Fruit - Slashdot User

Comment Scientific computing (Score 1) 262

by Fruit on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @07:39AM (#45781273) Attached to: Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind

Desktops aren't the intended audience for x32. This stuff is for very specific scientific compute jobs that are pointer intensive (i.e., graphs etc). You won't see GNOME/KDE/whatever packages for this architecture.

The popularity of this arch won't manifest itself in general purpose software packages: most computation will be in one-off custom programs that are never released. That doesn't mean this architecture isn't popular, it just means you're using the wrong metric.

Comment Re:Hrm... (Score 2) 116

by Fruit on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @03:42AM (#45266487) Attached to: Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award

You can't switch it off if you don't know it exists. Or is reading slashdot mandatory now if you want to run free software?

Comment Re:mdadm can do this (Score 4, Interesting) 227

by Fruit on Thursday July 25, 2013 @04:05PM (#44384767) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops?

If you boot the laptop with disk1 and a blank disk, mdadm will see disk1 as the raidset, in degraded mode. Just add the blank disk just as you would if a disk failed in a regular setup. Do test this beforehand. :)

Comment mdadm can do this (Score 5, Informative) 227

by Fruit on Thursday July 25, 2013 @01:16PM (#44383007) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops?

Use mdadm -C -b internal to create a bitmap. Detach and readd the mirror at will and it will only sync the difference.

Comment Re:You're worrying about the wrong surveillance (Score 1) 391

by Fruit on Sunday June 23, 2013 @04:00AM (#44083359) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance?

Neither does Firefox if you install the RequestPolicy plugin. Highly recommended.

Comment Re:Copyrighted material (Score 1) 302

by Fruit on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:15PM (#43548155) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents?

posting to undo moderation. sigh.

Comment Re:Online Advertising Response (Score 1) 369

by Fruit on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:00AM (#42994159) Attached to: Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

Over the last year or so I've played around with blocking the referer header from being sent at all, to any websites. 99% handle this just fine, but every now and then I'll come across sites that fail, and in various ways.

That's why I modified smart-referer to send the requested URL instead of no referer at all for 3rd party URLs. That evades most checks.

Comment Re:Old technology was awesome (Score 1) 186

by Fruit on Monday January 21, 2013 @03:13PM (#42649717) Attached to: Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music

You may find this paper interesting.

Comment Re:Explained in Article! (Score 1) 398

by Fruit on Sunday April 08, 2012 @07:33AM (#39611603) Attached to: Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Posting to undo incorrect moderation. Was trying to moderate +1 Insightful (just because there's no +1 Duh). :)

Comment Re:md5? (Score 1) 380

by Fruit on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:55PM (#32841778) Attached to: Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo

Yes there is, 2^56 bytes. See the algorithm.

Comment Re:xkcd? (Score 1) 699

by Fruit on Monday May 31, 2010 @03:43PM (#32409810) Attached to: Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues

Use Yahoo! instead?

Comment Re:Java is crap anyway (Score 1) 535

by Fruit on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:03PM (#31764164) Attached to: C Programming Language Back At Number 1

Meh. When I want to show people how bad perl is, I just open up a text editor. Mash my face against the keyboard a couple of times. Then point out that the resulting gibberish is valid perl.

Not only that, it probably does something useful too.

Comment Re:This just gave me a good idea! (Score 1) 186

by Fruit on Sunday March 28, 2010 @05:31AM (#31646134) Attached to: Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup

here you go :)

Comment Re:wts? (Score 1) 274

by Fruit on Thursday December 31, 2009 @06:44AM (#30604032) Attached to: USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM

If you're referring to the long s, you only use that one if it's not the last letter of the word (or syllable, usually). That just means the image is doubly wrong.

Comment Re:Q about Rhythmbox freezing (Score 1) 419

by Fruit on Sunday November 15, 2009 @09:14AM (#30105134) Attached to: GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

I have a large collection (>1TB, >150k files) and use mpd successfully to play large playlists. Clients like gmpc or sonata may not be as slick as Rhythmbox but the ability to script things from the command line with mpc is a big plus for me.

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