ilikejam

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by ilikejam 13y ago
That makes me feel kind of sad. A once-mighty machine waiting hopefully in the dark for an Operator to load a tape. $ But the Operators never arrive.
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by ilikejam 14y ago
Some of the corporate speak on there is horrific. "We enable innovation" Ugh. I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere with my headphones, and try to block out the intense primary colours and lack of sound insulation.
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by ilikejam 14y ago
"Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways." Words to live by... http://www.johns-jokes.com/Billy-Connollys-Desiderata..........
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by ilikejam 14y ago
For all of the slagging Pulseaudio gets, built in network transparency is very cool. The client does all of the resampling and rate conversion, so you can ramp up the conversion quality to max on your relatively powerful laptop and the Pi j
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by ilikejam 14y ago
Hi. My Pi is hooked up to a powerline network thing just through the RJ45 on the Pi, but I suppose you could use a wifi dongle if you want. On the laptop, you just set the pulse sink to be the Pi's pulseaudio (need avahi running on both to
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by ilikejam 14y ago
I use a Raspberry Pi with a USB sound card attached to a DAC (just a hi-fi CD recorder) as a Pulseaudio sink, and an NFS server for the media. Then any old Linux laptop can play audio through the main stereo over the network. Dirt cheap and
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by ilikejam 14y ago
Hmmm. 'Dependable' and 'a bunch of servers on the same rack' are mutually exclusive things.
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by ilikejam 14y ago
Can someone clarify the whole charity tax deduction thing? Unless tax is at >100% (or 50%?), surely there's no gain from doubling donations to benefit from tax deduction? Or am I not understanding something here?
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Sure. If you wrote it, you can license it any way you like. The Qt framework is probably the most famous example of dual licensed (GPL and commercial) software. http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Umm, we just use the commands a lot. Doing something 12 hours a day for 10 years tends to leave some imprints on your memory.
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by ilikejam 15y ago
"Unix sockets are faster, but fall over at high load (important)" Any idea why using Unix sockets would cause failures under load?
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by ilikejam 15y ago
An SSH server outside the firewall listening on port 443, and a copy of PuTTY on your desktop can solve many firewall problems. Yes indeed.
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Needs a shuffle() function - can't bogosort without it.
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by ilikejam 15y ago
' echo -n "-n " ' works fine with the bash built-in. It echo's "-n".
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by ilikejam 15y ago
So... [dave@mini ~]$ echo -n "-n foo > " -n foo [dave@mini ~]$ Easy!
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Sure you can: dave@cronus $ ./echo -n "-n dave@cronus > " -n dave@cronus $ Not pretty, though.
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Each to their own, I suppose. I mail a _lot_ of copy-pasta from shell output, so not having to switch to plaintext manually saves time. To be honest the sort of mail that's multicoloured / multifont / etc. generally isn't worth reading, let
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by ilikejam 15y ago
If you set Outlook up to convert to plain text, you get normal '>' style quoting when you reply. It also has the advantage that anyone replying to your mail sends in plain text by default as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831607
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by ilikejam 15y ago
yum-presto on Fedora uses deltarpm, which uses bsdiff.
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Possible vector for some sort of attack? The ncsi service that requests www.msftncsi.com is presumably very simple, but then...
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by ilikejam 15y ago
Is this really a surprise to anyone? Oracle have been pretty clear that they're only going for high-end infrastructure deployments, so they're probably glad that OpenOffice has been taken off their hands. They're likely waiting for someone
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by ilikejam 16y ago
While we're at it, could someone fix Java so that I don't have to guess the f*!$ing heap size all the time?
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by ilikejam 16y ago
That is frankly awesome. People think there's something wrong with me for using dc instead of bc in Unix shells. Not sure I can justify £50 to buy the hardware version, though.
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by ilikejam 16y ago
I was approached on LinkedIn for an SRE position (Unix admin). Got through 3 phone interviews and did 5 on-site interviews, but I managed to make a complete arse of the scripting one so no Google job for me. No hard feelings, though; the in
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by ilikejam 16y ago
Running the standard Fedora 13 Gnome spin on a Dell mini 10v at the moment - 260MB RAM in-use with Firefox and Thunderbird open, which seems pretty light to me. Remove the bottom Gnome toolbar and set the top toolbar to auto-hide (put the t
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by ilikejam 16y ago
Still no ECC RAM on the server version, I see. Shame.