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by znep 11y ago
Sadly according to https://aws.amazon.com/dms/faqs/ RDS SQL Server, RDS Postgres, and ODBC sources are supported in bulk extract mode only; the change data capture mode (CDC) is not yet supported. A shame since
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by znep 11y ago
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by znep 11y ago
Brings back memories from my past... http://znep.com/~marcs/mtu/ Woefully out of date and wrong, but helped some folks out.
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by znep 12y ago
On a multiuser system there are various cases where being able to predict the PID of a process allows attack against naive code. eg. If a process uses the pid to generate a tmp file name, someone sneaks in first and makes it a link and use
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by znep 12y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Regardless of where your data is, you want to best map your accesses to the underlying reality of whatever hardware is in use. And memory has significant locality on any even moderately big system. I do think th
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by znep 12y ago
When curl gets the end of the input, it exits and the shell closes the pipe generating an EOF. You get a broken pipe writing to one if the reader goes away, not reading from it. I verified this on OS X with the below "server"
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by znep 12y ago
curl won't buffer the entire stream, since that would be silly, so if it is a big enough response then curl will have already passed parts of it along to the shell through the pipe. Is this likely to cause a catastrophic failure? No.
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by znep 12y ago
While you are right that /dev is typically a filesystem provided by the kernel (these days, previously it was a normal "static" filesystem), bash specifically handles various filenames under /dev when used in redirection
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by znep 12y ago
Keep in mind that although availability sets can help reduce the chances that two VMs will go down at once, you do have to deal with the maintenance cycles that Azure has where they will reboot every one of your VMs over the course of x hou
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HTML5 Video in Safari on OS X Yosemite(techblog.netflix.com)
60 points by znep 12y ago|80 comments
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by znep 12y ago
These graphs are almost identical to the graphs of all too many Java generational garbage collection cycles I have seen in my life. Eden is the stupid stuff you do when figuring stuff out that hopefully never makes it into a commit unless
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by znep 13y ago
Unrelated to this particular issue, but lately Adobe Updater has taken to running lsof in a tight loop, waiting for me to exit Acrobat so it can update. Makes for a pretty solid red bar of system CPU use.