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by blumentopf 14y ago
AS path = the numbers of the Autonomous Systems that traffic will pass through to reach that particular destination
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by blumentopf 14y ago
No it's not forged as can be seen from the AS path in the global routing table.
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by blumentopf 14y ago
AS path as seen from the RIPE NCC RIS looking glass for 194.71.107.0/24: ... 2914 39138 22351 131279 51040 ... [NTT America/ARIN] [rrbone/RIPE] [Intelsat/ARIN] [STAR JOINT VENTURE/APNIC] [The Pirate Bay/RIPE] Apart from that /24, STAR JOINT
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by blumentopf 14y ago
A minor correction to this article, to the best of my knowledge Mercedes-Benz uses batteries produced by Deutsche Accumotive (a joint-venture of Daimler and Evonik) both in the smart electric drive and the forthcoming B-Class E-Cell. The Te
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by blumentopf 14y ago
I have a hard time believing Brendan's pledge to diversity given Mozilla's non-support for Gecko embedding. There's a number of Gecko-based browsers, e.g. Camino, and they've left their users in the lurch by ending support for Gecko embeddi
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by blumentopf 14y ago
"In the beginning I looked around and couldn't find the car I dreamed of. So I decided to build it myself." ("Am Anfang schaute ich mich um, konnte den Wagen von dem ich träumte, nicht finden. Also beschloss ich ihn mir selbst zu bauen.") -
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by blumentopf 14y ago
It's not an update. The software is the same as released in 2005. Only the license keys are special keys that make the software bypass the Internet activation. So why did they make the software downloadable at all and not just the special l
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by blumentopf 14y ago
You'd have much higher latency working on the remote VMs than on local VMs. You'd also be dependent on Internet connectivity and you'd have to rely on Hetzner's machines being available whenever you need to do your work. Shit does happen.
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by blumentopf 14y ago
Derivatives like Knoppix or Ubuntu wouldn't be possible -- or at least couldn't sprout so easily -- if it weren't for that strict adherence to open source guidelines. The way it is, makers of derivatives need not worry about infringing IP r
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by blumentopf 14y ago
Direct debits as a buyer: You enter your bank account number in the "buy" form of some website and that's it. Direct debits as a seller: You file the direct debit with your bank. This can normally be done online through a web interface or v
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by blumentopf 14y ago
Bryan, what's your opinion re: the stability of the LLNL port of ZFS on Linux? The 0.6.0 release is apparently just around the corner and several high-profile people in the community, Russell Coker for one [1], have started using this on pr
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29th Chaos Communication Congress moves back to Hamburg - CfP(events.ccc.de)
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by blumentopf 14y ago
I thought you're only "inbound hiring"? ;-) http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/09/inbound-hiring.h...
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by blumentopf 14y ago
Check out Jens Alfke's blog post when he left Apple, I really can't say this better than he did: http://web.archive.org/web/20110714114434/http://jens.moosey...
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by blumentopf 14y ago
From the LinkedIn profile of the guy who implemented Safari RSS: Social-Software Introvert Apple, Inc. February 2004 – January 2008 (4 years) Part of a very small team that implemented the news-reading (RSS/Atom) features of the Safari brow
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by blumentopf 14y ago
I talked to the CEO of a Berlin-based crypto appliance company and he literally called the place "off-shore". Berlin is located in former East Germany, so it's totally separated from the rich former West German states where all the thriving
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by blumentopf 14y ago
A documentary film on nightmarish office spaces like the one depicted here was recently released by German director Carmen Losmann: Work hard - Play hard (2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLY9y6VP2U http://www.hupefilm.de/dokumentar
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by blumentopf 14y ago
The new name ".NET" for NGWS was unveiled June 22, 2000. (Source: http://heise.de/-26825 -- in German) In the months leading up to the announcement, Microsoft had registered a truck load of domains including: dot-in-the-dot.com, dot-in-th
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The Busy Life of a Prolific Sperm Donor(spiegel.de)
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Refactoring the design was mandatory to meet statutory emission and fuel consumption limits. Moving to water cooling, reducing aerodynamic drag and using lightweight materials were all necessitated by this. There's a DVD called "The Porsche
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by blumentopf 15y ago
I can certainly think of German cities with advantages over Berlin. Karlsruhe for instance has an extremely awesome scientific community, its university is in fact home to the oldest computer science faculty in Germany and coincidentally wa
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Not true. If the hydrogen is generated with renewable energies, driving a car such as the B-Class (Mercedes-Benz W245) shown in this video is in fact emission-free. A solar-powered hydrogen station was opened this week in Freiburg, relative
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by blumentopf 15y ago
So in my case, the Finanzamt argues that what I did for the startup does not fulfill the definition of a "gewerbliche Tätigkeit" and consequently I can't deduct the "Vorsteuer" of my expenses. (As a business you get the VAT you paid on expe
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Being German myself I think the Samwers are an embarrassment. Unscrupulous copycats like them should be outlawed by the German startup scene.
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Tell HN: I participated in a German Government startup program in 2004/2005 called EXIST-SEED (nowadays called EXIST Gründerstipendium). I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. The funding I got was relatively modest (35 kEUR in my case -- as
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EU Court of Justice: SOPA-like legislation is verboten in Europe [pdf](curia.europa.eu)
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by blumentopf 15y ago
To add to this article: Why do people not use PGP or S/MIME? I've submitted my resume to a couple of people who posted in the Who's Hiring thread and checked for each of them if they have a PGP key submitted to the usual key servers (e.g. p
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Why this is needed: Latest blog article over at progit.org: "Reset demystified" http://progit.org/2011/07/11/reset.html Scott Chacon, author of the the Pro Git book, admits there that he didn't cover the "reset" command in depth in the bo
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by blumentopf 15y ago
Article in a similar vein: http://nat.org/blog/2009/07/nerds-and-jocks/
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by blumentopf 15y ago
It does make a difference in that Japan could finance the public debt entirely by itself. The country has a trade account surplus, it's not them being indebted to others, but others are indebted to them. That makes it unattractive for specu

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