Jani tried btrfs for the new SSD. It ended with 'parent transid verify failed' and a kernel panic. Not gonna bother with a bug report about it because this happened in virtualization, and I don't know for sure the gravity of the problem wasn't just due to that.
Jani flattr'd AdBlock for Chrome.
Jani I wish there was one-stop online documentation on computer hardware. I don't mean manufacturers' sites, they're too scattered and (rightly so) individual solutions. But why isn't there an Internet Hardware Database? A community-edited wiki documenting which features are present on which (revision of which) piece of hardware.
I've kept my own wiki for the hardware at my disposal and it's proved valuable many many times over the years. But detailed data for hardware I'm only just considering can be a pain to find.
A presently acute example: which current desktop motherboards' UEFI support ATA security features?
Jani On the surface the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize laureates summary ("creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used #Linux kernel") seems to get Linus' work backwards (wasn't it rather "creation of a new open source kernel leading to the widely used Linux-based operating systems"?), but I think a nitpicker should conclude that's *exactly* how it went: he began to write an OS and came to create a kernel (and a development ecosystem!) that, combined with GNU, conquered the world.
Jani perusti Tor-palvelimen Amazonin pilveen. Iisi ja globaalisti hyödyllinen tapa tutustua EC2:een. https://www.globalproxycloud.net/
Jani harkitsee taas Facebookista luopumista. En oman yksityisyyteni takia vaan muiden: pelkään antavani palvelulle legitimiteettiä jota se ei ansaitse, kun oma yksityisyydestäni piittaamattomuus ja yksityisyystietoisuuteni yhdistyvät (vähemmän yksityisyys- ja tietotekniikkatietoisten) ihmisten mielissä vääräksi tulkinnaksi Facebookin ansiokkuudesta tässä suhteessa. Toisaalta palvelun tarjoamalle leikki-Internetille on kyllä samoilla ihmisillä varmasti oikeastikin tarvetta.
Jani BOINC Managerin suomennos oli kökkö. Tein siitä paremman. Tämä projekti on kyllä malliesimerkki siitä kuinka vapaiden ohjelmien käännökset tulisi minusta kaikki hoitaa: edes mitään kirjautumista ei edellytetty. Yksinkertainen käptsäkin vain kerran kysyttiin. Ubuntu Suomen suomennosbyrokraatit saisivat ottaa mallia.
Jani suoritti viikottaisen varmuuskopioinnin.
Jani "The source and destination cannot both be remote." Why not?
Jani spent the morning unit-testing #Unity 2D (3D I tested a couple of nights ago). Funnily, if I were to choose between the two based on these tests, I'd definitely go for 3D: 2D seems horribly broken. But in my day-to-day use the experience has been opposite: I haven't come across any of the 2D bugs turned up by the tests, whereas 3D always ends up crashing and burning just after few minutes of use. My use of Unity's features don't apparently correspond very well with the tests. But I'm once again giving 3D a chance now based on those test results. It's so much better supported than 2D that it'd be a safer bet. (Now let's just hope it doesn't crash before I hit the Publish button...)