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by munchhausen 15y ago
> On this topic, does anyone know of any major manufacturers who dont do this with their consumer machines? The Windows install on a Thinkpad I bought a couple of months ago was pretty much crapware free - if I am not mistaken, the only
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by munchhausen 15y ago
> But if you want to remove all the "probably's" from that sentence you can pay 10x as much and have Oracle do it for you. It looks like you're assuming that the guys Oracle sends out to do the job are true domain experts, and that's a
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by munchhausen 15y ago
Also, someone who lives in a country that is not loved by Apple. Here in central Europe, a Mac Mini goes for 1200$ without a monitor, and that's in the cheapest online store (where you will have to wait for over a week for it, as they do no
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by munchhausen 15y ago
No commercial support makes the software a non-starter in most IT environments, that's the (sad) reality. FreeBSD is a good example of why that is a problem - while technically sound, it is at risk of becoming a fringe OS used only by a cou
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by munchhausen 15y ago
> * ZFS - which is miles ahead of btrfs for production use Can you explain in what way? btrfs is less mature, sure, but "enterprise Linux" vendors are about to start fully supporting in their next minor version update releases, and that
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by munchhausen 15y ago
> From an ease-of-use / ease-of-maintenance perspective, Debian (and its derivatives) blow RPM-based systems out of the water. What kind of a comparison (Debian vs. RPM-based) is this? Does dpkg(1), as opposed to rpm(8), really make all
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by munchhausen 15y ago
There are many voices in defense of VirtualBox in this thread already, but I will still add mine, because VirtualBox has been a great tool for me and I feel it deserves to be defended. For the last three years I use Virtualbox to run Window
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by munchhausen 15y ago
"The reason why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life." Agree completely. Having said this, your suggested solution is incredibly hard to put into practice for many procrastinators out there. I have bills to pay a
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by munchhausen 15y ago
s/Linux interface designers/GNOME interface designers/ I don't think that KDE4 or Xfce, much less other alternatives, are moving towards a tablet-inspired interface.
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by munchhausen 15y ago
Where did I hear this before...ah, yes, I remember now: Stripped-down 'MinWin' kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and more http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/stripped-down-minwin-ker...
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by munchhausen 15y ago
This article, as far as I can tell, does not contain any new information about the EJ saga. I am quite confident that, had the subject matter of the submission not been AirBnB (and thus killing it might give rise to accusations of censorshi
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Oracle buys Ksplice(theregister.co.uk)
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by munchhausen 15y ago
> One, you're discouraged to take time off -- you can lose your job if you're not "devoted". I don't know that this is the case in many European countries, including Eastern Europe (at least the part of it that is in the EU). First of a
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by munchhausen 15y ago
I have a friend that works at a company which is in the print media business and the entire staff uses Macs by decree. They also use OSX Server for common office needs like file-sharing and VPN, probably because it's the path of least resis
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by munchhausen 15y ago
A firewall would not mitigate a vulnerability of Apache, however it might very well make it harder for the attacker to connect to a remote shell that they open on the server after exploiting Apache. Unless the attacker would be able to get
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by munchhausen 15y ago
Sensationalism at its best is at work here. Attachmate/Novell laid off a lot of employees in the US today, and "internetnews.com" goes on to extrapolate that "Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that
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by munchhausen 15y ago
> Points should be normed by impressions, and then smoothed (or given credibility intervals or something). I agree that this might work better for determining correctness of informative comments than just plain point scores, however poi
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by munchhausen 15y ago
Starting with an assumption that all comments are wrong is a prudent approach, which also considerably lowers the utility of HN for certain types of usage. I read HN primarily for the informative comments, not the opinion pieces. A high com
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by munchhausen 16y ago
Judging by Gosling's current code editor preference, I would be surprised if that were to happen. Apparently he uses Netbeans and vi for coding: http://james.gosling.usesthis.com/
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by munchhausen 16y ago
One thing that's definitely missing from that list is the "undo" feature of bash which is bound to Ctrl-/ by default. It reverts the last edit you did on the command line. (The keybinding invokes the undo action also in emacs.)
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by munchhausen 16y ago
> Not to anywhere even close to approaching Red Hat's extend This needs a citation. I for one do not agree with you. Looking at the statistics of top kernel contributors for kernel 2.6.35 by lines changed¹, Red Hat can claim 7.8% of lin
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by munchhausen 16y ago
> Getting anything equivalent to Active Directory up on Linux is an absolute nightmare, or at least so it was last time I tried. Making something as basic as making a Linux machine join a domain and authenticate against the DC work cost
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by munchhausen 16y ago
> Yes. The Linux version is developed at http://www.milleniumit.com/media_room/gui-press_releases.php Can you elaborate on this? Are they developing a fork of the Linux kernel? A new Linux distro? Or could it be that they are developi
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by munchhausen 16y ago
I use the FREDRIK desk from IKEA. It is adjustable, it is a standing desk, and does not look like it should fall apart anytime soon - what more could you ask for?
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by munchhausen 16y ago
We're getting into the debate of what constitutes a "core system", and I'm afraid there's as many answers to this question as there are debaters. As far as the update routines are concerned - you can already have those, by self-selecting wh
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by munchhausen 16y ago
You answered your own question - /usr/local/bin. I don't know about MacOSX but on Linux, this is the solution to your problem - "stuff that belongs to me (the sysadmin) but runnable by all users".
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by munchhausen 16y ago
> /usr/bin/python should be whatever I want it to be. Why /usr/bin/python? /usr/bin/ has been for ages the "system" area - why would you want to suddenly usurp it for yourself? /usr/local/bin/python will on most Linux systems be execut
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by munchhausen 16y ago
I don't think it does - it is just the SuSE venture that is being sold to VMware. I would imagine that the copyrights are held by the "rest of Novell".
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by munchhausen 16y ago
> My memory of the exact details are a bit fuzzy at this remove (I might be e.g. confounding versions 2 and 3), but its fatal flaw was no memory protection. You are correct, Netware 3 ran everything in Ring 0, which also made it so fas
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by munchhausen 16y ago
ESX Server does not have community support, but it has commercial support. If you are tenacious and patient enough to make it past the first tier of support, you will get your crashed server fixed, possibly faster than it would take to wait

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