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elktea··on Servo Continues Pushing Forward
I've tried it a few times and it's been super slow for me as well. Maybe it's just slow on Linux.
elktea··on More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors
More adults, who are older in age, are becoming inventors
elktea··on VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
My company has been using XenServer for years now, we find it to be an excellent product.
elktea··on The Country of Vietnam Resolves to Localhost
Do you mean reverse DNS? Can you provide an example?
elktea··on Securely hashing passwords in Django
Personally I'm a fan of Persona for this sort of thing - circumvents the issue nicely.
elktea··on FastMail and MySQL: Multi-Master, Fault Tollerance, Performance. Pick Any Three
Why not Galera (XtraDB cluster)?
elktea··on Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
False equivalence aside, why do you think the way people commute to work or go grocery shopping is a hobby? People are just getting around.

One of the worst I have ever seen, actually. Well done.

elktea··on Please Review My Responsive Image Format
Ess by zee?
elktea··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
I like the design, but I would like a better overview when picking motherboards. Perhaps include number of PCI-E slots, number of USB slots, type of audio built in, type of video built in, that sort of thing.
elktea··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
K also means virtualization features are missing. Hugely important, these days.
elktea··on The Most Shocking Result in World Cup History
This the same person who suggested Dani Alves would be an ideal replacement for the suspended Thiago Silva based on their 'defensive' statistics. While he might be a great statistician, unfortunately it's obvious he doesn't have enough knowledge of the sport to contribute any meaningful analysis.
elktea··on Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
It's not really cross platform - whoami for example depends on libc which afaik isn't native on Windows.

I wrote one of the first utilities for this when it was first opened up for collaboration, so I hope it succeeds :) I need to go back and write tests for my util.

elktea··on Rust for C++ programmers – part 3: primitive types and operators
Python is safe from this:

    Python 2.7.5 (default, Feb 19 2014, 13:47:28) 
    [GCC 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> "0" + 5
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
elktea··on Rendering large terrains
Fantastic, I have been looking for good example in modern opengl for a while. Thank you!
elktea··on Space Elevators Are Possible
The animated icon on this site is terrible
elktea··on I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones
> Surprisingly, given the ZTE Open’s wheezing 1GHz single-core processor and the feeble 256MB of RAM, [Cut the rope] didn’t choke and was perfectly playable.

In what world would a modern 1GHz processor have any issues with a simple 2D game running at a low resolution?

elktea··on 2013, the year of Usenet
Are you releasing the source to your NNTP web forum?
elktea··on GNOME and logind+systemd thoughts
I wonder what the Ubuntu GNOME guys will do with regards to wayland / mir? Anyone know?

As an aside I really love GNOME 3.

elktea··on Securing a Linux Server
There's still a lot of ISPs that don't follow BCP-38 so source address IP spoofing is easy enough
elktea··on "Chrome-style" Desktop Apps that work today in Firefox
Thank you. I think it doesn't work on Fedora 19, my "Free" button never changes to "Launch".

edit: filed a bug

elktea··on "Chrome-style" Desktop Apps that work today in Firefox
So where do you go? I've installed one and clicked through all of my menus and can't find it anywhere. It's not in my OS launcher either.
elktea··on EdgeBSD
How's FreeBSD's pkgng these days?
elktea··on EdgeBSD
Finally got it to load. From the site, for those who can't:

EdgeBSD is a new member of the family of BSD-based Operating Systems, starting development with the current NetBSD codebase with Git for Source Code Management. Package management is based on pkgsrc.

Objectives

The primary goal of EdgeBSD is to provide an ambitious environment for working as a bigger community together on the NetBSD Project. This will be achieved thanks to a more modern development infrastructure, while taking a more aggressive stance on integrating and enabling features.

Ultimately, EdgeBSD should be just as fun and attractive as a Research & Development platform while delivering a modern, robust, and industrial-grade system for all ranges of computer devices. First steps

The preliminary plan looks as follows:

* existing features will simply be enabled and used by default (SSP, ASLR, modular kernels and Xorg, full disk encryption, securelevel...);

* a release with these features will be delivered, based on the latest stable NetBSD branch.

Every meaningful contribution will be proposed back to the NetBSD Project.

Longer term

EdgeBSD should be as attractive a platform as possible, and use the advantages of its existing codebase to experiment on being a modern, safe, and portable Operating System. This vision currently includes:

* advanced facilities for developers (patch management, build environments...);

* re-organization of the base system (Git submodules, packages...);

* a graphical installer;

* modern package management (signed packages...);

* alternatives to Xorg and default desktop environment;

* ready-to-flash images for embedded devices;

* virtualization of most components with the RUMP anykernel.

Community

EdgeBSD users and developers can be found on the #EdgeBSD channel on the freenode IRC network.

A web interface for the Git development trees can be found at git.edgebsd.org.

More services are being brought up and will be provided soon (mailing-lists, wiki...). Hosting

EdgeBSD is primarily hosted in Germany, Europe.

elktea··on ElementaryOs Luna released
Gnome 3 is much nicer.
elktea··on SublimeText UI proposal with Chrome tabs
The tabs being in the title bar, I guess
elktea··on Georgify: Make Hacker News More Readable
It's working on all sites, as well as the address bar?

Firefox on Linux with Stylish.

elktea··on Alex Limi is Ruining Firefox
Seems like a good decision and something that should be handled by an extension.
elktea··on Craftstud.io - A Game to Make Games (now in beta)
I just started using NuclearWinter for my own game, thank you for that by the way!
elktea··on How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server
Salt is wonderful.
elktea··on Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
You can't. It's a super car-centric game. You can't even build pedestrian-only streets or lanes. Light rail is married to roads. There's no way to set bus routes, buses will visit every single stop in town. Oh and subways don't exist either.

Hopefully there's a 'rush hour' style expansion that lets us simulate cities other than Los Angeles.

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