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by olgeni 14y ago
> Hard drives are now infinitely big. Microchips are almost infinitely small. And everybody is connected. And we still pay $99 for the privilege of using our own devices, while waiting for 3 weeks reviews based on borderline useless "gu
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> Apple lifts block on combo 30-pin+Lightning charging accessories This is so impressive. It sounds like the UN is lifting an embargo on some dangerous and forbidden tech. "In an unexpected development, the DPRK acquired some Lightning
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> It contains lots of that scary thing called "text" and "information" "Nice try kid, but it's not actually 'text' unless you typed it on a proper Model M."
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I use this and it always tells me about something I forgot (or that crept in while debugging something).
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> "Apple would not approve" To think that in 2012 we still have to worry about things like this...
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CloudSigma may be worth a try. You can tune CPU/RAM and HDD/SSD storage as you see fit, and they give you 7 days for free to test all the weird things you can come up with. It's based on KVM and you can install anything by uploading an ISO.
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Ok, let's think this through. Maybe if I pull both drives from the mirror my life will be interesting againpanic: ZFS: I/O failure (read on <unknown> off 0: zio 0x8aab9678 [L0 SPA space map] 1000L/800P DVA[0]=<0:5a0006b000:c00&#
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> Since they use the FreeBSD userland ...let's be very grateful they didn't rewrite everything from scratch...
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Maybe he thinks that only stupid people cheat stupidly.
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> Now-a-days we have computers which can show more than 80 characters at a time Of course we do. We also have serial ports that go way faster than 9600, so at last "ed" can be used to its full potential.
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I tried a few times, even with colors only, and didn't win once... Now I have to stick to it as a matter of principle :)
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It's the "poor kid that won the lottery" syndrome: doing things just because they can, hoarding cash, making up stupid rules to see how far people will comply, testing developer's patience at each turn, fearing that the miracle machine migh
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by olgeni 14y ago
> I would love if cloud providers offered SSD options for their full range of boxes. Both CloudSigma and ElasticHosts have SSD options. On CloudSigma you can even grab a small SSD to use as a L2ARC or ZFS log device :)
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> Who still uses it? Usually people running away from Linux, Drepper-isms, Oppan Poettering Styles, and the like. Doesn't everybody love the smell of bikesheds in the morning?
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More fun with Byte here: ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/
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"In Soviet Russia..."
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"But the Model M has more stopping power."
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What's with this "distro" stuff... Can't we just boot into Emacs and call it a day?
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"Is your mind clouded by any kind of expensive leadership or self-help course, at the end of which you get to 'walk on fire' to test your renewed self-esteem?" Yes -> run. "Do you believe in any form of magical thought? Do you believe t
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by olgeni 14y ago
After using Xcode for a full day I can see my immortal soul stuck in the desktop background. I avoid using iMacs with any kind of glue near the LCD for obvious reasons.
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But how do people connect their Model Ms to their iPads?
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> I wonder who you think works on clang/llvm (or CoreAudio, or xnu, or Quicktime)? People smart enough not to get anywhere near iTunes? (really, would you trade clang or kernel dev for that?)
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> According to one industry watcher, however, they should all be watching out for Microsoft (MSFT). Indeed, just a few years ago an advanced research team at Microsoft found out that any rectangle may be closely approximated by a suffic
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> No Unix directory tree. I hate it – it does not say anything to a user Actually it has a lot to say, but in this case it just appealed to the fifth amendment.
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> #!/bin/bash If there's nothing bash-specific you may wish to use "#!/bin/sh" (or "#!/usr/bin/env bash" if bash is required.)
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> Apple has acted quickly and diligently And sued Euclid posthumously?
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> "You should move it to the trash." I can hear the UNIX bits weeping in shame just below this layer of... stuff. I'll ping localhost to acknowledge their suffering.
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Heard about that. Isn't it the thing you use to move Emacs frames around?
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> whether it is the means to share holiday photos [...] or play that new album you just bought. "What happened to just starting Emacs?"
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Actually, there are no such pictures. There are only 2-dimensional arrays of pixels, which you might incorrectly interpret as "hot girls" due to retrograde social constructs, focused by the lens of prejudice and privilege. You can combat th

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