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by tytso 14y ago
The reason why this drains entropy is because when you start a new process (for example "cat" in this case), the kernel passes 16 bytes of randomness at exec time for the benefit of userspace. This allows for fast stack randomization, with
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by tytso 14y ago
Blame is most useful after I've figured out what the bug is, and I want to understand why the change was originally made, and to see the other changes that were made to the source tree at the same time. So it's not the author of the commi
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by tytso 14y ago
Are you trying to make these identities to be firewalled from each other? i.e., do you not want your family to know that you go by "Master Dan" in certain BDSM communities? Or for someone who is transgener, but isn't yet ready to let a se
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by tytso 14y ago
Read through to the rest of the comments..... there is also the ability to use pseudonyms.
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by tytso 14y ago
Actually, G+ does support pseudonyms, although there are some subtleties with how they work and the approval process involved with them. See this very long thread for the details, and some really interesting discussion about names, pseudon
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by tytso 14y ago
So now Facebook isn't passe because of secret groups, which aren't visible outside the group of people who are communicating privately? That was the same argument which pro-Facebook partisans pooh-poohed when it was made about Google+, in
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by tytso 14y ago
This is not a new message. Mauro knew this already. He just didn't internalize it. Sometimes, after saying the same thing quietly, and being ignored, you have to raise your voice in the hopes people will listen. Ultimately, of course,
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by tytso 14y ago
People seem to be forgetting here that the problem wasn't that a mistake was made. We all make mistakes, and in fact the -rc series is part of the testing process; the mistake was caught before we cut the final release, so the development
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by tytso 14y ago
So don't buy locked down devices. There are unlocked device for sale, and the Nexus devices are at least price competitive, if not downright cheaper in the case of the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. (Yeah, there are some availability issues, but I
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by tytso 14y ago
As eropple has already pointed out, the Nexus 4 is quite reasonably priced. More importantly, it's not that you're paying a premium, it's that you're paying the true cost. Most of the locked phones are locked because they are enforcing th
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by tytso 14y ago
Well, the Linux Kernel's position is that we want the contributions from companies like Tivo, because even though a particular device might be locked down. Contributions from companies like Tivo, and Sony, and Samsung, which may have some
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by tytso 14y ago
I'm not convinced DuckDuckGo is such a great search engine. If I do a search for "Newtown", the first returned item was for the Newtown in New South Wales. A search engine which knows that I live in the US and am interested in things in t
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by tytso 14y ago
Or the telnet "Don't Randomly Lose"[1] option. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc748
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by tytso 14y ago
The author thinks an open source elite is someone with high visibility in a project that is "well known by tens or hundreds of thousands of people"? That's a pretty low bar. Personally, I'd call someone in that category a wannabe. On
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by tytso 14y ago
I sent my original 40 Mhz 386 that I used when hacking Linux 0.12 back in 1991 to be recycled last year, after it was displayed on exhibit at Linux's 20th year anniversary party. I tried to see if anyone (like the Computer Museum) wanted i
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by tytso 14y ago
Although it's true that people want programs for their functionality, not their beauty, there is a reason why it's a good idea to focus on the "beauty" of the program that lies beneath the functionality, and that's because unlike bridges,
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by tytso 14y ago
SLES decided several years ago not to support ext4. Their reasoning was that once they started supporting ext4, they would be committed to support it for ten years (since they are an enterprise distro). At the time, they didn't have the
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by tytso 14y ago
That's not true. The changes from ext4 to ext3 are evolutionary, not revolutionary. There is full backwards compatibility, and there's still a lot of the original ext3 code in ext4 (in particular, we still support old-fashioned indirect b
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by tytso 14y ago
If someone posts a URL to a G+ post, you can most certainly view it without being logged-in. (Try it: go to your G+ stream, and then for a post, select "Link to this post" on the drop-down menu, then past that into a Incognito window ---
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by tytso 14y ago
I believe the paid business version of Google Apps has always had the option (by the domain administrator) to turn off advertising for Gmail on a site-wide basis.
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by tytso 14y ago
Given that there were people who would try to use the free version for their business, and then kvetch (on HN and/or other major technology blogs) when their account was hijacked and they lost business critical access and couldn't recover q
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by tytso 14y ago
As far as I can tell Notes is designed to appeal to CIO's who write large checks --- it certainly doesn't appeal to the users or IT people.
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by tytso 14y ago
Sure, 1:1 threading is in fact very old technology. Which makes it all the more astounding that the *BSD's haven't managed to get that technology implemented in their systems until now.
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by tytso 14y ago
Why does it have to be either/or? I use both Google Drive and Dropbox; the two products have different strengths and weakness, and so I see them as complementary.
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by tytso 14y ago
The problem is that we have a chicken and egg problem. Very few programs (including most enterprise databases) use AIO. Why? For portability reasons; there are other ways of doing things (i.e., using thread pools) that will allow a data
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by tytso 14y ago
>Because if your drive does not support the flush track cache mechanism you are in for a world of pain. If your drive does not support CACHE_FLUSH mechanism, then pretty much any file system that are supposed to handle unclean shutdowns
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by tytso 14y ago
... and after customer service has blown you off saying that from their perspective, the case has been closed and you have no avenues of appeal, then try to make the story go viral....
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by tytso 14y ago
The fsck for btrfs is still not quite there. If you are using multiple disks with btrfs's mirroring/checksums, hopefully you won't get hit by HDD hiccups leading to metadata corruptions which btrfs's fsck can't yet handle. I certainly wou
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by tytso 14y ago
...and if this doesn't scare you away from using Windows (or allowing Windows to be used anywhere within your company), I'm not sure what will...
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by tytso 14y ago
I had widespread engineering support, actually From what I saw on the engineering-wide mailing list, where you told people who had many more years of engineering experience than you that they were full of sh*t, I'm sorry to say, no sir, y

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