sparkiegeek

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by sparkiegeek 9y ago
Perhaps you're not aware that Canonical already do this and publish results at https://certification.ubuntu.com/ ?
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by sparkiegeek 10y ago
Anyone else reminded of https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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by sparkiegeek 11y ago
Oh? I'm sure 16.10 will be great but there's a bunch of things coming in 16.04 which have me excited!
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by sparkiegeek 12y ago
You should probably start with Juju docs on setting up an environment with MAAS as a "provider" https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-maas.html
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by sparkiegeek 12y ago
Where are you getting the stats that majority of the cloud is RHEL/CentOS? Published stats [1] show that Ubuntu dominates cloud deployments. [1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1318
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by sparkiegeek 12y ago
To be honest, Intel's AMT is a bit of a PITA, but the Orange Boxes were assembled to have some resemblance to real racks of hardware. So remote out of band power control is essential. There's something quite magical about using Ju
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by sparkiegeek 12y ago
One key difference is that MAAS is free as in beer and free as in speech. It's great for private clouds.
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by sparkiegeek 12y ago
Along with Juju, this is a key technology which (literally) powers the Ubuntu Orange Box - http://www.ubuntu.com/cluster‎
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by sparkiegeek 14y ago
Is there a subscription list you use to increase privacy or are these custom filters?
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by sparkiegeek 15y ago
Would be interesting to see a comparison to iOS - are there figures available?
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Mercurial 1.9 released(mercurial.selenic.com)
92 points by sparkiegeek 15y ago|8 comments
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by sparkiegeek 15y ago
LDAP as a hierarchical data store with same flat schema for each node containing application specific serialised Python dictionaries. Oh, and PostgreSQL for reporting.
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by sparkiegeek 15y ago
Key points from the conference summarized on reddit's /r/gaming: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h1anz/key_points_fro...
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by sparkiegeek 16y ago
100% when you look at data for UK, though it appears we're less educated - 23% "High School"
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by sparkiegeek 16y ago
The redirect I found on https://www.google.com seems like it did have a whitelist. Luckily youtube.com was on the whitelist, so I could re-use the exploit from there. So even whitelists aren't totally safe (and YouTube isn't using the red
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by sparkiegeek 16y ago
https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?continue=http%3A... This link looks like it's from google.com but it's not. Incidentally I think this only works if you're currently signed in to a Google account, oh yeah it's bouncing from an