ilikejam

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by ilikejam 6y ago
Why not just use a wiki?
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by ilikejam 7y ago
RAID5 corruption is non-recoverable - you can't tell which is right, the data or the parity. RAID6 is recoverable - you can get consensus between the data and the two parity bits. ZFS stores hashes of each block, so as long as you have
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by ilikejam 7y ago
On the last round of zpool scrubs of the 13PB-used set of zfs filesystems here (raidz3, mostly SAS drives, all hosts with ECC RAM), 50MB of data was repaired. 50MB isn't much compared with 13PB, but silent corruption is a real thing.
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by ilikejam 7y ago
It's not very common, but there's more than a few projects that use 'learned': https://www.google.com/search?q=changelog+%22learned%22
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by ilikejam 7y ago
I stand corrected!
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by ilikejam 7y ago
There were genuine reasons for the CDDL - it wasn't an anti-gpl thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...
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by ilikejam 7y ago
script unfortunately messes with SIGWINCH for terminal resizes - asciinema seems to work better in that case.
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by ilikejam 7y ago
Engineers blogging about Solaris etc. Internals, gotchas, upcoming things, heads-ups on problems. The patching guys' blog was particularly useful in the face of Solaris' atrocious packaging utils, for example. There was a _huge_ a
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by ilikejam 7y ago
iTerm2 can copy selections to the system clipboard. That alone is worth the price of entry.
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by ilikejam 8y ago
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
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by ilikejam 10y ago
More of an IRL comment - I get recruiters looking for people in Edinburgh at least once a week. Not a peep about tech in Glasgow though.
42.
by ilikejam 10y ago
Lots going on in Edinburgh, not so much in Glasgow. Anyone know why that is?
43.
by ilikejam 10y ago
21 spare nails, 2 spare shoes. Or 3 horses with a limp and a spare nail.
44.
by ilikejam 10y ago
It sounds very, very much like you are depressed. You should seek medical advice. I don't think there's much else to say, really. Get well, and the rest will follow.
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by ilikejam 10y ago
That CPU use is resampling to match the sound card rate. If PA isn't doing it, your apps will be instead. Either way, it's going to take some cycles.
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by ilikejam 10y ago
I've had a .name email address since the TLD was released. Never had any problems with validators. 'Name' is a surprisingly easy word to mis-hear over the phone if it's not expected, though.
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by ilikejam 10y ago
$ emacs <file> C-x h <tab> Whatever that does, with whatever type of source file, that's what I'm using.
48.
by ilikejam 10y ago
Government (SLC) student loans debts aren't sold off in the UK, so... no.
49.
by ilikejam 10y ago
I'm a big fan of Zabbix for general server monitoring and alerting. Sensible defaults, built in graphing, multi-step web scenarios. Good times.
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by ilikejam 10y ago
You can rely on config management if it pulls from a central service and that central service reports failures and hosts not checking in.
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by ilikejam 12y ago
My MBA locks up about once a week. Seems to be triggered by closing Firefox tabs with Flash content. The only Windows BSOD I've seen since Win7 came out has been from a dodgy stick of RAM. A stick of RAM that then got passed around a f
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by ilikejam 13y ago
No software patents in Europe (well, not officially anyway).
53.
by ilikejam 13y ago
Good call.
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by ilikejam 13y ago
Depends if the backup's on the same filesystem as the source.
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by ilikejam 13y ago
Missing some options for extended attributes (SELinux, ACLs) and (on OSX) resource forks. Also, if you're doing multiple backups of the same data to a filesystem over time, it's worth doing 'cp -al' from the previous bac
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by ilikejam 13y ago
Name and shame.
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by ilikejam 13y ago
PuTTY's pretty much relegated to the emergency usb key these days. Runs on pretty much any Windows and without installing, but not really ideal for heavy use imho. Cygwin + urxvt + clusterssh is the choice of Windows-mandated champions
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by ilikejam 13y ago
An article claiming that only 11% of findings could be reproduced doesn't cite its sources, thus rendering the findings of the article unreproducible. Nice work!
59.
by ilikejam 13y ago
True. Unfortunately Firefox had a bit of a moment to itself and did the looping sample thing, then hung while playing. It was so loud. There was no escape. Had to pull the battery to end the ordeal.
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by ilikejam 13y ago
Well. My speakers were at full volume and I'm in the middle of an office with 400 people. I'm off to hang myself.

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