User: halfnerd

Re:Mattermost is an alternative

On: Slack Doesn't Have End-to-End Encryption Because Your Boss Doesn't Want It (vice.com)

It's open core. Look into matrix.org / riot.im instead

Re:GitHub

On: Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services?

Or Gitlab, which also has free CI resources (for private projects)

Re:I've been looking for something like this...

On: Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 (open365.io)

Collaborative being a key word, I didn't get the impression that Open365 allows google docs style concurrent collaborative editing. EtherCalc should work, but is of course limited in features: https://ethercalc.net/

Re:I'd avoid Subversion

On: Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers?

Subversion can lock files in order to avoid merging binary files

git-annex

On: Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups?

http://git-annex.branchable.com/

ganeti

On: XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source

Check out ganeti as well: https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/

Features
Ganeti provides the following features for managed instances:

Support for Xen virtualization:
Support for PVM and HVM instances
Live migration support
Virtual console (on PVM) or VNC (on HVM) to control instances
Support for virtio or emulated devices

Support for KVM virtualization: (from Ganeti 2.0)
Live migration support
Support for fully virtualized instances
Support for semi-virtualized instances (kernel residing on the host)
Support for VNC or serial access
Support for virtio or emulated devices

Recommended cluster size 1-40 physical nodes

Disk management:
Plain LVM volumes
Files (from Ganeti 2.0)
across-the-network raid1 (using DRBD) for quick recovery in case of physical system failure

Instance disk partitioning supported from Ganeti 2.0

Export/import mechanism for backup purposes or migration between clusters, or

Automated instance migration across clusters (since Ganeti 2.2)

Re:First hand experience here

On: Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die?

Are you sure there was no data corruption, or are you just assuming since it booted up again?

Re:Better than the last place I worked at

On: Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management?

Can you actually share a password with several users using phpchain? It seems to me like everyone only has access to their own passwords.

Configuration management + install server

On: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync?

Puppet combined with either Foreman or Cobbler

In-depth?

On: Six Python Web Frameworks Compared

Surely you are joking?

Re:End of an era?

On: Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support

Is Coda still developed? It seemed dead to me last time I went looking into the alternatives (some years ago, I'll admit).

Re:OP here

On: Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files?

http://www.branchable.com/ (or acutally ikiwiki) is a wiki that you can work on offline. And there's vim-outliner if you don't like emacs orgmode.

Re:what ever happened to good old email?

On: Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch?

http://notmuchmail.org/

Re:None, I have given up bash scripting

On: Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts

IIRC POSIX allows any characters (bytes) except '/' and '\0' in filenames.

Relevant study

On: How Many Hours a Week Can You Program?

I vaguely recall reading a study about the optimum work week for thoughtworkers. I've often cursed myself for not keeping a link or reference around. Maybe someone else might help me find it? I think it was a german study. The conclusion was that 25h per week produced optimal results. The number might be a bit off but the idea is about right.

Re:Firefox is unstable.

On: Chrome 4.0 Vs. Opera 10 Vs. Firefox 3.5

There's AdSweep for chromium (it doesn't work on stable chrome afaik) http://adsweep.org/

Re:Why dont I need word?

On: 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death

Maybe it's his scam.

Re:Well... yeh.

On: Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately

Hacket's or Hacker's?

Re:Useful tricks.

On: (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

Also check out etckeeper, http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ , which works with git, mercurial and bzr. And has nice apt-integration on debian.

Re:My own opinion (prob. very controversial)

On: Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion?

cp(1) for merging? Are you nuts?

Re:Scheme

On: Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?

Would you actually rather read the pdf, which can't be reflowed, instead of html, which can be reflowed, if both would be available as a single file download?

At least on mobile devices such as the Nokia N810 I prefer reflowable formats. Actually I prefer them on the desktop also.

Re:good question

On: What NAS To Buy?

Have you tried installing Debian on it? Also, does it network at gigabit speed (over 10 megabytes per second) or just 100Mbps (under 10 megabytes per second)?

Re:Looks good

On: Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone

You want the Nokia E90, or maybe the next Maemo-device from Nokia which is apparently finally going to include a GSM chip.

What tools do you use most?

On: To Whom Should I Donate?

I spent some time thinking about what tools I use most, checked out some web sites to see how badly different project need money and ended up donating to OpenSSH. ( http://paul.totterman.name/blog/supporting-free-software.html )

Re:State of email

On: A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta

OfflineIMAP would fix most synchronization problems. Dovecot is a fast IMAP server and Maildrop coupled with your favourite smap filter could take care of the server part. Couple that with a good mail client (mutt) and a way to synchronize contacts. mutt can be customized with own keybindings, so that way one could add support for training the mail filter. I keep my home directory in a darcs repository to keep it in sync between machines. Other people use Subversion.