amboar

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by amboar 13y ago
Dropped into the comments to mention socat. I use it regularly to debug serial and multicast issues or to lash up network logging for random shell scripts. It's a very valuable addition to the toolbox IMO. Edit: somehow my phone manage
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by amboar 13y ago
I found the design page to be interesting reading http://lld.llvm.org/design.html
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by amboar 13y ago
Might as well ban the Bible while they're at it for stories of rape, incest and sodomy.
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On kernel mailing list behavior(lwn.net)
2 points by amboar 13y ago|0 comments
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by amboar 13y ago
That article is simplistic. Sure, write code that you won't care about in the future like you don't care about it, but if you take that approach with anything requiring longterm reliability or maintenance then you're setting yourself up fo
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by amboar 13y ago
This is exactly what drew me to it as well; I was awed by the opportunity for so much learning. Anecdotally I've found the focus of the front page has shifted a little from hard-core CS (my degree) and maths topics to more startup and web-
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by amboar 13y ago
check out syndie : http://syndie.i2p2.de
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by amboar 13y ago
You may want to look into Hardened Gentoo which does things along the lines you suggest, amongst other hardening techniques. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/
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by amboar 13y ago
corbet has previously posted subscriber-only articles to hn, which I think is a reasonable endorsement of the action. Separately, there's pretty much no better linux news source, and imo subscription is worthwhile.
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by amboar 14y ago
They could publish the data in multiple formats, PDF and something actually useful if you're worried about someone at a library not having the tools. The point is, don't cripple the data from an analysis perspective.
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by amboar 14y ago
I also use the cli heavily for the reasons you've listed. I also use vim as my primary editor so the prompt is only a ctrl+z or :sh away.
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by amboar 14y ago
What do you find is complex about cherry-picks?
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by amboar 14y ago
Probably by starting with the idea of writing an article gushing about sublime and working backwards in an attempt to not appear biased :p
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by amboar 14y ago
+1 for xxd, great for debugging purposes e.g. analysing serial output from socat (also mentioned by another commentor below).
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by amboar 14y ago
Along the lines of magic shell variables, there's also '!$', which selects the last argument of the previous command. Often I'm looking at different aspects of the same file: $ file foo $ ls -lh !$ $ vim !$
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by amboar 14y ago
In addition to ninite, pcdecrapifier[1] is also handy, even for cleaning machines that aren't brand new. Doesn't look like it supports windows 8 yet though. [1] http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
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by amboar 14y ago
Maybe you're capturing on a device that doesn't have the grunt or environment to run wireshark?
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by amboar 14y ago
I don't think untog was talking about the overhead of executing zsh upon starting a new session so much as the mental overhead of the mode change from zsh specific features to those of another shell.
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by amboar 14y ago
I'm sure crackers and scammers think so too ;)
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by amboar 14y ago
Yeah I don't even remember the last time I used a Java applet. I've disabled the plugins without any repercussions so far.
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Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April(theregister.co.uk)
179 points by amboar 14y ago|88 comments