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by liw 13y ago
Arf, sorry. I copy-pasted the wrong thing. Mea maxima culpa.
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Linux News #3, with an interview with Linus Torvalds (1992)(reddit.com)
2 points by liw 13y ago|3 comments
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by liw 13y ago
I use a variant of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) system. I wrote a little booklet about my implementation of it, to have a convenient place to point people at when they're curious. http://gtdfh.bra
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by liw 13y ago
The non-standard strlcpy can easily be replaced with the standard snprintf. Both can, and almost certainly should, be replaced by a library that takes care of memory allocation for strings. Even a simple one will obliterate all of the probl
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Yakking - a blog for topics relevant to someone new to free software development(yakking.branchable.com)
2 points by liw 13y ago|0 comments
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by liw 13y ago
http://liw.fi/obnam/ondisk/ attempts to answer that in some detail. In summary: Obnam splits file data into chunks and stores each chunk only once. It looks up chunks using checksums, and does not need to download
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by liw 13y ago
The Debian project constitution lays out the rules: http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution The vote page on our website has more practical information: http://www.debian.org/vote/
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by liw 14y ago
I suspect the linked article is a straw-man built to provoke responses, and thereby create page views for the blog.
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by liw 14y ago
See also ts from moreutils ( http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ )
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by liw 14y ago
His blog ( http://joeyh.name/blog/ ) has several posts about how he lives, spread across the past few years. You'll have to search through them yourself, sorry, but he's not a prolific writer so just browsing through the archives should be
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by liw 14y ago
There does not need to be a problem, it can be a good idea for a person or a project to express their ideals and values anyway. That said, Debian has very few female developers (1-2%?), and is generally skewed towards white, ethnically Euro
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Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release(blog.liw.fi)
3 points by liw 14y ago|0 comments
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by liw 14y ago
Debian has this as well. I do "unalias -a" whenever I log into an account I haven't configured to my liking yet (I want no ls coloring, but I do want a bash prompt in boldface).
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by liw 14y ago
GNU programs that show a license and copyright information at startup do so when used interactively, not when in batch mode. For example: echo 1 + 2 | bc That doesn't produce anything except "3", even with GNU bc.
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by liw 14y ago
moreutils is a nice package to have installed in any case. For example, sponge is very handy at times. (Disclaimer: I wrote isutf8, which is included in moreutils.)
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by liw 15y ago
It's true that backups will take a long time too, but you're often in much less of a hurry with them than when restoring.
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by liw 15y ago
A remote backup can be very slow to restore, so having both local and remote backups may be worthwhile. It's more expensive, of course, so it's a judgement call, but it's too simplistic to say that everyone only ever needs one of them.
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by liw 15y ago
They have tried to get answers that avoid concepts that have not yet been introduced in the book at the point of the excercise, and to categorize answers based on how well they do that. See http://users.powernet.co.uk/eton/kandr2/name.html