agwa

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1501.
by agwa 15y ago
So if riseup.net had been hosted on, say, EC2, what would the FBI have seized? The server hosting the VM and many other completely unrelated VMs? Scary thought. Also, if you haven't done so already I encourage you to read the FAQ at the e
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by agwa 15y ago
This is somewhat of an artificial problem caused by how popular cloud server providers (e.g. EC2 and Brightbox) have chosen to implement their networking. There's no inherent problem with cloud servers. For example, Linode lets you have m
1503.
by agwa 15y ago
> Can someone with experience tell me a little bit about the dashboard AWS provides to clients and why it would be worth paying for an additional service to manage the cloud? It's really, really complicated. That's partly because I don
1504.
by agwa 15y ago
This post starts with a legitimate gripe about XSLT being classified as a "functional" language but then it devolves into a merit-less rant. It makes me wonder what the author uses XSLT for. It sounds to me like he's trying to use it as a
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by agwa 15y ago
> I think you're ignoring most of the motives for Wayland development. I know there are other motives, but it's largely about getting more pretty rendering and the fact that X has a lot of baggage. Also, I'm still shocked that the only
1506.
by agwa 15y ago
> Wayland brings some nice innovations, like eliminating the need to switch between VTs to differentiate X sessions. Innovations like these (if not needing to switch VTs even counts as an innovation) pale in comparison to innovations li
1507.
by agwa 15y ago
Mark's response is kind of bogus: it's true that Fedora shouldn't be lumped with RHEL unless you lump Debian with Ubuntu, but you can't say this for CentOS. It's literally RHEL with all the branding removed (and no support from RedHat). Ho
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by agwa 15y ago
This article didn't sit well with me either. All the examples were completely anecdotal, came from an anonymous source (a "regional service manager"), and there are no citations. Footnote 1 references a "written Tesla report" but that's h
1509.
by agwa 15y ago
They say you also get a free 1-year certificate with domain name renewals, implying that if you renew your domains for 1 year you can get a perpetual stream of free certs.
1510.
by agwa 15y ago
Regarding point #1, I have maintained Linux mail servers both for large shops as a professional sysadmin as well as for myself and small organizations, and each has been a very different experience. In the large environment, mail server mai
1511.
by agwa 15y ago
I don't really see the point because you still have to switch to your email to open the message. I think a better solution is to let your users start using your service immediately, but require they click the email validation link within 2
1512.
by agwa 15y ago
Stories like the following were more common than they should have been: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...
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The VPN-only wireless network: phone home to get online(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by agwa 15y ago|0 comments
1514.
by agwa 15y ago
You should mention the "git gui" command alongside gitk. It's a really great way to see the changes in your working tree, stage files into the index, and finally commit. You can even right click on hunks in the diff and select "Stage Hunk
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by agwa 15y ago
It's pretty rash for the article to suggest that the RSA algorithm might have been broken. If the key really has been stolen, it seems far more likely that it was breached due to crap IT security than a recently-discovered bombshell weakne
1516.
by agwa 15y ago
Beautiful map. You can buy it here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780981855127-0 Just $12.95 plus shipping (which was a few bucks for me).
1517.
by agwa 15y ago
I agree that writev is a better approach. But your patch doesn't look thread-safe because it uses that static iovec struct.
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by agwa 15y ago
> There must be a reason why it was rewritten in C. The motivation for rewriting in C was performance on Windows - since Windows has very inefficient forking, shell scripts are very slow there[1]. I think that says more about the defi
1519.
by agwa 15y ago
I have a first-generation WiFi-only Nook. I have never registered it with B&N and have it permanently in airplane mode (i.e. WiFi disabled). For over a year I used it only for DRM-free EPUB (mainly O'Reilly e-books). Last week I final
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by agwa 15y ago
Yeah, good point. Personally, I'm torn on whether I would ever want to give up my whole-network firewall, especially when there's a wireless network in the mix. My servers' ssh logs are choke full of brute force attempts. I would hate to
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by agwa 15y ago
Well, even if NAT went away, you would still have to contend with stateful firewalls (i.e. those that only allow inbound packets from established connections). This article explains it pretty well (mainly on the second page): http://arstec
1522.
by agwa 15y ago
This is a good explanation. To elaborate on the /64 network assumption, it has to do with stateless autoconfiguration, which is the way of configuring IPv6 addresses. An IPv6 address is comprised of a 64 bit prefix followed by a 64 bit
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by agwa 15y ago
/64 is almost as bad and will lead to IPv6 NATing. What if you want multiple subnets (for example, a separate guest network, which some high-end consumer access points already tout as a selling point)? You don't want to sub-divide your /6
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by agwa 15y ago
I suspect that there will still exist some situations where you only have a /128 but need to run a network behind it. I realize I'm in a tiny minority here, but when I travel I bring a WRT54GL, plug it into the hotel's Internet connection,
1525.
by agwa 15y ago
This was supposed to be URL submission, not a Ask HN. Not sure how this happened. Here's the intended URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today Edit: Someone else has submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com
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How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked?
1 points by agwa 15y ago|2 comments
1527.
Father Of C And Unix, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70(techcrunch.com)
13 points by agwa 15y ago|0 comments