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811.
Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is(twitter.com)
387 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|229 comments
812.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Finally, something Ethereum might be useful for!
813.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Alternatively, the whole auction is a ruse to confuse people before they drop the whole thing for free.
814.
Shadow Brokers: NSA Exploits of the Week(medium.com)
5 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
815.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Interesting discussions happening on Twitter, eg https://twitter.com/thegrugq . Looks like this could be at least somewhat legit.
816.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I work for IBM and found a couple of rather old and somewhat broken Model Ms with RJ45 connectors (!) lying around in our hardware lab. Anyone know whether adaptors for RJ45 keyboards are a thing?
817.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I was recently discussing open source policy with a friend in the Australian Government whose agency is working on a whole-of-government standard that encourages open source. She told me that many departments who don't currently have m
818.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
This feels like something that could be dynamically inserted server-side.
819.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Literally me right now. Of course, as someone who lives in Australia, where our government-run student loan scheme is both income-contingent and deducted straight from payroll as part of income taxation, the only time I notice how much I ow
820.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
"(2007)" in the title, please.
821.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
A good BBC Radio 4 program about the launch process for British nuclear weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1L6dCjhwQ
822.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
As someone who's only come into the kernel very recently, I have found the lack of up-to-date documentation to be quite frustrating. I'm very glad to see Jon Corbet step up to be the kernel documentation maintainer and make some c
823.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
As a kernel developer, I really, really appreciate the work of Jon Corbet and the rest of the LWN team. LWN serves a vital function for the kernel community and churns out some very useful kernel articles, as well as being a decent source
824.
IBM creates world’s first artificial phase-change neurons(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
825.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
They didn't. Many maintainers will NAK purely because of that.
826.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm the exact opposite - I can instantly understand what 600, 777, 664 and so on mean with barely a thought, but having used Linux for the majority of my life I still struggle to remember "chmod u+w" and whatever.
827.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_traffic_control , which we've used in every major jurisdiction of Australia starting in the 1970s?
828.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Any good alternatives for LastPass Enterprise-style multi-user sharing? (Apart from "don't use services that require you to share passwords for a single account". Alas.)
829.
Get off my lawn: separating Docker workloads using cgroups(sthbrx.github.io)
1 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
830.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Hostboot (and skiboot) is loaded from the BMC, but it's not the BMC firmware - hostboot and skiboot run entirely on the host. The BMC firmware we're currently working on at IBM (based off some work by Facebook) is at https:/
831.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Cygwin is GNU on top of the NT kernel. WSL is an implementation of a Linux ABI. In theory, you could run a non-GNU userland environment compiled for Linux on top of WSL.
832.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Talk at linux.conf.au 2016 on the broader view of the OpenPOWER firmware stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4XGvssR-ag
833.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
https://github.com/open-power/skiboot (runtime firmware) https://github.com/open-power/hostboot (initialisation firmware) https://github.com/open-power/occ (on-chip controlle
834.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
According to Wikipedia: "The beginning of IBM’s involvement in IT services can be traced back at least to 1989 when Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement by which IBM designed, built and managed a new state-of-the-art da
835.
How Not to Hire an Entirely Remote Workforce(anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)
3 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
836.
Fixing the WiFi performance anomaly on ath9k(blog.tohojo.dk)
2 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
837.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
It's generally not considered to include Western Asia/the Middle East, though.
838.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I don't have a problem with separate Stack Exchange sites for topics that are fairly separate, but I do have an issue with the sheer number of computing-related sites - the difference between StackOverflow and Programmers.SE, for examp
839.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Pretty sure it's similar across basically all common law jurisdictions (not sure about civil law).
840.
by ajdlinux 10y ago
Australian, can confirm they fingerprinted me on the one and only time I visited the US in 2009 - and I was a minor then as well.

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