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  1. Re:Sound like BSD jails on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the same thing as BSD Jails, however there is one big difference with Docker. A container/jail can be shipped to another system running a completely different kernel. This means you can create an Ubuntu 10.04 container and run it on an Ubuntu 14.04 host or RHEL 7 host.
    With BSD Jails, you can only ship your jails to the same system unless you spend enough time fiddling around so you can basically do the same thing. Luckily the Docker team is already adding BSD Jails support.

  2. Re:Finally! on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    1, That is not really a problem. If you know shell scripting and SSH you have basically unlimited power. Its not even much work administrating 10000000 computers.

    2, I don't know about this, most likely Exchange is more polished. Anyway, I would use a local cloud provider for email. There is no point wasting resources administrating mail myself.

    3, Shell scripting and SSH again? Not really a problem at all.

    4, Access control list (ACL) ?

    5, Do you need encryption if you don't have any read access?

    6, I don't understand the problem....

  3. Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: State of the Art In DIY Security Systems? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:it's dead, Jim on FreeBSD 9.2, FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD is very well documented (The manual is awesome) and it has a great community. There are a lot of good discussions on the mailing list, and it doesn't require you to be a kernel hacker to participate. I use both Linux and FreeBSD, they both have their strength and weaknesses. I slightly prefer FreeBSD, as I feel its easier to turn it inside out(for hacking).

    Btw. Poul-Henning Kamp tweeted this a few days ago.
    Between FreeBSD, Varnish and Ngnix, at least 2 out of 3 packets on the net are delivered by #BSD licensed open source software. #EatThatRMS

    So I would say, FreeBSD is a lot more interesting today, than 10 years ago.

  5. Re:OwnCloud is pretty good on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? · · Score: 1

    Stay away from Owncloud....really, those guys don't even know that all modern filesystems have an API for watching changes in your filesystem. And syncing works on file level instead of block level.

  6. Re:still with the java? on Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java · · Score: 2

    In Scandinavia we have to use a java applet called BankID for login to our bank account. This has for the past few months become REALLY frustrating for people who really don't know what Java is. Even technicians who has a basic understanding of what a computer is, has problems keeping Java up to date(they don't know where to download it, and therefore accidentally download something they shouldn't) and all the them are infected with that Oracle search toolbar malware.

  7. There is also Pandas on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Pandas http://pandas.pydata.org/ is another great tool for data analysis. It use numpy and is highly optimized with critical code paths which is written in C.

  8. Depends... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    If you are testing if the person can program or not, then it's fine. But if you're looking for only the cream of super software developers, then something minor as the persons emotional state for the day can make a huge impact on the result.

    For me personally, I think understanding the actual question is the most difficult part. Some people find bizarre mathematical puzzles fun. I prefer puzzles from the real world, like for example how to get two systems to talk together.

  9. Re:FreeBSD 9.1 Is Unix Heaven on New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are many reasons!

    Jails
    ZFS
    GEOM Framework
    Ports
    PF
    Carp
    Hast
    The FreeBSD Handbook / Documentation with consistency

    However FreeBSD doesn't excell for everything, for example Java support is far away from production ready. And another thing I ran into recently was that monitoring a lot of files for changes was slow/not scalable at all because kqueue uses file descriptors for monitoring changes in your filesystem. Linux, OS X or even Windows have scalable and working solutions for this.

  10. Thank you Netflix! on Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only have you created an amazing tool, it is open source and the best part...it's actually well documented! Christmas came early this year!

  11. Re:my experience with dragonfly 3.0 on Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Hammer can do deduplication with minimal memory requirements. For example only 512MB ram would still give a responsive and fast system. Hammer deduplication doesn't take a hard hit on performance like ZFS does, as ZFS dedup data in realtime while Hammer does it with a CRON job.

  12. Re:BTRFS experiences? on Linux 3.6 Released · · Score: 2

    I'm not using BTRFS yet, however as send & receive in BTRFS is similar to the ZFS send & receive implementation you can do really cool things like superquick backup of a gigantic PostgreSQL Database.

    The workflow is as following
    Execute "pg_start_backup(‘snapshotting’,true)"
    Snapshot the filesystem with PostgreSQL data
    Execute "pg_stop_backup()"
    Send the snapshot to your backup server

  13. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    So if I run PostgreSQL on Windows I can be sure VSS executes psql -c "select pg_start_backup(‘hourly’,true);" before creating the snapshot?

    My FreeBSD PostgreSQL backup looks like this and runs hourly.

    #!/bin/sh
    prev=`date -v-1H '+%Y-%m-%d_%H'`
    now=`date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H'`
    psql -c "select pg_start_backup(‘hourly’,true);"
    zfs snapshot tank/pgsql@$now
    psql -c "select pg_stop_backup();"
    zfs send -R -i tank/pgsql@$prev tank/pgsql@$now | ssh backup@hpbackup zfs receive -Fdu tank/backup/pgsql

    You can do the similar thing with Linux as BTRFS now support send and receive.

  14. Re:Good luck... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You forgot step 7 for Windows. Click ok for administration mode and next, next, next, and finally make sure to hook off those extraordinary browser bars.

  15. Re:Just been through this myself ... on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Been there myself. There are so many good looking nuts out there, a dangerous world for a peaceful man.

  16. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    I work with IPTV and VOD, we have 4 PB of data running on FreeBSD and ZFS which is being replicated off site with the send && receive features that comes with ZFS. Since we mostly deal with large media files we have even reversed the replication direction. That means that if master storage needs to go down for maintenance, the other offsite storage becomes the master. At the moment we're looking into using HAST which will make it even easier to switch what storage site that should be the master.

  17. SOS Childrens Villages on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1
  18. What I wish for next generation consoles. on What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    Backwards compatibility. Heck I still play c64 games! Old games are still fun!
    No internal optical disc drive. Make it optional by offering an external device.
    Noise > performance. I don't want to hear that box.
    Todays Xbox 360 controller is fine, I do not want to buy a new controller just because it comes with an extra button.

  19. The biggest threat to your data is yourself. on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    I run my own cloud network storage business. Everything is encrypted on the client side, there is no cheating(ala bitcasa which says they manage to deduplicate encrypted data). Sure you can upload raw data that you for example want to share, but one should know that someone else then have the possibility to read and abuse the data.

    So I would say the data is safe in our cloud. Sure we have access to see how much disk space you're using, but thats pretty much it.

  20. Re:Duplicity on Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? · · Score: 1

    There are gui version based on Duplicity for Windows and Linux
    Duplicati http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/
    And Deja Dup https://launchpad.net/deja-dup
    Duplicati 2.0 will have a GUI that also works on Mac, currently it only works in the terminal.

  21. Re:Japanese exec pay vs. avg. worker pay on Wii 2 Unlikely For 2011, Maybe In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I would really like to see the norwegian numbers. My guess it is as low as 3:1

  22. What about SQL? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    It's more popular than ever. Don't belive the nosql hype.

  23. Re:Popular Opinion on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 1

    There are several tools like Psyco that already do this for Python. But if you really want efficient code execution, then you can write your own C modules to Python easily -> http://docs.python.org/extending/extending.html

  24. Re:That is fucking awesome! on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    We realize the value in our population, having more people working, creating value and paying taxes, pays off very well for everyone. No one gets left behind because they got unlucky and didn't have money for health insurance.

  25. Re:That is fucking awesome! on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    If you have ID with a valid Norwegian social number, then yes!