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by sigil 16y ago
I still use screen on a few servers but have switched to tmux everywhere else. They're quite similar, but tmux has a number of small advantages that add up. * Better support for panes and splits. Besides vertical splits (which you can get i
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by sigil 16y ago
"These screenshots are specifically designed to trigger a feverish commitment to stumpwm." http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/screenshot.html
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by sigil 16y ago
Check out newsblur.com. The code is on github (all python and js).
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by sigil 16y ago
For the past 6 years I've used Thinkpad T40, T41 and T42s exclusively. These models tend to have solid hardware support under Linux and FreeBSD including suspend/resume and wireless. I've come to accept the fact that every couple years I do
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by sigil 16y ago
Please bare what with you?
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by sigil 16y ago
Fully agree there. FreeBSD has had ZFS for 3+ years, and I still see some serious issues once in a while. Beware all new filesystems.
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by sigil 16y ago
I'm not sure what 2001 prediction lzw could be referring to, but the Austrian school definitely sounded an early warning on the housing bubble. See this article from 2004 for instance: http://mises.org/daily/1533 Or, Ron Paul addressing t
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by sigil 16y ago
Congratulations, you just found a fixed point attractor.
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by sigil 16y ago
I used this trick the other day -- compute byte range partitions on a large file and use fseek when processing each. Is there a standard unix program that can output an arbitrary byte range from a seekable input? At first blush dd(1) looked
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by sigil 16y ago
But don't you end up angling your head downward to see the screen? Or angling your forearms upward to reach the keyboard? All the ergonomics material I've read suggests keeping these on the level, or possibly even angling your forearms down
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by sigil 16y ago
Laptop ergonomics deserves a special mention. Because it forces your line of sight and wrist level to converge, there really is no ergonomic option -- either you hunch or you scrunch. Elevating the screen and either using an external keyboa
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by sigil 16y ago
No, OpenSSH is a part of the base system, and is included in a default FreeBSD install. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/crypto/openssh/
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by sigil 16y ago
Binary package management in FreeBSD isn't well-advertised, but it's definitely there: # portupgrade -rvP --batch foo-1.2.3 This will upgrade installed package foo and anything that depends on it using binary packages from the mirror
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by sigil 16y ago
I've been using FreeBSD and Linux side by side for about 10 years. FreeBSD appeals strongly to the developer side of me: a typical install puts the complete kernel source code in /usr/src, includes a compiler and other build tools, section
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by sigil 16y ago
> 5. I really like source / ports-tree-based packaging ... Some Linux distros (Arch and Gentoo) have similar packaging systems, now. FreeBSD user here. I've always been curious about the ports-tree-based packaging systems found in these
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by sigil 16y ago
Hmm, then it's going to look like you're picking a fight (whether or not that's really the case). Get creative with the name, it's more fun anyway. Maybe some HNers can help you out.
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by sigil 16y ago
Wow. When choosing a name for a new project, isn't it standard practice to look for name collisions first -- google it, check freshmeat, apt-cache search, make search in freebsd ports, etc?
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by sigil 16y ago
Geonames is great. It doesn't get any freer than this (in both senses of the word).
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by sigil 17y ago
Try a used T40, T41 or T42 -- maybe a bit on the bulky side for you, but they have really solid hardware support under Linux / BSD (eg suspend resume usually works with no fiddling, wireless works, etc). These were the last decent models in