The sysctl(8) man page says that you need to use the '-w' flag to change a value. Actually, it changes values anytime you either use '-w' or your argument contains an equal sign. You have to have an equal sign to set a value.
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#75 |
Posted by
mitchb
1321925514 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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11/21/2011 at 8:31:54 p.m.)
The "Operating Systems and Systems Engineering" class at Berkeley is taught in Java. Consequently, top students in the class don't know anything about real operating systems.
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#74 |
Posted by
tabbott
1320372279 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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11/3/2011 at 10:04:39 p.m.)
If my window manager crashes after the X server sends a MapRequest to it but before it can actually map the window, the window never appears. IBTSOX.
#73 |
Posted by
broder
1318720945 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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10/15/2011 at 7:22:25 p.m.)
Installing VMware Workstation radically changed my desktop's shutdown sequence, resulting in it not syncing and unmounting filesystems before rebooting or powering off. IBTSOCS.
#72 |
Posted by
broder
1318461461 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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10/12/2011 at 7:17:41 p.m.)
This bug brought down our web server cluster:
--- /usr/sbin/ldirectord.orig
+++ /usr/sbin/ldirectord
@@ -2705,3 +2705,3 @@
$$r{url} =~ /(http|https):\/\/([^:\/]+)(:([^\/]+))?(\/.*)/;
- my $host = $1;
+ my $host = $2;
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#71 |
Posted by
geofft
1283229080 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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8/31/2010 at 12:31:20 a.m.)
Backspace on UNIX and its myriad terminals still doesn't just work. IBTSOCS
#70 |
Posted by
yoz
1281025752 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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8/5/2010 at 12:29:12 p.m.)
OS X 10.5 lacks NSWindow:-isActiveSpace and any useful Spaces-related API at all, so I need 50 lines of really slow CoreGraphics queries and caching to make drag-and-drop work. IBTSOCS.
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Posted by
davidben
1279607858 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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7/20/2010 at 2:37:38 a.m.)
Oracle doesn't have a "LIMIT" clause, so selecting a range with offset involves ROWNUM subqueries. IBTSOCS.
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Posted by
semenko
1277506881 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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6/25/2010 at 7:01:21 p.m.)
Software patents exist. IBTSOCS
#67 |
Posted by
davidben
1274302792 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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5/19/2010 at 4:59:52 p.m.)
People are still using non-ajaxified, deep-link unfriendly interfaces to student data. IBTSOCS.
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Posted by
ismith
1273325734 seconds after the Unix Epoch
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5/8/2010 at 9:35:34 a.m.)