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by derpherpsson 7y ago
A book... That cost money. Compare that with the man pages of some decent BSD. Or even Linux.. But yes. I have contemplated buying one of those windows internals. I will probably buy that book just because of your comment. It's not tha
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
I also ask myself this question. How can anyone use an OS where the creators deliberately hide some of the documentation? I would love to read up on windows internals, but there are no real resources out there. A few books that at first gla
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
It is a delight to have an OpenBSD machine as my central router in my home. OpenBSD is so easy to work with and also comes with that cozy feeling of security. I can rest assured that the devs preferred to drop functionality rather than buil
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
Aaah.. SAMBA :D I read the samba hacker guide and how they had reverse-engineered the protocols over the years. MS Windows is not even compatible with ITSELF ffs lol ;D
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
This does not go away. That people treat this as news is for me an indication that people simply don't either read the news, or don't remember them. I hope people maybe remembers now when they read it the 2nd time.. The US surveil
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
I use it. It's neat for finding those wonderful little crazy communities that are hiding out in the anonymizing crypto nets (Tor, I2P, LokiNet, ..) It's the only place left where there are ONLY real terminal junkies and nerds. No
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
Okay. By having done away with it I guess I really meant that they are not doing it pointlessly often, when it could just as well be quiet. Such as at the coffee (fika) break. It might be okay to just be silent. All you are going to talk ab
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
Some northern Scandinavian people and especially the Finns do without it. I tried having comfortable silences with my coworkers. Some like it, some just go insane. It kind of depends on the person - maybe some people never learn to apprecia
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
This... Is not right. You can not extrapolate personality traits from answers to silly questions. That said, I do hope I get to answer some of these questions soon.
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
The terminal is Eternal. It has not changed since the Dawn of Time. It's not retrofitting. If you make it work for the terminal it will always work from now on. It comes outside the reaches from the graphical designers. Nothing with a
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
Somehow, you being surprised by this, actually makes me a bit uneasy. How can you not know that stuff like this is happening?
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by derpherpsson 7y ago
Whenever this type of question comes up, how much science cost, think about the following: It costs more to do a sciency Hollywood movie about than it costs to actually do the science. Sending an actual probe to the orbit of Mars is in gene
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
I spent my first 4 years after the university at a company with very little quality control. We had to talk the bosses into having code reviews. When we began having code reviews my older colleagues never complained about anything - everyth
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
It's fun. Or maybe you are angry. Or maybe you just want to test to break it down. Or maybe you just want the programmers to feel sad, maybe because they were boring
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
The royal we. Also makes it easier to hire people if you don't have to update any texts ;)
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
I really liked this :) Thank you for existing.
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
They have had several remote code execution vulnerabilities lately (summer 2018). While they were very quick to patch them they did not notify their customers in any way. There was nothing on their website that said anything about the urgen
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
LOL I guess there is nothing good.. what is wrong with people :(
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
Some time ago I went through the list of all the major router manufacturers and rated them on 1) security, and 2) long term usability, and 3) culture. My conclusion was that I would buy my infrastructure from Allied Telesis. It's prett
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
Cisco is crumbling under its own weight. This is a symptom of the rot in their management, and probably also a sign that they have hired too many incompetents. It probably also is a sign of the current age. After the recovery from the IT-bu
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
No choice. I had to. Homelessness is not an option for me. I just dug myself out of the hole, even if I was out of energy. I had a text file on my computer where I wrote down the steps I had to take. Then I followed this todo-file for maybe
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
How useful is this tech? Some tech is just pointless or part of someone's scammy business. How Eternal is the knowledge? Math is Eternal in the true sense, while that new webpage framework will be around for maybe just 2-5 years, and i
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
I am appalled that the understanding of basic complexity theory is missing in a company like this, and that people apparently think this is worth reading. This SHOULD NOT be news. Maybe you guys should revisit your school books. No, this co
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by derpherpsson 8y ago
This is absolutely insane! With all the recent bugs and features that looks like backdoors I have completely lost faith in x86. We need simple open ISAs (like RISC-V) and a handfull of trusted organizations that inspect the manufacture pr