micro_softy

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by micro_softy 10y ago
"Now, it's been a few years since gcc has been able to produce a real listing..." Can you share with readers the version number for the last gcc that can do this satisfactorily?
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by micro_softy 10y ago
I have a similar issue. Sometimes, but not every time, when I turn on a particular halogen lamp using the same outlet as a particular computer, it triggers USB detection and I get kernel messages on /dev/console as if I was pluggi
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Any plans to include i386?
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by micro_softy 10y ago
"... remove the Phone from the iPhone" I read a comment on HN that said AppleTV is what you describe. The author seems to be ignoring the Mac G3/G4/G5/Pro computers. Apple is still in the pro audio market, aren&#x27
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Here's an interesting retweet from ProDOS's author last month. @JBrooksBSI [59]Aug 17 Was MS-DOS copied from CP/M? [60]embedded.com/electronics-bl... 60. https://t.co/mOR5mLBHwC http
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by micro_softy 10y ago
"Slack for everyone". (After paying some registrar and ICANN gets its 13 cents or whatever.) Pay to play DNS aside, this is really what the "web 2.0" should have been. IMHO, an IRC channel has always been more functional
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by micro_softy 10y ago
There are other ways to block ads besides this one solution. The web ad delivery mechanism is brittle. But when will this game end? Advertisers should just pay consumers (users). Why bother with a middleman? Request for Project (RFP): Let
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by micro_softy 10y ago
You never tried NetBSD? If you are suggesting NetBSD has more things enabled by default than OpenBSD I would bet that is incorrect. I have tried a lot of different projects and NetBSD is the best I have seen for not enabling anything. It
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Is "Analyzing Sun Networks" out of print? I remember this book as being quite good. So many of those "old" Sun ideas are still around today, in one form or another.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Do web developers find ways to create work for themselves? You allude to it below when you say "zillions of hours". There is a significant amount of money moving through the "web development industry". People are getting
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by micro_softy 10y ago
"TinyOS". It's on Github.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Why I'm dropping Rust (hackernoon.com) Why the redirect from medium.com?
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by micro_softy 10y ago
What happens if a consultant approaches a company that uses Hadoop and offers them "custom data transformation" solutions for their most frequent processing jobs at lower cost and that beat Hadoop's processing times 100-fold?
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by micro_softy 10y ago
What is the key difference between "central servers" and "bootstrap servers"? I mean DHT is "decntralized" once the client has a copy, but initially a client has to get a copy of it from somehwere. And unless e
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by micro_softy 10y ago
I'm not much of C programmer but I think it's an approximation of an infinite loop. for(;;){ if(condition) break; }
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Reva Forth (Windows/Mac/Linux)[1] is cool but how about a Forth that does not require an OS? 1. No Plan9/BSD/etc. The true beauty of Forth to me is the relative ease with which one can boot into a Forth REPL and start c
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by micro_softy 10y ago
s/envgiduid/envuidgid/
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by micro_softy 10y ago
"Microsoft's software makes using an old timeshareing [sic] operating system on a PC look really great in comparison." Amen. I would like an APL using ASCII characters written in Forth.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
while :;do ssh ... && break; sleep 5; done
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by micro_softy 10y ago
They've added doas to the ramdisk. Naive Q: Is doas any better than envgiduid and envdir? And if so, how?
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Apologies for being stupid but this does not make sense to me: while [ true ];do ssh user@62.141.55.117; sleep 0.1; done Is this the same as writing: while test true; do ...; done Then this would also work: while [ false ]
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by micro_softy 10y ago
There is a universally accepted standard. And I believe the usual suspects have each had it implemented on their manufactured "smartphones". Each device can put its network interface into AP mode. I think the marketing term is &q
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by micro_softy 10y ago
"For the attacks to work, the cloud hosting the VM must have deduplication enabled so that physical pages are shared between customers." But the vendor's cloud will not disable sharing pages of physical memory because ____.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Great comment.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
OK, if you meant going from DOS batch to UNIX sh scripts, i.e., from one scripting language to another, as the "mental shift", then that's fair. But using an alias for a program that may be called by a script is not going to
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Yes or no question: Is it deemed too difficult for a user to create their own aliases, based on their own needs? Why should anyone have to make a "mental shift"? The answer is not because UNIX is incompatible with other systems.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
IPsec.
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by micro_softy 10y ago
One is always left with the impression Microsoft thinks their users are ignorant, for lack of a better word. Of course, along with all those users who Microsoft treats as ignorant, again for lack of a better word, there are some very sharp
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by micro_softy 10y ago
Don't know much about Sandstorm but I agree with the statements. The best software is often written by one person. It may defy common sense but I have seen this happen again and again. I like relatively small, open source software I ca
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by micro_softy 10y ago
I've been enjoying the fruits of Bell Labs and UC Berkeley. I'm not a "dev" or even a Linux or Bash user. I like the simplest Bourne shells the best. Plan 9's rc is also good. I've never enjoyed using Microso

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