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deter looters by advertising a cash crop? :)
ooh, you’re right
meh…looks more like the pretty common battery swelling problem seen on MacBook Pro
Re:OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective on Sunday June 28, 2015 @09:22PM (#9795945)
For anyone who reads this and is put off by the thought of having to update their system from source; there are binary patches available (both OS and packages) using the `openup' utility from https://stable.mtier.org/
Re:Org-trello: Trello for org-mode on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @09:19AM (#9492290)
MobileOrg[1] was good for a while—it had Dropbox and WebDAV support—but it hasn’t had an update in a couple of years and is badly in need of a new maintainer.

[1] https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg

Re:OpenNTPD 5.7p1 Released on Friday January 09, 2015 @07:26PM (#8865314)
On OpenBSD the integration with physical devices is done via builtin software. I run a stratum 1 OpenNTPD server on OpenBSD, with a GPS attached via nmea [1]. The GPS data shows up via the sensors framework, which OpenNTPD interfaces with [2].

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/...

[2] http://openbsd.id/papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf

Re:Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible? on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @11:26AM (#8137406)
Not the person you asked the question of, but we’re building AMIs (and VMware images) using packer.io (via the masterless puppet provisioner). It works nicely and with a minimum of fuss.
Re:Programs should be Small on Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:07AM (#5274060)
he's talking about adding a lot of "moving parts"...
I looked at inotify and quickly realised it was Linux only, which for me isn't a good fit as I tend not to be on a Linux box when I'm using my ssh client.