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by BryantD 14y ago
Possibly "open sources" should be in quotes; there's no actual code there and not a lot of detail on the software. The hardware spec has a bill of goods which includes a custom chassis and no info on how that was built. Still, it's an inter
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Netflix Open Sources Media Caching HW, SW(signup.netflix.com)
3 points by BryantD 14y ago|1 comments
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by BryantD 14y ago
Quotes from the article: "The problem with PDFs, of course, is that they represent text as images, which glitches when going through rendering." "Lesson learned: Use Word or another open format, not PDF." The conclusions (don't rely on onli
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by BryantD 14y ago
Interesting to me because it's a reminder that monitoring in and of itself generates load. I've seen that forgotten more than once.
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Puppet Forge Postmortem (load due to monitoring)(puppetlabs.com)
1 points by BryantD 14y ago|1 comments
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by BryantD 14y ago
A lot of people replying to this are talking about how holidays are their low period. I work in mobile; the Christmas holiday is the busiest time of the year for us because that's when everyone gets their new devices and downloads apps and
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by BryantD 14y ago
IMAP and CalDAV will still work, so non-Android users are not going to be left out in the cold. Contacts can be synced with CardDAV. I get occasional errors syncing with CalDAV but I haven't tried to debug them or anything so it could easil
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by BryantD 14y ago
And Apple could monopolize the areas that company wasn't good at yet, like smartphone OSes!
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by BryantD 14y ago
I'm holding final judgement till I see if it reflects reality well, but it's really promising.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Nope. Apple Maps isn't particularly worse for me. The directions have been fine, and I like turn-by-turn. I miss transit directions quite a bit. I thought about what I was missing and I thought about how dominant Google is in search, and I
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by BryantD 14y ago
"why would someone go ahead and use Apple's terrible search engine to help them improve their search?" Because at the end of the day I want to make choices that result in more flexibility down the line. I do not want to live in a world wher
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by BryantD 14y ago
The Nexus 7 isn't lighter. Check the specs.
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by BryantD 14y ago
I use Apple products pretty much throughout my life, I didn't think the smaller screen was a big deal, and I was wrong. I've never been terribly loud about 7" devices being crappy, and I've always known Apple wasn't perfect -- they do plent
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by BryantD 14y ago
Yeah, it's a very unfortunate error. A couple of years ago, Google Maps placed Sunrise, FL in Sarasota, FL -- a 200 mile error, so somewhat larger than this one. But not as dangerous.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Duo Security has a tested module for OS X: https://www.duosecurity.com/docs/duounix This doesn't help at all for Apple ID, though.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Oh, sure. But the bigger picture -- one password/authenticator device allows access to your whole life -- still applies.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Really good point. s/Apple/everyone/, of course -- Google suffers from the same issue, but it's less worrisome thanks to two-factor.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Heh, that's fair enough. More moving parts is always a problem. Thanks for sharing!
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by BryantD 14y ago
Always cool to see how people handle automation. I wonder if they considered implementing this within another framework? Seems like this would make an excellent chef recipe.
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by BryantD 14y ago
This is exactly why I do it.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Any comments on the infrastructure for capturing the replays? Did everything get recorded? I'm used to recording all actions, ability uses, etc. but recording movement isn't something I've seen done all that often and it seems like it'd be
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by BryantD 14y ago
Depends on the datacenter. Any modern datacenter won't have an issue. However, if you didn't do your research and wound up in something that wasn't built to current specs, I can easily imagine a 42U rack overloading. Similar example: there'
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by BryantD 14y ago
Great read. I disagree with him on bots, though. CCP has a highly evolved bot system which is tied into their build system, so that unit tests can include player behavior. This isn't directly relevant to load testing (although CCP does that
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by BryantD 14y ago
... by the user setting up that iPad. Sort of as if AT&T had chosen really bad, unchangeable default passwords for all their users.
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by BryantD 14y ago
Not exactly. He also had to change the User-agent header. Also: let's say someone accidentally exposes their password because it's on a post-it in the background of a photo. Clearly this is crappy security; clearly, at that point, informati
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by BryantD 14y ago
He did also claim that weev did the Right Thing. I don't think that assertion is clearly accurate. It's entirely possible that I'm focusing too much on motive; possibly the end effect (hole fixed) matters more than why weev did it in the fi
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by BryantD 14y ago
It's debatable whether or not they did the right thing. Many security researchers would say that the right thing would have been telling AT&T first, giving AT&T a reasonable amount of time to respond, and only then going to the medi
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by BryantD 14y ago
Point of information: did weev or anyone at Goatse Security report the hole to AT&T, or did they just send the information to the media? None of the reporting I read at the time said that they reported to AT&T, but I could easily ha
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by BryantD 14y ago
It's worth reading the indictment, here (thanks to ssclafani for digging this up): http://www.scribd.com/doc/113664772/46-Indictment "The Account Slurper attached AT&T's servers for several days in or around June 2010, and was design
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by BryantD 14y ago
Bah, more weev hagiography? He's not a whistle blower, he's a troll. Look: first off, he didn't tell AT&T about the hack, he told a bunch of news organizations. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/firewall/2010/06/09/atts-ipad-ha... for d

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