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Comment on ZFS on Western Digital EARS drives by Remounting geli and ZFS partitions | Veloce

Remounting geli and ZFS partitions | Veloce — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:43:43 +0000

[...] I have 4 Western Digital disks with data – all in RAID-Z. And because they are Western Digital, they have 4K sectors and don’t work well with ZFS. So I also have encrypted them with geli – a standard trick. [...]

Comment on Trac.fcgi Memory Usage by Trac – Time for a diet, you’re eating too much memory | GeekISP Tech Blog

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:32:21 +0000

[...] in a FastCGI setup. I did find one person who invested a bit of energy in a custom solution here, but I had some trouble using his ‘launcher’ [...]

Comment on The Case for Ripping Media by Rolf

Rolf — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:37:02 +0000

I’ve ripped all my DVD’s for exactly the same reason. Funny how media companies don’t understand that their actions are causing the very behavior they don’t want from their customers.

It’s not strange that people download “instant play” movies for free instead of buying a €7,- DVD which presents 15 minutes of unskippable “do not copy this” to the wrong person (the one who payed actual money).

And then there is this funny Apple TV which lets you “rent” movies for the same price as physical rentals, and they stop you from watching it if you didn’t finish it on time. WTF? It would be much simpler and cheaper to just let the user download the whole movie so he can view it anytime.

My prediction is that if media companies sell media uncrippled for a low price online (say €3,- for a movie, and €1,- for a song), they would make a lot more money and piracy would almost dissapear because it’s not worth the hassle at that price.

Great blogpost, no tips on external drives for ripping, sorry. I’m using Handbrake on a Mac, works great for most (older) dvd movies.

Comment on Goodbye Roku, Hello GoogleTV by William Reading

William Reading — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:53:51 +0000

Yeah, local media access seems like the biggest downside to the roku, though I like the different channels on mine. It does seem like the GoogleTV is a pretty good alternative, at least in terms of the SDK.

Comment on Female Friends Who Won’t Date You by matt

matt — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:41:48 +0000

scratch that, she has accepted my heart, i told her how i felt in a poem and how happy she and her son make me. I am a lucky man

Comment on FreeBSD with ZFS root by William Reading

William Reading — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:09:35 +0000

I’m tempted to set this up (as root, that is), but I think I’ll wait until FreeBSD 9.0 so that I can pick up Triple parity RAID-Z and data deduplication.

Comment on Female Friends Who Won’t Date You by matt

matt — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:29:42 +0000

hello, i am in a very confusing situation. Let me start by saying i knew her from when she was 17 and i was 21. She was dating an ex friend of mine who abused her and cheated on her while she was pregnant with his child. She moved away for a couple years and recently moved back and we became friends again, started small on facebook. She knows i like her a lot, but she also knows i do not try to kiss her and rush things because i am sincere for her, that i can wait for the perfect time. Her now 4 yr old son loves me and the other night he hugged me, called me daddy, and kissed my forehead in front of her and she did not correct him. I really want to date her but she always introduces me as a friend to all her friends. She comes over every day, brings her kid most times, we have slept in the same bed but i never tried anything. I am shy around her and want to tell her that being around her and her son makes me the happiest i have ever been in life. I just have been nervous because i do not know how to tell her after her son said that, i was honored he considered me a dad, i love him like he was my own and love teaching him and playing while she is busy or out for a couple minutes.

Comment on Turn the Firewall Around by Graham Booker

Graham Booker — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:01:15 +0000

Figures, the spammers would try and spam this particular post.

Comment on What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 4 (Namespace) by Graham Booker

Graham Booker — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:02:18 +0000

Fredrick, I’m afraid your opinion is tainted by the lousy IDE that is Xcode. First of all, the confusion comes into play when one is writing code and has to stop and think, “what framework is this class in again? Is it a CG or UI object?” In a real IDE, one would simply type the name, minus any prefix, and the code completion would show the options, with the framework path to which it belongs. Additionally, knowing the type of an object is quite simple in a proper IDE; the mouse-over text reveals the fully qualified class name.

I say that Xcode is not a proper IDE because I have had to use it. It’s code completion often doesn’t work at all (just last week it never displayed anything for 2 hours straight despite hitting ctrl-space and F5 numerous times), and when it does work, it tends to show hundreds of completely irrelevant choices. Some of this is due to the language, which by its nature is not strongly typed, but that issue can be mitigated to a far greater extent that is currently.

Comment on What Objective-C can learn from Java, Part 4 (Namespace) by Fredrik Olsson

Fredrik Olsson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:26:10 +0000

I am among the first to admit that prefixes is a poor mans solution to lack of namespaces. But that do not mean it is confusing or even without use. With the exception of old frameworks like AppKit and Core Data the use of prefixes is very predictable; its a marker for which framework that defines the symbol.

Take for example UIColor, NSColor and CIColor (From UIKit, AppKit and Core Image respectively). If all three of them had been named Color as in Java it would not be obvious which type it is without scrolling to the top of the source code and look at the imports.

Not knowing the framework of origin is generally not an every day problem. But knowing if a type is your own (or a colleges), or from a framework is.