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Related: executing small commands from the Recoll indexer: https://www.recoll.org/pages/idxthreads/forkingRecoll.html

I remember going to Holmdel to install our network backup product (which later became something named ABARS in AT&T if I remember well), in the 80s. For this young French Unix geek…

Nobody with any slight acquaintance with history could believe any of these.

Around 1999, I was testing a still young MySQL as an INFORMIX replacement, and network queries needed a very suspect and quite exact 100 mS. A bug report and message to mysql@lists…

Just as a note, and I checked that it's not the case with the GNU coreutils: on some systems, cp (and maybe cat) would mmap() the source file. When the output is the devnull driver…

Ils en ont ch... dans leur culotte.

The fact that TP-Link products are vastly better and cheaper than all their numerous competitors is indeed a bit strange. You have to either think that all the people at Linksys, N…

Anti-hail netting is definitely a thing (protecting cars or fruit trees), for the reasons you state. Even big hailstones are rather slower than fast golf balls.

There is the Dacia Duster if your off-road needs are not really hardcore.

What rclgrep does is run the recoll text extraction and do a grep-like operation on the extracted texts. If you want to give it a try, don't hesitate to contact me if you have any …

By the way Recoll also has a utility named rclgrep which is an index-less search. It does everything that Recoll can do which can reasonably done without an index (e.g.: no proximi…

This is true but it was certainly not considered good practise even at the time. I've been on the seller part of a few software companies acquisitions from the early nineties, and …

> You still get solar power on cloudy days, it just takes more panels to generate some specific level of power. That is wrong. On cloudy winter days the inverters often just stop. …

Fun anecdote, in the mid-1980s, I was bored at work and wrote a similar simulation in Pascal running on a Vax (11-780 if I remember well), and displaying on a tektro (emulation pro…

It's a common misconception that the reason we should be more frugal is to save the planet, ecosystems, or cute animals.

I used ed on video terminals connected to VME 68000 Unix V7 machines around 1986. For some reason, I don't remember using vi on them, and in any case, ed remained very useful when …

Not to nitpick but this would rather be around 199x when AOL joined the Internet.

There is also framagit: https://framagit.org/public/projects which is a Gitlab instance run by a French non-profit, Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/en/ I host my project there, no…

For making a good GUI, the tech guys need to be ordered around by non-tech guys who think like, or talk to, regular users and know what is needed. Tech guys don't like this, so som…

Your last point is a bit off. Text pages are shared iff they come from the same file. So your point works if the 90k processes are the same program. Else: shared libs...

Last time I looked, posix_spawn() just called fork/exec

fork() also presents performance issues for programs with a large virtual space. Here vfork() helps, but it has even more pitfalls than fork(). I had written a small doc about conv…