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If it is, you use inofity

Do you mean inotify? And if so, does inotify work with all local file systems (not counting NFS)?

You may also be able to store the inode and checksum somewhere as a hint.

Provided the file system supports inodes, which usually means one that supports hard links to files. FAT doesn't, unless you count a file's first cluster as its "inode". So Dropbox drops extended attributes upon rename on a FAT volume. This is documented.

The current Oracle UEKr4 is a v4.1.12 kernel, and can be loaded in a supported configuration with Ksplice on a Red Hat system.

The preview of the UEKr5 is a 4.14.26 kernel (the Long Term Support release). That is in beta.

You can find installation instructions here for both versions.

As long as "Full generic retpoline" is reported in the /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 file, Spectre (and likely Meltdown) are not a concern.

The best was to accomplish that for Red Hat environments is to install Oracle's kernel RPM for the "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" (UEK).

https://www.linuxjournal.com/c...

Until they couldn't pay me for about 4 months in a row, and that was about 5 years ago. It's been touch and go for LJ for ages.

Here's one of my articles from about 8 years ago: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...

Linux Journal's announcement of their own demise backs up what the GP comment is saying.

They say that

The simple fact is that we’ve run out of money

And before you blame it on excessive expenses, I don't think that's the case at all, because they also claim

We also hope there is some solace in knowing that we worked very, very hard at keeping Linux Journal going, and we’ve been doing that for a long time, running the leanest, smallest possible operation we could. We are a collection mostly of volunteers, and some of our employees haven’t been paid in months. We still owe money to freelancers as well.

So it doesn't sound like an expenditure-side problem, but rather an income-side issue. The reality is that there aren't enough Linux users around to support something as simple as a magazine!

Of course, there are also recent Slashdot submissions like "No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity" from November 2017, which proves that Linux's market share isn't growing, and "Windows 10 Gains 14% Desktop Market Share in 2016", which proves that Windows 10 alone already has about 5 times as many users as Linux has in total.

I think that the GP comment missed another problem: Linux supporters like you, who are more concerned with attacking Linux users who report problems than with improving Linux.

If you really want Linux to survive, you should stop with the false accusations, you should stop with the personal attacks, and you should instead focus on fixing the many problems that plague Linux today.

Doc Searls decided to rant about the election, and since he's an editor ...

Yes, he ranted about the election, but he was not a shill for Hillary. Here's his editorial.

TL/DR: you may agree or disagree with his editorial, but it seems to me to be a sober reflection on the electoral campaign and the result. One important point he makes early on:

Disclosure: I'm a political independent, and not a fan of Hillary Clinton, though I thought she was the only sensible choice, given Trump's shortcomings, many of which should have disqualified him, flat out.

Read the rest of it yourself, but for those who are curious, his piece ends with the following (bold emphasis is his):

Here's the Linux connection: we need to hack news back in a logical direction, and away from the fact-free, misleading and emotion-stirring ways that news is made today. The mainstream media is beyond fixing. So is the newstream media, so long as it remains dependent on surveillance-based advertising, clickbait and fake news of its own.

I don't know how we do that, but we've hacked the world before: with free software, Linux and open source, just to name the Big Three.

Time to do it again.

That leaves, what? Linux Format: the 400 Lbs Gorilla of Linux reading material, with a price to match, Linux Magazine and distro-focused publications like Full Circle?

I do hope they get a chance to make a final run of the back edition PDF collection.

Many of the columns, such as David Taylor's work the shell, are timeless and quite useful.

There is value even the Letters to the Editors where smart or at least smart ass people suggested better or alternative ways to implement the various little projects detailed in LJ.

I also enjoyed the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) summaries and discovered Reuven Lerner's python series through the magazine.

And there are always the Geek Guides.

Remember PCWeasel from RealWeasel? A small, nice ISA (yes, *that old*) card which made the PC think it had video and keyboard and then...

Well, I'd much prefer such a solution, where I can change the vendor than a deeply integrated operating system with a (*GAH*) web server down there in the chip. And always to get those blank stares when I protest it.

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I have discussed all of this in another place. Microsoft is unambiguous on this issue, and for good reason.

