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Some of the corporate speak on there is horrific. "We enable innovation" Ugh.

I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere with my headphones, and try to block out the intense primary colours and lack of sound insulation.

I must be getting old.

"Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways." Words to live by...

http://www.johns-jokes.com/Billy-Connollys-Desiderata..........

For all of the slagging Pulseaudio gets, built in network transparency is very cool. The client does all of the resampling and rate conversion, so you can ramp up the conversion quality to max on your relatively powerful laptop and the Pi just shunts the bits onto the sound card.

Hi. My Pi is hooked up to a powerline network thing just through the RJ45 on the Pi, but I suppose you could use a wifi dongle if you want. On the laptop, you just set the pulse sink to be the Pi's pulseaudio (need avahi running on both to see the Pi in the audio preferences pane on the laptop). You can play whatever you like on the laptop itself and the audio is routed through the Pi, so there's no need to log into the Pi itself once it's set up.

I use a Raspberry Pi with a USB sound card attached to a DAC (just a hi-fi CD recorder) as a Pulseaudio sink, and an NFS server for the media. Then any old Linux laptop can play audio through the main stereo over the network.

Dirt cheap and works really well.

Hmmm. 'Dependable' and 'a bunch of servers on the same rack' are mutually exclusive things.

Can someone clarify the whole charity tax deduction thing? Unless tax is at >100% (or 50%?), surely there's no gain from doubling donations to benefit from tax deduction? Or am I not understanding something here?

Sure. If you wrote it, you can license it any way you like. The Qt framework is probably the most famous example of dual licensed (GPL and commercial) software. http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing

Umm, we just use the commands a lot. Doing something 12 hours a day for 10 years tends to leave some imprints on your memory.

"Unix sockets are faster, but fall over at high load (important)"

Any idea why using Unix sockets would cause failures under load?

An SSH server outside the firewall listening on port 443, and a copy of PuTTY on your desktop can solve many firewall problems. Yes indeed.

Needs a shuffle() function - can't bogosort without it.

' echo -n "-n

" ' works fine with the bash built-in. It echo's "-n".

So...

[dave@mini ~]$ echo -n "-n foo

> "

-n foo

[dave@mini ~]$

Easy!

Sure you can:

dave@cronus $ ./echo -n "-n

dave@cronus > "

-n

dave@cronus $

Not pretty, though.

Each to their own, I suppose. I mail a _lot_ of copy-pasta from shell output, so not having to switch to plaintext manually saves time. To be honest the sort of mail that's multicoloured / multifont / etc. generally isn't worth reading, let alone replying to; but that's just my experience.

If you set Outlook up to convert to plain text, you get normal '>' style quoting when you reply. It also has the advantage that anyone replying to your mail sends in plain text by default as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831607

yum-presto on Fedora uses deltarpm, which uses bsdiff.

Possible vector for some sort of attack? The ncsi service that requests www.msftncsi.com is presumably very simple, but then...

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Oracle have been pretty clear that they're only going for high-end infrastructure deployments, so they're probably glad that OpenOffice has been taken off their hands. They're likely waiting for someone to take MySQL off them in a convincing way as well to get the EU off their back.

Oracle are only interested in turn-key hardware-OS-DB-middleware stacks, and you better believe they don't give a flying toss about anything Sun owned that doesn't fit in that vertical. It wouldn't surprise me if they end up refusing to support anything that isn't mounted in an Sun/Oracle 19" rack (to be honest, that might not be a bad thing - Sun/Oracle racks are pretty nice).

To be completely clear: Oracle really, genuinely, absolutely, does not care about anything which doesn't fit into their model. I've been on the receiving end of a number of Oracle support (re)negotiations, and it never works out well for anyone that doesn't have a red O on their business card. Buy Oracle shares if you have the cash, but stay the hell away from their products if at all possible.

While we're at it, could someone fix Java so that I don't have to guess the f*!$ing heap size all the time?

That is frankly awesome. People think there's something wrong with me for using dc instead of bc in Unix shells.

Not sure I can justify £50 to buy the hardware version, though.

I was approached on LinkedIn for an SRE position (Unix admin). Got through 3 phone interviews and did 5 on-site interviews, but I managed to make a complete arse of the scripting one so no Google job for me.

No hard feelings, though; the interview process is fun. And if anyone interviews in Dublin, have the pizza for lunch. It's really good.

Running the standard Fedora 13 Gnome spin on a Dell mini 10v at the moment - 260MB RAM in-use with Firefox and Thunderbird open, which seems pretty light to me. Remove the bottom Gnome toolbar and set the top toolbar to auto-hide (put the task switcher in the top toolbar), to get your vertical screen real estate back. Set 'resample-method' to 'speex-float-0' in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to stop PulseAudio sucking up gobs of CPU and you're good to go.

i386 Fedora has been compiled with '-mtune=atom' since F12, which is nice for netbooks. (Not so nice for my Core Duo Mac Mini server, but it's not exactly CPU-bound so No Big Deal).

Still no ECC RAM on the server version, I see. Shame.