the wiki needs something to say "Don't worry about the A10
vs. A20 distinction, we started out using the A10, but it's all about
A20 now" somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
BTW If a mass-renaming is in order, I can do that trivially via git, but
I suspect we don'
x27;s also considerably less load-inducing than the old hybrid
nginx/apache setup that left most CGI stuff to apache)
If you notice any oddities, please mention them, as I may have missed
something in the move.
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then RAID each pair of
partitions, and then add the resulting raids into LVM as PVs -- that way
you get more choices about what to do when later migrating to bigger
disks, or deciding that adding a third disk might be good, say.
> Thank goodness for virtual machines as play areas.
Definitely.
Ch
a bit more work to keep such
a setup in order.
> I have been putting this off for far too long :-(
I imagine it will be a little painful to teach your fingers to type the
debian versions of some sysadmin incantations, so I'm sure I'd also put
this off if I was migrating in th
line event):
https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/86-debian-electronics-bof/
The video of that session should appear within a day or so.
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g via write(1) in each
direction, which then lead to the memory of the joy of discovering
talk(1) as a better alternative.
Thanks for the moment of Proustian nostalgia. :-)
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Christopher Havel writes:
...
> There was a kid a few decades ago who tried to do up a civvie reactor on
> his own, some years ago, here in the US. I'm not sure what state...
Here you go:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eagle-scout-nuclear-reactor/
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>
>> I'd like to announce a revolution in data privacy. Individuals can take
>> con
ontingent on my
not screing that up?
NO! and I definitely want a court to go to if my bank tells me they
lost track of my money.
I think you can be sure that the people will fight viciously to avoid
taking any sort of responsibility. See: Facebook & Cambridge Analytica.
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r you
expect anyone to harvest the crop and perhaps sell it to people who
then profit and spend the resulting income on weapons, say.
Anyway, never mind that -- this seems timely:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content
erm, oops!
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>
>> hopefully the first will speed things up a little, and the latte
; cgi" within a couple of seconds of pressing the "edit" link.
I think that's something that's being cached in your browser. Try
reloading that page and/or flushing related browser history.
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that 'be' (the bug tracker) takes a couple of seconds at the
end of every site rebuild, which strikes me as a bit slow given the
lack of recent activity. Luke, are you actually using 'be' at present?
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yright that we're talking about.
Until Luke or someone else points at an authoritative source to show
otherwise, I would assume that he's just mixed up several of the barely
related branches of law that people unhelpfully lump together under the
"Intellectual Pro
even-handed about it is liable to
ensure a better atmosphere amongst those who remain.
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st cute.
Free speech is nothing that you get to demand when you are asking to have
your email forwarded by a privately owned server located outside the USA.
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tention to detail -- the previous incarnation took at
least an extra 6 months because they didn't like the feel of the gaming
nubs and/or their robustness so went through _many_ test versions and
suppliers IIRC.
If you want an open gaming platform that will survive several
generations, this i
her things.
BTW The LCA talk includes some handy tips on how to make such tests work
for factory workers who are not likely to read English, nor to have a
lot of time/concentration spare.
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Alexander Ross wrote:
> or is it just me?
No, it's not just you -- It seems that nginx had a disagreement with
fcgiwrap, and got in a huff about it. I think it's all better now, so
give it another try.
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detail/1464096684955433613
which seems like a pretty bad sign for the underlying value. What's
left is 90% speculation and 10% criminality.
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good,
then I suggest that you stop shouting "Splitters!" at them for using the
word Free when you think they meant Libre, or vice versa, or whatever.
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s point, because they have taken so long
that they've lost their opportunity -- there is probably not going to be
a vibrant developer community coalescing around a phone that is so far
behind the curve and expensive. Also, even if it did become popular
somehow, the parts are probably not ava
e in
software.
Most of the time, what you're calling hardware is liable to just be
software running on a different processor, perhaps in a box that has
been glued shut such that it's less convenient for bugs to be found,
fixed and patched.
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that's different, at least
> potentially... but that's also a comparatively pretty rare circumstance,
> I'd think.
Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/538/ ;-)
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
>
>>> yep he recommended to the arduino package maintainer that the actual
>>> core parts not be glommed together with a runtime a
in order to make
her IKEA kitchen have a working turntable in the microwave, and a blue
LED to simulate water coming out of the tap, etc.
I was actually using the IDE for that (which now works with Xmonad) just
for expediency, but this reminds me that I should use it as an excuse to
make sure th
t nobody
was doing that job before someone organised a way to pay for it.
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that out, and then knocked up a very short script
that waited for calls, made the ringer ring, and looked out for a button
press on the physical button -- that allowed it to behave quite like a
phone with no fuss.
If anyone wants an OpenMoko, I have one going cheap :-/
Cheers, Phil.
