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by ax0n 17y ago
I'm not sure, but you just made me miss the day of scripting BBS Door games such as Trade Wars 2002.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I was going to say the same thing, and say that 1997 was the last time I saw anything using VRML, and that it was, indeed, way too early for "3D HTML" back then. No idea now that everyone has hopped on the 3D Movies/TV bandwagon in full for
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by ax0n 17y ago
Is there a genuinely compelling reason to banish one font or another from our currency? Really? Font Nerds are very high up on the list of geek subcultures that I do not understand. Not quite as high up as furries, though.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Oh, believe me, I know. That's why I said it caused me much gnashing of teeth. SSH, particularly OpenSSH, is such a thing of beauty. It's a shame most sysads that I've dealt with abuse it like it's rsh and telnet.
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by ax0n 17y ago
You're absolutely correct, but it's actually pretty common to distribute that public key all over hell and then start shuffling the private one around between the ones you find yourself ssh-ing off of. At my last job, this practice among wa
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by ax0n 17y ago
Hey now! What's wrong with security blogs? :P Security (both physical and infosec) is one of my biggest passions, and I've been writing about it for plenty longer than a decade. Granted, for the first several years, it was a pile of .txt fi
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by ax0n 17y ago
I caught this via a friend of mine, and I tried it without a site: search and mostly came up with too much noise to signal in the results. I'd imagine that a lot of "paste over the Internet" sites have this problem, and I'd bet SSH keys are
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How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers(google.com)
309 points by ax0n 17y ago|72 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
I've had a few things from my sites hit the top of HN. In fact, that's how I found HN (so, big thanks to those who've submitted my stuff on helping me find this awesome community) Still, I get an order of magnitude more traffic from a goo
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by ax0n 17y ago
Alright... I said I didn't like it, but with this, I'll give Chrome another try.
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by ax0n 17y ago
It's all about defense in depth. Local root exploits are part of why I run my stuff chrooted on an OpenBSD system. It's not perfect, but it's pretty much the best you're going to do. Still, you can't just stop there. Having a one-time-passw
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FIRST Championship team spotlight: Einstein's Daughters(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by ax0n 17y ago|1 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
Basically: in the dystopia that is the Internet, all PDFs could be considered a potential exploit vector by incident response teams cleaning up a corporate malware infestation. Discussed is a plausible scheme (edit: with a PoC) wherein all
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by ax0n 17y ago
I got laid off in January, but I really, really miss my commute. It cleared my mind, woke me up on the way to work, made me feel healthier, and let me blow off some steam on the way home after the really stressful days. It was an hour each
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by ax0n 17y ago
I had a laptop hard drive suffer a head crash on the lower platter, and it was able to seek past it. Further, the freezer trick seemed to work a little, but it may have been simply letting the drive rest for a while. I do know that I've nev
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by ax0n 17y ago
ddrescue is a godsend. I actually had my backup drive bite the dust on me. All my live data was fine, but my backup drive ate it. ddrescue saved the day. I agree with pretty much everyone here, though, in saying that "restore it from backu
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by ax0n 17y ago
I'm with you all the way. Also, I could (and likely would) call them out by telling them why I'm leaving. I see it from both sides. In general, I feel most comfortable on my laptop with my feet elevated and my ear-cans on. I can go for hour
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by ax0n 17y ago
While it's aimed at Silicon Valley culture, I see some of this pretty much everywhere I go, and I'm not afraid to call someone out on it. Quote of the day: "It's kind of like if I went over to your desk, grabbed you by your greasy hair, yan
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by ax0n 17y ago
I generally despise development. I can "program" (make small tools, scripts, etc) but I don't have the "developer mindset" I learned PHP and MySQL to get a promotion when my boss was considering hiring from outside the company. I generally
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by ax0n 17y ago
That's okay. I lol'd. I was going to say something like "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." - So I voted you up.
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MSI tells 97,000 customers to RTFM(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by ax0n 17y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
Okay, I'll give you this. You made some good points against PHP, but prior to my post, look at some of the suggestions that were completely off-the-wall, impractical and hardly ever used for anything in the wild. I won't enumerate them here
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by ax0n 17y ago
Exactly. He's more than welcome to not follow people who use the platform in a way that he disagrees with. This is just as bad as people who tell others that they're using twitter wrongly. Some people really do use it like a group chat. Som
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by ax0n 17y ago
My last job, about 80% of the systems were Solaris, 15% AIX and 5% Linux/Windows. Granted, this was a large financial institution. The place prior to that was about 90% OpenBSD, 10% Arch Linux. A startup. And before that, probably about 25%
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Solaris is no longer free(cuddletech.com)
72 points by ax0n 17y ago|31 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
Install XAMPP from Apachefriends.org and have her start PHP. It's what many schools use for their beginner classes. On Windows, I like PHPDeveloper personal edition for an IDE. It's cheap (or free, I can't recall). PHP is mainstream, and si
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by ax0n 17y ago
I have a few thoughts on this. First off, Max Vision got a hefty sentence because he went above and beyond "hacking" - People don't really get arrested for Hacking. Hacking is the end result of curiosity. Semantics, yes, but Max vision blew
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by ax0n 17y ago
Get out and find people a bit like yourself. My advice: Find a hackerspace where you can collaborate with people in person. You can start by helping them, or giving them input without exposing your work all at once. You'll be around people
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by ax0n 17y ago
I missed two. I typically interface HN via RSS, not the main "news" web UI, and never bothered to count the number of items on the first page. I really had no clue what language it was written in. Not too bad, I suppose, for signing up cons
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by ax0n 17y ago
Advice for the future: 1) Chase your passion! I'm currently unemployed as well, but I've spent the last decade mostly getting paid to do the things I like to do. For me, that's Information Security. 2) Lock down your facebook profile and do

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