Hacker News: benjarrell

New comment by benjarrell in "New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe"

benjarrell — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:25:37 +0000

You also need an IBM storage array

New comment by benjarrell in "A Compass for the Politics of Collapse"

benjarrell — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:12:26 +0000

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

New comment by benjarrell in "YAML and Configuration Files"

benjarrell — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:21:41 +0000

For me, the brackets, commas, and quotes are what make json readable (and writable).

I really struggle to write yaml. I end up writing it as json and converting it. I agree about ini though.

New comment by benjarrell in "Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor"

benjarrell — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:23:56 +0000

I always heard everything old will be new again growing up, but as I age is interesting to see it actually happen.

New comment by benjarrell in "Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues"

benjarrell — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:43:15 +0000

“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.”

What does higher mean here?

New comment by benjarrell in "Intel has released new CPU microcode for download"

benjarrell — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:45:16 +0000

In a cluster, all hosts must be updated for the flags to be exposed to the guests. That is why you must update vCenter first, which prevents the patched hosts from being rejected.

New comment by benjarrell in "Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data"

benjarrell — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:53:16 +0000

IT companies are no better from my experience.

New comment by benjarrell in "X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster"

benjarrell — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:52:35 +0000

What is that properties window from? That is not the properties window I am used to seeing.

New comment by benjarrell in "Snap Committed to Spend $1B on Web Services with Amazon"

benjarrell — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:35:46 +0000

I think redundancy would be the main reason. They also can use that to leverage for better pricing as well.

New comment by benjarrell in "EPA Notifies Fiat Chrysler of Clean Air Act Violations"

benjarrell — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:13:02 +0000

Diesels are required to have a particulate filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_particulate_filter

Which is usually used with exhaust fluid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid

New comment by benjarrell in "Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?"

benjarrell — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:51:03 +0000

This is something I have been looking for, thank you!

New comment by benjarrell in "Destroy Windows Spying tool"

benjarrell — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:44:44 +0000

I think it is from apps like Solitaire and News having ads in them.

New comment by benjarrell in "How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint"

benjarrell — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:03:22 +0000

The thing that kills me is, AV software for Linux is just looking for Windiws viruses. Tripwire seems more appropriate for Linux.

I've had that debate and it was decided that we had to have something. FWIW we use TrendMicro deep security.

New comment by benjarrell in "Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source"

benjarrell — Tue, 10 May 2016 17:56:11 +0000

Does this come with any sort of web interface?

New comment by benjarrell in "Push notifications when you have 8M followers [video]"

benjarrell — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:03:50 +0000

I wonder how long your battery lasts with that going on.

New comment by benjarrell in "Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox"

benjarrell — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:27:03 +0000

I'm still using Sunrise to this day, is there an announcement about it being discontinued?

New comment by benjarrell in "Rocket Fiber Launches 100GB/s Internet Service in Downtown Detroit"

benjarrell — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:34:03 +0000

I used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.

New comment by benjarrell in "The Curious Tale of MS03-007"

benjarrell — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 22:22:20 +0000

Solaris came with everything turned on by default for a quite a while as well.

New comment by benjarrell in "Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance"

benjarrell — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:00:23 +0000

Yes they will, and they already have with this same congressman: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-broke-pri...

New comment by benjarrell in "Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002"

benjarrell — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:39:03 +0000

It is a face, aka picon. It reminds me of the GameSpy logo. It appears to be the default face for unknown.

Info about faces in Plan 9: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index... doesn't seem to load but is cached is http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CkBURro...

Database of faces/picons: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/