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by lizknope 7y ago
I normally do: strings file | grep search_pattern
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by lizknope 7y ago
I've been using rsnapshot on /home for about 8 years. I run it once an hour in a cronjob. After using NetApp file servers with .snapshot dirs it is great to have something that kind of emulates it.
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by lizknope 7y ago
While there is nothing illogical about it there is more to a city than just the people who live in it. Millions of people live in a suburb and commute to work in a larger city. Their employer pays taxes in that city. The employees eat lu
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by lizknope 7y ago
It's an older reference but it checks out. When Intel was developing Itanium they named the new architecture IA-64 and retroactively named their 32-bit x86 line IA-32. After AMD released "AMD64" Intel started copying the AMD
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by lizknope 7y ago
I worked in the IT department in 1996. Every other day I would hear a bunch of people say "SAP is down!" and scramble to fix it. I started working as an engineer in 1997. Every other day I would receive an email saying "SAP
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by lizknope 7y ago
Intel had the i740 GPU in 1998. Poor performance and cancelled after 2 years. I don't know what you would call its internal instruction set. Intel was going to release Larrabee, their GPU based on x86, in 2010 but cancelled it becaus
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by lizknope 7y ago
Just to confirm what you are saying. I had a Time Warner cable modem for 15 years and the IP address would only change after a sustained power outage. Usually had the same IP for a year. My AT&T Fiber IP address has not changed in 2 ye
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by lizknope 7y ago
SATA2 is really old. The SATA revisions are: SATA1 - 1.5Gb/s SATA2 - 3.0Gb/s SATA3 - 6.0Gb/s SATA3 is often referred to as SATA6G although because of 8b/10b encoding overhead you a SATA6G link maxes out at 4.8Gb/s
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by lizknope 7y ago
As a hardware engineer it doesn't matter if it is a hardware bug. Software should work around it.
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by lizknope 7y ago
We have the opposite situation. Debian userland with FreeBSD kernel. https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
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by lizknope 7y ago
I bought my first Tivo in 1999. It ran Linux and a Tivo hacking community quickly appeared. Added a second hard drive (just put it in your Linux PC first and run a command to format it) Bought an ethernet adapter and ran a command to insta
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by lizknope 7y ago
Linus mentions how they don't break userland binary compatibility all the time. He also explicitly states that there has never and will never be a guarantee of kernel module binary compatibility.
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by lizknope 7y ago
I have a Chromebook C710 and C720 (about 5-6 years old) and I flashed the firmware on both. The C710 now runs Windows 10 and the C720 runs Fedora 31.
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by lizknope 7y ago
Infiniband is a lower level than TCP. Infiniband is often used as a replacement for ethernet in a supercomputing cluster. If you wish you can run IP over Infiniband (IPoIB) but I think most people using Infiniband are running a lower laten
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by lizknope 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib... Some people argue that Sun (or the Sun engineer) as creator of the license made the CDDL intentionally GPL incompatible.[13] According to Danese Cooper on
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by lizknope 7y ago
It's not. Nuclear fission reactors are built by large corporations like General Electric and Hitachi. If these companies wanted to they have the expertise to build a nuclear bomb but why would they unless their governments asked the
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by lizknope 7y ago
Yes. SDRAM is just synchronous DRAM and I think the last asynchronous DRAM type in widespread usage was probably EDO DRAM from the early 1990's. The first synchronous DRAM type was called SDRAM and that was followed by all of the DDR
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by lizknope 7y ago
The Computer History Museum in San Jose is a great place. I spent an entire day there. They have an excellent YouTube channel with thousands of hours of interviews with important people in the industry. They posted an interview with Brian
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by lizknope 7y ago
I remember some ghosts on Scooby Doo trying to get the Harlem Globetrotters sleepy to win the game the next day.
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by lizknope 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health It is estimated that 20–25% of homeless people, compared with 6% of the non-homeless, have severe mental illness. Others estimate that up to one-third of the
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by lizknope 7y ago
Amazon sells both. I have no use for either and think "fits on a floppy disk" is not a very useful metaphor anymore but Amazon still sells them.
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by lizknope 7y ago
You can still get it here. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html Demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
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by lizknope 7y ago
My dad and I would set the VCR to record the daily press conferences and watch them in the evening. Good times.
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by lizknope 7y ago
The joke the JPL crew always say is that the last time the planets aligned like that was when Thomas Jefferson was President and he blew it.
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by lizknope 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... Most RTGs use 238Pu Unlike the other three isotopes discussed in this section, 238Pu must be specifically synthesized and is not abundant as a nuclear was
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by lizknope 7y ago
The host is James May of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. He does a lot of quirky documentaries for the BBC like "Big Trouble in Model Britain." It's two episodes and pretty interesting and I have minimal interest in model trai
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by lizknope 7y ago
How practical is bitcoin as a currency for day to day use. I thought the transaction time was 10 to 30 minutes. I get frustrated at the checkout counter when my credit card takes longer than 10 seconds. 10 to 30 minutes seems a lot closer
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by lizknope 7y ago
Nothing you said is wrong except that NeXTSTEP was first ported to Mac hardware and became Mac OS X which in turn led to iOS.
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by lizknope 8y ago
People want cheap flights. Some people want more comfortable flights and are willing to pay. I fly about 3 times a year domestically in the United States and Delta, American, and United all have a "Comfort or Economy Plus" sectio
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by lizknope 8y ago
I bought my house for $263K in 2002. It is currently worth around $330K. In that time I have spent about $40K on repairs (not true upgrades) for 2 new HVAC units, new roof, carpet, water damage, broken appliances, wood rot, lawn seed&#x2F

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