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by pconf 13y ago
/srv will continue to be ignored just as /opt and other one-offs are ignored. Reason being that they duplicate existing functionality, in this case under /var, /usr, or /usr/local. What /srv/ really stands for is NIH.
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by pconf 13y ago
Good luck with that. Problem is the Valley has been a real estate developer's dream for 60+ years and it has not had the effect this (opinionated but poorly researched) article espouses. Rezoning alone is "dumb planning". Rail, transit, b
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by pconf 14y ago
> Google is an advertising company, not an Internet search company. Those were perhaps the good old days. Today's Google makes less and less from ads and more from big data i.e., spying and selling (and trading) ever more extensive inf
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by pconf 14y ago
It's working for me, but KDE4 isn't nearly as user-friendly as KDE3
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by pconf 14y ago
But really the problem ain't Java but Java applets. Don't know about you but I find it fascinating how many comments fail to make a distinction between the vulnerable 'javaws' (i.e., applets) and the far more common 'java' vm. This 'mist
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by pconf 14y ago
"Why do they spy?" One big reason they spy because there are a lot of webdevs who either have no idea or do not care about PII. Why would someone put a link on their website, to Facebook or Twitter for example, basically giving them all
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by pconf 14y ago
Not wrong at all, understated if anything. The Harvard Business Review highlighted Big Data a few issues ago, and public interest groups like EPIC and the EFF are on this full time. It doesn't take much reading from those sources or the m
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by pconf 14y ago
The Metric system would probably be ubiquitous in the US by now if Ronald Reagan had not disbanded the U.S. Metric Board in 1982 and overturned laws encouraging schools to teach kids the metric system.
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by pconf 14y ago
If memory serves, and it often doesn't thee days so please don't hesitate to correct this, the US government once drafted similar guidelines for protection against IT vendor lock-in. The acronym was GOSIP, and it was somewhat well adopted
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by pconf 14y ago
BSD users treated updates like going to the dentist and put them off until forced Not typical of any BSD sysadmin I've known, ever. OTOH if your "BSD users" were not sysadmins that would explain it. install time ... days for FreeBSD eve
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by pconf 14y ago
"lots of companies are unable to use ie. MailChimp due to ie. security policy" Lots of us don't use mailchimp or constantcontact due not to security but to their privacy policies. Selling every read and click to a group of big-data "associ
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by pconf 14y ago
<quote>Microsoft develops and publishes 'protocols' (used lightly) and everyone hates them because they are pushing workable code out on everyone else...</quote> "workable code" is a tangent and really has nothing to do with
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by pconf 14y ago
There doesn't seem to be a color theme that works with a standard black on white xterm. All of the defaults seem to be designed for Windows' white on black... Even defining 'prompt = k' (where 'k' is black) produces a nearly invisible gre
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by pconf 14y ago
I'd love to see Python Server Pages as well but not implemented anything like it is in PHP. Mixing View and MVC Controller methods/classes in View pages is simply not a sustainable model. Following the PHP example here would seriously tai
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by pconf 14y ago
The audio library incompatibilities were API changes. Amavisd's issues are not binary either but do seem mostly socket related.
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by pconf 14y ago
We don't use as much perl as we used to but the last upgrade issue was amavisd-new (a Spamassassin wrapper). Spamassassin has perl version issues every so often as well. NetDNS used to introduce new bugs about every 4th revision but seems
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by pconf 14y ago
Thanks for that! We gave up on chef when one of their version updates failed to work with a prior version, both of which were the OS package defaults. Chef silently failed, no error message, nothing in the docs, nothing even in the source
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by pconf 14y ago
> I'm personally glad they went with the MIT license. Also, even if a fork takes place, the original code is still available. I think this is a point many fail to consider. BSD and GPL are, in many ways, synergistic. Having libraries
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by pconf 14y ago
>Wouldn't it be nice if Android was GPL v3? Not necessarily. WebOS is/was closer to a Linux/GPL distribution than any other smartphone and look what happened to them. >You can put BSD software in the AppStore, which is nice short t
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by pconf 14y ago
The problem, in a nutshell, is that the OP has never managed an email server. The solution is no secret: postfix, exim, sendmail, or qmail (in that order) with spamassassin, amavis, spamhaus, dcc, razor, greylisting, clamav and occasional
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by pconf 15y ago
The problem with Google Analytics is that it gives Google _all_ your weblogs. Not just your page hits but also your site _viewer's_: IP address, browser type, OS type, screen resolution, browser window size, as well as any lingering js or
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by pconf 15y ago
All good reasons for NOT sharing your startup's IP with prospective partners, not with their CEO, not with anyone. This story could have been written about GO's negotiations with Microsoft almost 2 decades ago. When MS shined-on GO their l
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by pconf 15y ago
Anyone can create a Scroogle replacement without a whole lot of effort. Scroogle died IMO because of their own technical and political shortcomings, not because of anything Google did. IXquick and DuckDuckGo are already viable replacements
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by pconf 15y ago
>but the answer is not a hack like Scroogle You sir, are an astroturfer. Scroogle was a proxy, that is all it was. Scroogle performed nothing more than many other firewalls, content filters and proxies, including TOR, do by default. &#
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by pconf 15y ago
Not just IP address but also browser signature, screen size and resolution, javascript settings and anything else in the HTTP header. See http://browserspy.dk/ for details.
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by pconf 15y ago
OSX has always been based primarily on BSD-licensed open source. Obviously they don't want their deep pockets to attract lawsuits. The lesson here should be obvious, make the GPL too onerous and fewer companies will risk using it. The FS
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by pconf 15y ago
This is what happens when companies don't value QA and/or don't hire experienced systems administrators. Even among experienced sysadmins email list servers are special skill. No surprise when startups shoot themselves in the foot because
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by pconf 15y ago
> If /tmp fills up ... so it needs to be on a partition Makes no logical sense. When you create an (inter-disk) partition you reduce the blocks available to all remaining partitions on that disk. By reducing partition size you _increa
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by pconf 15y ago
Given today's disk capacities it rarely makes sense to create any partitions whatsoever within a disk other than for swap. Partitioning /usr, /var or anything else on the same disk only increases the chances of one or more partitions filli
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by pconf 15y ago
I really like the way FreeBSD separates system and third party software, the latter typically being installed to /usr/local. Linux' failure to differentiate between system and non-system binaries is IMO one of it's worst features. Neither F

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