Maxious

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by Maxious 14y ago
The gist is only 4 hours old but it was seen in the wild days ago: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/a-player-named-notch-logged... http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/wc2ey/notch_sess... A different set of blackhats "Team Nodus
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by Maxious 14y ago
Is the first distribution hack to make sockpuppet accounts to drum up controversy about your website? And then make a post responding to the faux-controversy? Sounds like a Karma Conspiracy to me! For those playing along at home, this post
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by Maxious 14y ago
For those who are not familiar with Mr. Kogan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogan_Technologies#Controversie... As another commenter suggested, I would not put it past him that he blocked bing somehow just for a publicity stunt. The wikipe
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by Maxious 14y ago
"many clients, especially game consoles and other consumer electronics, only use one IP address returned from the DNS query." Is this referring to Netflix?
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by Maxious 14y ago
Even if you don't have java installed but you're running on shared infrastructure that might be running MySQL/Java elsewhere it's a crazy day. My inbox is full of performance-below-acceptable-levels/high-load alerts.
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by Maxious 14y ago
Reddit is also down due to Java https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/219244389044731904
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by Maxious 14y ago
GeoPoint Location Based Search looks very useful... if only it had been there before the great GAE price hike of 2011. I moved to PostGIS on AWS and never looked back.
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by Maxious 14y ago
"We'll handle technology over `here, we'll do social issues there. We'll have separate mailing lists with separate discussion groups, or we'll have one track here and one track there. This doesn't work. It's never been stated more clearly t
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by Maxious 14y ago
" Warning: this site is currently in private beta for 6 more days. Unless you committed to its Area 51 site proposal, you won’t be able to log in!" Well that was a let down.
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by Maxious 14y ago
Speaking of hacky places to hide API keys, I've just learned you can also put your other non-AWS API keys in the "user data" field on an instance and retrieve them using this http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AE...
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by Maxious 14y ago
There's also Google Talk in Gmail/Google+ ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
"[Agent Orange] was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical."
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by Maxious 14y ago
Aren't you glad Microsoft is the de facto code signer for UEFI Secure Boot now? ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
In Australia, all IT tender responses must include a FOSS option to be considered valid http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governan...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Optus resellers will give you public IP addresses by default and the high end ones can get you static IPs too.
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by Maxious 14y ago
"You are accepting the IPv6 challenge." => "ERRORDismissInvalid value specified." The future is no... oh wait, never mind.
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by Maxious 14y ago
And after that "okay, this was a great sim. now to turn it around and do it for real".
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by Maxious 14y ago
"There will be a short briefing at 3:30 AM PT / 6:30 AM ET on NASA TV" https://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX/status/203776815850991616 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6%3A30+a.m.+EDT+in+loca... 50 minutes after this post
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by Maxious 14y ago
Chrome 19 seems to slow down the timers when it is not the active tab
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by Maxious 14y ago
After all these obnoxious recruiters emailed me "hey, saw your stuff on github, could you help me make my quota? giggles "
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by Maxious 14y ago
"Any State, any instrumentality of a State, and any officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity, shall not be immune [...] for a violation of any of the exclusive rights of a cop
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by Maxious 15y ago
Did you read the article before commenting? The article proposes that Yelp should provide people the option to use their credit rating to prove they are not a sockpuppet in return for Yelp displaying their review. It is only an option, cred
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by Maxious 15y ago
DSM-IV would probably suggest Bipolar Affective Disorder "Inflated self-esteem to levels of grandiosity" or Narcissistic Personality Disorder "Believes that he or she is 'special' and unique and can only be understood by, or should associat
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by Maxious 15y ago
So we're back to Movable Type circa 2002? ;)
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by Maxious 15y ago
That should be very rare these days http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/07/ibm-moving-to-firefox-as-defa...
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by Maxious 15y ago
Agreed. I am constantly playing package management musical chairs.
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by Maxious 15y ago
This seems more responsive than the Flash page turn demos but there are some artifacts when I turn the page (other pages clipping in/out?) and the text isn't anti-aliased.
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by Maxious 15y ago
Why not hire out us gov and DOD ip ranges to the highest bidder?
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by Maxious 15y ago
Just to be clear, this webpage is describing a metric that is part of webpagetest.org an open source project that just happens to be hosted on Google Code and Google Pages. While some Google employees may contribute to the project, it is no
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by Maxious 15y ago
This is exactly the situation Kickstarter should be on top of. Imagine someone was going to make a hugely disruptive project and some BigCo PR firm hires a bunch of astroturfers to post 400 comments about how the project leader is a fraud.

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