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Really hoping the Hobbyist License program continues on to the x86 port.

Farewell sparc32. You will be missed by the retrocomputing geeks.

I'm currently working on deploying an ELK box for visualising a mix of financial transaction data and corresponding network application backend syslog records. So far so good, but frontend Kibana 3 performance can be really painful at times given the large amount of "documents" that can be involved (anywhere up to 5000 events per minute).

It seems like displaying multiple histogram panels may be quicker in real time, given the shorter timeframe, but it would be nice to be able work with something like a month's worth of data without major performance hits.

Not sure if this is something specific to Kibana design, Elasticsearch indexing/search configuration or certain JavaScript engine behaviour.

Does anybody know how these sorts of devices are presented to an operating system? Is it controlled/programmed in a similar manner to a modern GPGPU card?

A lot of HN posts related to BSD release announcements end up with the inevitable "Can somebody explain the advantages of using xxxBSD?" comments. Might be worth looking at the comments section for some of those past submissions.

Unbound is in now included in the base system as BIND's replacement.

Don't get me wrong, they definitely handled this in an appropriate manner. "Better safe than sorry", but I just wonder about these sorts of situations. It reminds me of the ridiculous "SWATting" craze; wasting time and resources on something that turns out to be a false alarm. Good way to stir up a bunch of hysteria without any heavy lifting.

I haven't gone further than reading TFA, but, was there anything beyond the tweeted screenshot to suggest that this was an actual "compromise"? Seems like a quick and easy way to cause quite a large fuss with minimal effort.

Hate to nitpick, but; spell-check.

I've been using GMX for a few years. It's owned by German ISP 'United Internet'.

Do you mean they're holding back progress? With OpenZFS on the scene, it's highly likely that the original Sun/Oracle implementation will become irrelevant to everyone apart from users of Oracle's Solaris releases.

Yeah, Apple, among many other companies, helped usher in a new era of personal computing, but most of the use cases in this video can be achieved with a generic Wintel setup.

"My operating system is linux and as such I have had to make the difficult decision NOT to program in Unity3d and develop primarily in php and html instead."

I don't even know where to begin...

Awesome. If the $20,000 quote on electricity costs is accurate, hopefully this will last them another five years or so.

"the pain of getting Mono to run on Linux"

What's painful about 'apt-get install mono-runtime mono-mcs'? (or your distro's equivalent)

Its main target platform is/was Linux.

I remember being so excited by E17 back when development was first started on the EFL. Prior to all the Xgl/AIGLX jazz, it seemed like Enlightenment may have had a bright future ahead of it, where it would outshine all the current offerings in terms of eye candy and customization.

As much as I respect the project in general, to me it always seemed like the developers ended up down a rabbit hole where they lost touch with what should have been their ultimate goal; build an awesome desktop environment.

It seemed like the platform libraries were in a constant state of rewrites, with each backend library being reworked and renamed every few months. This surely would confuse outside developers looking to build something based on EFL, unless they kept up with mailing lists and VCS commits. Imagine replacing Clutter or GTK every six months under a new name.

Every time I checked in on their progress, or tested a new development release, not much had changed with the desktop shell itself.

Outside of Samsung reportedly using parts of the EFL in some embedded and/or mobile devices, it seems like Enlightenment in general just missed the boat.

Never realized the 2BSD series was being developed in parallel with 4BSD.

I love to geek out on Unix history when I'm bored, so I'm surprised I never picked up on this.

Here's how I like to view these 'valuations': I am certainly a 'nerd', 'geek', 'tech-head'; whatever sort of label you want to throw at me. I am also the furthest you could get from somebody who has half a clue about stocks, mergers, IPOs etc.

Forget about the hype, the amount of users, the "mindshare", the paradigm-shifting omg-teh-adsense-ponies. To a 'regular joe' like myself, all I think when I hear anything about these sorts of companies is this: Do they currently make money from the service they provide? If so, for how long will this be a viable revenue stream? If not, does anybody realistically expect this situation to magically change at some future date?

