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by mesrik 4mo ago
Foxleys book does not actually claim reason why it need to be preallocated. I've got the book also. Index mentions fsck only page 52, where it reads: "52 UNIX FOR SUPER-USERS ... The filestore consistency check is performe
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by mesrik 4mo ago
I understand that while small kids or baby then there is lot of laundry. But I've heard some people wash same fav clothes every day just to be able to use them fresh clean every day. Gosh, but there are other ways to solve that issue l
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by mesrik 4mo ago
Miele makes darn reliable appliances, I've had two Miele vacuum cleaners from -88 and still both work fine. Used weekly, one at home and when I sold summer cottage to my brother & his wife I gave one to them, they still use it ther
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by mesrik 4mo ago
True, that's some things have changed. But it's when you consider taking first full drive backup times. It still takes 'forever' when you'd rather like to get on with fixing single disk issues. Or like when you wait
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by mesrik 4mo ago
I've used Mail.app since 2004 and have not had any of those problems except searching using Spotlight have occasionally been broken over the years, but never searching within the app. And I've had both multiple accounts various se
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by mesrik 4mo ago
How so, not last a decade? I had AEG Lavamat 1055 about 35 years (from 1982), worked well without hitch. It was quite small, top loading model etc. Fast spin-dry w/ variomatic (shaking also while spinning). Laundry out of it was quite
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by mesrik 4mo ago
Sure I remember, but since I purchased Spinrite doing lowlevel was needed just once while changing ST-506 controller to a different type or for a new disk, former was quite much rarer needed. Then even after std lowlevel it was worth using
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by mesrik 5mo ago
And it's been used by many commercial networking and storage appliances too. Juniper using various devices (routers, firewalls, switches, etc), Citrix Netscreen load balancers, Dell storage Isilon just to name few. Knowing FreeBSD pays
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by mesrik 5mo ago
You should't need mainframe for 100% (or five nines if that's fine) service uptime. You can build that way cheaper with 2-3 proper clustered load balancer units, 2-3 application servers behind those and those using persistent stor
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by mesrik 6mo ago
and Bob with his Billard pipe, now as you brought these up! My father did not smoke, but many of his colleagues did which some did look 60's bit like Bob. For some odd reason I still kind of remember what tobacco and pipe smell felt i
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by mesrik 6mo ago
In Finland and most of Europe have 230V one phase, 400v in three phase. And bare single phase subscription haven't even been available new houses for at least 45 years any more. But if you buy an old summer cottage further away from pe
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by mesrik 6mo ago
I think I've heard US it's mostly no water at all on stove and Germany I've heard they have had these sauna-masters who come and cast water on stove. Neither of these are practised anywhere in Finland at least. But there are
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by mesrik 6mo ago
That "electric heater stones on top" is usually called stove, "kiuas" in Finnish :) When needing to define type of stove, it's electric stove, wood heated stove. Latter has two types, which continuous wood burning i
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by mesrik 6mo ago
Yes, that it was especially rural environments and not having much options otherwise to live around while building. Sauna that was built then wasn't just one hot room, but it also had at minimum small changing room dressing/undres
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by mesrik 6mo ago
Besides water proofing wooden boats and long time ago ships pine and fir tar it's been used protecting wooden roof tiles when they were a thing and still are used old wooden churches keeping and restoring. It's used small amounts
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by mesrik 6mo ago
That is growing trend in Finland too. GenX and younger seemingly use less sauna compared to older generations. Thus when it was common to build sauna for a while all new all least family size apparments late -80's and -90's that h
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by mesrik 6mo ago
Correct, most saunas at homes were they apartments or family homes, businesses, public saunas etc. were built using electric stoves when they became commonplace during -70's. But traditional summer cottages and villas have been either
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by mesrik 7mo ago
I'm not one that he flies with gamma spectrometer. But I've had RadiaCode 103G since Dec 2024. It's pretty neat device that can be brought with you almost anywhere. https://radiacode.com/ It's made in Cy
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by mesrik 7mo ago
NiMH batteries are surprisingly robust. I've long had Palm Pilot Vx which I bought 2001 and used daily till 2011 when I switched my phone to iPhone 4s. Then I did factory reset and put it back in box it was sold and shelved it. End of
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by mesrik 8mo ago
Yes, the autonomy level of these robots was what I was yesterday emailing with my former colleagues we were wondering. Two months ago CNET & PC-Mag posted following video which suggests more about robots movements being assisted by huma
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by mesrik 8mo ago
Well it depends, on still using. I've been mostly using emacs past 30 years ie. about the time when system memory wasn't any more constraint which while single user was about 8MB at least. But I did earn my living before that abou
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by mesrik 9mo ago
Oh, my bad. How didn't I notice my mistake right away. That 25 is grossly wrong, I should have checked before using that. The correct line to get subnets is $ sipcalc -s 24 10.0.0.0/8 | grep -c Network 65536 Which increas
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by mesrik 9mo ago
Also RPKI has been available long time already. Considering the routing table size has been increasing and IPv6 need anyone shouldn't be running global routing with gear not supporting RPKI any more, the routing polices and announcing
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by mesrik 9mo ago
>or even by normal load from someone deciding to split a /8 prefix into /24's If that kind of happening directly from load of added 25 routes it's quite hard to believe it. # 10/8 prefix here only to show how
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by mesrik 10mo ago
>Using "easy listening" as a pejorative has always baffled me. Why does music need to be difficult? Yes, I agree with you, it shouldn't and doesn't need to be. But some things like music be it Jazz or something else i
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by mesrik 10mo ago
Yeah, that's true that water thrown to a stove isn't much contained anything but that bathing room. Some of water will of course flow between stones bit deeper, but there is plenty of room to expand when it boils to steam. Some fi
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by mesrik 10mo ago
Well, that's about what happens in Sauna with electric stove. In Finland we do it every day and have done decades already. Those who may not know electric stoves have been about fifty years common use at least in urban environments. St
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by mesrik 10mo ago
Yes traceroute is something where approximate rough estimate where IP perhaps could be as up to ISP level hosting it, but traceorgute isn't usually allowed pass firewalls and seldom reaches target IP on networks where clients really ar
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by mesrik 10mo ago
A bit late to reply so much longer (10h) I posted my comment. But just for the record here I go. After reading that RFC8805 here it's what it writes situation at the time of publishing August 2020. "8. Finding Self-Published IP Ge
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by mesrik 11mo ago
That's a good question. During 2024 Summer Olympics my then employer which DNS and core network I was still managing as I returned summer holiday. I was told by helpdesk our users around different locations at campus were not able to o

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