octotoad

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by octotoad 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with developing cryptography software.
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by octotoad 9y ago
Really hoping the Hobbyist License program continues on to the x86 port.
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by octotoad 10y ago
Farewell sparc32. You will be missed by the retrocomputing geeks.
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by octotoad 12y ago
I'm currently working on deploying an ELK box for visualising a mix of financial transaction data and corresponding network application backend syslog records. So far so good, but frontend Kibana 3 performance can be really painful at
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by octotoad 12y ago
Does anybody know how these sorts of devices are presented to an operating system? Is it controlled/programmed in a similar manner to a modern GPGPU card?
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by octotoad 12y ago
A lot of HN posts related to BSD release announcements end up with the inevitable "Can somebody explain the advantages of using xxxBSD?" comments. Might be worth looking at the comments section for some of those past submissions.
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by octotoad 12y ago
Unbound is in now included in the base system as BIND's replacement.
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by octotoad 12y ago
Don't get me wrong, they definitely handled this in an appropriate manner. "Better safe than sorry", but I just wonder about these sorts of situations. It reminds me of the ridiculous "SWATting" craze; wasting time
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by octotoad 12y ago
I haven't gone further than reading TFA, but, was there anything beyond the tweeted screenshot to suggest that this was an actual "compromise"? Seems like a quick and easy way to cause quite a large fuss with minimal effort.
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by octotoad 12y ago
Hate to nitpick, but; spell-check.
41.
by octotoad 12y ago
I've been using GMX for a few years. It's owned by German ISP 'United Internet'.
42.
by octotoad 13y ago
Do you mean they're holding back progress? With OpenZFS on the scene, it's highly likely that the original Sun/Oracle implementation will become irrelevant to everyone apart from users of Oracle's Solaris releases.
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by octotoad 13y ago
Yeah, Apple, among many other companies, helped usher in a new era of personal computing, but most of the use cases in this video can be achieved with a generic Wintel setup.
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by octotoad 13y ago
"My operating system is linux and as such I have had to make the difficult decision NOT to program in Unity3d and develop primarily in php and html instead." I don't even know where to begin...
45.
by octotoad 13y ago
Awesome. If the $20,000 quote on electricity costs is accurate, hopefully this will last them another five years or so.
46.
by octotoad 13y ago
"the pain of getting Mono to run on Linux" What's painful about 'apt-get install mono-runtime mono-mcs'? (or your distro's equivalent) Its main target platform is/was Linux.
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by octotoad 13y ago
I remember being so excited by E17 back when development was first started on the EFL. Prior to all the Xgl/AIGLX jazz, it seemed like Enlightenment may have had a bright future ahead of it, where it would outshine all the current offe
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by octotoad 13y ago
Never realized the 2BSD series was being developed in parallel with 4BSD. I love to geek out on Unix history when I'm bored, so I'm surprised I never picked up on this.
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by octotoad 13y ago
Here's how I like to view these 'valuations': I am certainly a 'nerd', 'geek', 'tech-head'; whatever sort of label you want to throw at me. I am also the furthest you could get from somebody who
50.
by octotoad 13y ago
That was quick. Looks like they've backflipped on it already.
51.
by octotoad 13y ago
I've been using Linux and BSD for thirteen years and I can't even remember the last time I had to manually build and install an application from source (not counting random, early-stage hobby projects from github and things). Open
52.
by octotoad 13y ago
Do we really have to append 'gate' to every potentially controversial news event? Looks and sounds even more ridiculous than usual in this case.
53.
by octotoad 13y ago
If by 'form of store' you mean the official Apple store; yes. I've never purchased a single thing from Apple's 'app store' (and don't really plan to). Everything I've needed so far is free. The identi
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by octotoad 13y ago
No, it definitely doesn't. iPhone 5 + iOS 6: doesn't know a thing about my credit card, and never will.
55.
by octotoad 13y ago
NetBSD and OpenBSD have had good PowerPC support for quite some time, whereas FreeBSD's port is relatively new. You'll want the 'macppc' port for any Apple system. Been a while since I've used a PPC, but I'm guessing hardware support under
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by octotoad 13y ago
Whenever I see this 'multiple apps using a sound card at once' issue mentioned, I try to recall what sort of ALSA 'voodoo' I've employed to make this work for me. Then I realise; absolutely nothing. I think the last time I ever had this pro
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by octotoad 13y ago
I'm not a coffee/tea drinker and I don't drink soft drinks (caffeine or otherwise) apart from when its mixed with alcohol. I personally find it takes me a lot longer to get to sleep after having consumed pre-mixed alcohol involving things l
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by octotoad 14y ago
Yeah, I've never heard anybody in Australia say "LEGOs". It's always been an American thing to me. Also, depending on the particular American accent involved, I often find the pronunciation quite unusual. Sounds more like "lay-goes" than "l
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by octotoad 14y ago
A lot of the porting effort would be handled by simply developing a SurfaceFlinger backend for Gtk, in the same way there was (still is?) a DirectFB backend. I'm guessing Qt might be even better suited to such a situation. Obviously, this d
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by octotoad 14y ago
Yeah. The US sorted out all THEIR problems, like poverty and civil rights before they started building all those spaceshi...uhmm, wait...

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