jclulow

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by jclulow 3y ago
Rumours of our death are, as ever, greatly exaggerated. We continue to maintain the core OS facilities provided by illumos and the organisations behind distributions like SmartOS and OmniOS continue to ship maintained, supported software t
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by jclulow 3y ago
One of our core product goals is to actually allow relatively hot swapping of individual compute sleds. It's true that each sled is an x86 server, but there's control software managing the whole rack as a unit, with live migratio
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The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment(hachyderm.io)
296 points by jclulow 3y ago|195 comments
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by jclulow 3y ago
What _does_ count as a utility, then? I expect anything that is considered (or even legally classified) as a utility is going to have rules and "someone" to decide who to kick out; e.g., the electrical grid, or the water supply,
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by jclulow 3y ago
There is filesystem(7) on illumos, although it needs a few updates at this point to retire things we've removed like SPARC support: https://illumos.org/man/7/filesystem
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by jclulow 3y ago
I'm Australian and though I don't live there now, I did for 27 years. Most of the things you're describing are just a function of the people you were hanging out with. I knew people like that, and I chose different friends.
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by jclulow 3y ago
The purest idealistic version of means testing may well be fine in theory, but in practice means testing is universally co-opted by conservative governments to make it difficult or impossible for the people with the least resources (and thu
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by jclulow 4y ago
I think there are two kinds of transitions: - on fork, you are by definition implicitly cooperating with the parent as you are the same software image as the parent; in the case of transitive forks you can be expected, I think, to continue
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by jclulow 4y ago
> you might duplicate file descriptors into the child that you might not have intended, and that can break things in the parent. This is not true on all systems. For example, on ilumos we have fdwalk(3C) and in particular closefrom(3C).
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by jclulow 4y ago
Many of these problems are at least partially solved on other UNIX systems like illumos. To run down the top-level list: 1. It's easy for processes to leak illumos has contracts[1][2][3], which were developed as part of the Service Ma
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by jclulow 4y ago
I assume that will come well after Amazon uses the technology to remove the memory of rights holder content when you cancel your Prime subscription. Or after Disney uses it to retroactively edit the Star Wars movies for the nineteenth time
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by jclulow 4y ago
It's amazing to see you castigate the article as mere opinion and then go on to write a comment that is not merely mere opinion but also quite mean-spirited and making no room for the idea that different people work quite differently
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by jclulow 4y ago
I suspect people would be more sympathetic to the plight of CEOs if they didn't make hundreds or thousands of times as much money as everyone else, even and perhaps _especially_ when they commit random acts of economic violence on thei
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by jclulow 4y ago
Indeed the Mac OS branding didn't really kick in until after 7.5 as far as I know.
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by jclulow 4y ago
> Helios is a secret Oxide thing It's not so much a secret as we've been rather busy, and I haven't had time to clean up the repositories to the extent that I'm comfortable making them public. Hopefully real soon now
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by jclulow 4y ago
Dealing with existing PC compatible servers is just a constant onslaught of tedium. Some of it is as disruptive as the DIMM stuff Bryan talked about. Some of it is just the stuff people have seemingly become desensitised to. Some of the
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by jclulow 4y ago
It's fine to have many smaller CPUs in the system, for all the purposes you state. The software that runs on them needs to be open, though, and something we can understand, fix, or even replace completely as needed. The operation of
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by jclulow 4y ago
Hewlett-Packard has never heard of a rent they didn't want to seek, so iLO definitely has bullshit extra fees for remote management after the firmware exits.
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by jclulow 4y ago
You have to ban them _and_ buy them back at the same time. You make them illegal to have, then you compensate people for the economic value of the property they now need to surrender for destruction. That is in fact how buyback schemes wor
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by jclulow 5y ago
You don't need direct Internet access to use Let's Encrypt, as long as you can arrange for the challenge response to appear in public DNS under the name you want to use.
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by jclulow 5y ago
I would generally try to avoid working somewhere so horrendous people don't even last a year. If one somehow did not already know that about Amazon, talking to future team members about the corporate culture seems like a good way to t
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by jclulow 5y ago
The predictive power of a single interview with a single person is just not that high. For one thing, the company is not the only one doing the interviewing; the candidate is also interviewing the company. Before making a commitment to joi
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by jclulow 5y ago
FWIW, illumos has excellent Rust support.
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by jclulow 5y ago
If through compromising those workers outside parties gain access to sensitive systems, and that situation is not promptly detected and corrected, then the system _is_ compromised. Okta is not just a bunch of software, it's also staff
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by jclulow 5y ago
From their perspective, is it really _broken_? If you're Microsoft, especially Ballmer's Microsoft which accounts for most of those 25 years, who cares about a handful of hostile UNIX nerds on some mailing list -- they're no
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by jclulow 5y ago
Who says "com-poo-ter"?!
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by jclulow 5y ago
Who can say? Consider, though, that just because someone writes an open letter and resigns, doesn't necessarily make them right -- certainly, at minimum, it does nothing to cement them as somehow free from their own agenda or biases.
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by jclulow 5y ago
It is almost cruel the extent to which the ADHD evaluation process for adults is structured. There are so many laborious steps and appointments and diagnostic procedures and so on. One is likely, by virtue of the ADHD, already struggling j
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by jclulow 5y ago
If they don't want you to fling binaries into your home directory they should just mount it noexec. At any rate it doesn't seem like a fantastic security/ability-to-work trade-off. Limit the privileges of the account or you
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by jclulow 5y ago
It's even more boring to find the "I am so tired of people who don't understand the majesty of the racket I've bought into" comment in every thread on an article that is critical of blockchain-related things.

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