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by mbubb 15y ago
I hope for your sake that yo are not letting it get that much behind on security updates. I recommend that you do at least this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates The idea that Linux does not need to be updated is
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by mbubb 15y ago
A barebones install might not have ruby or python. When I install it as a server I try to reduce the packages to a minimum and build up from there. I usually try to a network install as well (for Ubuntu or CentOS). I would rather put on wha
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by mbubb 15y ago
The search is not an internet based search. It is looking though the repositories that you have selected (cached on your system). If you don't have the right repos you will not find what you need.
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by mbubb 15y ago
Yes somewhat and apt is a wrapper on top of dpkg ... So on a Debian/Ubuntu or related system your common options are: * dpkg * apt-get and apt-cache * aptitude * synaptic All the apt-based programs use the same /etc/apt/ files. There is a l
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by mbubb 15y ago
I have been thinking (but it hasn't gone past the thought stage) of setting a 90 min timer and making sure to do simple calisthenics at that interval. By calisthenics, I mean the kind of thing you see older Chinese men and women doing in th
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by mbubb 15y ago
My company is looking for Ruby developers as well as backend engineers: https://careers-collective.icims.com/jobs/intro
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by mbubb 15y ago
Brooklyn is a great idea. Also "Long Island City" in Queens. Hoboken, Jersey City. If you live near the subway in those places you can have a 20 min ride to midtown/downtown NYC.
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by mbubb 15y ago
Washington Heights is not that dodgy (neighborhood by neighborhood) - the problem is that it could be a 30 minute subway ride to midtown add another 10-15 to downtown. For less than peak rents, consider the cities along the western shore o
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by mbubb 15y ago
Fun Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry. corndog sensimilia halitosis This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne': voip. Would love to see these searches graphed. Years
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by mbubb 15y ago
Reiterating the Windows and MacOSX fix: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky... For me on Ubuntu - simply moving the .Skype directory and rerunning the program worked
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by mbubb 15y ago
This made me chuckle: [warning, this post contains graphic language] Kind of undercuts what goes after. Good piece though.
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by mbubb 16y ago
Civility? Go to a sports blog - put on you Bio that you are a journalist for sports illustrated and then in the commentary of an article on American football ask the question "who is Joe Namath?" Then judge my commentary by its relative civ
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by mbubb 16y ago
You write for a major magazine on the subject. Yes - I would hope you know more about the history of this topic than I do.
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by mbubb 16y ago
I find it disturbing to see people asking "Who is Rtm?" "Who is filo?" I understand if you are in tech you might not know figures in history or literature... but these guys? Every time you login to a UNIX/Linux system you use the passwd fil
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by mbubb 16y ago
I agree on the "really well written part" - she is a good writer.
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by mbubb 16y ago
Facebook only logins... why not OpenID?
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by mbubb 16y ago
Anecdotal... Two parents with high IQs and academic professions have highly-achieving children (although the only accomplishment I was actually impressed with was the bronze medal in the Olympics...). And the vaguely racist assumption that
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by mbubb 16y ago
Reminds me of my wife's story. Talented as a young child and pushed by korean parents until she burned out by high school. It is not the pushing by itself but the pushing devoid of love - which is a different issue.
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by mbubb 16y ago
Well expressed - had a similar experience growing up... When you grow up learning to coast along it is hard to transition when you cant coast any more. "Chinese mom" style helps with this. And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gr
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by mbubb 16y ago
An interesting example. In a job I wouldn't necessarily wish on anyone - but she ran her own website and was to some extent her own producer. This was before porn became socially acceptable. I am not sure why you cite her example. Is it "se
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by mbubb 16y ago
I read that WSJ article and had it clanking around in my head for a few days... I was countering it with some of the 'free-range' parenting styles you read about. The most valid insight of the article was that some things (ie - violin, num
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by mbubb 16y ago
Just started a new job (sysadmin) and was asked "Mac or PC?" - which in my case meant Mac vs Linux... I played with the idea of getting a MacBook Pro but went with the HP EliteBook and Ubuntu current simply because this is what I have been
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by mbubb 16y ago
Beautiful place. Actually took a boat around the bay and spent some time on one of the smaller islands. Also did som cave exploring...
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by mbubb 16y ago
I liked your post, niyazpk, because it moves from the implicit comparison to looking internally for the reasons one is stuck in such and such a place. Friends are not bad/good people as much as certain relationships are destructive while ot
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by mbubb 16y ago
yes excellent restatement
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by mbubb 16y ago
Where/When will this be? For my interest making some of the low level processes more understandable would be great. Recently I came across a sysadvent article on stracing 'ls' it was exactly the kind of thing that is useful to me. (quite pr
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by mbubb 16y ago
aargh - you can tell that I learned Windows before Linux
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by mbubb 16y ago
Good point - the question is 'under what circumstances is dd a better/only choice for this task?' I think if you are in a rescue mode and are in a limited env (busybox/ ash type of scenario) then it is very good to know how to backup using
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by mbubb 16y ago
Interesting - i had no idea that ifconfig and route were considered deprecated - googling did not turn up a lot of information fut I found corroboration with wikipedia and a linux foundation article: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collabor
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by mbubb 16y ago
I use Keepassx - the Linux sibling of Keepass. It is not as well developed but what makes it a workable are the field variables so you can more or less template teh whole setup. My keepassx experience got a whole lot better when I stumbled

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