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  1. Re:Technical details on UK ISP PlusNet Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email · · Score: 2, Informative

    NNG NNG NNG

    dd if=/dev/buggered_disk of=image

    And do all your work on the image file!

    IDIOTS!

  2. Re:Simple OS support... on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 1

    That is the price that you pay for locking yourself into a proprietary platform only available from one vendor.

  3. Re:Uh huh on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Canonical, Shuttleworth's company, will support it.

  4. Re:Uh huh on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing is stopping you from paying for support if you want to. The flexibility of Free/Open Source Software is that if you don't want to pay for support, you don't have to.

  5. Re:Typical. on Oracle 'Losing Patience' with XenSource, VMware · · Score: 1

    No one is forcing anyone to use anything.

    Do you think that Linus should be forced to accept the VMI patches into his kernel?

  6. lwn.net has a couple of articles about this on Oracle 'Losing Patience' with XenSource, VMware · · Score: 3, Interesting
  7. Re:How do you trust? on Best Online Remote Backup Service w/Linux Client? · · Score: 1

    The backup directory on the remote host can be owned by user1 and group-owned by user2, with the following permissions: u=r-x,g=rwx,o=r-t

    A backup is copied to the remote server as user2. Once the backup is complete, change its owner to user1. user2 will then no longer be able to read, modify or delete the backup file.

    If you are confident with the syntax of sudoers(5) then sudo(8) is a good way to do this. If not then it can be done with a cron job, as long as you ensure the job runs once the backup is completed.

  8. Re:Poor man's solution on Best Online Remote Backup Service w/Linux Client? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You might want to take a look at rdiff-backup.
    rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults.
    Basically it's a wrapper around rsync that does two things. First, gives you incremental backups; second, fixes the highly confusing options that control which files are included/excluded in a sync. :)
  9. Re:From IRC, the reason: on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1

    Hmm, good point. I'd not even thought about it before--so ingrained is the assumed meaning of the phrase 'anti-semitic' in my mind. I guess this is one of those cases of the word being used incorrectly so many times that its meaning changes. :(

  10. Re:From IRC, the reason: on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1

    Except for the 'fuck you Jews' at the end?

  11. Re:Applicable? on GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Released · · Score: 1

    Very interesting. I wish there was a page somewhere that listed how the GPL interacts with varying copyright laws in different countries.

  12. Re:Applicable? on GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Released · · Score: 1

    In order to create such a derived work, you need permission from the copyright holder, permission that is not granted uder GPL 3 draft 2 if the licensor makes use of the additional clause...

  13. Re:Microsoft doesn't need to do anything... on GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Released · · Score: 1

    Half the kernel _does_ have the 'or later' option included anyway...

  14. Re:Another Get Firefox day coming soon... on IE7 to be Pushed to Users Via Windows Update · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that the total mapped, or the resident set size? How much of that figure is 'private dirty'? Or are you using the Windows task manager which AFAIK is pretty useless for determining memory usage?

  15. Re:You misunderstand on Debian to Run on AMD64 · · Score: 1

    It's an opinion. Why should the FSF be required to judge the freedom of different GNU/Linux distributions based on any criteria than their own? Do you have anything worthwhile to add to the discussion?

  16. Re:You misunderstand on Debian to Run on AMD64 · · Score: 1

    Although Debian claims that non-free packages aren't "part of" Debian, the FSF takes the (entirely reasonalbe) viewpoint that they are distributed from ftp.debian.org, therefore they are distributed by Debian, therefore Debian is not a Free operating system.

  17. Re:Apple Rapidly Losing Its Cool on OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    In addition to the use of find(1) suggested by another poster, you can also eliminate your use of a temporary file:

    find -name '*.mp3' | mplayer -shuffle -playlist -

  18. Re:Do we even care about Debian anymore? on Debian to Run on AMD64 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. :)

  19. Re:Finally on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Can we also have... on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December · · Score: 1

    $ cat /etc/debian_version
    3.1

    $ apt-cache policy apache2
    apache2:
      Installed: 2.0.54-5
      Candidate: 2.0.54-5
      Version table:
    *** 2.0.54-5 0
            540 http://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages
            540 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    Didn't PHP 5.0 come out <strong>after</strong> Debian 3.1 ("sarge") was released? Nevertheless, packages are available from <http://backports.org/>.

  21. Re:Someone has to say it on Simon Phipps on the Process of Opening Java · · Score: 1

    Jython?

    (Disclaimer: I only know what it is, not whether it's any good)

  22. Re:File based imaging format?!?! on Inside Vista's Image-Based Install Process · · Score: 1

    Depends on your implementation.

  23. Re:dual boot? on Inside Vista's Image-Based Install Process · · Score: 1

    Like this? :)

    Actually, now I think of it, Apple used to produce Macs that came with an entire PC system on an expansion card. You could switch between the Mac and the PC by pressing Command-Enter.

  24. Re:I would like to know on Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code · · Score: 1

    Buh? How can this not have been fixed yet!

  25. Re:use ext3 in windows instead on Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    I've never tried the non-free IFS so I can't compare them. It is 'fast enough' however. I think after that point performance becomes meaningless because you're not going to be constructing a high performance file server using ext[23] in Windows; you're just trying to access your Linux filesystem when booted into Windows.