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schestowitz"In recognition of China’s increasing importance in the global IP landscape, patent applications in China by U.S.-based applicants have steadily increased in recent years. Data compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in its World Intellectual Property Indicators 2017 and 2018 reports show the number of regular patent applications in China filed by U.S.-based applicants increasing by about 14% from 2016 to 2017. 'Jul 29 05:29
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schestowitz>> It cannot be changed without major changes to themeJul 29 06:34
schestowitz> i thought major changes to theme were comingJul 29 06:34
schestowitz> Sparse news from the weekend. As one could expect, being summer too...Jul 29 06:38
schestowitz>>> I've dug a spare box out of storage and tried two different installationJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>>> images for Alpine Linux.  Neither booted so I've put OpenBSD back ontoJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>>> it and installed Qemu.  From the guest perspective Qemu should be theJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>>> same.  From the host perspective, networking will be a little easier toJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>>> configure.  I'll take a look at that today or tomorrow.  Qemu isJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>>> available on the Raspberry Pi but not the 64-bit x86 guest.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz>> Amazing how how it is to add ssl support, but at least the sites areJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>> running OK.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> I've gotten the 90 GB VM image booting under Qemu on Devuan, when IJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> manually add "console=ttyS0" to the boot options:Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> $ free -mJul 29 06:40
schestowitz>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cacheJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> availableJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Mem:           5805         243        4838           8         723Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz>    5303Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Swap:          1999           0        1999Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> $ uname -aJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Linux techrights.org 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> 16:35:19 UTC xJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> The VM works under Qemu on OpenBSD, too, and I am rather sure that it isJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> also fine under vmd on OpenBSD.  However, I moved to Devuan because itJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> can read the file directly from the USB drive in less than 45 minutesJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> and the VM seems to use less CPU.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> 1) However the next step is to figure out how to make the VMJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> automatically and permanently use the serial console.  GRUB2 sucks inJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> that regard as it is so very overly complicated.  I needJul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> console=ttyS0Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> added to the boot options permanently.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> 2) Then I will have to deal with port forwarding on the LAN.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> 3) Then after that, I will try restoring from the 2019-07-19 backups.Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> Jul 29 06:40
schestowitz> 4) I think after that it will be possible to check out the prerequisitesJul 29 06:41
schestowitz> for TLS.Jul 29 06:41
schestowitzThis would be the first time ever the site runs... 'offsite' :-)Jul 29 06:41
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1155851727737937920Jul 29 16:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@BrideOfLinux: Life during wartime: Microsoft's Takeover of GitHub Already an Attack on the Four Freedoms in Service of Empire https://t.co/TbvXqxUFivJul 29 16:54
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