Posts by Werner Donné

Calder wasn't misquoted

I don't think Nigel Calder was misquoted. Just read the book "The Chilling Stars" he wrote together with Henrik Svensmark. This book makes the case for at least investigating the effect of cosmic rays, which is a correct scientific attitude. The reaction to this from the "scientific world" has been very far from scientific.

Web-centric is not browser-centric

You don't have to display the GUI in the browser to be web-centric. A lot of native mobile apps are perfectly web-centric. In a lot of cases they are more efficient and cosume much less bandwidth, because they exchange only data with their server.

Replace NTFS with ZFS

With ZFS you would create a snapshot on server1 and then write:

> zfs send snapshot_name | ssh -l username server2 zfs receive filesystem_name

You would have an exact copy of the complete file system without needing temporary storage.

Don't need an IDE, a DE will do

I've been using the command-line and vi, combined with a stand-alone debugger, for more than twenty years. No IDE can convince me when it comes to productivity.

Werner Donné.