zapman449

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by zapman449 13y ago
Can I say "thank you" about his point on reusable code? Re-editable code as he puts it is far more useful. Witness in puppet: their 'go to' module for example purposes is for ntp. Yet, last I looked, their ntp module c
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by zapman449 13y ago
Since most clients are supposed to work through a specified resolver rather than run their own, the easy block is to deny port 53 to non approved resolver hosts. Probably a good idea anyway in a secure environment, since it can potentially
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by zapman449 13y ago
I call bs. I'm certain there will be a large scale problem with XP. However, that won't run in the reputation of MS, but rather the company still using it.
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by zapman449 13y ago
What I don't understand is why Comcast refused to put NetFlix's CDN gear into their network/DC setup. That would solve the problem...
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by zapman449 13y ago
+1 I'm typing now on a u6430 running ubuntu 13.04, and it runs great. Three challenges: 1) On a busy wifi, I have some challenges with connection drops, but I haven't determined if that's a driver issue, or a chip issue. The
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by zapman449 14y ago
Dell makes a nice bit of coin (2+bil in profit last quarter according to google), mostly from the enterprise stuff, hence the kerfuffle over 3Par 2 years ago. What I don't get is why they're submitting to a leveraged buyout.
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by zapman449 14y ago
Or, you could use 'ls -h'... (that said, I do see the utility, since it gives a more obvious visual queue as to the order of size differences... but if you're doing anything with the sizes programatically, you have to remove the commas afte
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by zapman449 14y ago
GOW seems to be more focused on a userland environment, whereas mingw is focused on enabling developers to link against unix libraries in a windows environment. Sure there's msggrep, and msgfilter as userland in mingw, but GOW gives you di
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by zapman449 14y ago
Personally, I think Gow is awesome. The few times that I need power unix stuff, it's been just there, and it just works. That's the most important thing. For me, it's worth the 'price' of admission, just to get a usable instance of 'gfind
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by zapman449 14y ago
it includes the command lines for putty: pscp and psftp at least.
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by zapman449 14y ago
the application specific passwords are 16 characters long. Four blocks of four lowercase characters. I too would rather them be longer, and involve at least some numbers if not specials... but they're not THAT short.
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by zapman449 14y ago
People have mentioned syntax-highlighting, which is cool, and I'll be checking it out shortly. But MY favorite feature of zsh is ZLE: the Zsh Line Editor. The fact that I hit up-arrow, and see the for|while|if statements as I typed them, r
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by zapman449 14y ago
Trust me. I get it. But if you don't have the HS diploma, it'll be something you have to explain for YEARS. People have certain expectations for others, even in high tech. The HS Diploma is one of those things. The college diploma stil
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by zapman449 14y ago
I guess it depends on what else you're doing. If you're in High School still, suck it up and finish with high marks and be done. As for college, there are two theories on that: on one hand, a college degree from a good school still caries
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by zapman449 15y ago
Well, Oracle is more prevalent in big enterprise. But if you look at the equations at the end of the article, a mysql/postgres DBA costs probably 80-90% of the Oracle DBA. The licensing costs are less, but the hardware cost for the big-ir
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by zapman449 15y ago
The big problem is in proving the collusion. It's just as easy, and mostly legal to send signals to your competitors through the marketplace... release a new model with foobaz feature at a higher pricepoint, see how the competitors react..
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by zapman449 15y ago
I do really miss the 'command' module's convienience... so much that I often code my own version using subprocess, just so I can get at Std-out, Std-Err, and the return code all in one place.
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by zapman449 15y ago
God speed Miyamoto-san. Thank you for everything.
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by zapman449 15y ago
Text only google cache version, since the website seems to be slagged. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UGF6HCq...
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by zapman449 15y ago
Since both bash and zsh are 'sh' derived shells, it's not a huge context flip. It's analogous to flipping between your highly tuned (vim|emacs) config, vs logging into a new AWS image with the default version's config: You still know how
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by zapman449 15y ago
I tend to use screen, rather than use tabbed CLI windows. Or you could use tmux.
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by zapman449 15y ago
My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different ch
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by zapman449 16y ago
It's also annoying to have open bugs that can't get any traction... I'm more than willing to do almost any test (short of destroying my data) to help them along, because an easy way to get multiple boxes with block access to a volume is pre
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by zapman449 16y ago
OCFS2, in the v1.4 branch has some extreme fragmentation problems. It seems to be just fine if you're dealing with large files, or lots of small files that don't change frequently. However, if you've got lots of turnover of lots of small