the boot scripts. That was a pretty big bummer and put me off of using it seriously for a few years. The Solaris ZFS bug was enough FUD for
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by iigs 17y ago
Perhaps the reason is that ZFS is actually not a big win for Apple's core product market(1): laptops and single user workstations (even that is grudging). From the original article: Manage storage, not disks. You can put all your disks in
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by iigs 17y ago
You're clearly being sarcastic, but Notepad is actually pretty darn good for a lot of minor coding tasks. It would be keen if MSFT would add a few more features and disable them by default, but on balance it's usable for quite a few things.
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by iigs 17y ago
More vi/vim tips in the MOTD/fortune issued on login on some hosts (FreeBSD pops to mind). fortune in /etc/profile is something I miss about older Unixes and Unixalikes that seems to be evolving away.
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by iigs 17y ago
With 32mb of DRAM on CPU, it's not long before computer manufacturers build the power on self tests to run entirely within L3, making it possible to interact with a machine with no RAM installed. Or put another way, pretty soon on-chip DRAM
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by iigs 17y ago
Hot dog this is excellent. PXE/Kickstart servers are something I'm sick of implementing over and over at home and work. I can't wait to try this out.
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by iigs 17y ago
I respect this guy's patience, but the primary reason that one car can make such a big difference in this case is because 520 (one of the most important commuter roads in the Seattle area) is just two lanes in each direction. One car on a t
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by iigs 17y ago
If you have a large hard drive and are not sure how you need it partitioned, you can set up the entire disk as a Volume Group in LVM and give your partition structure your best guess with relatively small volumes. Then when you outgrow a vo
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by iigs 17y ago
I agree with the groupthink thing, there are some pretty well defined no-fly-zones for ideas and opinions, but given that the charter is more "be nice" than "get to the bottom of every issue", I'm happy to let things slide when I don't agre
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by iigs 17y ago
He was clever. If he invested that time and money and she still wanted out, her salary would be much closer to his, which would have worked out in his favor when it came time to calculate child support or alimony. It's possible (maybe unlik
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by iigs 17y ago
I consider myself a person who does their own repairs. I buy the factory service manuals for my vehicles. Having the factory diagnostic procedures is very helpful even if you decide not to do the work yourself -- it's helpful to know what r
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by iigs 17y ago
And even if you found the cards, current twisted pair cable only goes up to 20 gigs. To go higher than 20 gigs means re-cabling with fiber. The same argument was made for gigabit ethernet and if I recall correctly 100mbit as well (I th
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by iigs 17y ago
I strongly disagree. What web site has ever been without scaling problems if it weren't for that darn password hash complexity issue? IMO this is really _NOT_ something to optimize for. Consider, most users of web sites have pretty simplist
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by iigs 17y ago
Neat idea but I think it could easily devolve into youtube grade flaming in the comments. Threading or (at the very least) engadget style comment grading, modified so that the arguers can't vote each other down, would be top on my priority
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by iigs 17y ago
When I see an ad for superrockstarninja coders I can't rid myself of the image that they want to pay salary in ThinkGeek trinkets instead of dollars. The people whose technical abilities I admire the most uniformly are or would be appalled
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by iigs 17y ago
I know you mention it in the post, but goodness gracious the wasted toolbar space! Can you trim it down and take a picture of a rendered page? I'm curious how well it renders stuff that is modern/complex/tricky.
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by iigs 17y ago
I can't speak to puppet, but I would expect the proper thing to do is to run puppet as root, or possibly create a puppet user with NOPASSWD if you must. There's really no reason to not run as root if you're going to run NOPASSWD ALL, since
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by iigs 17y ago
Every sysadmin has their own fingerprints. I read some of the suggestions and kind of cringe since they don't match my preferences (not that they're absolutely bad). One of my current aspirations is to "use the tools the way they were inten
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by iigs 17y ago
It looks great! I've kind of been on the outskirts of KDE for a while but I think I'll try out the Kubuntu that includes this.
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by iigs 17y ago
I use too many computers on a daily basis to bother to learn Dvorak. If I could get it down to 1-2 per week I'd consider it, though.
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by iigs 17y ago
I also read somewhere that staring at a computer screen for a long period of time weakens the eyes. It suggested that every 20 minutes you should get out of your seat and walk around, concentrating on objects different distances away. I d
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by iigs 17y ago
CentOS itself may hit the skids but the thing that CentOS represents to the community will probably never die. Before CentOS had critical mass White Box Enterprise Linux was another distribution doing the same thing. It may well be time for
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by iigs 17y ago
The counterpoint to this is a bankrupt company may well not have ever reported your income to the IRS, at all. Process that however your ethics guide you.
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by iigs 17y ago
I worked at a company that missed payroll. They told us that they "couldn't stop" us from taking our laptop and marking its fair market value against what we're owed. I asked about the desktop next to my laptop. "Can't stop you." "The Serve
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by iigs 17y ago
Great catch. I haven't read the article yet but it wasn't adding up. For-corporate-use Thinkpads and Dells are almost all in the $1001+ range, so I was confused. One of the most fun parts of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field is the st
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by iigs 17y ago
But this particular convergence will also enable new types of communications processes to become part of every-day scenarios. Eeek. I think he means "People will use it to communicate."

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