Avernar

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by Avernar 9y ago
> The only reason googling shows so much confusion is most people don't understand the definitions of routing and switching. No, it means that people are using a broader definition that is not locked into the OSI model. Both defini
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by Avernar 9y ago
You've completely missed my points and at the same time gave a perfect example of someone who's rigedly trying to follow the OSI model. > IP operates at layer 3. Layer 3, by definition, implies routing. Layer 3 does not imply r
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by Avernar 9y ago
Again, theory and reality rarely line up neatly. A switch moves packets between devices inside a network and a router moves packets between networks. Calling one a frame and one a packet is splitting hairs and irrelevant to whether somethi
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by Avernar 9y ago
Which proves my point. Real world stuff rarely fits neatly into theoretical models/categories. Real world Layer 3 Switches are a hybrid between a router and a pure layer 3 switch. In fact they're just a really fast router. A nor
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by Avernar 9y ago
A Layer 2 switch is something that works on the data link layer. A normal Ethernet switch falls into this category and the switching is done by MAC address. A layer 3 switch is something that works on the network layer. It switches using
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by Avernar 9y ago
When I used to deal with people straight out of school they would always talk about the OSI model and it would drive me crazy. Everything we did would have to be categorized. What layer is this in, what layer is that in. I just want you
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by Avernar 9y ago
The end to end principle pretty much made the flow control and re-transmission functions of the LLC sublayer of the data link layer obsolete. So now we pay a 6 to 8 byte penalty (8 bytes if the MAC can tell us the packet length) on every f
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by Avernar 9y ago
I'm running postgresql in a FreeBSD vnet jail without issue. The network stack is not shared as it's a vnet jail. I have it set for per jail sysvipc, new in FreeBSD 11, which was the last thing I needed to fully isolate it from
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by Avernar 9y ago
I wouldn't mind the strict demarcation if the internal format was UTF-8. Then a simple validate call on input would be all that was needed.
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by Avernar 9y ago
That would be nice if people had private offices but it looks like a dozen or so to each enclosed area. Sounds like (pun intended) that they've made it more like a concert hall. Instead of white noise with all the reflections you get
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by Avernar 9y ago
Nope, it's one bit extra entropy per character. The attacker must try all possible capitilazations of each word (horse, Horse, hOrse, HOrse, etc). You've doubled the character set so it's not negligable.
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by Avernar 9y ago
Software that is designed to prevent malware from uploading sensitive information to the internet has an option to upload sensitive information to the internet. What idiot thought that was a good feature to add regardless of the warnings?
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by Avernar 9y ago
Looks like an Apple store. Bet it's going to be as noisy as one.
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by Avernar 9y ago
Is there anything on that continent that's not trying to kill you?
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by Avernar 9y ago
Shorten the iteration or abort it midway? Not gonna happen. Management loves having a Monday to Friday iteration. That structure and control is way more important to them than reaponding to change. Shortening the iterations means you now
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by Avernar 9y ago
Wonder if they fixed the issue with whitelisting in the windows firewall.
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by Avernar 9y ago
Exactly. For the knowlege they contain I'd bet they get the standard cost of living raise and will probably have to fill out some stupid self evaluation to justify even that. It's only when the companies are going to loose that e
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by Avernar 9y ago
Great Employees drive themselves to extinction. They documented everything so well that their jobs were offshored somewhere with a lower standard of living. That's why they're so hard to find. The ones that survived learned the
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by Avernar 9y ago
> If developers think moving their apps to IPv6 is too complicated, I can't fault them. I can. I'm a developer and it's easy to add support for IPV6 to apps. Parsing and displaying IPV6 addresses? There are many librarie
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by Avernar 9y ago
The former was depricated because the automatic tunneling transition method was depricated and none of the current IPV6 transition methods use them. Now some software use those addresses to store IPV4 addresses in the same memory as an IPV6
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by Avernar 9y ago
UEFI is a good example of a standard that was over designed by a committee. Way too much bad decisions that are now part of the standard. My favourite is using the FAT file system format for the system partition. No checksums, fragile on
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by Avernar 9y ago
Yes, the Toronto ones made things worse. Now the cars have less time to use the intersection and turns are still next to impossible because of the pedestrians. That's one of the main reasons traffic is so bad in he Toronto core. Ther
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by Avernar 9y ago
Use two factor authentication for your email and whatnot and leave the authenticator at home. Use a different email for travel that is only password protected.
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by Avernar 9y ago
I remember those back when I lived in Montreal when I was a kid. We were on the top floor and I would attach an action figure with parachute to it. I'd send him out over the yard and use a string to release him. Back then we figured
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by Avernar 9y ago
I got mine for Christmas and it was $300 just for the computer. The floppy drive was another $300. Got the monitor which was another $300 about six months later. Add in the dot matrix printer and 1200 baud modem and it was over $1000 for
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by Avernar 9y ago
> Imagine what'd be if every single road and water pipe was ran by private company for profit without oversight. Around here the highways are owned by the government and maintenance is contracted out. But there is one toll highway
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by Avernar 9y ago
For every house in the city? But my point was that the builder should just build houses without any holes (pun intended) in them in the first place.
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by Avernar 9y ago
Homeowner: There's a hole in my house where the back door should be. Builder: Just hire security guards until you sell the house.
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by Avernar 9y ago
Theoretically, yes. In reality, not so much. I blocked the install of systemd way back. Recently I tried to upgrade postgres+postgis. Turned out that postgis had a dependency on a package with had a dependency on a package which had a de
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by Avernar 10y ago
Just read another article where the author said that if the word or term is not defined in the contract then the basic meaning is what's used. So what most airline employees think it means is irrelavent.

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