Marcus Persson (Notch) answers an offer to track people across the internet

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-24T21:55:43.723977+00:00

They can't revoke anything. Code contributed to Chromium from Google is under a BSD license. Google take Chromium and add their bits to it, like the Flash player, PDF viewer and auto-updater. Chromium can survive without those features.

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-24T19:47:59.917589+00:00

That doesn't sound bad at all. In fact, it sounds good.

Plus, all you need to do is not opt-in to the GhostRank system and they'll get nothing from you.

I don't see the problem.

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-24T19:21:02.116700+00:00

Chromium, the code behind Chrome, is open source. Good luck not giving that away for free.

soundhaudegen · 2012-05-24T19:19:03.327437+00:00

Citation. Not doubting you as I've heard it before, but come on...
Regardless of who creates it, it works. Maybe it doesn't work for the ad company behind it (secret whitelist!), but it blocks everything else fine for me.

BitpatternDesignator · 2 days

I'm curious to know if the HTTPS thing is a result of your configuration or if it just doesn't work over HTTPS.

Shit like this should damn well encrypt my data in transit, or it's useless.

BitpatternDesignator · 2 days

RAID != Backup and you should feel bad for even hinting that it does.

ContextIsKing · 4 days

I'm not sure. Looking at the shell history later, he appeared to be attempting to use Solaris-style commands. I reckon he was a mixture of old-school and an idiot.

ContextIsKing · 5 days

I had a client the other week with a Linux server who wanted me to disable SSH and enable telnet for server administration.

In nicer words I told him to fuck off.

ContextIsKing · 5 days

Keep an eye out for the HP N40L (or N36L) Microservers. HP usually do a £100 cashback on them occasionally, so you can pick one up for under £120 (or your local currency).

I've got the N36L, consumes about 40W on average, has virtualisation extensions if that's your thing, uses ECC RAM, 4 drive bays, hardware RAID. It's a little beauty, although not very powerful if you need CPU.

Should run Windows without a problem, although I'm not sure why you'd do that to a server... </linuxsysadmin>

travo5100 · 5 days

While I do feel somewhat dirty actually saying this, Unity is almost there at merging the best bits of OSX and Aero into some sort of cohesive whole. It's not there yet, but they're getting close.

Now if only they could port it, stabley*, to a RPM distro like Fedora I'd be happy.

(* - that is now a word and I don't care if you don't like it.)

krabkakes · 5 days

Pretty much any distro will run fine on that, though I'd probably avoid one that compiles everything (LFS, Gentoo) as it'll be fairly slow to install anything big.

peterpan4 · 5 days

Absolutely, but some people are stuck with Apache (e.g. cheap web hosting providers using a common control panel like Plesk or cPanel to provide their users with a nice interface). Getting the most out of what you have is always a good thing! Plus you can always stick Varnish in front of Apache if you need a little more speed.

In my experience, Apache 2.4 has some fairly impressive performance gains as well. Looking forward to that hitting stable repos in most OS' in the coming months.

Can't beat nginx for speed though.

alllie · 5 days

If you're worried then boil your tapwater or buy distilled water.

richalex2010 · 5 days

It's the best Civ game.

Yeah, I said it. What?

bjackman · 6 days

Thank you for this valuable contribution to the discussion.

trouphaz · 7 days

give them a challenging but realistic task to perform

If your day-to-day work involves constant access to the Internet, give them that access during the task.

Do not underestimate the ability to Google.

mexicanseafood · 8 days

Okay, well now I just don't care.

mexicanseafood · 8 days

Indeed motion would be a better word for it, my bad. I hadn't been awake long!

82Sonofagun · 9 days

What size is that pot? I'm having trouble deciding what size pots to keep mine in. It's probably about half the size of yours in a 13.5cm pot at present. Not sure if I can be bothered repotting!

mexicanseafood · 9 days

When I discovered the 'dtx' ~~command~~ motion was my holy shit moment. Since then I think I'm starting to really 'get' it. Only took 12 months!

jojojok · 10 days

While this may be true for 30% of issues, the rest usually have an error message that you've just sent me, so that I can Google it.

Just Google the error yourself!

EmilBonde · 11 days

That's nothing to do with him being British and everything to do with him being him.

Xiol · 12 days

Adjusting fonts is not "advanced".

Xiol · 12 days

Like adding the ability to adjust your fonts?

Zed · 12 days

Use the -C flag to yum to stop it updating the package list each time.

In my experience if you run it fairly soon after a previous run it won't bother updating the cache, or at least will know it doesn't have anything to update.

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