ParrotyError

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by ParrotyError 8y ago
Indeed. But the fact that the kernel does it at all is mysterious, and that on most systems the misfeature is enabled by default...
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by ParrotyError 8y ago
I can't remember but I did sit in on a presentation about 15 years ago where they explained it. I lent the notes to a senior developer and never got them back.
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by ParrotyError 8y ago
The OOM killer was a misfeature when it was designed. Why is it still in the kernel? Solaris solved this problem 20 years ago.
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by ParrotyError 9y ago
The tape recorders still work.
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by ParrotyError 9y ago
I suppose you can run it in bochs or quemu or one of those things if you want to use it on non-x86 hardware.
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
I've never been on the offshore survival course where they teach you how to jump off an oil platform into the sea and survive, but allegedly they tell you to cover your mouth firmly with the palm of your hand and pinch your nostrils cl
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
No, let's attack the unemployed, the sick, the old, the disabled, the mentally ill, the foreign, the Muslims instead, right? Done up like a kipper!
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
"We already had control" is, however.
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
No, but it's how the Kippers won the vote.
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
Are you nuts? We already had control. Now the future of the UK is in jeopardy because of you tinfoil hat brigade.
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
All kinds of things. Large organisations (supermarket chains like Tesco) holding onto vast "land banks," new property being bought up and left vacant by foreign investors as fast as it can been build (a big problem in London and C
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
"In the example of home rental, making homes available for rent enables families to live in accommodations that they would not be able to purchase. These accommodations are not without cost to the owner: Taxes, utilities, maintenance,
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
A containment vessel at Chernobyl would have been useless. The Chernobyl disaster was a combination of poor reactor design leading to dangerous reactor physics, poor safety systems, poorly-trained staff, and an dangerous and unnecessary &qu
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." -- Jerome K. Jerome. Especially when it's the high priests of the C++ orthodoxy reinventing the wheel 30 years late.
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by ParrotyError 10y ago
Back in the 90s (IIRC) someone wrote a kernel module for linux that provided the equivalent of a GUI "trash can/recycling bin" but at the filesystem level, where a specific directory (folder for you young 'uns) was set a
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by ParrotyError 11y ago
It's unreadable on desktop too. What's with this new fashion?
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by ParrotyError 11y ago
Back in the days of the 8-bit micros there were some games that were absolutely incredible for what they could pack into a tiny machine. Elite on the BBC micro (32k) was one, but being poor I had a Spectrum 128. There was a helicopter simul
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by ParrotyError 11y ago
When I was in my teens I bough a book called "Advanced Spectrum Machine Language" by David Webb (IIRC) and it had examples of a rainbow processor (high-res colour by repeatedly writing to the attributes file quickly) and a full-sc