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by z2amiller 14y ago
These haunted servers were actually supermicro barebones chassis. It has been a (long) while since I have seen the inside of an e450 but iirc there were a bunch of fans in trays in there. So it is certainly possible that the vibration did
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by z2amiller 14y ago
So 10 years and a few employers ago, we had a case of a few "haunted" server chassis. Hard drives would fail on these chassis very frequently, and when a fresh drive was swapped in, it would take many days to rebuild the RAID, if it ever
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by z2amiller 14y ago
In the "updates" section, he shows that there is a new system to attach some phosphorescent plastic between the spokes next to the rim. It isn't clear if these are included with the standard backer price, but it does allow the system to b
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Ghosts in the rom(nycresistor.com)
246 points by z2amiller 14y ago|22 comments
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by z2amiller 15y ago
I was thinking of something related to this earlier today. One thing I'd really like from the emergency call screen is to allow me to tag several of my contacts as emergency contacts. That way if my phone is stolen, or I am hurt in an ac
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by z2amiller 15y ago
The best way I've seen for dealing with cache expiry, which the article does not talk about, is to use version numbers on assets. We found this to be especially important with javascript, css, etc -- if all of that stuff doesn't expire at
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by z2amiller 15y ago
Is there a good way to phrase (i.e. "Doctor Speak") for something like "No Code unless a probably positive outcome with intervention"?
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by z2amiller 15y ago
Also think for a minute about what "you should be ok" means in this context. Sure, if you are developing something in your spare time that kinda-mostly-doesn't-compete with what your employer is doing, and they find out, maybe they can't
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by z2amiller 15y ago
I've always thought the "Drive to the datacentre" argument was BS. If you're writing your app for the cloud, you have to deal with spurious instances going away, degrading, etc. It is no different in the datacenter. If you're driving to
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by z2amiller 15y ago
Access to live sports is the only thing keeping me from cutting the cord. Everything else we watch is readily available from other sources 'a la carte' which would be much less expensive than buying a giant package of cable channels I neve
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by z2amiller 15y ago
About 10 years ago during a minor earthquake in the California Bay Area, I happened to be on the phone with my girlfriend at the time who was in Mountain View, I was in San Jose. The conversation went something like: GF: "Oh! There's an
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by z2amiller 15y ago
I am reminded of this post: http://gadgetopia.com/post/6819 I think your thoughts of being a talentless nobody have more to do with gaining experience than it does having access to more information and seeing more products. You have cro
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by z2amiller 15y ago
I've seen similar systems, such as "Which one of these four images is a puppy?". I think the problem is that the set has to be small, so it ends up being a multiple choice quiz. With one correct answer out of four or five choices, it is
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by z2amiller 15y ago
If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
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by z2amiller 15y ago
What a nice surprise to wake up and check HN to find an article I'd written four years ago trending on the front page. :-)
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by z2amiller 15y ago
They've F-ed them up worse than that, a few months ago I got a full feed of Fleshbot in the place of my Gizmodo feed. Fortunately I closed my laptop in time, or it could have been a much more interesting meeting at work (No doubt followed
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by z2amiller 15y ago
I find that with the new 90 degree connector it is much more likely to be yanked in parallel to the machine. The metal mount is much more durable but I've had my laptop nearly pulled out of my hands a few times by someone tripping/yanking
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by z2amiller 15y ago
With some of the first magsafe-based macs, I was buying a new power adapter every three months or so. The cord would fray at the end of the way-too-small strain relief between the magsafe connector and the cord. I had one nearly catch on
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by z2amiller 15y ago
This hits close to home for me. My wife is currently going through the process to get a one-year internship to for her psychology doctorate, which is required for graduation. Having to pay for the privilege is an understatement - her univ
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by z2amiller 15y ago
Now combine that with dsh ( http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en ) and authorized_keys, you can _really_ get in trouble. dsh is similar to this Cluster SSH, but is appropriate for use in scripts, cron jobs, etc. Example:
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by z2amiller 16y ago
I don't think 6 years "trying to do a startup" is the same as a complete lack of work experience, unless you spent the entire 6 years trying to raise money and making powerpoint slides. If you did any real programming work during that time
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by z2amiller 16y ago
This morning, my normally SFW "Tech News" folder in Google Reader was full of full-on explicit pornography - apparently at some point the feed URL was redirected to their Fleshbot site. Are we being encouraged to "sample" some of the oth
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Gizmodo RSS feed full of porn this morning?(kellyhirano.wordpress.com)
1 points by z2amiller 16y ago|2 comments
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by z2amiller 16y ago
This already exists in California to some degree. The state offered a limited number of stickers to hybrid cars that allows them access to the carpool lanes with a single driver. The stickers were quickly exhausted and now cars that hav
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by z2amiller 16y ago
FWIW, most of the "Major Players" support the Crawl-Delay directive in robots.txt, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl... I know at minimum GoogleBot and Yahoo! Slurp respect this value. I believe Google Ad
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by z2amiller 16y ago
I wonder if there will be a next generation of hackers that learn this way. I had a similar story, learning "programming" by poking around inside giant dungeon crawl type games written in basic. However, any game that is interesting enoug
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by z2amiller 16y ago
Checking the schema and upgrade scripts into source control is extremely important, and this is how I have managed it in the past. (names like table.alter.12.sql). I regret not setting this type of versioning table up from the beginning,
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by z2amiller 16y ago
One thing I've done in the past to help prevent 'configuration rot' of nagios configs is to hook it into the same files that drove our deployments - when the deployment changes, the nagios config changes with it. Nagios supports template-
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by z2amiller 16y ago
Good advice all around. If you wear a backpack or messenger bag, you'll end up with an awfully sweaty back. Getting rear panniers will help a lot, especially since you'll probably want to carry a change of close with a 15 mile commute. B
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by z2amiller 16y ago
+1 for fastmail.fm, I've been a customer for some time and like their features. You can point your own domain's mail there, set up fairly comprehensive rules for filtering mail into folders, etc. They have a web interface and it fully s

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