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"depend") upon systemd, or even libsystemd0.
Oh, and not that it matters, as I wasn't there when the Debian Technical
Committee made its decision to choose systemd as the default, but I
would have mad
to them -- I think that's pretty much the mindset that
most Debian Developers have adopted to people howling about systemd, so
be warned:
Life can always get worse, and if you don't want that, stop screaming
and put some effort into building the world as you'd
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>
>> Might I ask in response: What the hell are you doing not fact checking
>> this before repeating it?
>
> because in the scheme of programs-that-constitute-systemd it reall
firewalling those containers to make sure that the only DNS server they
talk to is the one they control that is running on the physical host.
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e the whole
mail as an empty top-post. He managed to do it a couple of times before
the strain became too much, so he was trying before he became trying ;-)
On the plus side, people that resolutely stick to talking in their own
preferred style, rather than taking into account the preferred sty
scripts being written with ``,
but that's what one gets when people are learning by example, and there
is too little curation of the examples to weed out the archaic usage.
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ts that cost less than 40 EUR at each end (that's what some of the
longer lines are, at the south of the map above -- you can click the
lines to find out).
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
>>
>>> if systemd is so bloated an
;re talking about.
Perhaps you can cite some examples where they've failed in that quest.
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, and the
running of the init as a normal user process with running it as PID1,
and then insisting that getting rid of libsystemd0 is important for some
reason, makes the water so muddy that anyone that's been paying attention
to this subject for any time at all is _very_ bored by it by now.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' writes:
> On 2017-02-11 at 17:47:18 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
>> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2118
>>
>> That should be:
>>
>> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10156
>
tps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2118
That should be:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10156
Note the "" against all releases.
The "fixed" in the status column actually means "didn't need fixing in
the first place" in
e that the source of the critism is fatally biased, and
then spend mental effort on contradicting what is being said by coming
up with counter-arguments, which they then remeber for later. *sigh*
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ebian users are
somehow clueless about what they mean by Debian GNU/Linux. Especially
when offered the choice of OSs you presented.
Deciding to supply something else, now, strikes me as ... impolite.
If you are concerned about ethics, consider the ethics of bai
sions ignored them completely, and the ensuing
argument was pretty unedifying -- as was often our way back then :-/
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ut a horizontal version as soon as I have more
> feedback.
Could one perhaps use the E as a representation for the socket. Perhaps
someone with graphical skills would like to take inspiration from:
*
* O +----+
** M | 68 |
* A ++
*
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w the business end of the socket -- so is that the old tactic of an
incumbent announcing vapourware in order to try and kill interest in a
disruptive product that they would prefer not to have on the market?
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ne with 110k of mails,
but I know I've got more mail than you're talking about, and searches
return useful results in sub-second mostly.
% find ./Maildir -type f | wc -l
559007
% du -hs Maildir
12G Maildir
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t_ spend a lot of time
on this. There is no secret evaluation report circulating in Debian
circles. This is not a conspiracy.
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"mike.v...@gmail.com" writes:
> 2016-12-07 10:56 GMT+01:00 Michael Howard :
>
>> On 07/12/2016 09:07, Philip Hands wrote:
>>
>>> If everyone that doesn't like systemd runs screaming away from Debian,
>>> shouting about libsystemd0, and does
t other inits falls short, then they just ensure that
the future they fear comes to pass.
A more nuanced response might be wise.
Cheers, Phil.
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es. Reenacting "The Life of Brian's"
Splitters scene is just a way of not getting on with something useful
instead -- please give it a rest.
Cheers, Phil.
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another wifi card (perhaps
one with the same chipset, with the same firmware, in a ROM?).
Then I could chuck the old card into landfill for an "ethical" outcome.
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page that tells you more about it, and has a walk-through:
https://neo900.org/stuff/eeshow/
HTH
Cheers, Phil.
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with luck.
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t an Ethernet USB-stick if that's what one wanted, but
would also allow one to alternatively add a wifi stick, or bluetooth, or
say a chaos-key: http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/
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t it.
That press release is from 2014 BTW, so it's not exactly news that this
issue is really not much of an issue. The way you talk about it gives
the impression that Debian encourages people to use non-free software,
whereas Debian/Debian Developers were for instance instrumental in
moving
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Philip Hands wrote:
>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
>>> oh great - yeah the STM32F072 is like a grown-up version of the
>>> arduino. none of this bullshit installing 160mb of java ru
ody*
> arsed about with 250mb of crap to wrap 5mb worth of libraries and
> command-line compiler tools!
>
> rant over :)
Pretty much exactly why I helped make sure that the java stuff is
optional on Debian -- see the 'arduino-core' and 'arduino-mk' packages:
https:
ardly
encouraging either)
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