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by blumentopf 11y ago
> Hopefully the kernel driver rewrite pays off It's not a rewrite, amdgpu is a fork of radeon with support added for newer GPUs plus some cleanups and older code stripped off. Which means if you're submitting fixes, you need to
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Oracle's ZFS encryption is susceptible to watermarking attacks: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sept... The "more advanced" claim is certainly disputable but OpenZFS has a la
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Mercedes-Benz was in a similar position in 1997 when the newly introduced A-Class flunked the moose test. After a short period of denial they hired a specialist (Armin Töpfer), halted production for several months and retooled all cars with
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Based on my experience (from working there), car manufacturers often do not implement stuff themselves, they outsource. E.g. the HTML5-based infotainmemt system in the Porsche 918 was not created by Porsche (though they market it as if it w
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Subscribe to LKML or one of the subsystem mailing lists (e.g. dri-devel). Pretty much the majority of Linux kernel developers seem to be using Mutt. (Disclosure: Me too, since 1997 in fact when I needed to replace ELM.)
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by blumentopf 11y ago
I think parent referred more to contentious issues (e.g. sexism, systemd hate) rather than uncontrollable growth of a project. That said, excellent post, thank you! The opposite of course are projects with too few contributors that accept a
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Because this is Europe's Lehman weekend. Those who think that contagion is not an issue anymore may be in for a surprise. In combination with this week's record plunge at Shanghai Stock Exchange and a general slowdown of the world
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by blumentopf 11y ago
Incidentally I checked your hiring page a few days ago and found only non-engineering jobs listed. Will definitely send you an e-mail though. I hope you don't mind me saying, the hiring page required me to turn on cookies. For a privac
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by blumentopf 12y ago
The Hurr Durr Archives https://www.kernel.org/
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Retrieving wifi passwords from NVRAM: /usr/libexec/airportd readNVRAM Alternatively: nvram 36C28AB5-6566-4C50-9EBD-CBB920F83843:current-network nvram 36C28AB5-6566-4C50-9EBD-CBB920F83843:preferred-networks
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Can't speak for other OSes but OS X constantly phones home to Cupertino, sometimes not even using encryption, thus leaking data when you're booked into a public Wifi. I literally spent weeks last year grepping the entire Mavericks
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by blumentopf 12y ago
It wasn't free for universities, but in the first half of the 90s, SGI offered so-called "Varsity" contracts, which was basically a campus license for OS updates and unbundled products like compilers, NFS/YP and the &quo
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Of course it does, Safari uses the resolver provided by OS X, which is mDNSResponder. (It superseded the stub resolver in libSystem.dylib starting with 10.6.)
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by blumentopf 12y ago
mDNSResponder supports DNSSEC validation, please look at the source code: http://opensource.apple.com/source/mDNSResponder/mDNSRespond...
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Reaction when @tqbf, again, claims DNSSEC is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN http://dnsreactions.tumblr.com/post/92623693242/when-tqbf-ag...
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by blumentopf 12y ago
> Browsers and operating systems aren't going to add full DNSSEC resolving caches. Actually they already did. OS X for instance has this baked into mDNSResponder.
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by blumentopf 12y ago
I worked at an ISP in the late 90's which was bought up, together with several other small ISPs. Before the acquisition it was a bunch of techies working their asses off. After, dozens of non-technical staff came on board who all got
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS (1994) Got it on eBay for 1 Euro. Eats standard HP LaserJet cartridges that you can find on eBay for just a few bucks.
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Source? Edit: Found it. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sept...
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by blumentopf 12y ago
You need to tell the kernel if you need larger-than-default SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF, e.g. for 4 MByte (default is 128 kByte): sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=4194304 sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=4194304 Documentation: http:/&#x2F
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by blumentopf 12y ago
I use ZFS on a dual-boot Mac to cross-mount the Linux partitions on OS X. ZFS is pretty much the only file system that allows this: The XFS OSXFUSE plugin is read-only, the ext plugin only supports ext2 with unstable write support and BtrFS
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by blumentopf 12y ago
"Rudder's blog went on hiatus between April 2011 and July 2014 while he wrote Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking), a book based on the same ideas that inspired the blog." Source: https://en.
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by blumentopf 12y ago
I'm surprised they exonerated him, considering his driving history... Turns out he apparently blew a red light with his Boxster in 2010 and hit another car: http://attitudeofgratitude.typepad.com/attitude_of_gratitude..
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DHH wins Le Mans 2014 (LMGTE Am class)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by blumentopf 12y ago|0 comments
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Hm, that page doesn't provide a PGP key for the iwanttohack address, neither is there one on pgp.mit.edu. :( I do find two keys of you personally on pgp.mit.edu, 0x1DBE9880 from 1999 with an mit.edu address and 0x6BA33506 from 2000 wit
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by blumentopf 12y ago
If your zones are signed with DNSSEC, just add a TLSA record for the self-signed certificates to the zones. Clients with DANE [1] support will then recognize that the self-signed certificates are valid. Of course, very few clients support D
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by blumentopf 12y ago
This. Tweakability isn't the issue. Simply catering to pro users is the issue. I moved from Linux to OS X in 2004 and am now on the fence about moving back. When OS X came out, Steve Jobs promised an OS that would cater to pro users as
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Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND(electrospaces.blogspot.de)
1 points by blumentopf 12y ago|0 comments
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by blumentopf 12y ago
The concern that the Lybian TLD registry might fake NS and/or DS records of 2LDs applies equally to unsigned and signed zones. So if that is a concern, why use an untrusted TLD, or why use DNS at all? If you do not trust the Lybian TLD
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by blumentopf 12y ago
By definition a tree has a single root. Please specify what you mean be "roots". The private key of the DNS root was split in seven parts held by seven people [1]. It is stored in two HSMs, one on the east coast of the United St

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