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by colmmacc 15y ago
I haven't been able to use Filevault with iTunes match ... https://discussions.apple.com/message/16987224 Though I'd love to hear any reports to the contrary!
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Doesn't WordPress' built-in updater require write permissions to the PHP files? That's considered an insecure configuration by many.
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Wordpress had 6 "mandatory security update" releases in 2011 alone - http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions . It doesn't seem to have had a secure design from the outset. Worse still, ordinarily one might advise "keep up to date",
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Isn't it already the case that many scanners, printers and image editing software have built-in restrictions to prevent the copying of currency? How are those restrictions implemented? I don't mean in a technical sense, I understand the dot
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by colmmacc 15y ago
The article suggests that both Google Public DNS and nominum are parent centric, which might be a significant portion of the 3% (or larger at this point). These days with the number of resolvers that have fall-back catch-all records designe
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by colmmacc 15y ago
It depends a lot on the prior state of the domain. If it was assigned at all, or is being transfered, then is prudent to wait out the TTL of the NS record-set on the parent zone. Here's how it works. When a resolver tries to lookup the IP f
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Just to add data to the discussion; I kicked off migration of my only 3 GoDaddy domains to namecheap last night. One .net, one .com and one .cc domain. None had any kind of whois protection or anonymisation. The .net and .com migrations wen
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Now I get you. I'm tempted to write a small pty allocator which does enough to allow isatty() return true.
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by colmmacc 15y ago
One way is to wrap the program with a parent process that can handle the colourising. Here's a version I've been using for 6 years or so; http://people.apache.org/~colm/utils/sexec.c it uses regular select semantics and a trivial state ma
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by colmmacc 15y ago
Along a similar line, there are two reserved IP prefixes for use in documentation and examples; IPv4: 192.0.2.0/24 - as described in RFC3330, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html IPv6: 2001:db8::/32 - as described in RFC3849, http://www
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by colmmacc 16y ago
Hi there, I'm the administrator of the box running the blog. I'm also colm@apache.org, one of the authors of Apache httpd. KeepAlive's are enabled on the host, but with a deliberate timeout of 1 second. The listen backlog is 25, which can c