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Engineering and precision
Engineering needs precision, not context-based guessing. See http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/?comments=1&start=219.
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I find it curious as to why most, if not all, SSD manufacturers are unwilling to disclose the physical disk, the page, and the erase block sizes selected for their SSD products. Such crucial information should be readily available to guide us, the more advanced users, to properly align our partitions and configure efficiency in […]
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The svnserve(8) man page found in Subversion 1.8.5 is a bit outdated. For instance, the –compression option is not mentioned at all. This blog post will surely be outdated in (short) time.
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Here’s a writeup of how I managed to persuade Subversion‘s svnserve running on FreeBSD to authenticate using SASL, Cyrus’ saslauthd, and LDAP on Novell eDirectory.
Read More → LDAP authentication for Subversion’s svnserve on FreeBSD using SASL, saslauthd, and Novell eDirectoryCreating WordPress child themes and preventing automatic linebreaks in pre-tags
I wanted to prevent automatic linebreaks in pre-tags in the “Twenty Fourteen” theme. I followed WordPress’ description on how to create child themes. In the /usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes directory, I created the twentyfourteen_local directory. In this directory I created the style.css file. The file was given the contents shown below. In the Dashboard, I clicked on Appearance. […]
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In LaTeX documents without the need for a separate bibliography, these macros might be handy for referencing and creating clickable URLs pointing to IETF RFCs.
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Happy New Year 2014!
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I wish you all a Merry Xmas!
Read More → Merry Xmas!Detecting clang in C code
If you’re looking for a way to detect when your code is being compiled by clang, try the command clang -dM -E -x c /dev/null In the large list presented, you’ll find these macros the most interesting ones:
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Type this in LibreOffice Math: and you’ll get:
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