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by moreentropy 12y ago
I can't access that site because it returns 500 right now, but: Can we please get over it? Quoting the "Unix philosophy" as the reason to keep things like they were 20 years ago is laughable. I want to get things done, and m
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Ever heard of Nginx? Would have solved the problem (HTTPS & caching) without one line of code.
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by moreentropy 13y ago
I think it's a valid concern. My knowledge of startup culture is very limited, so from what i read here, the usual desired outcome is an "exit" aka getting rich by selling the business. I think that is totally valid for socia
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by moreentropy 13y ago
There are a lot of reasons already discussed, this one is especially famous: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... PHP is not a exceptionally bad platform from a technical persp
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by moreentropy 13y ago
This is basically a question I'd like to have answered as well, especially in a b2b setting. Is it justifiable to use the service of a possibly great startup, knowing that there's a real possibility that it might be sold soon and
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Just disable password authentication, problem solved. Changing the SSH port does not add security against people who are determined to break into your system, but as you said, it helps to keep the noise down so you're more likely to no
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, i don't know the rules in the us, in Germany you're simply not allowed to work more than an average of eight hours per day. So you can not only not be forced to work more, you can't even be asked
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Well if you're the boss it's your right to work as long as you want, but it's not OK to abuse your employees and make them work ridiculous hours.
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Yes, you're right if you take it that way. I didn't mean the internet is built exclusively with open source software, but the majority of developed applications contain at least a bit of open source software, like a library, curl,
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by moreentropy 13y ago
True dat. I think close to 100% of the internet is built on/with open source software. But it's a major headache to get your in house libraries/software released as open source. There's reservations because by default ev
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by moreentropy 13y ago
You can view the answer from the koding guy without signing in.
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Glenn Greenwald to deliver keynote at 30C3 hacker conference(zdnet.com)
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The annual meeting of the hacker scene: Chaos Communication Congress(ccc.de)
8 points by moreentropy 13y ago|3 comments
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by moreentropy 13y ago
We used to call that a fileserver.
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Bizarre it is, at least to someone who is used to a modern environment. I once hat a gig setting up a open source softare stack on AIX, it was very painful to do. AIX admins aren't really helpful either because their knowledge is reall
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Power has LPARs, so why bother? If I use Linux on Power by choice, I'm either doing OLAP/OLTP or I'm an AIX shop that needs a few Linux boxes without the hassle of a completely different platform (x86) in the mix. But I can&#
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by moreentropy 13y ago
In Germany the president is the head of state, but is not involved in running the government. Sort of like an elected king, he's there for ceremonies and signing federal laws. Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre
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30C3: The Network Operation Center(events.ccc.de)
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by moreentropy 13y ago
That paired messaging protocol we used was called email. Filtering was pretty sophisticated using scorefiles and killfiles. You didn't have rich media because the Usenet was about exchange of thoughts and knowledge, but people were pre
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by moreentropy 13y ago
That bit about total anonymity is just not true. Usually you would use your organization's news server (because every ISP/university had one), so you could be easily located. Plus, it was part of the netiquette to post using your
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by moreentropy 13y ago
That's valuable advice here, thanks for sharing.
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by moreentropy 13y ago
I have one of those sitting on my desk. It still feels a bit like early adaptor stuff, the edge router line is quite new, but looks very promising. I really like vyatta, but now that vyatta is basically dead, I'm happy that it lives on
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by moreentropy 13y ago
I would say OpenWRT wins in this category. It's not based on open sourced Linksys firmware anymore, it's a embedded distribution designed from scratch for modularity and portability. It really is a awesome piece of engineering whi
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by moreentropy 13y ago
I usually use tp-link gear for openwrt, it's readily available from our distributor and dirt cheap. Don't just look for recent models, pick your hardware from the openwrt hardware compatibility list based on the specs you need. If
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Yes, I have a Github ID, but have mostly interacted with projects not hosted on Github. Yes, they still exist. :)
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Yes, definitely. My personal experience is that it's not always missing appreciation but more practical issues that keep companies from contributing more (money/time/developers). My clients usually understand the benefits of
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Exactly. I'd really love to contribute more to Open Source projects and/or put more stuff on Github, but that's not going to happen after 8+ hours of software development. I'm doing my share of bug reports and patches he
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Dude, I've never used BART/Caltrain so I can't say if it's that horrible, but most of the stuff you talk about sounds like totally normal train riding issues you'll find everywhere. How to get there, what's the
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by moreentropy 13y ago
Nothing really. Let them to what they want with their resources. I'd just say that with the current state of Unity and Gnome 3, it doesn't really make sense to have them both, since they're quite similar in look & feel. S
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by moreentropy 13y ago
I haven't really used Unity apart from launching a terminal and a browser on someone else's desktop. Unity and Gnome 3 seem very similar, both visually and by paradigm. I guess Unity is a brainchild of Ubuntu's NIH attitude.

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