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901.
by rleigh 10y ago
Under the hood, they are both using CUPS so should behave pretty similarly. Apple may well have crippled their version since I last looked at it in detail though (I used to be involved with the Gutenprint inkjet printer driver project).
902.
by rleigh 10y ago
This is a workaround, one which I use myself. But I do have a not unreasonable expectation that the base operating system will be actually maintained rather than abandoned. The amount of unmaintained and obsolescent stuff is quite bad, an
903.
by rleigh 10y ago
It's the same thing with Maltron keyboards, which have a similar 3D sculpted layout for some of their models. They are individually hand-wired. On the other hand, when you look at the cost of RSI they are well worth the cost when you
904.
by rleigh 10y ago
The "Linux desktop" is unfortunately its own special self-inflicted trainwreck. While I've used it nearly exclusively for nearly two decades, the last five years or so have been little but regressive. It's become a byz
905.
by rleigh 10y ago
Many people use both filesystems, and you'll see many claims of how both work really well and that the user hasn't had any problems. The problem with these people's experiences is not that they are untrue, but that they are
906.
by rleigh 10y ago
I used to think this was a horrible layering violation as well. I'd been using various filesystems on LVM on RAID for a good 15 years, and from a certain point of view these layers make a great deal of sense. But these layers also imp
907.
by rleigh 10y ago
It's not supported by the installer (for 16.04), but you can do it by hand. It's poorly documented--there are several guides with contradictory advice--and it took me several attempts, but all the bits are there from GRUB to the
908.
by rleigh 10y ago
I spent a couple of decades being a die hard Linux fanatic, and contributor to many parts. The amount of work being done is incredible. But I'd have to say that I've become over time increasingly annoyed by the vast duplication
909.
by rleigh 10y ago
There's no difference between the two types of filesystem; that's an arbitrary judgement. Both the GPL and CDDL are distribution licenses; using a ZFS module with Linux isn't a problem, you aren't violating any of the l
910.
by rleigh 10y ago
If only it was the nonpaying users which were the bigger problem. There's a small number of loud and obnoxious subscribers who drown out most conversation threads and make reading or contributing not worth the effort. It used to be a
911.
by rleigh 10y ago
The Btrfs deduplication... also needs vast quantities of RAM. That's just the nature of the beast. Don't use it, and both systems have relatively modest requirements.
912.
by rleigh 10y ago
The on-disk format is the least of the problems with Btrfs. The quality of the implementation of the filesystem which uses that format is the bigger issue. It's still awful, and I've been using it since the start. Two years ago,
913.
by rleigh 10y ago
Better that than the unrecoverable dataloss I suffered (it trashed both disks... and also panicked the kernel). In fact, they were so screwed it panicked the system on every boot until I booted with a non-Btrfs-supporting kernel and blanke
914.
by rleigh 10y ago
It should work just fine. But since the current offset will always be changing, you might want to lock the entire file and fcntl has a more flexible interface for doing that.
915.
by rleigh 10y ago
This is very true, but I am increasingly wanting something a bit less Linux-centric for all the major categories it covers, which also includes the BSDs and other platforms. There's also an increasingly unhealthy echo chamber regardin
916.
by rleigh 10y ago
At the same time, it also introduces ambiguity and uncertainty. The GPL-3 doesn't define what "dynamic linking" is. While it might be relatively clear for the simple case of a "static" or "shared" librar
917.
by rleigh 10y ago
Appearances can be deceiving. It might look crude and simple, but it's not.
918.
by rleigh 10y ago
While PNG (and libpng) are reasonable for their intended purpose as a GIF replacement for simple RGB and greyscale graphics, it doesn't compare when it comes to the power and flexibility of TIFF, from sample format and depth, to sample
919.
by rleigh 10y ago
Some TIFF-derived container is the most common representation. But note even these could use JPEG/J2K if desired. Most microscopy images are stored uncompressed or with lossless compression. But unfortunately this doesn't scale
920.
by rleigh 10y ago
That's not a valid comparison for TIFF. TIFF is a container which supports multiple compression algorithms. You could plug FLIF in as a compression algorithm and use it directly.
921.
by rleigh 10y ago
Who uses "make uninstall"? More importantly, who tests it? Most developers using e.g. automake or some other generator don't test this, ever. If you package it, you delegate uninstallation to the package manager. I'd
922.
by rleigh 10y ago
pkg update; pkg upgrade No different from apt on a Debian system. It's come on leaps and bounds since the initial 10.0 release.
923.
by rleigh 10y ago
The boost implementation is certainly showing its age at this point, as is mpl, now we have variadic templates. Are there any C++14 variant implementations compatible with boost::variant and std::variant which are based on variadic template
924.
by rleigh 10y ago
But in terms of processes, this diagram is too simplistic. What about all the attached chemical plant required for semi-continuous on-line fuel reprocessing? Keeping that safe, leak-free and coping with the activation of all the pipework
925.
by rleigh 10y ago
On the cycling side, I'd have to disagree. It's one type of exercise you can get into while being very overweight: the gearing means you can start out really gently and very gradually work up over time. You can start out potteri
926.
by rleigh 10y ago
Note that ZFS doesn't use b-trees; it uses Merkle hashes.
927.
by rleigh 10y ago
This was only for take off and acceleration through the trans-sonic regime. It certainly didn't use them for super-cruise at Mach 2; at this speed the engines were operating at their peak efficiency.
928.
by rleigh 10y ago
While I am happy that Apple have at last committed to replacing HFS+, I'm wondering why they didn't use ZFS rather than reinventing the wheel. It's not like it's a particularly easy wheel to reinvent either; the amount
929.
by rleigh 10y ago
The worst part is not that they have a "unique" UK keyboard layout, but that they don't support the standard UK layout at all with the built-in keymaps, which is frankly incredible given that every single keyboard other than
930.
by rleigh 10y ago
Just yesterday, I did my first Linux installation with ZFS as the root/boot filesystem (Ubuntu 16.04). This is after using it as the default filesystem on my FreeBSD systems for several years, and being very happy with it. I've u

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