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by cyberferret 7y ago
Tsk! I remember reading a white hat pen-test report once where a major US bank had their master MS-SQL server left at the default root user 'sa' and no password. From memory the pen-test team got full access to the main transacti
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Thanks for your input. To answer your questions at the end - Yes, we learned it primarily for the test, but also this was more than 20 years ago, and back then, the ATIS (Terminal Information System) broadcast that gave you your weather an
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by cyberferret 7y ago
As an aside from the OP, and because I think it would be of interest to the developers here on HN: I had to learn Morse code decades ago when I was in flying school. I did it the old, rote method, which sort of worked. I knew that the ser
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by cyberferret 7y ago
A victim of HN's "hug of death" I presume. For the author's next post, perhaps he can talk about good DevOps or hosting on Amazon S3 or Github pages etc. instead of a $5/mo VPS that will buckle under any sort of loa
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I am assuming that is because most 787 operators are 'full service' airlines rather than budget carriers, who generally run cheaper or second hand 737s or A320s. Then again, I just came back from Europe in a Scoot 787. Scoot are
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Most long haul flights have 2 complete 2-person flight crews. Generally comprised of Captain, first officer, and 2 second officers. Rotation is such, that at any one time, either the Captain or the First officer is on the flight deck with
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Absolutely. I guess the point of my post above is that sometimes you can put a little effort in to engineer the best outcome (or just have lady luck smile upon you) in order to make the difference between hours of torture or hours of bliss.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
And as someone who likes the room, I thank you for your kind consideration. My wife is quite short, and she can comfortably sit in the most cramped economy seats for hours without issue. She sometimes even crosses her legs on the seat! B
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Correct. But that you can engineer if you put a little effort in. My last flight from Athens to Singapore a couple of weeks back (a 12 hour flight), the plane was relatively full, but because I was polite to the checkin agent and asked for
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I am at the stage of my life where I weigh up the extra cost of a good seat vs my health. A bad seat can see me out of action with a bad neck and severe headaches for up to two days. I now often upgrade to Premium whenever I can, and take
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I find it is the other facets of flying which really get me down and stop me from doing it more. The whole 'security theatre' at the airport, dealing with the nickel and diming of low cost airlines, being treated like a criminal
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The downside to sitting at the galley exit is that other passengers are constantly walking up to this space to do their stretches or wait for their turn in the toilets. But the 787 has do much room that it wasn't really an issue for m
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Oops - I used the wrong word. I should have said replenished or replaced (as part of the pressurisation system's method of pumping new air into the cabin and bleeding off stale air).
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I did the 17 hour Sydney to Houston (and 17 hours back again) flight on a United 787 last year. I normally hate long haul flights, being 6 foot and all, as well as routinely suffering from bad neck and back problems from long periods of si
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I remember driving through the mountains of Tasmania about 20 years ago - some backwater road towards Zeehan if memory serves me correctly. I recall looking in my rear view mirror during one stretch and seeing a yellow/tan coloured do
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I read a lot of books on Ninjutsu, and the Shinobi as a kid, and I recall that a popular form of invisible ink that they used required the recipient to urinate on the paper to reveal the words. Glad this student didn't utilise that for
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by cyberferret 7y ago
When I was in flying school, we had a fiendishly difficult navigation examination with a known curmudgeon of a CFI (Chief Flying Instructor). Almost everyone in the class failed. One student got 68% and myself and another got 99.9% I was a
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Saw this on Twitter this morning. Sounds like they must have engineered it and set things up beforehand because they (a) knew which bank he was with and (b) had everything set up ready to log in when they got his ID number and received the
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Whilst the smell can be good in the sort term, over time, it can actually work against you. Trying to go to sleep with the delicious smell of baking bread through your sheets? Good luck with that :) Also, waking up first thing in the mo
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I think this is a factor that is often neglected or not even mentioned is articles espousing 'tiny homes'. The cooking. Even in our fairly large home, if I cook something even vaguely aromatic, the smell permeates through most of
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by cyberferret 7y ago
All through my life, I was a "plug and try" type of student when it came to things like algebra and quadratic equations etc. My rate (and accuracy) at solving those problems was roughly equivalent to my peers who did it the &#x27
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I am a happy Segment user, however their handling of a recent data breach did leave a bit of a sour taste. They took several days to get back to me with a definitive answer as to whether our customer data that we collected was compromised b
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Excited by the constant development of Crystal. Here is hoping that the various frameworks and shards will keep pace.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Absolute favourite is Animoog - The interface is just so perfect for a touch screen device. Of course Loopy HD for looping. SampleTank is great for quickly creating beats and loops (and so is Figure for creating a random loop to build on).
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The one thing that I find hard to believe in our society these days is the amount of violence shown to medical teams in hospital emergency rooms and also first responders and paramedics who are trying to save lives in the field. It is ende
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by cyberferret 7y ago
As an Audiobus user since pretty much day 1 (and also a Loopy app user), I'd just like to shout out to the author of this article with a "Thank You" for revolutionising music creation on Apple's small devices. I still re
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Somewhere in a drawer here I have a Billion dollar note from some African nation from years ago. I think it roughly converts to about $100 here in Australia.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I am a pilot (fixed wing, not helos), and while you can use physics to assist, there are a myriad of other variables in play such as wind currents, turbulence, air density, temperature, delays in throttle response, fatigue, visibility and
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Watching this in action, as well as some other sling load pilots working away [0], I am amazed as the skill and dexterity that they can handle their flying machines and use physics to best effect. When you consider that I heard a veteran ch
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The X-15 has always intrigued me, even more so than the SR-71 as a kid, when I found out that it could travel at nearly Mach 7. That is more than twice as fast as a standard .308 bullet muzzle velocity.

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