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by _phred 14y ago
"Oh, shoot, I have so many credit cards... is it this one? This one? This one?" Seeming clueless when doing malicious things is unquestionably a form of social engineering.
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Downtime Antipatterns for SaaS owners, ZipCar edition(weblog.fredalger.net)
9 points by _phred 14y ago|0 comments
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The site's down. Quick, Tell the customers(weblog.fredalger.net)
8 points by _phred 14y ago|1 comments
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by _phred 14y ago
And DNS is, by definition, critical.
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by _phred 14y ago
Sounds good... but do you have a REST API? That's the primary reason I chose Zerigo in the first place.
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by _phred 14y ago
Going on 8 hours of Zerigo's downtime I've had to move all of our Zerigo DNS to DNSMadeEasy. It's a shame, because I really, really like Zerigo, especially their API. Shit happens, but 99.9% (8 hours a year of downtime) is completely unacc
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by _phred 14y ago
Apparently no ETA for restore as of 2 hours ago: https://twitter.com/zerigo/status/227322909230768128
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Zerigo DNS services down for 6+ hours due to massive DDoS(zerigostatus.com)
39 points by _phred 14y ago|56 comments
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by _phred 15y ago
Watching it on Netflix, I assumed it was because the show was tailored for long commercial breaks. "After blasting 2–5 minutes of nonstop hyperactive advertising, let's recap what we were doing a minute ago!'
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Edgecast CDN currently offline with no ETA of a fix(twitter.com)
3 points by _phred 15y ago|2 comments
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by _phred 15y ago
You can put any nginx variable into the proxy_cache_key setting, including cookies and query strings. I've used this to cache localized versions of each page on a site based off of a "language" cookie. Async is a good approach for what yo
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by _phred 15y ago
And then there's all this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_visibility It's more than the mirrors, and unless you have transparent pillars on top of the car (giving up the structural integrity of the cabin) it's going to have blind spo
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by _phred 15y ago
This is awesome. The water treatment guys are hilarious. Makes me want to get my ham license so that I can start playing around with these kind of cool softradios.
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by _phred 15y ago
It's part of the grieving process, a process that takes a long, long time. Let people grieve as they will.
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by _phred 15y ago
Google isn't the best place to look for object/method references. I've worked with a lot of large PHP codebases and the answer is always in the local source files or, if they're too obtuse, then on the project's documentation (if it exists
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by _phred 15y ago
You're right, it /would/ make for good TV drama: an evil nursing home wants to kick some malingering diabetics off of their rolls in order to make space for newer and more lucrative patients. The management cook up a scheme to hack the pat
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by _phred 15y ago
I helped watch a friend's kid last weekend who has a remote-controlled insulin pump. The remote control refuses to dose without a recent blood-sugar test. Kid wants to eat, no you need to wait, we need to do a finger-prick test first ON t
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by _phred 15y ago
That is a very, very clever little cmap. Added to my .vimrc, thanks!
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by _phred 15y ago
Careful, on this ground holy wars have been fought. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war The short answer: if you're happy with your productivity in Emacs, then there's likely no compelling reason for you to switch, unless you enjoy th
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by _phred 15y ago
I sent the author a note asking about that, and whether or not he'd be willing to license under a Creative Commons or similar. If this technique works for dyslexics, then it'd be great to have a free version out there!
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Gill Dyslexic — a $2 dyslexic font based on the work behind Dyslexie(pixelscript.net)
50 points by _phred 15y ago|22 comments
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by _phred 15y ago
Infinite (in the practical sense) lives for Infinite Mario; pop open your JS console and run: Mario.MarioCharacter.Lives += 1024 Now the challenge is: how far can you get before the game locks up?
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by _phred 15y ago
Indeed, there's a balance to strike between retraining and familiarity. _The Humane Interface_ discusses the balance between delivering something with "optimal usability" from an objective and scientifically validated standpoint vs. deliver
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by _phred 15y ago
a.) Yes, there are some privacy and ownership/property problems that legislation could possibly solve, but… b.) more laws makes it harder and less fun to write, distribute, and profit from making software. However, I do think that a legal r
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by _phred 16y ago
I highly doubt that the "average" viewer of Top Gear could afford a $100k car of any make or model. Honestly, it's fun to watch the hosts blaze around the track in hideously expensive super cars, but the law of averages says that not more
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by _phred 16y ago
Exactly; as I said, "disclosing a fact without a reasonable wait" which is fair and ethical in the security world. I'm all for full disclosure, but give the affected parties time to clean up the mess and get PR ready. After berating one of
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by _phred 16y ago
Yeah, in my experience, the best way to handle these things and keep goodwill is to own up to them and take responsibility for what happened; and explain to your customers what happened, what went wrong, how you fixed the problem and (hopef
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by _phred 16y ago
After serious reputation damage… will they still have customers?
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by _phred 16y ago
This is just precious: @ElliotSpeck: > ...I'm available for consulting if you ever want to hire a security manager for @phpfog. :) As someone who takes security seriously, and manages shared hosting security for a living, I can't imagin
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by _phred 16y ago
Questionable behavior aside there is immense irony in that, by writing this rant, and, given the incredibly popular title and subject matter of the article, he will undoubtedly receive even more publicity and attention for his book than he

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