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by Hoff 15y ago
This fundamental situation isn't particularly different from the existing dependences on purchased digital certificates and the lists of trusted vendors that are embedded in PKE-based tools including many browsers.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Programmers working with modern compilers and tools and in what are comparatively resource-rich environments often haven't had to bum instructions and bum bytes. In (most) modern environments, the optimizations are toward maintenance and su
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Is Nokia worth less than Skype?(asymco.com)
5 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
This is the same sort of application churn that was underway before the bulk of the PC market largely settled on MS-DOS and then on Windows, or the morass that was the then-current and then-far-more-fragmented Unix market, which led many ve
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by Hoff 15y ago
That particular Windows behavior is arguably from some of NT's ancestral roots in the VMS designs. VMS can also use its pagefile as temporary storage for a system crashdump.
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US CDC on preparedness for a zombie apocalypse (emergency.cdc.gov)
15 points by Hoff 15y ago|4 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
VMS uses the console boot device drivers (the typical VMS hardware console program is well past what BIOS offers, and closer to EFI) to write (optionally compressed, optionally pruned) system crashdump images containing the running system m
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by Hoff 15y ago
Which would be quite entertaining if what you encountered was really a honeytrap, looking for the identities of the more, um, inquisitive folks on the local network. But I'm guessing it wasn't that clever.
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by Hoff 15y ago
For some Bliss documentation: http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-intro/ http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-article/ http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/bliss-article-ps... Bliss32 and Bliss64 comp
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by Hoff 15y ago
Reading that statement in English and not in my native Geek, that statement simply refers to the replacement of a more failure-prone device with a less failure-prone device. SSDs have long been marketed as being more durable than mechanical
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by Hoff 15y ago
Did you read through the FB Terms of Service back when you signed up? When I last read through that (and which was admittedly a few years back), the ToS indicated that whatever you uploaded became available to FB in perpetuity, and for what
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by Hoff 15y ago
The older Mac Pro machines might well see additional and continued usage as members of a distributed build farm using distcc via 10 GbE or gigabit network.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Create tools that are useful for your own service delivery and particularly for scaling your particular service business. These tools are built from what you're already using to address the problems that your customers are experiencing. The
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by Hoff 15y ago
In volumes of tens of millions of units.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Or the businesses become rich enough or sufficiently well-connected, and they might buy the legal solutions they need through campaign and PAC and party contributions, through lobbying and other legal means, and through control of mass comm
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Random versus Encrypted Data (opensource.dyc.edu)
1 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 16y ago
Ritholtz graphed recent consumer credit activity, and student loans looked to be all of the recent credit uptick. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/fade-the-consumer-credi...
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by Hoff 16y ago
Either reversed, or can we get the comment link up to the right end of the top line of the submission, so that I'm not forced into scanning over and navigating over the "flag" button on the way to reading the comments?
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Chile's Unidad de Fomento (UF), an inflation-indexed cost accounting(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Hoff 16y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 16y ago
So-called covert channels can involve DNS, ICMP, packet transmission timing, even processor responsiveness (think of communicating morse code using the timings of a program that switches between a compute-loop and idle, as observed from ano
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by Hoff 16y ago
To get custom computing gear built, you have to show your designs and plans and requirements to various potential vendors, so (and NDA or not) the vendors now know what you're doing. If FB can cause these servers to be offered as standard c
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by Hoff 16y ago
This'd normally be a "TL;DR" post, but there's not really all that much L nor much R posted over there... A small thin client 4x4x1" box with an unspecified embedded browser and some sort of unspecified iPad-like tablet with unspecified fea
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by Hoff 16y ago
From experience in porting an OS, common porting scaffolding can include a cross compiler and a cross linker, and replacing an assembler with a compiler for compiling the assembly code for the new target box. Getting a native build and a na
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by Hoff 16y ago
There can be good reasons why an IT organization has not installed development tools. MacPorts is the deep end of the (support) pool for somebody that can't (also) install Xcode. MacPorts is a good way for a non-admin or inexperienced user
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by Hoff 16y ago
Bash and the usual tools. Integrated off-host backup mechanisms past Apple's Time Machine, with bare-metal reinstall. A UI that wasn't so blasted proud of itself when it successfully connected up a USB key disk, and reversing the current
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by Hoff 16y ago
I'm less interested in what works than in what doesn't work and why it didn't work details. While my own are certainly always very educational, I prefer to learn from the mistakes made by others. This due to the time and cost savings
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by Hoff 16y ago
Some perspective, please? If it's not involving building collapses or motor vehicle collisions or bomb blasts or wildfires or other forms of mayhem, and if the decision doesn't involve significant risk of or result in death or serious perso
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by Hoff 16y ago
That's a yak-null; a first-order yak-shave. Building your own hardware to build your own assembler to create your compiler to build your own OS to allow you to build your own CAD system to create your own board layout and test tools to buil
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by Hoff 16y ago
Muy engañosa. Misleading title. I see no references to languages in an article on a shift in US demographics. There are a wide variety of local languages in the US. Here in New England, French (Québécois) was the first language of folks i
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by Hoff 16y ago
Microprocessor easter eggs aren't new. Here are some of the existing menagerie... http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/ http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html And then there'

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