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Teddy has sold most if not all of his shares in Playtech and other gambling related businesses[1].

Also calling every one who ever served in 8200 an Israeli spy is ridiculous. Military service is mandatory in Israel. Lots of kids serve in 8200 because they get assigned there for their affinity for math and computers. Most of them do menial Ops tasks, I interview them occasionally for junior positions.

Here are some Israel startups founded by "spies": ICQ, CheckPoint, Wix ...

[1] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-sagi-bows-out-of-playtech...

True. In such case you need to create a different symlink within the same filesystem and then use "mv" to atomically overwrite the current symlink.

ln -sfn target new && mv -Tf new old

The Thing 7 years ago

There is a famous Soviet joke about it.

Question to Armenian Radio:

- What is American embassy built from?

- Micro-concrete.

- What's Micro-concrete?

- 10% concrete, 90% microphones

I tried to switch to Firefox lately after this new speedy version had been released. I really underestimated how good Chromium is. Basic stuff, like in page search(Ctrl+F) is awful after Chromium experience. Resistance to copying omni-bar is silly. Crashes every day. The UX is bad compared to Chromium. Spent month dealing with it and just abandoned this endeavor. Really sad, i want Firefox to be better.

Mine(Ubuntu) differs:

       It is usually recommended to only use usernames that begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, followed by lower case letters, digits, underscores, or
       dashes. They can end with a dollar sign. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]?

       On Debian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash ('-') nor plus ('+') nor tilde ('~') nor contain a colon (':'), a comma (','),
       or a whitespace (space: ' ', end of line: '\n', tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a slash ('/') may break the default algorithm for the definition of the
       user's home directory.

"[Upstart] currently has no way to adjust the maximum number of file descriptors, or limit memory usage"

That's weird, because that's one of the things i like about Upstart. The ability to set pam limits and others in the same file. Upstart seems to support the same options Runit memory wise: stack, data, memlock ...

limit nofile 10000 10000

limit nproc 1024 1024

nice 3

chroot /var/roots/mychroot

[0] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas#limit

We manage around 200 servers with puppet.Our system administrators aren't programming savvy. It's much harder to write chef recipes, while puppet's DSL allows them to write pretty concise and clear recipes. And explicit dependencies are very helpful here, we can't imaging our life without those. It is much harder to break thing when there are several people working on one recipe/manifest.