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There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a 64kb daemon Internet Internet connection over isdn. Having that network connection meant I could (1993) get some linux/freebsd setups, but I would have to leave the ftp connection running all night. I then diverted off full time into freebsd when I joined Yahoo.

I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even though thier costs have been cut. I found that the majority of sales were ebooks, plus you often find your books sold onto platforms like O'Reily where you receive no royalty. It also appears that translations cut the author off from royalties, one ofmy books was translated to Korean and I stop getting any royalties on that set of sales.

what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram usage was painless. why pay good money to have hardware sitting idle?.

That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put contact details and an expiry date on the deal so people can't get jacked up with very old prices on very old versions. That would also encourage people to keep thier 3rd party inclusions up to date. I don't think that would pass muster as an OSS license but maybe a built in support contract should be a feature of the licenses, one that earns people proper money that makes OSS a model that supports maintainers.

Absolutely, plus I have seen a bunch of people going mental about not being able to reach friends or family because WhatsApp is down, when WhatsApp uses the person's phone number as a means of addressing messages, just dial them and talk to them or send them a text... People can be a little dim sometimes and forget that the primary function of a phone IS communications, and not just a platform for running apps.

I use kind with podman running rootless, it only works on systems with cgroup2 enabled. But it's very cool. Conventional k8s with docker has a number of security gotchas that stem from it effectivly running the containers as root. With rootless podman k8s, it is easy to provide all your devs with local k8s setups without handing them root/sudo access to run it. This is something that has only recently started working right as more container components and runtimes started to support cgroup2.

I would advise getting your blood sugar levels checked, high blood sugar has a negative effect on eyesight, and given that during pandemic many people have cut exercise and may have started snacking more. There is a strong correlation between type 2 diabetes and vision problems.

Interestingly it's exactly what the PHP memory model does, each request is a shared nothing VM space, nothing survives the end of the request, even if allocated memory objects don't get free'd.

yep each transputer had 4 serial links, which could be connected in matrixes, and allow data to be moved across the array directly. They used a language called OCCAM, and there was an OS called TAOS that allowed you to run various transputer topologies.

I must admit while this cool, what I really want is a standard dirtcheap 8 to 10 inch Android tablet with a hackable OS and a row of gpio pins on it like the raspberry pi. $50 will get you a lot of power and convience today as these things are two a penny due to economies of Scale. Throw a usb-c video input and output onto it too, so it can use it as a touch screen monitor for my phone too. and I'm sold

Git branching and merging vastly out classes svn, coupled with its ability to version directory deletes and renames which svn struggled with, it makes much more sense than svn.

Most SVN workflows did not use branching and merging, becuase it was such a pain in the ass with SVN.

You folks are right about the confusion between git and the workflow, most folks use gitflow which uses master, develop and feature branches. Others like gitlabflow are quite different, but still make use of git's far better branching and merging.

As a developer of automotive ecommerce sites, it is very common for sites to list a higher price 0h the catalog, and show the true (generaly lower) price in the cart. This is becuase the businessmodels are highly margin sensative, and competative pricing can have big impact, so its a measure to try and mask real pricing.

Gitlab 13.1 6 years ago

Gitlab needs to be able to mix licenses on a single system, its current model requires all accounts in an org to operate at the same level, try selling a 1000 seat ultimate license at 99/user/month to tbe average sme. In all companies there are seats that need different levels of capabilities, gitlab is just way to expensive to use at anything above starter, the premium level works out at 2x more expensive than jira/bb/confluence with considerably less capability. I want to be able to buy 200 starter, 50 premium and 5 ultimate licenses and mix them on the same system.