paulfurtado

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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   The hardware should theoretically be fine. kexec calls "shutdown" prior to executing the new kernel and some linux distros use kexec for fast reboots. Additionally, you can replace your /sbin/init with a shell script whi
2. 182.▲
   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   Note that KVM has no trouble hosting FreeBSD as a guest OS. You can also vote on this suggestion on the DigitalOcean website: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... I've had a lot of luck
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   That, and possibly installing programs via group policy and MSI packages
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   > Both of them require you to do exactly the same steps - that is, connect to a hardcoded port of a server at a hardcoded IP address, request a user-defined resource, receive and display reply. DNS is not magic, IP addresses of DNS serv
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   I can't think of any good cases for crashing a program when fork fails. If you're doing work in a pool of processes and the parent process tries to fork another process, but fails, there are many ways to handle this: wait a few se
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   Most linux distributions assign root processes a better scheduling priority than non-root processes, which should be good enough in most cases. Critical system processes also run at better priorities than other processes. It's not unco
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   The USB 3.0 ethernet adapters are also quite good if you're not running OS X (and thus don't have thunderbolt support).
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   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   > Make it DVI or whatever you want then. I still need a video output for another monitor. There is thunderbolt, DisplayPort, mini HDMI, and micro HDMI. Any small form factor laptop has at least one of these. DisplayPort, mini HDMI, and m
9. 189.▲
   by paulfurtado 12y ago

   What do you have against external ethernet adapters? I don't see how requiring an external ethernet adapter is a worse trade off than adding extra pounds and size.
10. 190.▲
    by paulfurtado 12y ago

    I think he was referring to this bit: > Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.
11. 191.▲
    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    While I'm guessing there are many Chromebooks which can run Windows, note that many others have ARM CPU's.
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    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    Most hypervisors don't try to hide themselves from the VM. Many provide interfaces from the guest OS in the VM to the hypervisor for things like para-virtualizing device drivers for performance, ballooning (reclaiming unused RAM), or m
13. 193.▲
    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    Google the exact article title and follow the link from Google to WSJ. For whatever reason, it seems like they don't paywall traffic from Google searches.
14. 194.▲
    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    Also works for me, Chrome 31, Linux.
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    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    I live in an apartment with 5 other computer science students. We move over 100gb/per week easily. - WFH (syncing toolchains or source repos over VPN, or downloading VM images) - Dropbox, or syncing disks to backup services - Constant
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    by paulfurtado 13y ago

    > For example if you steal a TV, the value of the theft is set at the retail price of the TV, even though the store only paid wholesale. That is because you have deprived them of not only the TV itself, but also the revenue they could ha