Not having to pay does not make it 'open' either, but I see your point.

actually its attributed to pablo escobar, and he was from columbia.

I think (on linux, at least), its better to implement this as a nss- module (/etc/nsswitch.conf). You can do things like lookup a hashtable, automatically update databases, etc without having to rewrite system config files.

Also this does not protect you from programs that perform their own dns lookups, and ignore /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf entirely!

What's the advantage of that? How does it protect you against programs that perform their own lookups?

oh nss modules wouldn't either. Perhaps intercepting and rewriting every dns request would be needed.

Why DRBD when something like `sheepdog/ceph` is available?

The latter offer much better scalability and features.

MCVirt was started with the view of a small (2 node clusters), with the aim of a simple setup... We have investigated other storage backends, but felt that DRBD provided the features that we required and also, in some instances, is easier to recover in disaster recovery situations. That said, I can't see why it wouldn't be too hard to implement ceph support in the future... we currently support both DRBD and local storage, adding a third backend wouldn't be too complex. I had also been considering other shared storage backends, such as iSCSI and, possibly, NFS

Related: the hashtag #qtwain (Questions To Which the Answer Is No) can make for an amusing/ time-saving Twitter search

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23qtwain

The default I have seen everywhere (qmail, postfix) is a week.

that's assuming no one changes defaults... if your a large enough provider you are tweaking these settings.

what on earth is 'possible possession of drugs'?

Great question! It was thrown out of court in the end, but the cop really didn't have any reason to pull us over, and despite searching the whole car, he couldn't find any drugs. He had to write a ticket for something though, I guess.

It's a lie he's telling. That's what that is.

I can imagine some of the complaints with gnome, although I feel its gotten far better, what exactly are the problems with gtk3 vs 2+?

I think a note taker taking live notes that everyone can see, and perhaps edit, is a great way to record meetings. As a bonus, you even have something tangible to show the time you put in!

I'm working on this at the moment, in a way that also uses the edited transcripts to train our ASR system to perform better for later sessions. The difficult part is the speaker diarization, however. Multiple people talking at once requires some intricate signal processing to sort out.

I tend to live tweet stuff into slack, makes it useful to dump into other tools or get input from others who arent there, eliminates a lot of status update / meeting recaps

All the other replies are misinterpreting this: There was once hope that this would democratize/commoditize medical testing.

Sad that it did not come true.