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Jeskola Buzz[1] is a very influential tracker. The source code was lost for a while, but I recently learned that development re-started around 2008. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Winrar was one of the first pieces of software I paid for as soon as I got my first paycheck!

Sure thing! Didn´t get any negative vibes... I just wanted to second that we all use the tools that fit how we think and feel, and that's ok. Wanting to solve a problem, and trying…

Hey, thanks for replying! I had missed the static binary detail, and it is by far the most sensible solution. Regarding the packages, those are very respectable numbers... But who …

Some people would argue that there are few differences between a container and a static binary... And of course, there is also https://sta.li/

Opinions are great! Everybody has one! And I also feel that sticking to the tools that we know is as good as chasing the perfect "toolkit". Complaining can be justified, and smart!…

The aquilles heel of package managers isn´t consistency, but lack of packages. I appreciate the benefit of distro-agnostic package management, but unless you rely on a portable too…

Gentlepeople! Remeber people have opinions, like they have fingers to type them... These could be red flags for the author, I respect that. These are not universal, yet they could …

Saying "apprehension towards containers is a red flag" is as subjective as the apprehension itself. I like to work with professionals that have a justified opinion, rather than kne…

While I can imagine such a scenario, and there is a resting area with coffee and food in many datacenters... You weight the same when you get into the cage with coffee in your bell…

Touché!

I agree with the intention. This has been part of the design constraints of a plant for at least 30 years... I reckon it is possible older plants didn't take steps to cool down the…

Exactly this. And as additional food for thought... How many outages can anyone remember that were caused because of lack of generation capacity?

Yes, thermal power plants need a cold and hot end to operate, and they are designed to operate within the thermal "range" that its location can provide + some error. Now, this is n…

I am just stopping by to say that this is actually a thing. It is called hesiod and works great in small, maybe air-gapped networks. As a side note, anything security related exist…

This reminds me of mini-linux, an early 90s Linux distribution that could run from DOS. http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/unix/mini-linux/minilin.txt

I have children, and I enjoy them. Both my wife and I have well paid jobs in the tech industry. Having children requires sacrifices. As with any decision, there is an inevitable co…

Turn that sadness into joy! Even an RPI can host your TFTP and your boot files... Today! http://ipxe.org/start has all the info you'll need.

Many OS out there take advantage of RAM Disks. Alpine Linux for instance allows you to boot your root device on ram as a default. SmartOS runs a boot image completely on RAM, and k…

Gentlepeople... the time to try Haiku is now! get an image, and boot it. Out of 10 machines with different ages, all but one get to desktop in a few seconds. For the one that gets …

I've been using haiku as my main work os for a couple of months now. Granted, there are issues, but none of them too annoying to prevent me from getting things done... except for x…

Woah!! That looks great! I think you should share this prominently on your website, showing how you can do more than just cloud. There are a lot of infrastructure segments that cou…

My two cents, do one thing well. Monitoring is as hard to tackle as good, and meaningful dashboarding. I would focus on working on integrating with third party monitoring keeping t…

This is particularly an issue when minors are present in the photo, videos, comments, etc... Dad/Mom/Uncle/Grandma shares a photo of a young family member, and without a doubt a ne…

It should be already well understood that free services aren't free. To me the moral issue of the story is how Facebook isn't upfront about "the cost" of the services they provide.…