Barnes and Noble likely knows Linux Journal very, very well at this point. http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...

Windows file sharing. I tried to be thorough. http://m.linuxjournal.com/cont...

...as I will explain. http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...

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If you have tech skills, the easiest thing to do is set up your own VPN on an AWS box. Cheap, not too hard, you can use SSH or you can use openSwan.

Parent poster summarizes things well.

Debian's PopCon is similar ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/co... )

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In Capitalist West gov dictates cyber security to you.
Do US brands really want yet more US gov inside their networks?
In the US political orgs still have the freedom to run any hardware and software they want.
Its the US gov workers who actually have to be security aware.
"Penguins for President?" "Web server/platform combinations 2004 presidential candidates "
http://www.linuxjournal.com/ar...
In the US you still have the party political freedom to run a political campaign.
Linux, Microsoft, Apache, FreeBSD and others have all been used over the years to run great campaigns and get the voters out.

I don't have a direct link to the tests for archive handy. Jim Hall regularly writes about user testing and you can find more results if you google "jim hall user testing". You can also watch this talk by Andreas Nilsson from last GUADEC in Karlsruhe.

Supreme Court is now stuck in an endless loop,

I heard that Linux does these in six seconds.

I'm pretty sure that the BSD that Bill Joy ran on his VAXes could not nspawn a container, so I might interject that the Linux privilege system has changed slightly.

Now, if you don't carefully populate your container, you can easily cause more security problems than you solve.

eyeOS Web-based Desktop Here's the download link for the last open version.

VPN over SSH back to your home. Has everything you're asking for.

SSH Tunneling - Poor Techie's VPN

You might enjoy this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co... (sorry if not, your comment just made it come to mind)

Women in software keep calling bullshit on that and people just keep repeating it. Funny how for people so obsessed with women they never seem to actually listen to any...

linux has had good drivers for PC type squeakers built in, for some time now.

all things are easy, given the algorithm.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/no...

The article is an excellent read, the movie was made ~1997 too.

"The Linux distribution used was Red Hat 4.1. At that time Red Hat was shipping Linux 2.0.18, which didn't support the PC164 mainboard, so the first thing we had to do was upgrade the kernel. During our testing we tracked down a number of problems with devices and kept up with both the 2.0 and 2.1 series of kernels. We ended up sticking with 2.1.42 with a few patches. We also decided on the NCR 810 SCSI card with the BSD-based driver and the SMC 100MB Ethernet card with the de4x5 driver. It turned out to be a very stable configuration, but there was one serious floating-point problem that caused our water-rendering software to die with an unexpected floating-point exception."

No, they'll send mercenaries from around the globe, much as they funded delegats for the ISO voting on OOXML.

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The resulting political abuse of the ISO standards resulted in an ISO standard for a Microsoft specific technology that even Microsoft does not and cannot follow due to its inconsistencies and unresolved problems.

Sounds almost exactly like what Hedgemage said.

No, what I'm saying is that if the base assumption of this discussion is treatment of women, then why aren't more women speaking up? And I'm saying this for both sides.

Is it because there are fewer women? Is it because fewer women make the choice to stay in tech, or indeed make the choice to BE in tech? And who cares if they don't?

A combination of an already small population due to these fields being turned into ghettos for non-conforming/unattractive men and any women who do dare to speak up are outright terrorized for it.

Clearly this behavior presents a paradox, one which operates as follows: 'The Victim' is a social role in which a person or group is acted upon but does not have the agency to respond. Victims therefore need others to defend them. In this dynamic all power of the Victim is given to those who defend them and no matter how destructive or paradoxical, the Defender's actions are said to be best for the Victim.

According to Anti-Gamer Activists, women are victims. They require protection because they will always be victims. And should a woman break the confines of the Victim archetype, strange things start to happen.

A woman who speaks for herself, defends herself and takes responsibility for herself is not a victim. However we are dealing with an ideology which defines women exclusively as Victims. Therefore women who fail to fulfill the role of Victim must be broken and returned to their proper place. They must be subject to abuse or de-feminized and told they have been corrupted by patriarchal ideology.

