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CoconutPilot··on The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf]
I think push is better understood if you realize its an operator. At a higher level what is happening is you are adding "item2" (and another "item2") to the array @list. ie @list += ("item2", "item2")
CoconutPilot··on 31C3: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [video]
This is the perfect video to show why you don't do live demos (starting around 15:30). Record the demo beforehand to a video (swf or similar) and play that back.
CoconutPilot··on Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable
I have a different theory.

Originally Docker was going to be a container and CoreOS was a platform to run containers. They were both pieces in a traditional software stack.

Docker had a round of funding and the investors pushed Docker in a different direction: App store. Docker was no longer just a piece in the stack and CoreOS could see the writing on the wall: libOS. Docker would marginalize CoreOS the same way LXC was marginalized.

CoreOS is going on the offensive because they were tipped off on Docker's hand.

Occam's Razor.

CoconutPilot··on Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement
I see a parallel with what Docker did with LXC and the libcontainer debacle. What comes around goes around ...

That said, I like this announcement. Docker was focusing on becoming an App store. I like that Rocket brings the focus back to technology.

CoconutPilot··on OpenBSD 5.6: What will be there
I heard this and installed OpenBSD on my thinkpad only to find out there is no support for nVidia. I suppose you need ATI or Intel video to get a working X.

There is a brief warning about nVidia here: http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html

CoconutPilot··on Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
We are in the middle of deracking and throwing out (no kidding) some 3+ year old machines at my work. Care to take a guess at what a 3+ year old machine's specs are? Cause I know you don't have a chance at getting it right.

Dell C1100 1U (almost 4 years old) 2x 6core with HT, 24 active threads 144 GB RAM 10x 300 15k SAS

I think there are very few use cases where Amazon makes sense. Their VMs are very expensive, and under powered for what you pay.

CoconutPilot··on Pronunciation errors that made the English language
I have only met a small handful of people who can pronounce "kilometre" correctly. I don't think this made the language though ...

KILL-o-metre

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