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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Licenses costs are generally quite low compared to the overall price of a project, that's true. But licenses can also be a bit of a nightmare to manage. I've seen many cases where licenses were violated due to needs for testing&#x
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
It's nice to have more numerous and better options for donations. However, I cannot stop feeling that the real issue is not really the receiving end but the giving end. The amounts given to software creators are generally small, little
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I found configuring an HA setup easier to do with MySQL. The ability to configure a master <-> master setup simply is really helpful. Of course, having writes on both sides is generally a bad idea, but it's quite simple to have m
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
donating it to ppc/ppc64 distro maintainers maybe? You can propose it on channels like #gentoo-powerpc on freenode for example.
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
G5, why not, G4 maybe a few, G3, definitely not. I've a G3 Powerbook Pismo, it's not usable anymore for even basic task like web browsing (yay, 60 second at 100% CPU to load gmail, and with the most minimal setup I could come-up w
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I completely agree. Here in France, there are few truly independent newspapers, all the big ones like Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro are owned by billionaires like Niel, Drahi or Dassault. It's quite dangerous as it breaks the indepen
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
> If Tesla had decided to stop with the model S and X, they'd likely be profitable right now. But they can't. A car manufacturer generally has to renew its models every ~10 years with an overall mid-life. Tesla would be profit
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Excel remains a tool. It can be a really powerful one I agree. It's simple to use, a lot of people knows how to handle it. And it's probably one of the best tools to do some quick data analysis. However, like every tool, it has it
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Yotta: building tool and package manager for C/C++(github.com)
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> Pinning is absolutely crucial when building software from some sources out of your control. IMHO it's a bad solution to a real problem. Too often, I've seen software with out of date libraries or frameworks, with versions set
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Create only scripts can also be great in the right context. Namely a context like travis-ci where you get a new clean environment each time. Personally, I've develop few libraries/web UIs that relies on external software like a DN
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I've a bunch of personal projects on github. They are not that successful, a few dozens stars generally for the most serious ones. And also, there are not especially trendy (no fancy react app or js library, but stuff in python (lib, w
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Even outside J2EE, SOAP can be quite horrible. I remember playing with the SOAP API of gforge advanced (PHP), and it was not a pleasant experience. What specially bothered me was how this API tended to return internal IDs instead of resolvi
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
1) They probably have a huge amount of data. Moving it without downtime might be an extremely costly and long process. 2) Cloud providers aren't generally that great for IO intensive application, I don't know if they use something
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I think docker succeeded not because it was a better container or virtualization solution, or because it was lighter than VMs. Jails or Solaris zones have existed for years or decades, and on Linux, we had openvz and vserver long before Doc
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Reminds me of the day when, while helping debugging stuff on my father's old Solaris server, I came across a email_birthday.sh script run by a cronjob every year at my mother's birthday. They are happily married for more than 40 y
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
> If food were free, production would drop sharply and most of would starve. I don't understand why, free food doesn't mean that farmers would work for free. Not going to the extreme failure that was the Soviet collectivization
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
* Debian pushes security fixes really fast (I remember a local root exploit being patch in less than a day in debian while I waited a few more days on CentOS) * The general tooling is far better, lately, for example, I played with the tools
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I don't know if it's the case in other countries, but in France, most supermarket chains have their own "budget" brand which are generally quite explicit/generic in term of packaging. Here is the label of the tin I
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
> 2) It's fast. It's just direct memory access, direct and explicit hardware manipulation I also find C really handy for parsing binary formats (ASN1, Ms EMF...), parsing binary stuff in Python for example feels miserable. How
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
> I bundled the JRE with my app so the users did not need to have Java installed. Side note here: do you track security vulnerabilities of the shipped JRE and provide updates when it happens? Too often, I've seen java applications s
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Alternative collectd writer plugin for OpenTSDB (http API and tag handling)(github.com)
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Well, to configure ntpd as a basic client, the general workflow is the natural workflow of any daemon launched by init. 1) Install the package 2) Modify the configuration file if needed 3) Enable the service Taken alone timesyncd can be con
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
There were various reasons why it was difficult to get off RHEL 4. It was a system with a lot of cruft accumulated overtime, and a lot of domain specific applications that needed to be ported to a newer environment (new OSes, migrating from
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Mine was about NFS. One or two years ago, I was tasked to solve the following issue: Installing an obsolete RHEL 4 on a brand new computer, with all the drivers issues that entails. Virtualization was not an option. The solution I chose was
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I discretely removed my comment about it. But, yes, still my favorite one ^^.
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
For the French or German speakers here, there is an interesting 2013 Arte documentary on the subject: French: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/046598-000-A/le-sable-enquete-... German: https://www.art
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Actually, it was not that safe. To reduce fuel consumption, Douglas used a quite small tail for an aircraft that size. Consequently the MD-11 has to land at high speed which makes it prone to catastrophic bounced landing like the 2 Fedex cr
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Well, at least for the purely engineering part (aside from sales), I've seen the contrary more often than not. Earlier I my career, I've seen projects understaffed with tight deadlines. When management finally released that the sa
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Or the contrary. In most cases there is something to synchronize between regions, like a replica of the data. With difficult interconnection of regions, it makes it somewhat harder to do, and it can easily end-up with "meh, AZs are goo

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