Women are supported and encouraged but they are only supported and encouraged to be broken and helpless. They are kept within a set archetype.

The attacks on women now make sense. It's a paradoxical cycle where people abuse women to justify the claim that women need to be defended. Defenders never question their behavior because it is justified by the existence of the victim which they themselves created.

Your post reminds me of this (IMO excellent) essay: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...

I'm not female, so excuse the potential mansplaining, but I suspect it has a lot to do with changes overall in software and society. Back in 85 the people getting into CS were hardcore nerds, male or female, not just looking for a job that was popular or going to make a lot of money. This means that it was full of true nerd culture, and not either "brogrammer" or "SJW" culture, both of which I think repel true nerds. Then more overall societal pressures mean that non-nerd men are much more likely to get into software than non-nerd women, whereas the nerds of either gender didn't care what society thought.

I also suspect (and this is where the potential mansplaining comes in, but I do have backup) that the fact that women in tech are now WOMEN in tech, versus women IN TECH is probably driving away nerdy women who just want to get their nerd on and not deal with conferences about women in tech, etc. I think this article is a really good read (and the comments from people criticizing her for it are also telling): http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...

are busy writing articles calling bullshit on non-coders like Sumana who do nothing but insult and degrade women by talking about how feckless and vulnerable they are.

And just last year a woman actually IN tech and not as a "community leader" released this article calling bullshit on basically everything self-aggrandizing hanger's on like this video's star claims. Empirical research shows women have an advantage somewhere between 2:1 and 4:1 in STEM fields, and current statistics put them at nearly 2/3rds of college graduates and dominating virtually every single measure of academic achievement we have.

And that's not even counting less empirical measures of power and privilege like having the power to singlehandedly form a bloodthirsty lynch mob that costs people jobs regardless of your own conduct, hypocrisy, or even truthfulness.

If nerds/gamers want to find women who won't reject them, they need to stop being awful people to every girl playing games first. Once gamer girls feel safe actually admitting to being girls in games online, gamer guys won't be rejected en masse by them anymore.

The lack of self-awareness in your post is astounding. Women have been online forever. What's driving them away is is the very same bullshit meme you're spreading right now. The people most awful to women online are the SJWs screaming racial slurs like "House Ni***er" at them and convincing women that the entire universe is out to get them.

Stop spreading this bullshit, you're just another self-aggrandizing toxic loser trying to control women through fear while talking up how you're not "like other guys".

The point of these social experiments seems to get more and more women into the desk and office jobs. That leaves only the grubby, dirty, outside jobs for men. And nobody gives a shit about that.

That's the standard MRA line - that for women to have good jobs, men must lose out and have dirty, low paid jobs.

It's not a zero sum game. It doesn't justify ignoring the problems because fixing them might take away someone else's privilege.

But the "it's so awful, get all the training for girls and ignore boys!" hysteria seems pointless.

I agree, but you are the one spouting that hysteria! It says so right in the headline! You didn't even have to read the summary. There is a school opening just for boys to help them in the areas they are behind.

A boy growing up now who didn't have all these special programs will have a tough time competing with the girls who were prepped and trained for this their entire lives

Ignoring the fact that they have their own special, boys-only school, you are assuming that there is no disadvantage for girls. There is, so any extra help they get is just making up for that, not giving them an advantage over boys. If a boy wants to study CS there are already fewer barriers in their way, and there are other programmes aimed at removing the ones that do exist.

You are trying really hard to make this a conflict when it really isn't.

Sometimes I wish I could be Zeratul. Oh well, perhaps this link will be of interest to you, AniMoJo! (The link is tangentially related to the article about sexism in STEM and what not). An article by Susan Sons

In fact women of great standing within tech have long said the exact opposite and that it's the constant lies and fearmongering from Social Justice types convincing people there's a wage gap that doesn't exist.

There's a word for when someone uses fear and lies to control someone else's behavior for their own gain. Generally we call that an abusive relationship.

But isn't the OP actually looking for a CMS, with roles-management? That's how I assessed it, but like I wrote in my original message, as a Drupal developer, ...everything looks like a hammer to me. My own lengthy experience with Drupal has been positive, and I don't share the complaints others here have written.

