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by cnvogel 15y ago
I second this: The DT770 are very comfortable to wear, and being of "closed" design both isolate yourself from the environment and prevent your sound leaking out annoying your coworkers. Currently they are my favourite headphones! Strongly
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by cnvogel 15y ago
While it might not be relevant in practice, there's the possibility of data corruption if someone closes all filedescriptors (for whatever reason) and then operates on the newly generated ones. This implementation just checks for filedescri
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by cnvogel 15y ago
Yes, of course it's a good complement for industrial or laboratory automation, test automation, industrial control. There are loads of different ways to solve these kinds of things, and they are all used somewhere... But in bigger companies
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by cnvogel 15y ago
This device might deal quite badly with inductive loads such as the dishwasher motor or heating element (often wound in a spiral). The lifetime of the solid-state-relay will be reduced if you don't use the proper subber circuits (see for ex
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by cnvogel 15y ago
I have no idea if this is a reasonable price, but the mentioned product is a self-contained measurement system in a ruggedized enclosure with built in computer and software that identifies isotopes automatically. It is marketed to "homeland
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by cnvogel 15y ago
Working in a ~50000 employee company that shall remain nameless I can give you another datapoint from "big companies" out there: We only got IE8 (on WinXP, Win7 will not launch for another year or two) this year. And before that it was what
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by cnvogel 15y ago
I acknowledge that. I remember that the facebook-app on my android phone asked me whether I wanted to sync my phones addressbook to FB or not. I've chosen not to, and thus there are no phone-numbers FROM MY PHONE shown on the linked faceboo
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by cnvogel 15y ago
What people here don't seem to realize is that a doctors' scale or measuring tapes are not used for precision measurements anyway. If the doctor sees the patient only every few months, individual variations (kids will grow, adults will gain
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Have god have mercy on the poor souls that shall use WORD to format their RFCs ;-) That sounds like a truly horrible idea.
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by cnvogel 16y ago
There's no containment dome. http://i.imgur.com/CckjP.jpg (X) The reactor is the red cylinder in the middle, the containment is the pear-shaped cavity it sits in, closed on top with the yellow hood and connected to that torus in the lowes
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by cnvogel 16y ago
That comparison is not correct. The chernobyl plant exploded because of a instantaneous power excursion to many times the rated maximum, and it contained a huge amount of Graphite (=Coal!) which caused a fire that dispersed a lot of fine-gr
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Ironically they truncated the public part of the DSA keys. The private key is "k". For bruteforcing the remainder of the AES256 loader key (erk), as proposed by another commenter: There are still 13 hex-digits left (e.g. 52 bits), that migh
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by cnvogel 16y ago
The (released) videos are new. The discussion about the hack itself was on HN previously at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049026 .
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by cnvogel 16y ago
In their own country, they can. To eavesdrop in a foreign country, they'll have to purchase the commercial GSM sniffing equipment.
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Previous report on this talk by arstechnica.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049026
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by cnvogel 16y ago
The process itself is quite fast, after watching the talk I'd guess 3 minutes for singling out a single phone via sending SMS, and maybe 2 minutes for cracking the key itself. The software is indeed very specialized, and according to the gu
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Actually, four cheap phones (4x Motorola C123) have been used, operating in parallel. :-) And they have furthermore been modified to remove filters that in "normal" phones improve signal reception but for this particular application would p
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by cnvogel 16y ago
00:00 November 17, 1858, Wednesday (from wikipedia)
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This christmas is day #55555 on astronomers' timescale (modified julian date).(leapsecond.com)
25 points by cnvogel 16y ago|8 comments
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by cnvogel 16y ago
"Reverse engineering" is too broad of a term. Do you want to jailbreak the newest smartphone? Or want to repurpose some neat and cheap childrens' toy into a spectrum analyzer? Maybe your central heating has a odd habit of keeping your bedro
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by cnvogel 16y ago
All of this is explained right at the top of the tmux FAQ: http://tmux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/tmux/FAQ There can be multiple tmux servers which run completely independent sets of commands/shells/... but you can also connect multi
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by cnvogel 16y ago
I doubt that most people even remember uuencode, or what it was used for, or, where the name originates from... But: very oldschool. Maybe there should be a smartphone app to import tiny apps by snapping pictures of uu/base64/ascii85 encode
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by cnvogel 16y ago
The company I work for has a policy to take your full name in the local part. So if you are Juan Alfonso de Borja y Estevez then by default you'll have a email-address of juan_alfonso_de_borjy_y_estevez@company.com This is just the first hi
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by cnvogel 16y ago
I don't know specifically for the Nexus S, but as a manufacturer you can buy flash-chips that have a mmc interface, so that they look like an SD-card to the microprocessor but can be soldered like a "usual" chip. E.g. look for SanDisk iNAND
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by cnvogel 16y ago
The dedicated flash filesystems are designed to run directly (or separated by only a very thin layer of abstraction, e.g. the mtdblock you mentioned) on flash chips, so they take care of wear-leveling and use flash-friendly data structures.
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Depending on your laptop model, there are a few LEDs that can be controlled, at least under Linux. IBM and ASUS seem to use stuff in /proc/acpi/asus|ibm ... The SD-Card interface in my Laptop exports a LED in /sys/class/led... (but it seems
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Now I won't spell out actual "pointer tricks" but try to give some context in which these tricks might naturally be used: I think that data structures like trees are a nice thing to continue once the fundamental properties of pointers have
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by cnvogel 16y ago
There's a thread at xda-developers.com that hints that WP7 might just put a password on the card. If that's the case, one might be able to unlock it with linux' native sdcard drivers. (mmcblk) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php
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by cnvogel 16y ago
I think you are oversimplifying the situation. With any plant of sufficient size, there will be a lot of people involved in commissioning, servicing and operating it. This makes "fully insulating" SCADA systems much harder. Management peopl
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DeleGate: Multiprotocol proxy/plumbing-tool/converter [TCP,SSL,HTTP,NNTP,DNS…](delegate.org)
3 points by cnvogel 16y ago|0 comments

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