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For those who don't know, the term "daemon" as used in computing is a reference to Maxwell's demon, since it's doing its work in the background.

The biggest thing I've been missing since I started using FastMail is labels. My workflow in GMail used labels pretty heavily, and I've been able to get pretty close using saved se…

This has happened to me with labels before, too. I'll do a search for all things that have a label and are in my inbox, and then archive them. I'll then go back to my inbox, and se…

I do all of my development on a remote box. All of my work is in a screen session, so I can always reattach to it. Since that box is a lot more stable than my Mac is, it doesn't ta…

Postgres' network types [0] are very useful, especially when you use the > operators to query for addresses contained in a subnet. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/da…

Manta doesn't run on a proprietary OS, but runs on SmartOS, a distribution of illumos [1][2]. In fact, almost everything at Joyent is open source, including all of Manta [3]. As fo…

In addition to Windows and Mac OS X, illumos and I believe all of the BSDs require you to use libc for the same reason. I'm sure that they exist, but I don't know of any kernels ot…

You might want to try booting without graphics and accessing it via a serial port, to see if that makes a difference. See this e-mail thread for a discussion: https://www.mail-arch…

Is there a way to do the reverse, and convert a Git repository into a BitKeeper repository? I found the fast-export manual page: https://www.bitkeeper.org/man/fast-export.html But …

Things that complain about tabs vs spaces and other code layout concerns are style checkers. Linters complain about the actual content of the program, and enforce certain behavior.…

Your biggest concern seems to be that a litigious Oracle could come after someone using an illumos-based system: > It's best to just avoid using any I.P. from a company like that u…

The search I have the most trouble with is searching for things that match a label and are in my inbox. GMail will consistently miss messages. I don't know what it is about them, b…

It's hard to find an exact date, but according to this blog post, it looks like it was removed in June 2010: http://os-solaris.ru/en/lx-brand-dlya-openindiana-151a/

You can't use lx-branded zones in Solaris anymore, but SmartOS has revived and continued the project, and OmniOS has started porting the bits into their distribution, too.

linc01n's comment was a little unclear. SmartOS isn't doing anything with the LXC protect. What SmartOS has done is revived the branded zones code from Sun for emulating Linux syst…

In Firefox's developer toolbar (Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar), you can type 'screenshot --fullpage' and it will save an image of the entire page for you.

Thank you for your site! When I first started using the shell, I found it useful for discovering new utilities. I still use it whenever I find myself on Windows and needing a cmd e…

There's a Wikipedia article on this, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainhill_Trials