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by spudlyo 13y ago
Email me (address in profile) your support ticket id(s) and I'll follow up.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
The control key is used more often than the meta key, so I'd reserve that choice bit of keyboard real estate (caps-lock) for control. For meta you can hit Esc, or even easier Ctrl+[ which is the same thing. Contorting your hand to hit
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Or alternately make the sender do something computationally expensive before their email can be accepted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
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by spudlyo 13y ago
... so it isn't like it is common practice to log in to a production database server and do apt-get/yum install gdb and start banging away. This may happen more often than you think. There is a technique popularized by some MyS
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by spudlyo 13y ago
It's articles like this that keep me reading HN. Kernel bugs, POSIX thread details, code disassembly, binary patching, and I get to learn about a new signal. What's not to love?
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by spudlyo 13y ago
"When I hear the word culture, that's when I reach for my revolver." --Hanns Johst I'm often struggle with the whole notion of "company culture" as well, and I can't help but agree that much of it is bulls
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I wondered about this myself. I smoked throughout the 90s, but have been mostly nicotine free since. Recently I spent a few weeks experimenting with e-cigs to see if I could get the nicotine high that I remember enjoying without my body f
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Hitting '.' at a prompt used to be a common idiom for exiting a program. I first saw it when I was a kid working on an HP-3000 system where the system programming language was BASIC and all programs followed this convention. Don
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by spudlyo 13y ago
In my view, none of the Operating Systems available on current phones are suitable for the kind of desktop work I do. This is an actual Linux based phone, not just a Linux kernel with a VM that runs some phone apps. As a Linux hacker I fe
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Attachmate merged with WRQ in 2005, and I believe they still sell Reflection branded products that do UNIXy things, like their Windows-based X server Reflection X.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Although Windows for Workgroups was largely considered a joke (Windows for Warehouses) I also remember it being pretty wonderful. It brought to Windows all the SMB stuff that I enjoyed from OS2 as well as an actual built-in TCP/IP sta
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Booking.com is a large online travel agency which is pretty popular in Europe. From a recent job description: Due to our continuing growth we are in search of Perl Developers for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We use Perl
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I would gladly give half my karma to downvote this comment into oblivion. I wouldn't have thought that this kind of dismissive misogyny would stand on HN.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Internal security is often an afterthought. Even a neophyte hacker could find purchase in such fertile ground.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Exim has had five serious vulnerabilities since 2010; two root privilege escalations and three remote code execution bugs. No confidence.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
SpamAssassin and friends still do a reasonable job for me, and have for years. I delete a handful every day, but like the parent I've had my email address since 1996, and I haven't been too careful about using it. If I had to do
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Hats off to ya. I used to view setting up your own email services as a rite of passage for any UNIX admin worth their salt. SMTP was one of the first services I ever got working on my home Linux box, and I had to do it with Sendmail and t
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Come to Seattle if you're not already here, sounds like it would be right up your alley.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I love that DHH's unbridled awesomeness can also be a valuable lesson about life. He has much to teach us.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Chef works atop ssh, which – while the gold standard for cryptographically secure systems management – is computationally expensive to the point where most master servers fall over under the weight of 700-1500 clients. It doesn't hav
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Pedantic nonsense. Most of the time when you're using kill you're going be using the bash shell built-in, where it is syntactically correct. kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | jobspec] ... Even so, with /bin&
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Wordpress doesn't have to do anything, when they people say MariaDB is a drop-in-replacement for MySQL they mean it. On the functionality front, except for details that only gearheads and MySQL DBAs care about you can view them as ide
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by spudlyo 13y ago
All versions of MySQL since 3.23.19 have been released under the GPL, but AFAIK the documentation has always retained its copyright under the ownership of MySQL AB, Sun and now Oracle. At no point was it ever distributed under the Creative
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by spudlyo 13y ago
It all depends. When you're talking about MySQL, do you mean MySQL 5.5 (the penultimate and most stable version) or the brand new Oracle released 5.6? If you're not one to jump on the 5.6 bandwagon there isn't a lot of diff
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by spudlyo 13y ago
This is not a well informed comment. Oracle already bought InnoBASE Oy which built InnoDB. With the acquisition of MySQL now they have the whole thing. MySQL may take a bite into Oracle's bottom line at the low end, but it really st
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by spudlyo 13y ago
It's not rolled out to everyone yet apparently, I just enabled it on my account.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
The Basque (a language isolate) word for mother is 'ama'.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
This is really a first world problem. I agree recruiters are often irritating, but I try to remember back 15 years ago when I could barely get a recruiter to return my call. I often take a moment to respond to recruiters on LinkedIn, some
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by spudlyo 14y ago
They used Vertica, which they didn't seem to be too pleased about. I think they would have liked to use Redshift it was available.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Oracle has spent a lot of effort improving the MySQL's performance and usability on Windows for version 5.5. I believe Oracle would like to take a bite out of MSSQL sales with MySQL.

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