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by azim 16y ago
Interestingly enough, a lot of developers argue that Nvidia and ATI are in violation of of the GPL by releasing proprietary drivers for Linux. The language is unclear on whether or not the kernel's GPL license extends to kernel loadable mod
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by azim 16y ago
This specific attack should work just fine with WEP but will not work against WPA2 (Disclaimer: I haven't tried the combinations personally). With WEP every single client uses the same encryption key, so all the packets are visible to every
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by azim 16y ago
Virtually no modern wired networks use hubs anymore, they're for the most part switched. Unlike wireless networks where packets are broadcast freely in to the air, the switch checks the destination address and sends the packets only to the
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by azim 16y ago
HP has two /8 blocks. Many people who at one point owned Class A blocks have given them back over the years. What's crazy, though is that the US Department of Defense still owns eleven /8 blocks.
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by azim 16y ago
You can turn cellular data off on the iPhone and still use the GPS. Airplane mode, however, will shut off the GPS. What really kills you is that visual voicemail runs over the data network, and it's non-trivial to turn that off. I spent las
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by azim 16y ago
They are a bit misleading with the space/bandwidth. The front page presents a screen shot of a sign-up page indicating 8GB disk space and 50GB bandwidth, but in reality the actual plan they're offering is 5GB disk space and 20GB transfer.
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by azim 16y ago
Depending on your disk space requirements and how comfortable you are with building your own distro, you might have an easier time starting with a more full-fledged Live CD and stripping it down rather than starting with something stripped
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by azim 16y ago
I don't think the market for pad computers is anywhere near as large as the market for desktop PCs (circa 1995) or mp3 players (circa now). It's just not an "everybody needs one" sort of product. That statement got me thinking so I actual
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by azim 16y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what is meant by Sharia. It is not a strict set of rules. Because of this, it is necessarily influenced by ethnic traditionalism. Now if you're looking for western countries which have Sharia courts, the Un
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by azim 16y ago
Java EE has something very similar to 0MQ in the form of JMS. I'm just throwing out something random here, but I imagine the reason no one else really does this in standard libraries is because it's quite complicated and can easily lead to
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by azim 16y ago
In summary, it is really hard to guarantee ACID across scalable, highly available, shared-nothing systems due to complex and high overhead commit protocols, and difficult tradeoffs in available replication schemes. It's hard, but it's doa
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by azim 16y ago
Keep that a secret unless you absolutely have to tell anyone. Insurance companies will impose a huge fee on any employer trying to hire you. This type of discrimination is one reason there are laws against what kinds of questions can and ca
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by azim 16y ago
Do NOT mention cancer to any potential employer unless you have to. Cancer doesn't just "go away". Any survivor will be on drugs for years and the threat of relapse is always there. In the eyes of anyone who is providing you with health ins
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by azim 16y ago
It's kind of strange requiring a video game as a required activity for all students. Subjects like reading and mathematics are things taught in grade school and have required proficiency levels before admittance in to university, but there
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by azim 16y ago
I don't think we'll see any change to AV on the desktop. That's not a fast-growing market. Enterprise-grade security "in the network" on the other hand is a multibillion dollar market, and growing fast. Signature-based detection is still th
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by azim 16y ago
I think you're on the right track, but I don't believe this is about AV on the desktop. Enterprise-grade AV is a much bigger business, and tends to get pushed in to categories like IDS/IPS, web proxies, and email scanning. This all of happe
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by azim 16y ago
Look for a job where you can work remotely. Many US-based companies are striving for an increasingly remote workforce in order to reduce their cost of doing business. At my first job out of college, at a large tech company, they actually wa
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by azim 16y ago
Graphics drivers on OSX don't come from Apple. They're written by ATI/Nvidia. However, for a variety of reasons including larger development teams and end user upgradeability, Windows drivers just have the cutting edge tech available first.
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by azim 16y ago
I don't think employees will miss Mark Hurd. It's true that HP's profits are soaring and the stock price is high, but he was an extremely disliked CEO. The rabid cost cutting in recent years made HP an awful place to work. Glassdoor ranked
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by azim 16y ago
I assume the recruiter will take a percentage of the salary as their fee, so it's in their interest to do this.
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by azim 16y ago
There are rumors circulating that Intel is currently in talks to acquire Infineon's wireless business. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Intel-Infineon-...
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by azim 16y ago
Questions about what to read have been asked and answered quite a bit on Reddit. You might find these reading lists worthwhile: http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/programming#Whatprogrammingb...
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by azim 16y ago
I think that's what the writer expected. On x86 the stack starts at a high address and grows downward to a lower address.
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by azim 16y ago
IPS/IDS is a well over a billion dollar a year industry. The products mentioned in the article don't even make up a measurable fraction of that. Market leaders are products like Cisco, Macfee, ISS, Tipping Point, etc.
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by azim 16y ago
ARP spoofing actually in practice not easy to do. Enterprise class switches can snoop DHCP traffic and prevent forged ARP packets.
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by azim 16y ago
You don't really have room for any type of chemical engine in something this size. Typically satellites this size actually use tiny motors and electromagnets which interact with the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves.
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by azim 16y ago
In most cases it should make it faster. Any type of optimization is kind of a tricky thing because you can't predict what the user is going to do in the field. Take sorting algorithms, for example. Quicksort can degenerate to O(n^2) if you
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by azim 16y ago
No, that's not really correct. The call itself in to the function and the return has the added cost of two extra instructions. But the trade off is that the function body itself now has an extra register to work with, so you should see an i
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by azim 16y ago
I've only been able to reproduce it in areas where the signal was awful to begin with. In areas where my 3gs drops calls weekly, using other people's 4's I can reproduce a dropped call with some regularity. My guess is that it's so hard to
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by azim 16y ago
Please update us with your findings once you try it.

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