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Left is across traffic in the US. Different sides of the road.

Could you explain what you mean by "this keyboard puts heavy emphasis to press modifier keys (enter, ctrl, alt, etc) with the thumb?" I'm sitting here with one in front of me and c…

I'm actually rather surprised you didn't just go with JErasure ( http://jerasure.org/ ).

It's a rather fair statement to make. The rates of errors in memory are significant[1], and ZFS does nothing to ensure that in memory data structures are uncorrupted; it was design…

And it's interesting and useful for scientific computing where you already have an MPI environment and distributed/parallel filesystems. However, it's not really applicable to this…

Yes. Generally, when you publish you transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher.

There are several versions of VNC that support xrandr resizing. Arch documents this working with TigerVNC [0]. Additionally, you can use xrdp + x11rdp. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.o…

I thought that was well addressed by this comment in the post: "Looking at the top repo for each language also exposes a weakness in the methodology: GitHub’s language identificati…

There was a good write up on HN a while back about this font, including a republished version called Nameless Amateur which fixes the positioning of the forward slash. See http://1…

LWN had a similar feature posted yesterday which has significantly more background information. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/564250/0a106d6379c0d741/

Fuse requires root permissions in Linux. Most distributions simple make the fusermount binary setuid.

Now that Wheezy is Stable, you shouldn't have to do the first step.

The metadata server has never been a single point of failure in Ceph.

At this point it just says "Effective immediately, the Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency has ceased operations. Please disregard any notices you received from us, and pleas…

If you're running nginx in production on Ubuntu or Debian, you'd probably be well-served by using their packages rather than the distribution default ones. http://nginx.org/en/down…

Based solely on my own experience, I believe that the benefits to be gained by physical proximity decrease according to an inverse square law. The benefits gained from sitting with…

You should be able to send data using passive checks. As far as I know, that has always been the model in Nagios.

Correct. It is wonderful sugar, but somewhat limiting. Realistically, you need to know both syntaxes. irb(main):001:0> hash={:"symbol with space" => nil} => {:"symbol with space"=>…