brdrak

As someone who's been longboarding for years (including commute), I would be interested in something that:

* Would let me ride normally, without using the motor at all (e.g. gear in neutral).

* Would recharge going down hill.

* Would assist me going up a steep hill.

My current board is 40+ inch Arbour board that I got for around $200 5-6 years ago. Every couple of years, I spend ~$40 on new barings (too lazy to maintain).

I don't actually want an electric board most of the time, as it's one of few sources of exercise for me, but it'd be nice to have an assist going up hill.

Not sure I'd spend more than $400-$500 though.

> <3

You probably mean this [1], but all I see is this [2]. What's wrong with me?

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%3C3&defid=11...

[2] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%3C3&defid=13...

What about binary-only drivers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

> DRBD

You mean DRBG [1], right? I hope DRBD [2] isn't backdoored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_De...

Plus the blackmail opportunities spying affords.

With sufficient level of access, it should be possible to erase trails and to create false ones.

Not just Poland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

How far does this go for you? If, let's say, you witness wrongdoing performed by your employer, would you go along because, well, you promised to do a good job when you interviewed?

Didn't he also say somewhere that we'll be reading about him in history books?

Good to hear that Dovecot scales. I personally went with Cyrus because at the time I was picking an IMAP server, Cyrus was already a well tested solution known to scale. As I recall, Dovecot back then was still young and developed by one person. I've heard a lot of good things about it since though. I'm sticking with Cyrus since it works fine for me, but it's good to have options.

Another satisfied Cyrus IMAP user here. :-) I've heard nice things about Dovecot too, though.

> never put postfix's spool and dovecot's storage on the same physical device and I/O controller. /var/log must live on the separate device too.

This probably depends on the mail volume, no? I host all mail related services for myself and some family on a $9/month VPS (1 VCPU, 512 MB RAM, and pedestrian I/O capabilities) without any issues. My mail volume is typically under 20K messages/day.

I've personally not found this difficult. Unless perhaps you're dealing very large volumes of mail and overhead of SpamAssassin is an issue. Mail volume in 10s of thousands/day on a low end VPS has been no problem for me.

> Android phones haven't been built with physical keyboards in years

Droid 4 is a currently shipping phone that has one. I've been using it since Droid 2. Don't care for the extra heft and sub par picture quality, but love the keyboard when an emergency comes up and I have SSH into a server while away from a proper computer.

I'm curious, why run 4 disks in RAID6 instead of RAID10? You loose two disks worth of capacity to RAID in either case, but with RAID6 there's also parity overhead, slower recovery, slower performance, especially in degraded mode?

I beg to differ.

I do as well. That also opens up other possibilities like the ability to just drag and drop an email between IMAP accounts. The other day I was getting smtp errors from Google, so I sent a work email from a personal account, then dragged it to work sent items, because I won't remember to search for it in personal.

We use Postini at work and it is terrible. Normal Gmail filters are much better. I hear Google is replacing Postini with something they developed themselves.

I couldn't imagine not filtering my mail. I hate seeing spam too much. To a point where minimizing it is an obsession. I spent a considerable amount of time on this about 10 years ago, but very little since [1].

Anyway, just did a quick search through mail.log and in the past 24 hours, I got 4017 SPAMS that were rejected at SMTP time by Postfix [2], about 40 SPAMs got through those, but caught by SpamAssasin [3]. 0 spam delivered to inbox. 0 false positives. 126 legitimate mails.

I'd looked into greylisting some years ago, but never implemented because I didn't like the idea of delivery delays.

So I'm in complete agreement with you regarding how effective SMTP level checks + rbl are, but I disagree regarding statistical filtering -- Bayes was key for me to getting 100%. I had put off adding this layer for years, because I didn't fully understand or trust it, but now I'm a believer. Also, once trained, it just works. I rarely look at my spam folder. Retraining is easy, I just drag a rare false positive/negative to HamCaught/SpamMissed folders then nightly training script auto learns.

[1] I was an email admin at a local gov agency, then tried to get into email hosting biz, so it wasn't just personal obsession.

[2] Using things like standard helo/client/sender/recipient restrictions, with very few custom rules, and rbl check using spamhaus.

[3] SA + razor/pyzor/bayes, again with very few custom rules.

I may be wrong, but I believe IMAP, the protocol, just defines how IMAP clients/servers should issue and respond to search commands, but doesn't deal with mail indexing and things like that.

Cyrus IMAP, which I use, provides Squatter, which substantially speeds up search, but the IMAP client is still the interface. Performance I get is around a sec for a simple query, a few sec for a more complex one against a folder with 20K messages.

