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Broadcom drivers have always given me issues which is why when I was buying a new router I looked for one that had an Atheros chipset that would be supported by OpenWRT with the Ath9K driver, no weird proprietary firmware/drivers (kernel age dependent) issues.
Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router
About a year and a half ago, I researched the state of routers: about as unsexy as it gets but essential to the stability, reliability, and security of your Internet connection. My conclusion? This is boring old plain vanilla commodity router hardware, but when combined with an open source fi...
I was using vstrings for providing versions, then I found some weird bug in EUMM, and then I found out that supposedly 'v1.1.1' is not while v1.1.1 is even though both will validate and be detected by half the software just fine. and oh fuck it I'll just go back to floating points for another 5 years.
for my EUMM issue >
https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/issues/21
What's wrong with v?
This morning, I came upon this tweet. I don't understand what is blowing the considerable mind of RJBS. I'm guessing he considers this post to have settled the matter. But just because he's willing to manually convert his version numbers to decimal format, that doesn't mean we all are. I write m...
As a former Sys Admin, and Aspiring Developer (So that makes me Michael from Underworld? an Abomination). Why do you think you need access to production servers? and what level of access do you think you need? The werewolves are (were?) the daylight guardians of the vampires.
Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins)
Kyle Brandt, a system administrator, asks Should Developers have Access to Production? A question that comes up again and again in web development companies is: "Should the developers have access to the production environment, and if they do, to what extent?" My view on this is that as a wh...
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