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xz in multithreaded mode supports random access too, at least theoretically. But there's no reasonable way with xz to actually find the file in a tarball you want to access, it's t…

I like almost everything about LXD, except the attitude towards networking. The project has rejected simple solutions such as port forwarding, saying that managing the network shou…

I did it! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548763 Unfortunately it took quite a long time, the Mozilla process is quite confusing to a newcomer, even one with a lot of …

lzma parallelizes very well! My implementation of parallel xz ( https://github.com/vasi/pixz ) works quite well. There are others as well, including pxz and the alpha version of th…

Metafilter chat has been using this for a few months: https://chat.metafilter.com/

My feature, progress bars for downloads in the OS X Dock, made Firefox 22! Hope you all like it, and be sure to report any bugs. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548763…

Your first point is interesting, but I'm no so sure about the second one: Given certain search strings it should be possible for amazon to detect that this [person] engages in pira…

Yeah, I understand the advantages of Gmvault :) I also realize it might not make sense to use Maildir as the native DB for Gmvault, since you don't want to store multiple copies of…

Yeah, I'm currently using OfflineIMAP until I find something better. But it's really not a perfect solution: it downloads emails multiple times (once per label), it doesn't restore…

The #1 reason I want Gmail backup is to be able to migrate in case something goes wrong with Gmail. Does Gmvault make this possible? I don't see any documentation about exporting f…

There's a rough open source clone of Filelight for Macs[1]. Disclaimer: I'm the original author, but no longer involved. A commercial app in the same genre, DaisyDisk[2], is much m…

I welcome anybody who'd like to package it! I think it's already available in Arch Linux.

Glad to hear it's been of use :) The author of xz is working on a parallel compression implementation of his own, which will hopefully be in future versions of xz.

Remember that compressors, including xz, support multiple compression levels. The default level for xz is 6, which is perhaps too far on the small-but-slow side. Levels 2 and lower…

I've also got my version of parallel xz: https://github.com/vasi/pixz It doesn't require use of large temporary files like pxz, and the xz files it produces can also be decompresse…

This is great, but it's just a first-order strategy! Once your opponent knows you're following these (quite rational) rules, she could pick words where the rules fail particularly …

Good post, but it would be great if "for HTTP" was added to the title. This has nothing to do with other use cases.

Some of his list of rules sound useful, some less so. I'd like to hear more analysis of each rule, though, rather than simply assuming it must be a good idea. For example, decentra…

I definitely see a difference with santorum, at least. Initially it was just a googlebomb, but now it's actually in common use as the term for the er, "frothy mix". I would not be …

Wow, it lines up almost perfectly with Montreal's rather askew grid, what a coincidence.

While it's possible that Apple could ban non-App Store programs, I don't see this as the likely threat. More plausible to me is that new APIs in OS X will, like iCloud, become avai…

x86-64 has many more registers than x86, which can minimize pushing values on the stack, and therefore boosts speed. On 64-bit you can also assume that at least SSE2 is available, …

I'm a mostly-lurker. I only comment when I something to say that surpasses my fairly high threshold of "worth spending other peoples' time on". On this issue, I'll break my pattern…

Yup, it's using the physical partition, so all changes are preserved. Whether you want that or not. I suppose you could use a snapshot VMDK to put the FS changes into a file, which…