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by reidrac 13y ago
> Has journald been tested on how well it copes with sudden reboots, kernel panics, powerloss, etc.? Are you assuming it hasn't been tested in these situations just because you don't know?
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by reidrac 13y ago
You're making an unfair generalisation. I'm not sure if that kind of language is often used in software projects, and this specific project comes from Zed Shaw that is well known for his quite "unique" approach to soft
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All integer Mersenne prime checker in Go(github.com)
1 points by reidrac 13y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 13y ago
This looks really interesting, thanks. I've playing with PLY* for fun, but I'd like to try something else in C without going back to flex/bison. * http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/
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by reidrac 13y ago
> It's a shame that the default choice of GCC flags make this compiler pretty much useless for work. I disagree (not "strongly" because your clarification in the next paragraph). That's only true if you don't kno
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by reidrac 13y ago
Well, as you can't catch -9 (SIGKILL), any task in your program that shouldn't be interrupted... will be interrupted. That's generally a good rule, but programs aren't usually SIGKILLED. It is SIGTERM the one you'
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by reidrac 13y ago
I don't know the specifics of what happened here, but in my experience with automatic configuration generation one must have a way to validate the config, but that validator can have bugs (as any other software). Then either the softwa
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by reidrac 13y ago
C and SDL have changed in the last +10 years, but the old stuff still works. I invested a lot of time into getting autotools right and it looks like it really paid off :) I don't know why the web is different, but it is, and it makes u
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by reidrac 13y ago
You're lucky, I wrote a "DHTML" game in 1998 and it won't work today (although I didn't do anything fancy, just DOM manipulation). I was thinking about exactly that a couple of days ago trying some WebGL. The web is
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by reidrac 13y ago
> The reason we never had "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" isn't Microsoft's fault. Microsoft played an important role, at least 10 years ago. I was involved in a Linux user group in Spain in 2001, and back then it
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by reidrac 13y ago
I don't usually have the need to check syslog in my desktop, unless I'm doing development, and in that case I will install syslog-ng (and systemctl enable syslog-ng). Not a big deal. As for servers, I wouldn't use Fedora. Eac
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by reidrac 13y ago
"Syslog removed from default installation" and "Users accustomed to checking /var/log/messages for system logs should instead use journalctl." I'm sure I'm going to forget about that... I can&#x2
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by reidrac 13y ago
I think he means "Personal Computer" and it could be a Tandy or a Dragon, both Motorola 6809 based.
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by reidrac 13y ago
I did the compo once (solo entry), and I failed miserably :) I've finished a couple of PyWeeks* , and having only 48 hours changes everything: it's about being focused and effective, and definitely more about game design than actu
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UK prepares to launch Internet archive without Internet access(computerweekly.com)
2 points by reidrac 13y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 13y ago
I think he may have a point: Notch doesn't need to be an amazing developer but an effective one that delivers . I don't know Notch's abilities, but from one of his LD videos I can tell he's very focused and knows his cr
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by reidrac 13y ago
He's now VP of Engineering at Joyent, but reading his post* makes me think he may have not. * The Power of a Pronoun
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by reidrac 13y ago
"vendor lock-in" and "open source" are incompatible. Google won't stop anyone that wants to add support for other browsers. In fact, anyone could fork Spark. If you want an example, see OpenOffice.org and LibreOffic
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by reidrac 13y ago
I think it goes one step beyond that: you're asked to accept an EULA for a software that you don't know what it does or why it needs to be installed and run... because the vendor refuses to tell you! Amazing.
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by reidrac 13y ago
I haven't use it but some of our customers use it and seems to work pretty well. Also it's easy to use: http://www.memset.com/blog/backup-your-windows-server-memsto...
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by reidrac 13y ago
Duplicity is an open source project that can be used with different types of storage (I use them with OpenStack Object Storage instead of S3). You can host your own backups if you want (supports ftp, sftp, ... check the docs: http:/&#
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by reidrac 13y ago
They're behind a VPN service: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ They may know a couple of things about privacy, reputation and trust. I believe they need all three to operate their business, so I would be surprise
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by reidrac 13y ago
My session expired and had to log in again, and there was a form. I didn't apply or anything like that. As I said it felt a little bit buggy ("we'll review your request", and then it was approved straight away), may be G
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by reidrac 13y ago
This is weird. I could suggest a custom URL typing it myself. The form said that it would be reviewed but it got approved straight away. May be is because I just used Google's suggestion but removing the accent in my surname (I don&#
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by reidrac 13y ago
Read the letter published by Ars[1], they refer not only to the logo but to the "Ubuntu word" (trademark of Canonical) and "to use the Ubuntu trademarks and Ubuntu word in a domain name would require approval from Canonical&q
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by reidrac 13y ago
There's a bug report about this: https://github.com/FoxUSA/OpenNote/issues/7 Although it was opened 39 minutes ago :)
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by reidrac 13y ago
KDE and Ubuntu are different projects, with different objectives and managed by different people. Besides they have a very specific relationship: KDE is upstream and Ubuntu is downstream. I can't really see why there's a problem w
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by reidrac 13y ago
Thanks, this provides context.
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by reidrac 13y ago
The problem is not the diff but the "and besides that". You should make two different commits, changing indentation and changing a feature are different changes and should be tracked independently.
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by reidrac 13y ago
I think in those cases you may not be legally allowed to use a 3rd party managed service to handle the data, although it probably depends on the country where your company is operating. Also that "god mode" only makes things easie

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