artificer

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by artificer 17y ago
Nice article, but somewhat incomplete. He misses many fonts (like Lucida Console, Envy Code R, Anonymous, Redhat's excellent Liberation Mono,Pragmata and a whole lot of others), he doesn't explain the font differences other than noting whic
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by artificer 17y ago
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01wqp4nKoOn6pk9kHd2tGNlA==... Thanks for this.
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by artificer 17y ago
Nice setup. I've got a similar one on a server: Each daemon runs on it's own jail. Each jail is created from a cloned ZFS "base" jail filesystem, so it doesn't take any additional space (except each jail's installed packages), plus there ar
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by artificer 17y ago
What exactly do you mean by "debug mode"? FreeBSD has some standard debugging features during development (-current) and beta stages like WITNESS etc, but those have been disabled for 8-RC1 and later.
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by artificer 17y ago
I liked this article, especially for the last known picture of RMS when he was shaved, and (more seriously) Stallman's quote at the end. This sums it all up quite well in my opinion.
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by artificer 17y ago
I've given a quick shot to the previous release. Hammer seems stable, after some days of moderate use. It has nice features too, but it requires a "pruner/reblocker" cron job once in a while that might impact performance on a busy machine.
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by artificer 17y ago
Indeed. Especially the serif fonts look awful to me on cleartype. I use Safari for this reason alone.
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by artificer 17y ago
Here's my humble opinion too. I'm not a designer, but I hope some points might help. * Make the front page simpler in content, richer in design/graphics: In the front page, I'd put WHAT exactly is tarsnap (few words, like "Tarsnap is an onl
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by artificer 17y ago
Each stable version of Debian is maintained for one year after the release of the next. Unless this policy changes, this means that the next releases will be supported for a minimum of three years. If the releases were yearly, as you wish,
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by artificer 17y ago
Looks like a nice decision, however I also feel that Debian's problem is the huge freeze of thousands of packages, making the 'stable' ('stale' is better for some) distribution out of date quickly while adding a large burden to it's develop
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by artificer 17y ago
Every once in a while that a similar license discussion emerges, I see a clear pattern: Many,many people do not understand the GPL. In my opinion, this is the major drawback of the GPL: It's complexity. I've read it a dozen of times and sti
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by artificer 17y ago
Yes, this is an amazing roguelike. My favorite one. Too bad it's sequel (Jade) is still vaporware...
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by artificer 17y ago
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Amstrad CPC. I got one when I was 11. Here in Europe this machine had amazing market penetration those days (80's-early 90's), especially the 6128 model that featured a double-sided 360 Kb diskett
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by artificer 17y ago
Since one can easily find comparisons, benchmarks, gotchas etc ( you can always start here: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL ) the one thing that made me decide in favor of PostgreSQL is this (quoting a blogger): MySQL is an
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by artificer 17y ago
Unfortunately, here in Greece the situation is so ugly that not even those warnings have any change of convincing people to upgrade. I can imagine most of them simply closing the window. Among the reasons for this is that we've got a huge p
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by artificer 17y ago
The FreeBSD people are rigorously testing LLVM, with the goal to replace GCC as soon as possible (for the base system only). At the moment, the base system compiles and runs for some architectures, as noted in http://wiki.freebsd.org/Build
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by artificer 17y ago
For those who want this functionality but use a version of Python older than 2.6, there is a backport of this module: http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/
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by artificer 18y ago
Interesting. Another nice choice for serving static content is rumored to be thttpd. It lacks any kind of FastCGI support though (it's in the proprietary,premium version). Has anyone had any experiences of thttpd versus nginx?
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by artificer 18y ago
Yes, this latest trend is pure craziness. Here is a relevant wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
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by artificer 18y ago
Note that the bzip2 implementation he uses is 7zip's; the classic unix implementation does not make use of multiple cores. But, there is also pbzip2, which supposedly uses all available cores: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
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by artificer 18y ago
Although at it's current state it is probably useless, it's impressive considering it's a one man project.
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by artificer 18y ago
When FreeBSD was released, at 27 Feb 2008, Kris Kennaway posted a nice slideshow that includes some PostgreSQL and MySQL benchmarks: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Database-wise, they should be still considered
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by artificer 18y ago
Probably you've heard those words from many others as well, but what about spending money for annoying, non-hackerish stuff like * Building a complete, final product with appropriate documentation, feature matrix etc. * Building a nice and
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by artificer 18y ago
If you are going to use it interactively, I strongly suggest you insist in using IPython. Try to read the nice manual first in order to get yourself familiar. It offers autocompletion via the tab key, you can easily execute shell commands,
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by artificer 18y ago
This should give a nice boost in the already awesome job FreeBSD's developers have done profiling the kernel in the 7.x and 8 branches. Note that DTrace on FreeBSD can only be used for kernel-space probing, for the time being. Userland prob
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by artificer 18y ago
A valuable resource comparing major scm's that I point people to when they ask me is the FreeBSD project's wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl Hope it helps. Regarding specifically SVN versus GIT, be sure to look at the VCSW
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by artificer 18y ago
Just when we were contemplating the loss of our beloved linux hater...comes this one. Let's give the guy a warm welcome, shall we? ;-)
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by artificer 18y ago
It's not so simple. For example, if I remember correctly,git lacks a way to checkout and work on a small subset of a development tree, as it tracks whole trees at a time. This feature is something that svn and cvs offered long ago. To do th
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by artificer 18y ago
Each version control model has it's own merits and drawbacks, and there will always be situations where one is good and another isn't. For example, while many OSS projects have switched to distributed vc's such as git and mercurial, two of
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by artificer 18y ago
I just love the new Microsoft Consolas font that comes bundled in Windows Vista. "Pragmata" is also a very nice and professional font that is a bit expensive though, and misses support for many languages other than english. For me, the defi

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