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Re:Tcl-Lang Showcase on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:33PM (#45506926)
Vim is scriptable with TCL: https://vimhelp.org/if_tcl.txt.html
Re:The qmail security guarantee on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:14AM (#15115352)
http://mlmmj.org/ claims to be heavily inspired by ezmlm. I haven't used either so I don't know how well it works as a replacement, but it might be worth a look.
Re:Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:15AM (#13061847)
That sounds a bit like what Joyent is doing in their Autopilot Pattern implementation for MySQL: https://www.joyent.com/blog/dbaas-simplicity-no-lock-in
Re:FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:33PM (#13033209)
I'm used to that from rsync. I find it quite handy.
What gave you that impression? With `zpool attach` you can attach a device to an existing VDEV (single device, mirror, RAIDZ) to increase redundancy. With `zpool add` you can add a new VDEV to your pool to extend its capacity.

See https://illumos.org/man/1m/zpool

Re:A More Flexible Paxos on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:04AM (#12296839)
> Any major companies the size of Amazon or Google running on raft?

Google's Container Engine runs Kubernetes, which uses etcd, which uses Raft.