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by conformal 14y ago
nice work zooko et al :) my understanding is that tahoe-lafs is meant to be used as a live filesystem. how does the redundancy configuration affect latency? i would guess a cloned volume ("RAID 1") would be faster than a distributed volume
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by conformal 14y ago
working longer hours != working more or harder. much of the financial problems in .gr (and .it) have occurred because many citizens do not declare the bulk of their income, then, lo and behold, there is insufficient tax revenue to pay for t
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by conformal 14y ago
wow. somehow i doubt these sites have multiple uplinks, so they certainly don't need BGP routers. even if they're doing IPSec between some locations this can be handled by an old piece-of-junk $100 computer running BSD or nix, e.g. with i
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by conformal 14y ago
wow, a company that refuses to release hardware documentation sans NDA has open sourced something. let's give them a gold star! by forcing OS devs to sign NDAs it has actively slowed down the open source community. releasing open source cod
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by conformal 14y ago
"The prevalence of social bubble-worthy companies whose value propositions are little more than "cat pictures" suggests an inflated sense of self-importance among the founders, and I can't expect to keep my level of enthusiasm in line with
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by conformal 15y ago
cool story bro
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by conformal 15y ago
dnb is a credit ratings related scam. if your business routinely has credit checks run it is helpful to have a dnb entry for the business. if you operate mostly on cash basis and don't need to have credit checks run, e.g. for vendor account
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by conformal 15y ago
been running with FDE on an SSD for >3 years now, still works fine. sure it's slower but how often do most people really push their disk past 20 MB/s?
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by conformal 15y ago
knowing file hashes assists substantially in cryptanalysis via PoE
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by conformal 15y ago
everybody knows there is no R in action :)
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by conformal 15y ago
funny enough we are based in chicago and do the same thing: hire people who work strictly on remote. almost everyone gets along fine on remote, but sometimes management of remote employees is a serious pain. it's much easier to shop for tal
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by conformal 15y ago
when i closed a Nat City (PNC) account a few years back the "banker" must have had an IQ of like 80. afaict she was an exotic dancer and this was her day job. every single form she presented to us that was needed to close out the account ha
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by conformal 15y ago
have used Chase, LaSalle, BoA, National City/PNC and Broadway Bank domestically. of these Chase is by far the least shitty and has the best online interface. the responders here must be mainly west coasters based on the Wells Fargo vote cou
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by conformal 15y ago
got forced to use BoA when they bought LaSalle Bank (domestic arm of ABN Amro) and wow does BoA suck. you cannot even compare their online interface to Chase, Chase's is vastly superior. BoA sucks so bad that LaSalle Bank was awesome in c
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by conformal 15y ago
i guess it's useful to keep this data from a db admin, but whoever admins the server that encrypts the data must have access to the encryption key(s). it does further restrict who can access data which is good and it seems to come at a seri
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by conformal 15y ago
everyone talks about the dalai lama but i think the more interesting situation is that of the panchen lama: http://www.zimbio.com/Dalai+Lama/articles/762/Panchen+Lama+K...
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by conformal 15y ago
we do continuous integration builds with jenkins, it works very nicely, especially when working cross platform. continuous behavioral testing takes more work but should be even more useful than the integration builds.
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Cloud crypto: fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)(cellular-news.com)
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by conformal 15y ago
i've seen a similar post several times, perhaps i should start suggesting usage of xxxterm every time i see one of these other browsers suggested :-P
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by conformal 15y ago
heh, am a fan of lynx since it's in openbsd's base install. "what do you mean your site isn't optimized for viewing with lynx!?!"
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by conformal 15y ago
have a look at the reply i made to the other post about adsuck ( https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck ). it blocks all kinds of scripts and malware via DNS proxying.
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by conformal 15y ago
we have another project, adsuck ( https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck ), that blocks ads via DNS proxying. it can be setup to proxy DNS requests for a single host, e.g. a laptop, or on a network perimeter, e.g. a firewall, and it