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by tobias3 11y ago
Here is how to do integer overflow checks from the same author as the OP in the bug report: https://www.fefe.de/intof.html
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by tobias3 11y ago
Scrubbing corrects on disk bit flips. An in-memory bit flip (which is more rare than on disk bit flips even with non-ECC memory) can corrupt a in-memory data structure which is later written to disk to all replicas, i.e. scrub will not dete
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by tobias3 11y ago
No it is worse with ZFS because it doesn't have a fsck tool. If you have a bit flip in the ZFS metadata you have to export and re-import your whole pool to get it to a writable state again.
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by tobias3 11y ago
It is not only expensive, it is also really slow. If you want a VM that compares to a 10$ droplet (i.e. with SSD) you are paying five times that.
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by tobias3 11y ago
I had to enter a captcha yesterday for the first time at their page. I think they are under a DDOS attack.
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by tobias3 11y ago
Sorry, I meant that the project being compiled was closed source.
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by tobias3 11y ago
When we tried using clang for Android compiling C++ code half a year ago it caused problems, which disappeared when we switched to GCC. > If you have problems with Clang, please file bugs! Filing compiler bugs is really hard with a close
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by tobias3 11y ago
Can't one launder money by buying and running bitcoin mining? There is the question of getting it into a usefull currency again but it makes who sent money to whom untraceable.
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by tobias3 11y ago
Weirdly enough banks don't seem to like 0% interest rates. We'll see if this is true when the bank driven FED raises interest rates with the next session.
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by tobias3 11y ago
I agree with you that it is clear in this case. But they are arguing that the API they added makes the proprietary vmkernel a separate work and the distribution with vmklinux a "mere aggregation", no?
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by tobias3 11y ago
Took me a while to get that they are using the Linux kernel as a library, i.e. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation applies. I thought they have a kernel module with a GPL wrapper, like the NVidia
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by tobias3 11y ago
Thats actually a good idea. You don't even have to make it a fixed value. The receiver uses how much money was paid as a (spam) signal. The bitcoin transaction can just go to /dev/null with a hash of the message as data, so d
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by tobias3 11y ago
I had to remove the Facebook messenger app because it makes my Android phone swap. It's an old one with only 1GB RAM, but still...
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by tobias3 11y ago
This is also something the CPU's branch predictor can figure out and do the same optimization on. This decreases the benefit from AOT-compiled code.
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by tobias3 11y ago
So, if I enable bitcode it just doubles the size of my binaries currently?
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by tobias3 11y ago
I think you found the Achilles heel. This won't scale, so it is only suitable for small file systems.
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by tobias3 11y ago
I think there is a stage 5 now: An Open Source project becomes good enough and takes over the market. Because the price of the Open Source product is zero you cannot compete with proprietary software. Additionally your software introduces l
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by tobias3 11y ago
And just today I was wondering what happened with this btrfs patch set which introduces some of the benefits of bcache to btrfs: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=129622115023547
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by tobias3 11y ago
I lost trust into Microsoft when they put an "Outlook" app into the Android app store, which when connected to an Exchange server downloads all the account messages and calendar data to a cloud server (probably in order to have pu
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by tobias3 11y ago
1. What is the alternative for user facing open source projects? The icentives for GitHub are even more misaligned as they want to attract developers and not users. I am wondering how long it takes till they shut down their binary release f
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by tobias3 11y ago
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer. Did not like it, though.
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by tobias3 12y ago
With Microsoft having that large a share of the PC market this would result in anti-trust lawsuits. I think this issue must be solved on a regulatory level, i.e. Google (and Bing!) should be punished for providing malware links (and the act
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by tobias3 12y ago
Something like that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sci... (have never been there)
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by tobias3 12y ago
Actually greece has a primary budget surplus, so at this point they are paying back the "loans", the problem is that they are miserable while doing so. If people are unemployed you are squandering resources.
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by tobias3 12y ago
VSS Writers may include this information for their files. So it is probably available for e.g. a Exchange database. The examples on the page are VMWare and TrueCrypt and I don't think they register VSS Writers.
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by tobias3 12y ago
I'm most interested in the delta copying. After a little bit of research in the forums I'm guessing you save block hashes of full copies and then compare the source blocks to the block hashes and copy only if they differ. Or does
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by tobias3 12y ago
It is just annoying that google has to put in so much work just to prove an obvious point. So inefficient...
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by tobias3 12y ago
Yes, the title should not say "TrueCrypt developer says no to license change for forking" but "TrueCrypt developer says no to license change for forking with the same name and removing copyleft"
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by tobias3 12y ago
Conjecture: TrueCrypt was developed by mainly by one person. This person did write TrueCrypt to encrypt his WinXP Laptop/PC, but does not need it anymore now, because he can now use Bitlocker. TrueCrypt is a consumer facing Open Source
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by tobias3 13y ago
Theoretically all of Europe has one. (Maasricht treaty. 60% of GDP)

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