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The problem is the number of people who are into Illumos and want a portable Unix server is insignificant. All products came with fixed overheads (e.g. cost of tooling to start pro…

They do, sort of. Intel were using SPARC cores in at least one of their "Management Engine" devices in chipsets recently anyway. ;)

OpenVSwitch is a component in OpenSwitch. E.g. OpenSwitch uses OVSDB as its pub/sub configuration store, and also for other state. Other free software / open-source network project…

Google Docs has the same behaviour for me as Evince on annoted-highlights: shows the highlight on the text, but doesn't show or provide anyway to view the associated annotation. Ed…

I have some people who send me corrections via PDF annotations and notes. Neither Evince nor XPDF fully support these. Highlighted annotations particularly, Evince shows the highli…

The US funnelled hundreds of millions of $ through Pakistan to help fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA also provided direct support, in training and weapons, etc. https://…

Yes, log^2(x) seems almost always to be used to mean [log(x)]^2 in the routing theory papers I tend to read. I agree with you though that using log^2(x) for [log(x)]^2 is horridly …

I think the table in IX is wrong about log^2(x) being the same as log(log(x)). For me, and my impression is for many others, log^2(x) means log(x)log(x).

Yeah, you can opt out of the ones at Schiphol. One time I got a security guard give me a talk about how safe they were, and why wouldn't I want to. They're millimetre wave machines…

I download movies and TV shows using Bittorrent and index sites like TBP because of DRM. Often these DRM systems are not available for Linux, or if they are, they require installin…

Yeah, it's language sugar to capture variables (including automatics) from an outer scope and make them available to an anonymous function. This may involve copying the variables t…