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by pQd 1y ago
sphinx project went half-dead around that time, few years later it got revived but with closed source license. as far as i understand apparent death of sphinx and demand for continued development/support from big users of it led to cre
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by pQd 1y ago
manticore, earlier sphinx search, has been rock solid for us for the past 16 years. now serving searches across nearly 300M short documents. we're using it in the old mode - where full index is re-created every 24h. it's great to
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by pQd 1y ago
HE is using plain stateless IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel - it's neither TCP nor UDP, it's not NAT'able. it's relatively simple for them to implement [ the stateless part ] but due to that puts some requirements on the party estab
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by pQd 1y ago
aspect worth noting: up to my knowledge HE's tunnel will work only if you're assigned public IPv4 by your ISP. if you're behind a carrier grade NAT - too bad, you'll need to use another solution to get IPv6 to your home.
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by pQd 2y ago
environment: KVM VMs running on physical hardware managed by us. we have a belt & suspenders approach: * backups of selected files / database dumps [ via dedicated tools like mysqldump or pg_dumpall ] from within VMs * backups of w
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by pQd 2y ago
and elinks as well. it had better handling of page layout. http://elinks.cz/ + https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
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by pQd 2y ago
Allegro has amazing metadata allowing you to precisely filter out the results. Search experience on amazon is an utter abomination compared to Allegro.
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by pQd 2y ago
We're using BTRFS to host PostgreSQL and MySQL replication slaves. We're snapshoting drives holding data for both every 15 minutes, 1h, 8h and 12h and keep few snapshots for each frequency. Those replicas are not used for any work
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by pQd 3y ago
Also - thanks to that FIDO2 does not seem to be usable with Microsoft's MS365 services [ Teams, Outlook, Excel etc ] on Android or iOS. there's no way to provide pin for the security key, regardless if it's plugged in via the
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by pQd 4y ago
coincidentally - we've been using first sphinx and then manticore for over 15 years as well. in our case it's fed each night with XML generated by Java code from data stored in MySQL databases. we index over 294M pseudo documents.
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by pQd 4y ago
borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB. m
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by pQd 4y ago
if you're running your test over the internet [ fluctuating latency, some packet losses ] - try enabling BBR [1] tcp congestion control algorithm on the sender side to utilize the available bandwidth more efficiently. [1] https:/
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by pQd 4y ago
I use it at work. Sphinx search has been powering our text search since the inception in 2008 and was scaling greatly. In 2021 we've moved from to Manticore without any hiccups. It's now handling index over 280M+ documents and ha
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by pQd 7y ago
i've been using BTRFS since 2014 to store backups. there is a noticeable performance penalty when rsync'ing hundreds of thousands of files to a spinning-rust disk connected to USB-SATA dock when BTRFS is used instead of EXT4. i&#x
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by pQd 7y ago
https://manticoresearch.com/ is the lively, open source, fork of Sphinxsearch. that's where some of the earlier developers from the project moved to. it's used as a text-search backend on craigslist.
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by pQd 9y ago
probably related news from Dell: "NOTE 1: 13G, select 12G, and select DSS server BIOS files have been pulled from http://dell.com/support . This note and article will be updated as soon as more information is available&
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by pQd 9y ago
That's what I've gathered based on the online discussions: Possible reasons why the original project stagnated: [0]. Mention of the manticoresearch as a fork project was removed from the sphinx forum [1] - so I can guess that deve
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by pQd 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that the original Sphinxsearch project has been stagnant for the past year. There's a new lively fork - https://manticoresearch.com/ Beyond being a user of both I don't have affiliations