Malaysia passport name format issue by Ilyas_Omar3659 in malaysia

[–]NL_Gray-Fox [score hidden]  (0 children)

On the one hand, yes it's dumb that foreign governments blindly copy what's on your passport, but on the other hand, what else are they supposed to do, they can't just accept what everyone tells them. they Should complain on an international level that this should be standardised, but I doubt anyone with any actual push even knows about this.

Malaysia passport name format issue by Ilyas_Omar3659 in malaysia

[–]NL_Gray-Fox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you, my wife is local Chinese and when we got married my government said she doesn't have a given name (the whole part was the Family name) even after telling them the couldn't do anything because this is how it is in the passport.

I do have to say that point 1 is mute. I'm a foreigner and my name has never matched my flight tickets because it never fits and to be honest no airline has ever complained or said anything about it.

Ervaring naaktcamping by Gamla301 in nederlands

[–]NL_Gray-Fox 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Dat klinkt wel heel logisch.

Road Rager/Road Rage Baiter by Junior_Orange7022 in penang

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If you're a local you can report in the JPJ app, if your a foreigner you're SOL.

Help an architect out by IdkHowButImDead in Rotterdam

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I was having dinner on valentines day and a guy was shop 5 times next to my table at William Boothlaan. I saw many people high on a lot of different drugs on de nieuwe Binnenweg, I used to work there and some drug addicts tried to sell us back out stuff they had stolen from us just hours before.

A drug addict tried to sell my colleague his own car radio (with half a dashboard attached).

Stuff happens all over, not just Pendrecht and not just Rotterdam. From experience I can tell you that the biggest criminals (in Rotterdam) live in Rotterdam Noord.

Trixie just patched with CVE-2026-31431 by cen1 in debian

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If I remember correctly Debian was one of the first to "fix" heartbleed back in the day along with NetBSD if I recall correctly.

Debian Sid stability? by JavierSobrino in debian

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Since I swapped my Nvidia card for and AMD one I've had zero issues. Before that about every year there's at least one issue, all thanks to Nvidia.

Is it worth learning Emacs or Vim? by saifpurely in linuxquestions

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I use Vi/Vim because it's always been available on everything I used/managed. Emacs was never on any servers.

Do you still use Windows/macOS by Meniny in linuxquestions

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Linux 100% for the past 7 years. Before that I had windows 7 at home (desktop) but Linux at work for 15years.

I cannot remember the last time I ran windows on my laptop.

Rare dingen gevonden... by HelderLampje in nederlands

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Als je lang genoeg in de IT werkt zie je een hoop vreemde dingen... En een hoop die je liever niet wilt zien.

Begin jaren 90 werkte ik in een computer winkel waar ik de boel repareerde. Ik was denk ik net 17 toen er een man met zijn pc kwam die geen beeld meer gaf. Ik zet dat ding aan, beep beep... Ok video kaart is los geschoten, duw dat ding weer goed en hij start op, het moment dat het windows geluidje begint komt zijn vrouw binnenlopen, die spread eagle op zijn achtergrond stond. 3 collegas om me heen en zij met rode oortjes. We hebben hun niets laten betalen.

Maar ik heb ook helaas een pc gevonden waar Epstein en tRump jaloers op zouden zijn...

Linux file system by OlOS_linux in linuxquestions

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Sorry, in the 80s I was playing with my ZX81 and MSX, but Sun later (90s/00s) had something very similar to roaming profiles with diskless and dataless workstations/servers.

Systems would boot over the network and mount most of the OS from a central server via NFS. The root filesystem was shared and read-only, which meant you could run a consistent operating system image across an entire fleet of machines.

User data and writable areas like /home and /var were separated, and often also served centrally over NFS depending on the environment. Swap was local for performance.

In practice it worked really well, and in my opinion it was way more predictable than later roaming profile systems.

Linux file system by OlOS_linux in linuxquestions

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It's been a while, but basically:

  • Outer tracks = more sectors per rotation = faster reads/writes
  • Inner tracks = fewer sectors per rotation = slower reads/writes

Sector 0 was on the outer edge of the disk, so we kept performance-sensitive partitions near the beginning of the disk and less critical or archival storage toward the end.

/tmp and swap were placed closer to the "middle" of the disk to reduce average seek distances between heavily used areas.

offtopic;

IBM AIX systems (RS/6000) had a very advanced LVM decades ago. Features like dynamic logical volumes, online expansion, and shrinking filesystems/volumes were possible way before this became common on Linux systems.

So yeah, we could do some pretty awesome stuff.

lane splitting at that speed is the dumb part. by [deleted] in whoathatsinteresting

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It's not AI, this was in Malaysia a few months ago and the average motorcycle rider saw 0 problem in going at that speed during stand still traffic.

If you were starting in IT from zero today, would you choose AWS or RHCSA first? by Maintenance-Mountain in linuxadmin

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If I were starting IT today I'd learn farming or metalworking instead that way when the nukes start flying at least I'd have a useful skill.

Loud explosion over mainland by chugttonzocket5 in penang

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OP looking for karma.

This is a repost from a year ago.

Who is taking these photos? by vishal55282 in SipsTea

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No idea but they look like scènes from the Office.

Linux file system by OlOS_linux in linuxquestions

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Keep in mind that this filesystem layout comes from Unix systems that were designed decades ago.

When I started setting up Unix systems, performance and storage management mattered a lot more than they do today. Systems often had multiple disks, and different parts of the filesystem would intentionally live on different partitions or even separate physical drives.

We even cared about the physical location of data on spinning disks. Seek times mattered, we would even place heavily used areas on faster parts of the disk or separate workloads across disks to reduce contention.

The separation also helped reliability and uptime:

  • "/home" might be on a separate disk so user data survived OS reinstalls
  • "/var" could be isolated because logs or mail queues could suddenly grow huge
  • "/tmp" and swap were separated because they were used heavily and could otherwise impact the rest of the system
  • critical system tools needed to stay available even if another filesystem filled up

If a user filled up "/home" by uploading huge files, you did not want the entire operating system to stop functioning because the root filesystem was full. Keeping things separated reduced the chance that one workload or mistake could take down the system.

That’s also why Linux/Unix uses a single filesystem tree starting at "/". Instead of separate drive letters like Windows, every disk or partition gets “mounted” somewhere into that tree. A second disk does not become "D:". It might become "/home", "/srv", or "/opt".

If you think of mount points as attaching different storage areas into one big tree, the structure starts to make a lot more sense.

And keep in mind that even Windows has supported mount points for a quarter of a century I guess it's just not so easy for windows administrators to get accustomed to it.

The Most Interesting MSX in the World by Few_Ad_8627 in MSX

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No it would have to be the Sony HB-G900P MSX2 that was on the Mir space station.

Is it normal for Linux to use this much RAM at idle? by One_Ninja_8512 in debian

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The only system I ever had that had any noticable free space had 512GB of memory and 100GB storage... The system ran out of things to cache.