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by tytso 11y ago
In general, it's a good idea to do a full image backup before you do any messing about with a drive. This is something the corporate IT guys certainly should have done, since often it's not reasonable to assume that some random e
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by tytso 12y ago
Or perhaps more accurately, this must be how 1 percenters who pay $$$ to lobbyists to influence/purchase politicians feel....
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by tytso 12y ago
Bluetooth LE is a good thing. It means that the keyboard will pair quickly and consistently, which has not been my experience with older bluetooth keyboards. Worse, because power consumption is significantly higher, those keyboards ten
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by tytso 12y ago
It's easy for my repositories because I can just take a look at the Signed-Off-By: in the commit body. :-)
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by tytso 12y ago
Whether or not gcc was "obscure" in 1990 really depends on which circles you were in, I'm sure, but it's true that it was hardly an unknown project, and that Sun's decision to unbundle the C compiler helped it to be
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by tytso 12y ago
That article clearly omits one of the primary failures of Ubuntu's upstart, which was Canonical's insistence on copyright assignment. This more or less doomed it from being accepted by the other distributions, just as Canonical&
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by tytso 12y ago
So how many total people were actually involved, over how many years? I probably shouldn't have said "engineering resources" --- what I meant was total headcount: technical writers, people to do the userspace tools, test eng
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by tytso 12y ago
An alternate explanation of his frustation/bitterness is that the way the market forces have worked out, there hasn't been a good business case to create a new "systems company" or do ground breaking new systems work.
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by tytso 12y ago
The really big missing piece that I found in this post mortem is if it only took 30 minutes to revert the original change, why did it take over ten hours to restart the Azure Blob storage servers? This was neatly elided in the last senten
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by tytso 12y ago
I use Yubikey but I don't keep any high security passwords stored in it. Those I type by hand. It's annoying but as Scotty would say, "ye cannae change the laws o' physics"!
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by tytso 12y ago
The definition of wear out is more than just the SSD declaring the cell bad, or the SSD failing suddenly. A cell is technically declared worn out when the chance that the cell suffer charge leakage after N months at temperature T exceeds
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by tytso 12y ago
For those who think 20% time at Google is dead, note that Project Cardboard started as two Googlers' 20% time project, who then recruited a lot of other 20%ers. That's probably the most important thing that people might not realiz
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The Story Behind Google's Cardboard Project (techcrunch.com)
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by tytso 12y ago
The last third is based on my extensive opinion having worked on open source software for my entire career, including being the ext4 subsystem maintainer and the e2fsprogs author and maintainer.
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by tytso 12y ago
This is why it is a good idea for proposed patches to be sent to a mailing list, where other people other than the repo owner can more easily review patches, and then to have those patches tracked via patchwork. And when I accept a patch, e
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by tytso 12y ago
It's about the patches not being fit for merging. It might be because of the commit sign-offs, or it might be because it was missing error checking, or any number of things. The real question is which incurs more overhead --- askin
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by tytso 12y ago
The CII is not funding the OpenSSL Foundation; it is directly funding two OpenSSL developers, so they can work on whatever is best for OpenSSL, instead of whatever feature improvements contracted by the OpenSSL Foundation. As a result, the
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by tytso 12y ago
Sun shipped could which _could_ link dynamically to GPL code. The problem with this "GPL infects across dynamic linking" argument is that you are therefore trying to make the claim that whether or not kadmin is infected by GPL cod
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by tytso 12y ago
This is a great way of finding all sorts of bugs in your support of Internationalized Domain Names.
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by tytso 12y ago
The proprietary app in this example, has no idea whether they are dynamic linking with a version of libss that has the dlopen functionality (which is the case in the version of libss distributed with e2fsprogs), but there is also the versio
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by tytso 12y ago
Seems like sour grapes to me. If the startup is only worth pennies on the dollar, why should the investors get more than fair market value? This seems an awful like new city bankers who are all in favor of unrestrained free market capita
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by tytso 12y ago
The problem with the readline library example is that there are BSD versions of the library. So you can do something like this: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/lib/s...
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by tytso 12y ago
Um, I'm sure the NSA would be happy to implement a strong password generator if you asked nicely. Seriously, if we aren't willing to trust the NSA to generate strong passwords for us, is it really a good idea to trust DDG (or an
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by tytso 12y ago
It's 2014; why was the author using ext3 instead of ext4? Ext4 does have fallocate support. Also, if you use fallocate(2) instead of posix_fallocate(3), you don't have to worry about glibc trying to emulate fallocate() for those
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by tytso 12y ago
This has been discussed before, about 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123720 And this page was largely written in 2007, although it's been updated a few times since. I'll also note that Val&#
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by tytso 13y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of the work was contributed by engineers using 20% time (no, it's not dead) who wanted to make the April Fool's hack happen. I've seen Cambridge Googlers (from the ITA acquisition) come
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Non-US-based cloud services might be more at risk to bulk surveillance(plus.google.com)
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At a high level, would you want to be working alongside that person as a teammate? If someone were to write in the interview summary, "the candidate is really bright, but arrogant as all h*ll; I wouldn't want him/her to be
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by tytso 13y ago
It's not true that fsync() calls flush all outstanding writes for the entire file system; that was true for ext3 in data=ordered mode, but it's definitely not true for ext4 or xfs. If you use fdatasync(), and there were no write
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by tytso 13y ago
Why not just set up an http proxy on a linode box which only listens to localhost. Then use ssh -L to set up a port forwarding from your local host port 3128 to your linode host's port 3128, and then configure your browser to use loca

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