Last I checked, Roundcube had very limited search capabilities. Thunderbird is much better, but I'd prefer a terminal based search. Something like SQL. Does anyone know of a tool like that?

Weird, I have exactly the opposite experience with spam -- my self hosted setup does better than gmail. Wrote this a while back, but still holds true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441542

I don't have nearly the volume of email you do though. My inbox has 20K, probably another 70K in other folders. Thunderbird is fine for me, except I'd like a more powerful and faster search. Gmail search is not good enough, though much better than other webmail clients I've tried.

> Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal."

That made me laugh so hard. Sounds like a borderline HR issue. :-)

A lot of people do prefer OSX. Between OSX and Windows, I'd choose OSX in a heartbeat because cygwin wasn't so great when I tried it a while back.

I did try OSX for a while, and wanted to like it because I can get it for free at work, but I'm so used to Linux that OSX quirks really annoyed me. Things like package management being an aftermarket hack, pain trying to get functional RAID10, Apple changing core functionality between releases breaking my setup, etc. For me, Linux is WAY easier. :-)

Linux user for 15 years, Debian/Ubuntu exclusively for the past 7 or so. IMO, it's without question that the Desktop experience is better every year, now to a point where it just works 99.9% of the time (in my experience, anyway). Haven't had a any problems with sound or multiple monitors in a while (using both Nvidia and ATI video cards).

Of course people will and should use whatever they want. I have to touch Windows and Macs regularly as well and they're not without problems. Each will have its pros/cons like anything else.

Sounds like you're annoyed with people asking you why you use OSX. I've asked that question myself in the past. I assume people make informed choices, so I'm always curious about the reasons. Personally, I don't mind people asking me why I use Linux.

I will say that the Desktop experience still is the weak point compared with how solid everything else is. Xorg is a pain, but I haven't had to touch it in a few years (defaults have been working fine for me), so that's been fine.

The reason I keep using Linux is not because it's perfect, but because the breadth of amazing and ridiculously easily accessible free software available for the Debian ecosystem is unparalleled (in my experience, anyway).

I can run the same software on servers, desktops, laptops, in the cloud, on crappy old hardware in a way not possible with Windows or Mac. I don't have to ask for permission or deal with licensing issues. I can focus on GSD* instead.

* getting shit done -- see other thread :-)

I gave up on gaming for a while because I got tired of booting into Windows. Lately have been playing way too much on Steam. :-) In fact for my new desktop decided to go with Ubuntu 12.04 because it makes it easy to run Steam. Otherwise I would have gone with Debian proper.

Not an Oracle user, but aren't they primarily pushing their DBMS and related products, with their RH clone merely a certified platform for the their core products?

Same kinda true of IBM too, no? Except AFAIK, they don't even have a Linux flavor the claim as their own. I think they're clearly a supporter of Linux, but any marketing I've ever heard from them (admittedly not much), was for their own core products.

Red Hat is indeed a commercial company with a Linux distro as its core product, but, while it may be the most successful "Linux" company, isn't it small potatoes compared to AAPL and MSFT? Most non techie people I know probably wouldn't know what Red Hat is, but I suspect all would know Apple and Microsoft.

What's amazing to me is how popular Linux has become while no one is promoting it. Both MS and Apple have spent loads on marketing and polishing their products. No one is marketing "Linux".

A bought a Dell with Ubuntu once. I recall calling tech support asking how does one update the firmware. If memory serves, support wasn't sure how to deal with it not being Windows. Since then, I'd just bought Dell laptops with Windows and either dual boot Ubuntu or replace Windows entirely. The Ubuntu Dell was lousy spec wise. It's easy to update firmware with a FreeDOS boot disk.

For my next laptop, might get a System76.

Slightly OT, but had money to burn for a work desktop and went with a Supermicro workstation. Very nice hardware. More expensive but much better than Dell/HP/Lenovo workstations. Ironically, still cheaper than a Mac Pro desktop. Also better -- Mac Pro RAID was a poorly thought through overpriced garbage, last time I worked with it up a couple of years ago.

> RAID-0

do you really need that extra bit of performance to justify increased risk of loosing data and inconvenience of a rebuild?

Let's say I have access to multiple computers at several locations, and at least one is secure. I encrypt the plain text on c1, put on a USB key, encrypt the encrypted file again on c2. Then again. Then transfer the file to a new USB key and destroy the original (in case file system there has remnants of other files).

The adversary would have to know all three passwords to decrypt the final file.gpg.gpg.gpg, correct?