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Re:FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:24AM (#47322947)
Yea!, as far as I understand, with p9fs now a simple zfs dataset can be shared with the VM, removing the need of ZVOLs (a ZVOL for the boot disk isn't an issue, but for example a data disk of 1tb is difficult to manage).
Re:Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots on Sunday July 06, 2025 @04:38AM (#44478924)
What about ZFS Snapshots and send/recv for backup and restore?. For us this is the cleanest approach, since we use it not only for PostgreSQL, but for all the data in our organization. Of course, the underlying filesystem must be ZFS.
Good, but did you take a look at http://tabulator.info ?
Re:Free Pascal on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:10PM (#25411410)
It has bindings for practically everything (Win32 UI, GTK, GTk2, GTK3, QT, OSX) and also you can custom drae yours.
Re:Free Pascal on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:08PM (#25411394)
For me FPC/Lazarus are also a secret weapon. We use them at my company in production apps (mostly web and commnand line programs) since ages.
:%s/emacs/vim/g
Re:What Were CGI Scripts? on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:21PM (#20493134)
I still use CGI in most of my web apps, some of them SaaS applications, and them performs pretty well.

The author mentions CGI overhead. Well, that's relative, please read this: http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=Myths%20About%20...

One important side effect of CGI is the fact that if one route crashes (in a REST api for example) the CGI finishes its execution and nobody is harmed. On the other side, with server daemons, one bug can kill the whole app.

Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:41PM (#18279575)
Hey, please add FreePascal and Lazbuild (command line Lazarus compilation).
Re:Standalone Signal Desktop on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:45PM (#15604278)
Why do you think Lazarus doesn't have or interact with an extensive ecosystem?.
+1 using it since ages.
Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:04AM (#12548796)
I feel sad for reading this, here in Argentina until December 2015 we had a similar state backed plan called Qunita. Now the new right-handed government cancelled the plan without delivering 60k boxes and a judge is trying to burn those arguing insecurity (but none of the 1000s of mothers who received them found any glitch in the boxes).

Please read more (in spanish): http://www.infobae.com/politica/2016/09/14/bonadio-ordeno-de...

Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers on Monday July 04, 2016 @10:17AM (#12030902)
Re:Lazarus Version 1.6 on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:56AM (#11133753)
The GitHub repo doesn't, but Silvio is working privately on the new 2.0 version. Also there's a Google Plus community https://plus.google.com/communities/101133820055678331036

Anyway, the current version is very stable, I use it since a couple of years without a glitch.

Re:Lazarus Version 1.6 on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:41AM (#11133131)
This is an IDE for FreePascal.
Re:Lazarus Version 1.6 on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:36AM (#11133116)
Yes I do, but not as old style PHP or ASP (html pages server side rendered). I use AngularJs for the front end and a CGI/Stand Alone servers written in Lazarus/FPC server side.

Please take a look at the Brook Framework, it allows developing REST applications: http://silvioprog.github.io/brookframework/

Re:Lazarus Version 1.6 on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:33AM (#11133102)
By default it works in a multi-window envidonment, but if you want you can install the package AnchorDockingDsgn (from the Package->Install/Uninstall Package) that lets you "dock" the windows you want.
Re:Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996) on Thursday March 19, 2015 @11:56AM (#9232814)
(and the resulting executable is smaller and WAY FASTER then VB).
BTW, Brazil has a population of 200million, and this protest's had at most 1 million people. This isn't as representative of people's toughts as right hand media tries to show.
Re:ESnext – Tomorrow’s JavaScript syntax today on Sunday October 12, 2014 @11:49AM (#8445585)
I don't understand something.

Why calling new Person(..,..) returns toString()?

The example calls:

console.log( 'Full name is:', new Person('Michael', 'Bluth2') );

new Person should create an instance of Person, but why it calls toString()?.

Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @05:26AM (#7101832)
That's not true. I've seen many tourists buying pesos in the black market (arbolitos).
Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @05:24AM (#7101828)
...and Agentina has an unemployment rate of 6.8 (with the highest salaries of the region) against 10.9 of european union (26,7 in spain, and 12.5 of italy).

Sources:

Just google "unemployment rate of xxxx" (argentina, spain, italy).

As the Firebase engineer posted you can use Node.js, OR ANYTHING YOU WANT, remember you are not forced to use JavaScript for everything, that's the beauty of *nix, if CRON worked for ages, why not just use cron and a perl script or simila?.
Re:22 and no life on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @08:21PM (#5446947)
One strategy is contacting english teaching academies in South America (there are thousands) and go to live there (of course, you'll need some money to afford a couple of renting months), that kind of work will allow you to make a living without taking all your day. The next step is to join a public university, remember in some countries of South America there are great free public universities that allow foreigners.
Re:Run Linux in your Browser JSLinux (Update) on Sunday May 22, 2011 @10:51AM (#2573363)
Amazing, this guy is impressive.

BTW. It would be really nice to include an SSH client to JSLinux.