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by kev009 7y ago
Yes, run https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale on operating systems with hilarious grandstanders like OpenBSD and Illumos, then run it on Linux and compare the results. Run a highly parallel make on a modern
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by kev009 7y ago
Sure, say you configure a Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD machine to provide some useful service. A "stack" as they call it these days. None of these OSes are going to have a large attack surface outside that "stack", and
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by kev009 7y ago
It does, the whole thing is a thinly veiled OpenBSD uber alles rant. The author's twitter bio states "i'm a weeb / dj / photographer that likes openbsd" -- The references in the doc to LibreSSL, OpenSSH purit
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by kev009 7y ago
There are kernels of truth in this document that circle around a politics/bureaucracy issue in FreeBSD that has existed forever. But the overall motif about security is laughable diatribes of a typical OpenBSD fan that understands lit
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by kev009 7y ago
At this point you are probably buying an IBM LTO tape drive no matter the label on the front. If you're buying a library, I don't really see any reason not to go with IBM "Enterprise Tape". It blows LTO out of the wate
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by kev009 7y ago
There is a book from the mid 1960s (I think the last revision, a few older ones) that is still basically current (hehe) by Westinghouse called "Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference Book" If you liked this you will li
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by kev009 7y ago
Happens a lot. https://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-new... the stuff that wasn't covered by this conviction was largely shit designed to look cool like aluminum bumpers and tow bars that would
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by kev009 7y ago
My understanding is a team ported the ESS "Shark" code from AIX to the little Linux 2.x embedded controllers. It looked like Adaptec OEM hardware when I tore mine apart. I can see how that would go poorly versus the proper cabin
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by kev009 7y ago
IIRC $2k for the z114, $1 for the z800 and a few hundred for a one way moving truck rental I moved it myself, and maybe a few hundred for the ds6800 which I got lucky when it was FICON enabled the auction did not specify. There are three o
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by kev009 7y ago
Yes that entitles you to a lot of software, so it is a good deal for professional use. If you are just curious on the software side at home, Hercules is an amazing project. For students IBM does a "Master the Mainframe" contest wh
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by kev009 7y ago
It's a lot cheaper in to do this in the US and with a long term view, my total outlay was under $3000 for a z800, z114, ds6800 all in with transportation. I also temporarily had two DS8870s but resold them because they were worth a lo
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by kev009 7y ago
Facepalm at the clickbait shitpost. Mountain bikers and especially any type of motor sport is actually destructive and the contrived anecdotes about how some groups do trail work doesn't make up for that destruction and erosion, only
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by kev009 7y ago
Anecdotally I think most people read too fast and see it as some badge of pride. Read slow, reflect or reread important passages, and you will take a lot away from a book.
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by kev009 7y ago
IBM POWER, Z, and Oracle SPARC silicon have instructions designed explicitly for GC and other common managed runtime tasks.
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by kev009 8y ago
I think everything you said could be true and you completely missed the point of my comment. If I lived in a third world country, I'd be more astounded that there are places I could never work a day in my life and be fed, sheltered, ha
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by kev009 8y ago
There are plenty of examples of the later and none of them are pretty compared to status quo in the US. It seems unpopular to state but blindingly obvious that we live in the best time in the history of the world for humans, and if you liv
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by kev009 8y ago
I will definitely be refreshing my iPhone in 2020 to get back on a Qualcomm modem. In my area the difference was very apparent when I replaced a damaged same generation phone and the radio changed to Intel.
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by kev009 8y ago
U.2 is more popular in servers. M.2 is common because of laptops. It is used in servers mainly for boot drive or where someone is gaming the cost difference of enterprise drives. There are form factors like Intel's ruler if you real
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by kev009 8y ago
Tadpole I am pretty sure did the N40, and then IBM did the 800-series themselves right?
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by kev009 8y ago
I toured it when I was young as well. I remember being enamored with the bunch of Sun workstations they had.
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by kev009 8y ago
Yup. It's not like installing Ubuntu on a laptop but I don't think that's to be expected. IBM does have zPDT which is a lot easier.
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by kev009 8y ago
I have a z114 and a z800 and a P/390. Not any harder than for instance owning professional wood working gear.
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by kev009 8y ago
I'm not sure I buy that, a piston gun is generally much better than impingement. You can package a piston up in something that looks nearly identical to the AR15 but it's not the same as the original firearm. Also 5.56 isn'
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by kev009 8y ago
Picking your comment as the newest instance but this is one of the dumbest memes I see in this thread. Things don't automatically get better. It is hard work, it sucks, and it's not for everyone. It will take years to undo the d
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by kev009 8y ago
It is supremely unlikely Akamai (via Rich Salz who is leading and has led a lot of post heartbleed fixup) take libressl seriously at all nor do any other large contributing company. People in the FreeBSD community knew libressl would be a
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by kev009 8y ago
This was a really lucid and engaging piece on the mathematics of these systems. I wish more math teachings would be done in long form like this instead of the cargo culted textbooks that are put out by major publishers.
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by kev009 8y ago
Yes, it is the best commercially viable ISA on the market for servers.
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Walking through walls: PostgreSQL FreeBSD [pdf](fosdem.org)
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by kev009 8y ago
The most important part IMHO is here https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/sys/netinet/t... . The TLS sendfile piece is a bit specialized, mainly interesting if you are doing the exact
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by kev009 8y ago
Agreed, buy once cry once. I expect mine will last me my professional career.

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