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The design document is a good read and includes high-level details of how they're grabbing packets (AF_PACKET), the packet index format (leveldb), and defensive action they took (f…

I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade of service, I've decided it's time for me to move on. 4chan has faced numerous challenges…

This looks great, thanks :)

Is there an online archive that I can view before signing up?

Thanks for the shoutout! Twitpic-Backup is pretty old but will definitely get your images. Props to pcgMongo for today's PR: https://github.com/Stantheman/Twitpic-Backup/pull/2

I have a mirror of this site. wooledge.org runs off of greycat's (#bash on freenode) home DSL connection: http://bash.cumulonim.biz/BashPitfalls.html

Have you tried a recent version? This commit should have made things much better: https://github.com/linode/longview/commit/dc48b6ddce04dc7155...

Do you remember any? I'd love to hear some!

With regards to the real-time analysis, you might find perl's Regexp::Debugger fun to use: http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Regexp-Debugger-0.001011/lib... That's the documentation …

Off-topic, but you searched AltaVista? Did you choose to use it specifically or is it your daily driver?

Rob Pike actually wrote something similar in his short, self-proclaimed polemic, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant": http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf "Only one GUI has…

I'm copying this from a previous comment of mine because I always end up writing about the great features of Taskwarrior: Seconding taskwarrior for being a great todo handler. It h…

Seconding taskwarrior for being a great todo handler. It has a minimalistic interface, but doesn't lack any features that you (might) find yourself wanting after a while of use. Th…

Of course, there's always Hacker News Daily, an automatically generated list (RSS available) of the top HN stories: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ I particularly like the one…

This warning is much clearer (and useful). I completely agree -- disk-heavy moves can be painful. On that note, if you're using TextMate with MacFusion/SSHFS, you'll want to get th…

What was the problem? I use MacFuse on Snow Leopard daily at work and home and the worst I've ever seen was TextMate move slow when I woke from sleep (and the drive wasn't mounted)…

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The actual task information is stored in your home directory. I use it on a Linode and stay connected all day (cloud enough for me :) ) I've seen other people use it with Dropbox, …

I use Task on my Linode too. I have the output of "task list" cronned to a text file under a virtual host. The file uses auth-based htaccess rules, and I have the unique user/pass …