przemoc
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Comment · 8 years ago
True, but even though you can set:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001
Comment · 9 years ago
~8 years ago I was using LD_PRELOAD to be able to (s)fdisk fixed-size VDI image (VirtualBox Disk Image) outside of virtual machine.
https://gist.github.com/przemoc/571086
Don't know if it still builds and works flawlessly.
Comment · 9 years ago
NetEm seems to be rarely known and used traffic control feature available on Linux.
The linked script allows you to delay sending DNS requests (IP packets with destination port set to 53) on given interface. Normally it is useless, but it may be useful for debugging some hard network-related cases in your software.
The script may also work as a base for other network-related experiments using netem. You can read more about it here: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-netem.8.html
Comment · 9 years ago
Just out of curiosity (it's not my field), what are those 3 renderers that matter right now?
Somehow I read your comment as V-Ray is not among them as being last-gen. I remember that years ago there was a lot of buzz regarding Arnold (and it was justified to some extent AFAIR, at least judging by opinions of pleased 3D crowd), but maybe it's last-gen too now? Many years ago there was Brazil, but quick googling shows it's only for Rhino now? I haven't heard about Redshift till now, though.
Comment · 10 years ago
Somehow title lost @ at the end. Is it some kind of forbidden character?
Comment · 10 years ago
Can be useful. Thanks for sharing!
I usually used sxc.hu so far, which became FreeImages.com some time ago.
Comment · 10 years ago
Similar thoughts. :)
He's author of great stuff out there, but I think his works should be treated more as showing the way of doing this or that than making you stick to his particular implementations (I'm not implying they're bad, though). For instance I prefer runit over daemontools, but quite likely without daemontools there wouldn't be runit. (Actually I want to try s6 [1] soon, as it seems another step in evolution of process supervision tooling.)
But his "build system" is actually unnecessarily non-standard and clunky. I am against autohell, but carefully crafted handmade Makefiles are really nice.
[1]: http://skarnet.org/software/s6/Comment · 10 years ago
It's MLT, not MELT.
And it's a base for other video editor, which is getting stronger each year, seems more stable than the others and already looks IMHO the best among FOSS video editors:
Comment · 10 years ago
I think that metastore will become much more valuable tool, when some planned stuff will be implemented.
https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/6
https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/7
Drafts described there are not finalized and my view on some matters changed a bit. I'll try to update descriptions one day. metastore needs also some modularization to provide better OS-dependent stuff like xattrs.
All in all metastore will need more or less substantial reworking, to the point where rewriting it and providing converter from binary format may be a simpler solution and leading to cleaner (and thus more maintainable) code.
Comment · 10 years ago
Let me quote README file first:
It was originally written as a supplement to git, which does not store
all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a
repository.
metastore can also be helpful if you want to create a tarball of a file
tree and make sure that "everything" (e.g. xattrs, mtime, owner, group)
is stored along with the files.
Comment · 10 years ago
metastore was used in etckeeper in the past.
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_etckeeper/
In less than half a year it was replaced with find scripts.
http://git.joeyh.name/?p=etckeeper.git;a=commitdiff;h=a9ce99...
And I cannot blame etckeeper. Using binary format for storing metadata, i.e. owner, group, perms, xattrs, mtime, makes it too opaque for many use cases, especially in VCS.
metastore v1.1.0, as you can already read, was meant to give metastore (from 2008) a proper release, with fixed bugs and small improvements only. There are plans to make metastore more useful in the future, though.
Comment · 10 years ago
I guess that some mod intervened here (by bringing this closer to the front page), because even a few hours after posting there were only a few points and it was rather deep in HN. Thank you!
Post title has been also changed, and it's fine. I no longer remember mine, but it was maybe too clunky. But.
metastore should be written using all lowercase letters.
Realist, pragmatist, strong-willed, strong-minded. Sometimes taciturn, sometimes loquacious. FLOSS enthusiast but still using Windows. Alpine Linux advocator.