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Changing Docker hostnames–with namespaces(evolvingweb.ca)
2 points by vasi 10y ago|0 comments
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by vasi 10y ago
xz in multithreaded mode supports random access too, at least theoretically. But there's no reasonable way with xz to actually find the file in a tarball you want to access, it's that bit that pixz provides. Another nice thing abo
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by vasi 11y ago
I like almost everything about LXD, except the attitude towards networking. The project has rejected simple solutions such as port forwarding, saying that managing the network shouldn't be LXD's job. Instead, they'd like the
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by vasi 12y ago
I did it! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548763 Unfortunately it took quite a long time, the Mozilla process is quite confusing to a newcomer, even one with a lot of open source project experience. I definitel
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by vasi 13y ago
lzma parallelizes very well! My implementation of parallel xz ( https://github.com/vasi/pixz ) works quite well. There are others as well, including pxz and the alpha version of the standard xz. All these tools produce
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by vasi 13y ago
Metafilter chat has been using this for a few months: https://chat.metafilter.com/
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by vasi 13y ago
My feature, progress bars for downloads in the OS X Dock, made Firefox 22! Hope you all like it, and be sure to report any bugs. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548763
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by vasi 14y ago
Your first point is interesting, but I'm no so sure about the second one: Given certain search strings it should be possible for amazon to detect that this [person] engages in piracy. Amazon does not see the search as coming from an indiv
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by vasi 14y ago
Yeah, I understand the advantages of Gmvault :) I also realize it might not make sense to use Maildir as the native DB for Gmvault, since you don't want to store multiple copies of each email like OfflineIMAP does. A 'gmvault export' option
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by vasi 14y ago
Yeah, I'm currently using OfflineIMAP until I find something better. But it's really not a perfect solution: it downloads emails multiple times (once per label), it doesn't restore to Gmail terribly well, it's pretty slow, and it crashes so
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by vasi 14y ago
The #1 reason I want Gmail backup is to be able to migrate in case something goes wrong with Gmail. Does Gmvault make this possible? I don't see any documentation about exporting from Gmvault to another IMAP server, or to a common format li
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by vasi 14y ago
There's a rough open source clone of Filelight for Macs[1]. Disclaimer: I'm the original author, but no longer involved. A commercial app in the same genre, DaisyDisk[2], is much more flashy and polished. You can also get the KDE/Mac versio
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by vasi 14y ago
I welcome anybody who'd like to package it! I think it's already available in Arch Linux.
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by vasi 14y ago
Glad to hear it's been of use :) The author of xz is working on a parallel compression implementation of his own, which will hopefully be in future versions of xz.
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by vasi 14y ago
Remember that compressors, including xz, support multiple compression levels. The default level for xz is 6, which is perhaps too far on the small-but-slow side. Levels 2 and lower tend to give similar compression levels to bzip2, and are c
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by vasi 14y ago
I've also got my version of parallel xz: https://github.com/vasi/pixz It doesn't require use of large temporary files like pxz, and the xz files it produces can also be decompressed in parallel.
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by vasi 14y ago
This is great, but it's just a first-order strategy! Once your opponent knows you're following these (quite rational) rules, she could pick words where the rules fail particularly badly. I look forward to seeing your analysis of how to deal
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by vasi 14y ago
Good post, but it would be great if "for HTTP" was added to the title. This has nothing to do with other use cases.
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by vasi 14y ago
Some of his list of rules sound useful, some less so. I'd like to hear more analysis of each rule, though, rather than simply assuming it must be a good idea. For example, decentralization can be useful in some cases. But differing laws in
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by vasi 15y ago
I definitely see a difference with santorum, at least. Initially it was just a googlebomb, but now it's actually in common use as the term for the er, "frothy mix". I would not be at all surprised if some folks have only heard of that defin
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by vasi 15y ago
Wow, it lines up almost perfectly with Montreal's rather askew grid, what a coincidence.
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by vasi 15y ago
While it's possible that Apple could ban non-App Store programs, I don't see this as the likely threat. More plausible to me is that new APIs in OS X will, like iCloud, become available only to App Store apps. Eventually anything that's not
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by vasi 15y ago
x86-64 has many more registers than x86, which can minimize pushing values on the stack, and therefore boosts speed. On 64-bit you can also assume that at least SSE2 is available, which can help optimizations in some cases.
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by vasi 15y ago
I'm a mostly-lurker. I only comment when I something to say that surpasses my fairly high threshold of "worth spending other peoples' time on". On this issue, I'll break my pattern and post my half-formed thoughts, because to me HN was much
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by vasi 16y ago
Yup, it's using the physical partition, so all changes are preserved. Whether you want that or not. I suppose you could use a snapshot VMDK to put the FS changes into a file, which you could then keep or discard. No idea if VBox or even VMW
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by vasi 16y ago
VirtualBox can actually do physical-partition virtualization, but you have to produce a VMDK file that points to the partition you want, and use that as the virtual disk. (Oh, and run VBox as root.) Conveniently, I've written some code to p
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by vasi 16y ago
This is a lot harder than it sounds. A library doesn't contain any indication of the type of the functions inside, just their names. You could instead read the header to get the types, but that requires that the development package is insta
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by vasi 16y ago
Reference-counting in Objective-C is probably an improvement compared to the very basic memory management of C++. (C++ fans, yes, RAII is better than nothing, but no, it's not enough.) But ref-counting is also a far cry from the tracing gar
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by vasi 16y ago
I mostly agree with you, but you're incorrect about WebCore/WebKit. For the first couple of years of WebKit development, Apple did indeed only release WebCore, but since 2005 all of WebKit has been released. Otherwise, how could Gnome (Epip
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by vasi 16y ago
This isn't possible in the generic case. Once the OS loads, its kernel will look for a root filesystem somewhere, and the ISO isn't one of the usual places it will look (ie: a partition).

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