mikecarlton

What do you mean 'linux gets frozen'? I literally can't remember the last time a linux box froze on me. As others said, I would just reboot it now and let fsck pick up the pieces. Tha…

No, of course it does not apply the update while under way. When there's a firmware update available you get a nice big dialog box telling you so and button that says "would you like instal…

Stay away from Rogue then -- I spent way too much time in grad school on that one!

Beware of Vagrant 1.5 if you need vagrant-berkshelf. There are serious dependency issues that are not yet solved: https://github.com/berkshelf/vagrant-berkshelf/issues/…

Will it have vim key bindings? My fingers have vim wired in and that's not going to change.

Here in California, sales tax on a car is based upon the address you register it at, not on who you buy it from. Sales tax isn't the motivator here, it's entrenched businesses (auto dealers)…

Sure, HN is full of early adopters, so why not cars? Here in silicon valley, you see them all over the place. We just picked up our second -- my wife got her 40kwh model last year. It's a big i…

The wheel goes full circle as always. If you're worried about resources just use tcpdump. I've always viewed wireshark as a GUI alternative to tcpdump. And yes, I know wireshark does more …

Great, another useful service for them to destroy. Mozy was very good, but went downhill after being bought by EMC.

Do you know the maximum range the transceiver can transmit? The datasheet gives lots of design guidance, but nothing specific. Data sheet: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Datasheets-4…