As others have pointed out, this kind of investment prospect is often an easy way to make a quick buck for people in the know/money. I do understand this.

What I don't understand is how there can be such a lack of retrospective caution exercised by so many people who may have a hand to play in the outcome of these IPOs.

Despite not having the slightest clue about stock markets and financial investments, when it comes to these 'Web 2.0' companies, I do know a viable business model when I see one.

How the hell do all these people involved in the artificial inflation of the value of these companies not think back to what happened with the first web/tech bubble of the late '90s and early '00s?

I'm an uneducated oaf in the tail end of my 20's and even I can recall the ridiculous shit that went on back then. How can people with so much more technical and financial wisdom seriously think services like these are worth so much?

That was quick. Looks like they've backflipped on it already.

I've been using Linux and BSD for thirteen years and I can't even remember the last time I had to manually build and install an application from source (not counting random, early-stage hobby projects from github and things).

Open source Unix systems are the kings of package management. OS X pretty much does the exact opposite of 'package management', and any third party solution is based on existing Linux and BSD implementations.

Do we really have to append 'gate' to every potentially controversial news event?

Looks and sounds even more ridiculous than usual in this case.

If by 'form of store' you mean the official Apple store; yes. I've never purchased a single thing from Apple's 'app store' (and don't really plan to). Everything I've needed so far is free.

The identity part? I have an account, so yes, some sort of 'identity' is revealed, but that doesn't relate to the credit card part.

They still do not know a thing about any of my credit cards, from initial setup to everyday use.

No, it definitely doesn't.

iPhone 5 + iOS 6: doesn't know a thing about my credit card, and never will.

NetBSD and OpenBSD have had good PowerPC support for quite some time, whereas FreeBSD's port is relatively new. You'll want the 'macppc' port for any Apple system.

Been a while since I've used a PPC, but I'm guessing hardware support under Linux and NetBSD probably wouldn't differ too much these days.

I do remember Linux being slightly less fiddly on PPC when it comes to boot loaders.

Whenever I see this 'multiple apps using a sound card at once' issue mentioned, I try to recall what sort of ALSA 'voodoo' I've employed to make this work for me. Then I realise; absolutely nothing.

I think the last time I ever had this problem was literally around 12 years ago, and it was caused by me fiddling with my alsa conf file. I haven't touched any ALSA related settings or done anything special in the last ~8 years, and I never have a problem with things like playing music and having a browser flash plugin using audio at the same time.

Not saying it doesn't happen to other people. Just genuinely curious and baffled.

I'm not a coffee/tea drinker and I don't drink soft drinks (caffeine or otherwise) apart from when its mixed with alcohol. I personally find it takes me a lot longer to get to sleep after having consumed pre-mixed alcohol involving things like cola. Beer, on the other hand, does not seem to have the same effect even when consumed at the same time of day.

Yeah, I've never heard anybody in Australia say "LEGOs". It's always been an American thing to me.

Also, depending on the particular American accent involved, I often find the pronunciation quite unusual. Sounds more like "lay-goes" than "leh-goes", similar to the way some Americans pronounce the word "leg".

A lot of the porting effort would be handled by simply developing a SurfaceFlinger backend for Gtk, in the same way there was (still is?) a DirectFB backend. I'm guessing Qt might be even better suited to such a situation.

Obviously, this doesn't cover particular applications that directly access X11 libraries, but porting the toolkit and recompiling the more 'simple' applications would probably be a decent start.

Yeah. The US sorted out all THEIR problems, like poverty and civil rights before they started building all those spaceshi...uhmm, wait...

I know not everybody is a nostalgic nerd with a thing for tech industry history, but, yeah, I'm two years younger and even I was aware of the general history of Netscape's journey and choices by the time I was 14-15.

Perhaps he was too busy putting his head down, pumping out a real product instead of procrastinating and focusing on the past :)