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the.taoofmac.com
Personal blog · the.taoofmac.com/space/bloghardwaresystems
the.taoofmac.com is a personal blog at the.taoofmac.com about hardware and systems. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “How To Re-Enact Inception with Vagrant and LXC”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rui Carmo's personal tech blog, with how-to guides and notes on Linux, Vagrant, Android on ARM boards like ODROID and Raspberry Pi, and tools such as Textile and Markdown.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How To Re-Enact Inception with Vagrant and LXC2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-29
- How to Switch to the Mac2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-09
- Python Patterns, Take One2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-01
- Desktop Streaming to the Raspberry Pi using VLC and H.2642 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-17
- The Exodus of Tech from Portugal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-27
- Containment Strategies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-08
What Hacker News says?
I've been looking at MEO Cloud[1]. It's by Sapo.pt, a part of Portugal Telecom. I first saw it recommended by Rui Carmo of Tao of Mac[2], who I've generally thought offers good advice. (He also is Portuguese...) And, they offer a Linux download unlike most other alternatives. [1]: https://meocloud.pt/ [2]: http://the.taoofmac.com/ [Edited for clarity and fixed links.]
Comment linking /
on “Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO”Submitted The Exodus of Tech from Portugal as a story · 68 points
HN discussionsigh it seems I'll eventually have to update this: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/11/13/0830#the-insta...
Comment linking /space/blog/2014/11/13/0830
on “Wire – Modern Communications Network”Submitted How to install Ubuntu 13.04 on your Android phone as a story · 63 points
HN discussionToo bad that miscellaneous issues prevent them from getting an Android port out -- regardless of RAM and CPU requirements, I've been trying to get a decent accelerated web view going on it since I first got one, and _nothing_ works well enough (Qt5 took forever to stabilise - and still isn't quite there yet, X11 still has no hardware acceleration, there are no browsers that take advantage of Wayland, Firefox OS is s…
Comment linking /space/hw/RaspberryPi/Streaming
on “Two million Raspberry Pi sold”Submitted IPad Text Editors, Reviewed as a story · 46 points
HN discussionNice, but a couple of months too late for me. I've switched over to Parallels 9 on the Mac, and it is _much_ faster overall (not to mention better USB support). Also, I highly recommend Vagrant users to look into the vagrant-LXC plugin - that, too, is one heck of a lot faster than using either VirtualBox or VMware providers. I've documented my setup here: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Vagrant
Comment linking /space/HOWTO/Vagrant
on “VirtualBox 4.3 released”Submitted The Slow Way To SPDY as a story · 45 points
HN discussionThis should run most of the existing Ubuntu and Android images without any hassle. Having owned an ODROID-U2 for a long while now, I can tell you that these things run Ubuntu 14.04 like a dream (except for the lack of OpenGL - you only get ES) and Android works great: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/02/10/1230 (Mine is now running Ubuntu only, and the only gripe I have is that the kernel currently lacks enou…
Comment linking /space/blog/2013/02/10/1230
on “ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer”Submitted IOS 6 Maps might be hazardous to your health as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI've been messing around with Inferno for a while (link below for completeness). I would love to have, say, Clojure, Python or something else with a sizable set of built-in libraries running on it, but (at least where Inferno is concerned) I had a lot of trouble finding anything to bootstrap that kind of environment (Inferno uses the `dis` VM, and there is a GSOC project that sort of gets Java running around that, b…
Comment linking /space/blog/2014/05/04/2230
on “The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2006) [pdf]”Submitted Taking Away The Magic as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI've been using Textile for ages, and it's much better than Markdown for just about anything _except_ footnotes (in MultiMarkdown) and pieces with multiple references to the same URL. In particular, Textile has great table syntax, which I use extensively in pages like http://the.taoofmac.com/space/infoviz (markup at http://the.taoofmac.com/media/infoviz/index.txt ). But over the years I became so used to Markdown (l…
Comment linking /media/infoviz/index.txt
on “Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012)”Submitted Weapons For a More Civilized Age as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI actually came across this on a footnote here: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/02/10/1230#an-arm-on... Note that the guy got Ubuntu 12.04 running on an ODROID board using a similar technique from a prebuilt image. So it's apparently a very easy thing to get going...
Comment linking /space/blog/2013/02/10/1230
on “Debian Kit for Android”Submitted Inbox Minus as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes. I've been recommending that for years, actually: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Switch
Comment linking /space/HOWTO/Switch
on “Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite”Submitted Fast Remote Desktop on the Raspberry Pi (DirectFB) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, that would make sense. The site I got this from ( http://the.taoofmac.com ) mentions using PyPy on all machines to run it (which is effectively Python 2.7.1 at this point), but then again, you have to match versions very closely when you're using Hadoop and HDFS anyway... Python is actually easier to deploy in matched runtimes across a cluster :)
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on “Map Reduce in Python - transparently done over a network”Submitted A Pragmatist's Take On Windows 8 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHe hasn't been paying attention, then. I've written about what happened in Portugal a while back: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2012/08/24/2240 (HN thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4437887 )
Comment linking /space/blog/2012/08/24/2240
on “Portugal's growing number of young entrepreneurs”Submitted Python Patterns, Take Two as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have a U2 (basically the same as the U3 with less ports), and the thing is so good I used it as a desktop for a couple of weeks ( http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/02/10/1230 ) - running NetBeans at a fair clip, to boot. The only thing stopping me from getting a couple of U3s is lack of cash, and I heartily recommend it. The Pi is... Sort of mediocre as a desktop (even as a thin client) and too complex for m…
Comment linking /space/blog/2013/02/10/1230
on “Raspberry Pi Model A+ Arrives – The Cheapest and Smallest Pi Yet”Submitted Diving into Inferno as a story · 3 points
HN discussionObligatory rant about too many IM apps: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/11/13/0830#the-insta...
Comment linking /space/blog/2014/11/13/0830
on “The New Messenger App from Google”Submitted How To Re-Enact Inception with Vagrant and LXC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTo be clear (because I was wondering why all these commands were required), installing a version of Ubuntu on your phone just requires Complete Linux Installer http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/03/30/2107 (and busybox and loopback filesystem etc.) This post is specifically about creating a new image from scratch to use with the Complete Linux Installer rather than using the ones that are provided for download…
Comment linking /space/blog/2013/03/30/2107
on “How to install Ubuntu 13.04 on your Android phone”Submitted An ARM On Four Cylinders as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNetgrowl is a Python library: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Projects/netgrowl Here's an example I threw together: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/09/01/adding-growl-notificat...
Comment linking /space/Projects/netgrowl
on “A thought: disposable realtime notifications for webapps”Submitted Fast Remote Desktop on the Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points
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