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Ha! Small world on HN. I haven't personally tried the Edgerouter solution. I've been trying to replicate on pfSense/BSD, but it isn't as simple as you might think. :/ https://forum…

You might try this: https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy You have to enable `set system offload ipv4 vlan enable` else your routing performance will suffer.

There is varying levels of difficulty when you want to BYO router. The situation for AT&T U-Verse isn't too fun. If you want to use your own hardware, you only have a few options: …

Is Wide Color preserved when processing video?

> What really worked for me is building a small product. The big picture I have for Logojoy will take years. I was able to get really excited about it because I decided on the simp…

Notably, Xenial is also the first release to bring support for s390x architecture (ie mainframes). [0]: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/17/ibm-and-canonical-pla... [1]: https:/…

Free YC 2016 application: Build website to crowdsource $292,201,338. Buy all the lotto tickets. Pay back investors 150% of their investment. Make ~ $69.5M. (assuming lotto tickets …

http://callbackhell.com is a good starting point.

IBM has been recently promoting Docker on z. IBM argues the high I/O capabilities of their platform are a good fit for the container model. (I don't disagree with them. The many-ap…

> ...moving the focus away from mainframes. Actually, System z (mainframes) still accounts for a quarter of IBM's revenue and about half of its profits. [1] At least, that was the …

You can blame IBM for that. The fact that they haven't made it easy for security researchers (or anyone really) to tinker hurts the platform. Up until a few years ago, there was no…

For the security researchers out there, mainframes are really under-researched. There just aren't many people that have the expertise in the platform required for security research…

> What kind of demand do you think there is for a Linux-only mainframe? I think the answer really depends on IBM. Technically speaking, the hardware is rock-solid. There are no sin…

I think IBM is headed that direction with BlueMix. That is their public cloud offering. However, there are no mainframe offerings yet.