For one thing, Best Practices call for Continuous Integration and Unit Testing. When starting with solid Drupal code, building on top of that using a well-managed GIT workflow, well, that's how most businesses I know run Drupal. For a well-written explanation of Continuous Integration and how this relates to Drupal hosting, read this document (written by Acquia Corporation, who I have no ties to whatsoever. I don't use any of their stuff): http://www.linuxjournal.com/co....

CNN, Reuters, NYSE, ABC, CBS, NBC/Sports, FOX, WarnerBros also share my positive experience with Drupal as they obviously have invested heavily for their own Drupal-managed content infrastructures.

Read these two, one by a major female linux hacker and one by a mental health professional: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co... http://slatestarcodex.com/2015...

Simply put it's because all of this is a dog whistle for attacking nerdy men. Before they were bullied openly for being nerds, now they're bullied under the justification that they're "misogynerds".

What's that about gamergate and women you say? Sorry I couldn't hear you over the sound of the actual women that people like you are busy calling racial slurs while trying to pin the blame on nerdy men.

Also women actually IN the tech industry call bullshit on you too.

Nerd culture isn't remotely plagued by sexism, it's one of the least sexist cultures out there. That's nothing more than the latest straw man in a long line of straw man invented by bullies to justify shitting all over nerds as the root of all evil. A hundred years ago pinball made people alcoholics and gamblers, thirty years ago D&D made people worship satan and molest children, ten years ago videogames made people violent, and today it's the misogyny-apocalypse on the internet.

Meanwhile actual female nerds say the opposite, and are promptly called "house ni**ers" and doxed by the latest round of hipsters who've found a new target for their bullying and mendacious handwringing.

Start or join a culture war against nerds. Label their hobbies "problematic" and insert yourself and your ideals as the solution. If you are female, consider playing a professional victim. If you are male, consider latching onto or better yet controlling one.

As you do all this, it is vital not to let on that you have no skills or merit in the field you are trying to culturally control. Never perform any actual work and just stick to culturally scarring and belittling nerds. If anyone stands up to you or calls you out, summon the tumblr attack mobs to get them fired.

It helps to be mentally afflicted or of a borderline personality as you do this. If you are sane, you can either pretend to be otherwise, or else befriend someone who is. Just remember, you will need to keep the beast fed with actual cash and not just bullshit, but it will make a wonderful attack dog for ripping naive nerds to shreds.

They will have no idea what hit em! Go get those geeks kiddo!

...what she has to say about this entire farce...

From a Linux Journal article by Ian Murdock in 1994:

As the Debian developers create their pieces, they follow strict guidelines for constructing and maintaining these pieces, called packages. Because these guidelines are followed, each package can be dropped into the system independently without damaging or interfering with programs from other packages. By working with a set of consistent rules and with identical tools, the volunteers can and do create a truly modular system.

Nuff said.

Yes clearly the logical conclusion is a massive global conspiracy and it's not simply that the rest of the world is increasingly fed up with idiots obsessed with trivial bullshit (in the words of Aayan Hirsi Ali). Clearly the problem isn't that IT and similar fields are textbook examples of exactly the kind of extreme hours and lack of work/life balance that women are empirically proven to be repelled by time and time again. Clearly it's got nothing to do with the ever more extreme fearmongering and disempowering rhetoric that's created an orwellian culture of fear. Clearly we shouldn't listen to women actually in the field who have repeatedly called bullshit on people like you.

The author of this blog article (and that's what Medium is, it's livejournal 2.0) is flat out complaining that it's wrong for people to like things she doesn't like. It's not good enough that people accept her doing her own thing, they have to NOT do theirs. It's unacceptable that everyone else enjoyed playing rock band and a sign of horrible discrimination and exclusion that she should ever become part of another culture or group instead of everyone else changing to suit her exact tastes and preferences.

And she wonders why she feels like people walk on eggshells around her and why she feels like she makes people uncomfortable. As usual these days Susan Sons' article on girls and software should be mandatory reading.

Yes, and one of the foremost women in Linux wrote an article about it once: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...