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by 101914 12y ago
"Someone finally got fed up with the haphazard state of affairs in Linux-land" But wouldn't the path of least resistance be to switch to a project that does not have this "haphazard state of affairs"? When I origina
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Agreed. But I want a pseudorandom real _number_ in decimal, to use in a shell script, not just random bytes. I gave your solution a try. a=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4 count=1|od -An -tx1|sed 's/ //g')
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by 101914 12y ago
"UA strings need to die... just agree on a standard string... and eventually remove the standard string"
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by 101914 12y ago
Ah, I had forgotten where this comes from. This makes sense; OpenBSD's default shell is pdksh or some derivative thereof, if I recall correctly.
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OK, I feel stupid. How would I get a random number using dd and /dev/urandom? I am not sure I understand the gcc comment. Can you explain? Assuming I cannot get a random number from dd'ing /dev/urandom then I need
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by 101914 12y ago
All occasions, even shell scripts. For example to choose a pseudorandom entry from a (reasonably short) list and set it as an environmental variable: echo "main(){ arc4random();}" |gcc -x c -pipe -o arc4random -static - b1=$(sed -
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by 101914 12y ago
"Would such a change be even possible now?" Yes. I know it's possible because this is how I work. It is unfortunate that avoiding "common code" sometimes involves more effort than just accepting it, but in my exper
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by 101914 12y ago
You forgot PG's old company, Viaweb. Personally, I do not believe that money magically makes software better. Some of the best code I have ever seen was written by "academics" who received little to nothing for writing it.
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by 101914 12y ago
Perhaps Bruce Evans' C compiler, linker and assembler? It worked well enough to compile early Linux kernels.
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by 101914 12y ago
"In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important." s/its secure alternative/a secure alternative/ s&#x2
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by 101914 12y ago
Don't run _GNU_ strings on untrusted programs See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8508478
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BSD binutils for ELF(elftoolchain.sourceforge.net)
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by 101914 12y ago
"Am I the only one..." No. But the solution is not to complain, but to use /etc/hosts, run your own root and your own cache. Any software that overrides /etc/hosts is not worth using, in my opinion. There are
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by 101914 12y ago
Interesting that you used the example of eBay. I remember reading about the alleged reason eBay acquired Skype. Skype is a peer to peer network. The guys behind it were the guys behind Kazaa, an earlier peer to peer network. In Skype'
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by 101914 12y ago
Just to give a different perspective, I think booting from SD card is my favorite aspect of the RPi (although I do not disagree with your comment). This is because I find it gives me easier flexibility in switching between kernels with embe
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by 101914 12y ago
"a simple, little fuzzer" The download for Peach is 190MB??
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Yes to all your questions, Mr. Cox. Godspeed.
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Is it good to hear Tower Records lives on, even if not in the U.S.
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"THE first ever e-commerce transaction..." Is there a missing footnote?
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This ftp is otherwise known as tnftp and originates with NetBSD. It is part of their base install and is the only ftp/http client installed by default. It is the default client for installing packages. Aside from the popen feature (-o
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by 101914 12y ago
Does touch typing versus less than ten finger typing really make a difference if one is programming in a terse language (assembly language, APL, etc.)? Is touch typing really the only true way to control the computer "lever"? Doe
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"DBell is one of the best programmers on the planet." How would one verify this? I tried a couple of his sample C programs. One of them was one source and one header file and compiled easily and quickly. A+. But then I looked at
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by 101914 12y ago
Despite what the blog comments suggest, gdb does not have to link to libbfd. But what about objcopy? Much more important utility than strings(1), in my opinion. I admit I rely on it and do not a have a substitute at the ready. At some sta