medoc

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by medoc 3mo ago
Related: executing small commands from the Recoll indexer: https://www.recoll.org/pages/idxthreads/forkingRecoll.html
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by medoc 4mo ago
I remember going to Holmdel to install our network backup product (which later became something named ABARS in AT&T if I remember well), in the 80s. For this young French Unix geek, this was like walking into the Olympe, among the gods
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by medoc 5mo ago
Nobody with any slight acquaintance with history could believe any of these.
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by medoc 9mo ago
Around 1999, I was testing a still young MySQL as an INFORMIX replacement, and network queries needed a very suspect and quite exact 100 mS. A bug report and message to mysql@lists.mysql.com, and this is how MySQL got to set TCP_NODELAY on
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by medoc 10mo ago
Just as a note, and I checked that it's not the case with the GNU coreutils: on some systems, cp (and maybe cat) would mmap() the source file. When the output is the devnull driver, no read occurs because of course its write function d
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by medoc 10mo ago
Ils en ont ch... dans leur culotte.
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by medoc 10mo ago
The fact that TP-Link products are vastly better and cheaper than all their numerous competitors is indeed a bit strange. You have to either think that all the people at Linksys, Netgear, D-link, etc. are incompetents or that something a bi
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by medoc 1y ago
Anti-hail netting is definitely a thing (protecting cars or fruit trees), for the reasons you state. Even big hailstones are rather slower than fast golf balls.
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by medoc 2y ago
There is the Dacia Duster if your off-road needs are not really hardcore.
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by medoc 2y ago
What rclgrep does is run the recoll text extraction and do a grep-like operation on the extracted texts. If you want to give it a try, don't hesitate to contact me if you have any trouble building or using it, or think it could be imp
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by medoc 2y ago
By the way Recoll also has a utility named rclgrep which is an index-less search. It does everything that Recoll can do which can reasonably done without an index (e.g.: no proximity search, no stem expansion etc.). It will search all file
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by medoc 2y ago
This is true but it was certainly not considered good practise even at the time. I've been on the seller part of a few software companies acquisitions from the early nineties, and checking what kind of source control we were using and
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by medoc 2y ago
> You still get solar power on cloudy days, it just takes more panels to generate some specific level of power. That is wrong. On cloudy winter days the inverters often just stop. Source: have 20kW of panels on a house in the south of Fr
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by medoc 2y ago
Fun anecdote, in the mid-1980s, I was bored at work and wrote a similar simulation in Pascal running on a Vax (11-780 if I remember well), and displaying on a tektro (emulation probably). I discovered after a bit that every time I played wi
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by medoc 3y ago
It's a common misconception that the reason we should be more frugal is to save the planet, ecosystems, or cute animals.
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by medoc 3y ago
I used ed on video terminals connected to VME 68000 Unix V7 machines around 1986. For some reason, I don't remember using vi on them, and in any case, ed remained very useful when the terminal type was misconfigured or unknown to the s
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by medoc 3y ago
Not to nitpick but this would rather be around 199x when AOL joined the Internet.
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by medoc 4y ago
There is also framagit: https://framagit.org/public/projects which is a Gitlab instance run by a French non-profit, Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/en/ I host my project there, no issues.
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by medoc 4y ago
For making a good GUI, the tech guys need to be ordered around by non-tech guys who think like, or talk to, regular users and know what is needed. Tech guys don't like this, so someone needs to pay for their suffering.
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by medoc 4y ago
Your last point is a bit off. Text pages are shared iff they come from the same file. So your point works if the 90k processes are the same program. Else: shared libs...
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by medoc 4y ago
Last time I looked, posix_spawn() just called fork/exec
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by medoc 4y ago
fork() also presents performance issues for programs with a large virtual space. Here vfork() helps, but it has even more pitfalls than fork(). I had written a small doc about converting the recollindex Recoll indexer from fork() to vfork()