TimMontague

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by TimMontague 16y ago
Here's an article by one of the researchers with much more information about the vulnerability: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-in...
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by TimMontague 16y ago
There's an article on LWN from 2008 about distributed bug tracking: http://lwn.net/Articles/281849/ One advantage that it mentions is a more tight coupling with distributed source code management systems.
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by TimMontague 16y ago
"Sex.com was sold to Escom in January 2006 for a reported $14 million price, widely cited as the highest priced domain sale in history. [1]" Apparently it's up for sale again, so perhaps it's not worth quite that much... [1] http://techcru
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by TimMontague 16y ago
Of all the bullet points the author listed, I failed to see "produce quality content" as one of them How about: "The most important point, the thing that trumps all the rest, is this: CREATE AMAZING AND COMPELLING CONTENT THAT PEOPLE L
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by TimMontague 16y ago
And that's why us programmers have jobs. We're professionals at telling computers what to do. Which reminds me of a good xkcd comic about the question "what do you do?": http://xkcd.com/722/
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by TimMontague 16y ago
The problem with that approach is that once someone figures out 1 of your passwords "PclarkUnsecureWebsite123$%^", it becomes easy for them to guess "PclarkGmail123$%^".
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by TimMontague 16y ago
I have found the Dev-Team blog to post authoritative information about each iPhone jailbreak. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
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by TimMontague 16y ago
DDG: http://duckduckgo.com
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by TimMontague 16y ago
I wish HP would copy Apple's webpage too... It's practically unusable. http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/envy/
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by TimMontague 17y ago
In fact, it’s now a universally accepted truth that RISC is better than CISC! Is that actually true? I'd like to see some actual numbers comparing RISC vs. CISC performance/power consumption.
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Why not just use the phrase+password as a password?
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Spaceweather.com can tell you when the ISS and other bright satellites are going to be passing overhead. http://spaceweather.com/flybys/
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Another good article, with excerpts from the actual law is here: http://www.out-law.com/page-10021
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Are you going to offer some kind of rental service? That would be an interesting business model...
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by TimMontague 17y ago
It's not really a shock wave, technically it is the Prandtl–Glauert singularity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl–Glauert_singularity
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by TimMontague 17y ago
The paper describing the attack is here: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA09... It makes one wonder how many other peripherals have user programmable firmware.
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by TimMontague 17y ago
I agree. When I was in high school my Dad gave me an old computer and a Debian CD. I taught myself PHP and wrote a blog. That's what got me interested in programming.
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by TimMontague 17y ago
A few years back, Linus and some kernel hackers had a good discussion about the good gotos vs. the bad gotos. http://kerneltrap.org/node/553
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by TimMontague 17y ago
It was scheduled: http://status.twitter.com/post/104738920/planned-maintenance...
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Having a job doing research on campus gives excellent experience and looks great on a resume. It also helps when you need a professor to write a letter of recommendation if they know you outside of the classroom environment. Assuming you ar
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by TimMontague 17y ago
The most important thing is getting out and doing things. Start small with 1 or 2 activities a couple of times a week, then as you start meeting people, see what other things they do. Another tip is to meet your neighbors. As soon as you mo
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by TimMontague 17y ago
Passwords vs. Pass Phrases: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000342.html Easier on the user, harder for hackers: that's a total no-brainer. I've adopted passphrases across the board on all the systems I use. I guess the anonymo
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by TimMontague 17y ago
I agree with this. All three operating systems have their flaws, so it basically boils down to preference and ease of development. If you are developing a Windows application, you should develop in Windows; for Apple applications, use OS X;
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by TimMontague 17y ago
The majority of this article seems to be the standard " OS X is Great!" talking points. In my opinion, the real reason that developers switch to OS X is so that they can develop software for apple products (or in the case of web development
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by TimMontague 17y ago
The point is that the record industry is better off working with the public than in secret behind locked doors. The blanket license is simply a single possibility that may be compromised on if there is ever an open discussion.