olgeni

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by olgeni 3y ago
"This content is not available in your country/region" as I browse from the war-torn hellhole that is... Europe :|
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by olgeni 3y ago
If you are forced to have "daily meetings with your manager" you might have spent the whole day drinking Jack Daniel's and planning a prompt exit :D
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by olgeni 3y ago
Was ifconfig made to be hostile too? :D (/s)
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by olgeni 3y ago
Perl, like Tcl, comes from the Walter Bishop Era of IT, where things were apparently batshit crazy at times but they managed to do things we now fail to replicate :D Now, much effort is spent in making sure that a single team member cannot
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by olgeni 3y ago
> The good news is that we have a say in shaping what they will be like. Not really, if you look around you very carefully...
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by olgeni 3y ago
While we are here, is there a way to completely disable (not just reduce) the stupid, useless desktop switching animations? \o/
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by olgeni 3y ago
SCO OpenDesktop installation manual had something to this tune about booting and drivers :D
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by olgeni 3y ago
Dear God it's always drama, drama, drama, and bullshit.
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by olgeni 3y ago
Also, please don't barf random emojis on the terminal.
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by olgeni 3y ago
Also GNU/Octave
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by olgeni 3y ago
"Not available in your country", as usual.
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by olgeni 4y ago
/usr/ports/sysutils/dua-cli
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by olgeni 5y ago
Stopped caring about GNU/Linux 20+ years ago.
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by olgeni 5y ago
“This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.” So hard at work... for years...
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by olgeni 5y ago
RAI has a tangled mess of stuff, including a content manager written in Python 2 and running on FreeBSD 10, and a ton of Windows things. Some clients are based on wxPython (!) It used to run on VAX hardware long, long ago... now it's
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by olgeni 5y ago
I got 2 - try the smartctl short test on them if you have one available, then record it and send it to your friends :D
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by olgeni 5y ago
Trivia: teletext was really popular in Italy, and a large fraction of small TV broadcaster ran teletext equipment based on Erlang (R14B, FreeBSD 8.something, custom ISA board for the signal). If anything bad happened to the software you&#x2
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by olgeni 5y ago
FreeBSD port needed btw :)
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by olgeni 5y ago
Or Ctrl+Alt+- if your turbo button wasn't actually wired on the cheap XT clone...
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by olgeni 5y ago
“Virtually no one heeded calls to blockade major railway stations on 1 September when the ban was extended to long distance travel. Large numbers of police waited in vain.” That's because news outlets are ignoring the real protests, so
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by olgeni 6y ago
> you had to pay thousands for extra modules like the C compiler You could build gcc by means of the "hidden" C compiler in SCO Open Desktop, which was used to rebuild spaces.c and then relink the kernel when changing the confi
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by olgeni 7y ago
“and an economic system where kids aren't necessary to take care of you when you get old.” Until you get terminal cancer and you are sent home to die. Then, I assure, a “kid” might be useful, because nobody else will give a flying fuck
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by olgeni 7y ago
I always get the impression that it's "technical assholes" vs. "wise managers who should be brave enough to fire the assholes." In practice: I see lots of assholes in management up to the director level, and the CEO
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by olgeni 10y ago
"dev" also keeps a list of things "ops" would prefer to hide.
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by olgeni 10y ago
With all that funding they might as well afford a proper PostgreSQL license.
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by olgeni 10y ago
FreeBSD guest under OS X host: 5.1.8 broke something with NAT, and sockets get closed randomly. 5.1.6 is ok.
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by olgeni 10y ago
http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/ - good for some meetings.
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by olgeni 10y ago
Let's have a "registry".
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by olgeni 11y ago
It did not eat my RAM, but ext4 had breakfast with production data.
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by olgeni 11y ago
Because my seldom-used Windows box sits on a zvol with snapshots.

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