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by bcl 17y ago
This article may have held my attention longer if it had been a list. It lost me after the 7th paragraph when I realized he was going to continue to ramble on about lists. So I skipped to the final paragraph just to be sure.
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by bcl 17y ago
When the backup drive get full Time Machine is going to delete the oldest backups, that's how it works. Using it for a permanent backup solution isn't too smart. On my systems I also backup to a BackupPC system for longer term storage.
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by bcl 17y ago
This advice is just silly. In other words throw out all of the advances of using php, python, ruby, etc. server side because software has bugs. Or rely on a centralized managed blog host that is also susceptible to bugs, except that when th
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by bcl 17y ago
Interesting. But the classes are all fairly low level. I need someplace where I can finish a BSCS for $99 a month :)
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by bcl 17y ago
This is new ground. It always takes more to develop the technology initially than it does in production. Once the technologies have been developed and refined the costs of space solar should come down considerably. Not to mention the added
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by bcl 17y ago
Am I missing something? The holes can't be square, because of the rotating motion required to create them they will always have rounded corners. I'd like to see pictures of the holes created with this bit.
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by bcl 17y ago
I would be more concerned with the charging circuitry in the UPS. They are designed for use with the batteries they install at the factory, not large capacity batteries. You may run into problems with it not being able to detect battery cap
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by bcl 17y ago
hmm, it would be really handy if you could connect code.interact to a socket. Then when an error is raised you could telnet to the process and do a post-mortem on it...
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by bcl 17y ago
I really like the Apple Family pack pricing. I almost never buy a single copy anymore.
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by bcl 17y ago
Awesome article. I cut my teeth on 6502 assembly, cracking games for the Atari 800. We used some of the same techniques.
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by bcl 17y ago
n2n looks like it could be pretty useful! Peer to Peer VPN could really come in handy at conferences.
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by bcl 17y ago
Pretty animation. Actual information = 0. Especially when using my first+last name since there are quite a few of us with the same name. Without being able to see what was used to generate each category it is nothing more than eye candy.
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by bcl 17y ago
This article has been added to my 'must read' list. I find myself getting thrown into the CSS pit and need a solid intro to it. Thanks for posting it!
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by bcl 17y ago
Interesting to see a New Yorker's view of SF, but why do we care? Who is Zed Shaw and why is he important?
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by bcl 17y ago
I am not convinced the approval process is 'evil'. Capricious? yes. Opaque? You bet. But not evil. They have made some dumb decisions that are getting a good amount of press coverage in tech circles, but the general iPhone user doesn't care
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by bcl 17y ago
Maybe people have finally realized that their interface sucks? The whole scroll through a flash based viewer embedded in my perfectly good web browser has never appealed to me. Plus the fact that they ignored their piracy problem for way to
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by bcl 17y ago
It is interesting that the bridges all seem to be intact, even the one near the hypocenter. I wonder why? Were they shielded enough by the buildings, or were they just built strong enough to withstand it?
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by bcl 17y ago
FYI they also run namesecure.com, but obscure it pretty well. The interface sucks and the service sucks even more. But it is cheaper than their normal Network Solutions portal. I switched to namecheap.com instead.
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by bcl 17y ago
He also flubbed using ssh-agent. Usually it is run from the login script once. You then do a ssh-add to add your identity to it. Once that is done you don't need to enter your password for that session anymore. You can even allow ssh on oth
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by bcl 17y ago
Ouch. looks like they rm -rf /* mitnick's box. I'd like to know how they got in. I see some logs of phpmyadmin directory traversal attempts so maybe that and a weak system password?
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by bcl 17y ago
This is an excellent book, I read it a number of years ago in print form. Is this html version legal?
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by bcl 17y ago
His water purification system is really amazing. You would think that all of the 'help save the worlds poor' non-profits would be jumping all over it. Here's the Wired article from last year on it - http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/0
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by bcl 17y ago
Good job! Could you add a timestamp and option to sort by it? (I know, feature creep!) ETA: I also find it interesting that the lowest score from those not using the optional 5 random chars is currently 38. All the lower ones use random cha
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by bcl 17y ago
Why did they release the phrase and not just the SHA1? ETA: I'm using 1249c4b7f578204f10798c0269f8488280fb9981 ETA2: Ok, I guess I need to be more clear - by releasing the phrase they remove the possibility (as remote as it is) of someone f
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by bcl 17y ago
Good point. There needs to be a balance of both, I just think Jeff leans too far toward the 'soft' side of things sometimes.
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by bcl 17y ago
They do all of those things already, or hadn't you noticed? What's more likely? A cracker breaking into the office and copying down their password? Or an electronic attack against their lame passwords? Electronic attacks are far more likely
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by bcl 17y ago
This story illustrates something that I enforce with users that I deal with. I don't allow them to choose their own passwords. This is especially important when they have access to a shared resource like Google Docs, a company wiki, subvers
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by bcl 17y ago
The PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance folks should be interested to know that as well, assuming it is true.
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by bcl 17y ago
Exactly. I think Jeff is forgetting, or ignoring, that there are different realms of software development. I think too often he generalizes the 'web app' experience to cover the whole industry. I know that in my work as an embedded develope
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by bcl 17y ago
You're right. RIF. From exploit.c for RHEL5 2.6.18 compile with: cc -fno-stack-protector -DRHEL5_SUCKS -o exploit exploit.c then just ./exploit

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