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by wang_li 11y ago
This is why all the data that goes to a hard drive should be encrypted before it gets there. No reason for the system to be trusting that the storage isn't malicious. If all the storage sees is encrypted data then the worst that it can
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by wang_li 11y ago
Which doesn't sound like either content addressable or a union filesystem. Unless it's using the filenames as indexes in which case I guess it is content addressable, but has a serious flaw in that you're limited to only one
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by wang_li 11y ago
They won't compete. There's a reason that the ADA exists and it's not because people are mean, it's because it's more expensive to support people with disabilities. And because disabled customers are a very small po
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by wang_li 11y ago
Most western universities and colleges are not for profit. They're not free, but they're heavily subsidized, directly and indirectly. Princeton for example receives $105,000 per student per year in benefits due to the fact that no
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by wang_li 11y ago
But when the amount of eggs per chicken goes down, the amount of roasted chicken goes up. :)
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by wang_li 12y ago
It's like no one remembers the reasons we switched away from fixed format records. The biggest of which is that text based logging is a lot more future proof. Sure I might have to change a regex when time stamps improve their resolutio
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by wang_li 12y ago
I know this is a long dead conversation, but pkg in Solaris 11 is quite nice. It's not your grandfather's SysV packaging any more.
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by wang_li 12y ago
Not to mention that in plenty of environments production systems don't have access to the internet to begin with, so curl/wget | bash is a non-starter.
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by wang_li 12y ago
It seems your complaint is that it's not Linux or some other OSS project. As far as what I want from a server, Solaris is competitive with everything. When something goes wrong it's very clear about what has happened. Out of the b
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by wang_li 12y ago
As someone who lives in the west, I'm just upset that they call the hills of Tennessee mountains.
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by wang_li 12y ago
They don't need to write anything. They just need to impose an increasing delay after every failure when the code is being supplied via USB or bluetooth. First failure, wait two seconds, fifth failure wait 30 seconds, eigth failure wai