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208 karma · joined August 23, 2013

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Firefishy··on Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
We working to fix this right now ;-) (OSM sysadmin here)
Firefishy··on BashBooster – simple provisioning, bash only, requires nothing
Ansible is a great alternative to Chef/Puppet etc. Agentless and runs over ssh.
Firefishy··on Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
Running a recent Ubuntu or Debian?

Install the microcode by running: sudo apt-get install intel-microcode

Alternatively install a BIOS update once available.

Firefishy··on Improved default settings for Linux machines
The git repo is here: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/tuned.git/tree/profiles

Easy enough to implement own scripts using the profiles as a basis.

Firefishy··on HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers
HP's Vice President of HP Servers Support Technology Services received a beating in the comments for the announcement: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog...
Firefishy··on HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers
"For critical fixes HP will continue to make available 'Critical Fix' Firmware." [for out of warranty systems] - https://twitter.com/HPChannelUK/status/432823844718387200
Firefishy··on British spy agency GCHQ hacked EU ally Belgium's telecoms firm using NSA tech
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/87025-mtn-suspects-it...
Firefishy··on OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor
Sure has.

iD has large number of built in presets and also transparently queries http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ for the more eccentric stuff.

Firefishy··on OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor
Overpass is great: All hospitals in Western Cape of South Africa: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/on

Else there are more manageable regional extracts of OpenStreetMap XML: http://download.geofabrik.de/

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