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by dbbolton 13y ago
More people own Lost Coast, an addon for Half Life 2, than Half Life 2 itself? How did that happen?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Why? How likely is `cd /usr/src` to fail?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
In that case, their command is exactly as "error prone" to anyone who did not download the patch to the PWD.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_pop... Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/lySrN1I.png
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by dbbolton 13y ago
What is up with that patch command? Why not cd /usr/src; patch -p0 </path/008_openssl.patch ?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
As I already said, I am not arguing that "random" passwords are better in practice. Also, a password that uses a very large character space does not have to be random at all.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. I'm not arguing that passwords like "H$&v46S13^a" are actually better in practice than passwords like "TheCowSaysMoo". I'm providing one specific case where they are
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by dbbolton 13y ago
A bit off topic- why is GHC so large? I recently noticed it was over three times the size of gcc (for amd64, in an .xz archive).
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by dbbolton 13y ago
If you just want to play around with RPN a bit, I made a simple (regex-based) RPN calculating Perl script a while back: https://github.com/dbb/math-scripts/blob/master/rpn_calc.pl
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by dbbolton 13y ago
The xkcd-style passwords may be less vulnerable to a brute-force attack, but they are more vulnerable to a dictionary attack. There are (very) roughly 2^17 words in the dictionary, so if you pick 4 there are 2^68 possibilities, or 2.95e20.
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Useful Linux tools that most people don't seem to know about(reddit.com)
3 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Did the app get pulled? Right now it's just showing someone's personal homepage: http://i.imgur.com/J8x5TwY.png
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I knew the Latin meaning. I've honestly never seen it used as a direct replacement for "with" in an otherwise all-English phrase though.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>It could be that the scientists are simply smarter; most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. I think
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by dbbolton 13y ago
What about the "cum" in the middle of the sentence?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>As per the preliminary reports, this shoe cum charger can light a bulb by placing a battery in the shoes. What?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
RICO? That may be the most definitively empty legal threat I have ever seen on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Using a non-trivial computer program to conduct research and not disclosing the source is basically like leaving the Methods section of a paper blank. The code could literally be doing anything, regardless of what the author claims it doe
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I'd recommend perlretut as well: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html It goes into more detail about some things that were glossed over in the OP, which may be overwhelming for a newbie but necessary for advancing.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Actually, I don't think that's generally true if you're talking about the libs. A cursory glance at the output of `apt-cache rdepends libgnutls26` suggests that wget is the only relatively "popular" package dependin
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by dbbolton 13y ago
This is (partly) why I install from the official Debian repos even if newer versions of a piece of software are available on the web.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I'm going to paint with a broad brush here, but usually it seems like emacs/vim (chosen here to represent broad categories of editors) evangalists haven't given a whole lot of time to try out the other side. I'd say it t
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Randomly generated mathematics research papers(thatsmathematics.com)
1 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Installation is simple enough assuming you have perl: curl http://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.12-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
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by dbbolton 13y ago
For being "obscure", htop manages to find its way into a very large proportion of *NIX screenshots on the web. Not to mention vim, rsync, curl, and ack, all of which I (and I had assumed everyone else) use on a regular basis.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>Optionally, a "/" character, which may be present only if the element is a void element. >There is absolutely no difference between <br> and <br />. >Actually, one might argue that adding / to
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by dbbolton 13y ago
It sounds like they might be planning to charge for the software, include (limited?) access to the source with purchase, and put a no-derivative-works-or-redistribution clause in the license. Actual FOSS would be nice, but non-free software
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Some rather humorous responses on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/438762073527705600
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by dbbolton 13y ago
As a native West Virginian, I can tell you what will happen if you call his office. In about 4-6 months, you'll get this letter: https://gist.github.com/dbb/5810717
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Playable GameBoy costume(reddit.com)
2 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments

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