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by Hoff 16y ago
I have an odd XSS Javascript attack attempt captured in my logs this morning. It's an XSS attack I've not seen before.
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by Hoff 16y ago
It can be an easy way to filter XSS attacks, however. Anything with :// or /.. in the parameter probably isn't, um, friendly.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Speaking generally, lower latency to main memory is better than more cache. On a generation of one platform I dealt with, main memory latency and bandwidth (faster processor design, on-board memory controller, RDRAM) were on par with the L3
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by Hoff 17y ago
I come from the end of the universe furthest from Ruby. If I had access to a library, I'd use it. Now I have to go find one, port it, debug it, test it, review it, and deploy it. Or drop the feature. And if I have to go through the whole pr
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by Hoff 17y ago
What you read on this whole topic from most any source (yes, including me) is arguably suspect. This even including audited postings based on FASB rules, given what's been allowed under that in recent times. This whole area is incredibly mu
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by Hoff 17y ago
For user notification, get yourself Growl. tput and reset are present. If you really have a VT serial terminal, then setleds is going to be an echo and a tr to ship out the escape sequence. Might be a different (or easier) way... If you're
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by Hoff 17y ago
The micro-=SIM format adds a bigger phonebook and better protections against spoofing. There are Micro-SIM adapters coming on line (or available?); sleds for the 3FF ETSI SIM format to allow them to be used with the Mini-SIM UICC format. Th
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by Hoff 17y ago
Yawn. Call me back when the organization that's now running Microsoft IT services starts swapping in Unix servers on Power or z/OS on System z10 boxes or other notable migrations.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Well, if you're looking for fodder for future fun and games, remind your mark that all sorts of interesting stuff can be recovered from the disks that are often resident inside mid- and upper-end printers. And remind your mark that printer
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by Hoff 17y ago
This article goes through the front-end part of the discussion... If you don't know what your tools can do, if you're not using the capabilities of your tools, if you're not fully using your tools, if you're measuring the wrong activities,
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by Hoff 17y ago
Whether or not you believe Mr Ritholtz or the WSJ is your call, but here's one review of some data and a look forward: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/04/worst-post-wwii-recessi... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/04/retail-jobs-sugge
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by Hoff 17y ago
Gigantic-scale businesses are different than startups, and with different problems and different avenues and different dynamics. As troubling as I find management built on an up-or-out career treadmill and deliberately roiling the employees
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by Hoff 17y ago
If you're not kidding about that... fork() is a long-standing thorn when porting code onto some platforms; it's seldom used for what it was originally intended for, and (when it is) the copy-on-write memory semantics and the file descriptor
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by Hoff 17y ago
It does look like a ton of stuff, yes. Apple is looking to establish and to extend their beachheads in both the smartphone and tablet spaces, and this is how you do that. You invest design and development and debug and test. Big-time. Bei
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by Hoff 17y ago
Little that we know about, that is. Blackbird was black for a very long time. As for one program that we do know a little (more) about, there's X-37B: http://www.physorg.com/news189528362.html http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/100402
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by Hoff 17y ago
You'd hope. I'm aware of AWS firewall blocks at various sites. Have a look around at some of the forums for web masters, and you'll find wholesale blacklisting of these server farms is regularly discussed. And implemented. The presumption
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by Hoff 17y ago
So we have an Apple response arriving back to a submitter that's listing a different app? With few (no) details on why. It is not clear if this Apple response is even relevant to this submitter's application. These folks could have gotten p
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by Hoff 17y ago
No. That's not the same. The difference being you can get a consistent copy of the whole disk with a very small window where the applications must be quiesced, where the cloning process you've suggested rolls through the whole volume and (
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by Hoff 17y ago
in trouble if the machine containing the hard drives is damaged Not all RAID-1 has that particular limit. I work with both hardware- and software-based RAID-1 implementations that work just fine across multiple hosts, and that can operat
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by Hoff 17y ago
It's building the business case and the revenues that makes this whole processor design discussion interesting. Not the microprocessor technology itself. Competitive microprocessor designs (in terms of speed, power, cost, volume and particu
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by Hoff 17y ago
Some of us are old enough to remember when assembler was supposed to rot your brain. When BASIC or COBOL or another compiler was going to make you stupid. When new tools and new abstractions were viewed as scary by some folks. I trust the
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by Hoff 17y ago
Another and somewhat more subtle consideration: if you're deploying web crawlers or related tools from EC2, an increasing number of web sites are blocking access from the Amazon IP blocks due to the volume of vermin.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Applications in the Apple AppStore look and work like media. Media that can use in-app purchase to acquire more media, too.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Attenborough and crows in the crosswalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
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by Hoff 17y ago
Eh? Disagree? The author of that article +is+ associated with the Ayn Rand Center.
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by Hoff 17y ago
tl;dr: A perspective on corporations, governance, politics and stakeholders from an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center.
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by Hoff 17y ago
tl;dr: Reddit dropped offline due to a known bug in a down-revision Ubuntu kernel, and the Reddit pinger dropped offline due to the same known bug in a different instance of the same down-revision Ubuntu kernel, and they're now implementing
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by Hoff 17y ago
This reminds me of Mr Feynman's dating advice. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196928 "Angle" might not be the most polite of terms here, but it does get everyone right to the quick of the whole discussion.
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by Hoff 17y ago
While a good server admin or a good programmer with (relevant) generalist skills and people skills can succeed as a CTO, you need a CTO that knows your market and your goals and your organization and your customers, and that can quickly det
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by Hoff 17y ago
Akin to color compression, various recent popular music is clipped into a fairly narrow range of frequencies, and with Auto-Tune filters applied to the voices. Listening to music with a (larger) dynamic range and with little or no Auto-Tune

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