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901.
by dfc 12y ago
What is the mysterious "switchboard" column?
902.
by dfc 12y ago
I have always loved requestpolicy but for some reason something about RPContinued makes me nervous. Policeman would be a great alternative if Sync worked[^1]. I cant use policeman if it means I have to jump through the same hoops on every f
903.
by dfc 12y ago
> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s > pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase > small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. I never understood why the au
904.
by dfc 12y ago
A previous discussion of ntimed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781435
905.
by dfc 12y ago
I think the take away is that pdf.js is no longer a mozilla research project. It has been included with Firefox since v19.
906.
by dfc 12y ago
"...aims to implement an emulator for the Flash multimedia platform."
907.
by dfc 12y ago
And if the one server timesyncd selects is a falseticker it will keep you there (where there is not equal to UTC) indefinitely too. If you want an alternative check out chrony: http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
908.
by dfc 12y ago
While the latter half of your comment is a matter of opinion/taste, the first half is categorically incorrect. systemd-timesync is not a minimalistic ntp client, it is a minimalistic sntp client. But do not take my word for it, the a
909.
by dfc 12y ago
In order for the attack to succeed Eve needs to be able to MITM every configured ntp server association and do so before the daemon starts up. FYI Stephen Röttger is also the same guy who is a co-author of the two IETF proposals for the suc
910.
by dfc 12y ago
You are confusing authentication and encryption. Authenticated time protects against MITM attacks. You can obtain authenticated time synch from many national labs, such as NIST[1] or CRC[2]. I do not understand the need for confidentiality.
911.
by dfc 12y ago
systemd-timesyncd is not much of an alternative. It is simply an sntp client, it does not serve time to other hosts nor can it use reference clocks.
912.
by dfc 12y ago
ntp network traffic can be authenticated with symetric keys or autokey currently, and with NTS in the future. Many national labs support authenticated time for free and even more provide authenticated ntp for a fee.[1] Moreover if you care
913.
by dfc 12y ago
PHK has been working on a rewrite of ntp sponsored by the Linux Foundation. He has posted a couple of entries about his progress so far: http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20140926.html In the meantime Miroslav's chrony
914.
by dfc 12y ago
NTP's "author" --where author is defined as author of the original RFC (958), every subsequent RFC (1305, 5905, etc) and reference implementation-- is Prof. David Mills. Prof. Mills is one of the unsung heros of the internet.
915.
by dfc 12y ago
"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's
916.
by dfc 12y ago
You can download "an archive" that has all of the magnet links at the time of the creation of the archive. This is not helpful for finding new content. Most importantly downloading a 9 gig archive of magnet links is not a workab
917.
by dfc 12y ago
# wget http://GPG/source/gpg-blah-tar.gz # wget http://GPG/source/gpg-blah-tar.gz.asc # gpg gpg-blah-tar.gz.asc # apt-get build-dep gnupg2 # apt-get install devscripts ubuntu-de
918.
by dfc 12y ago
I love it when people get all "incendiary" about a privacy issue in the post-Snowden world. I really do not understand what your privacy world view was in 2009. Did you think governments did not have intelligence agencies? Did you
919.
by dfc 12y ago
What does the new BB do?
920.
by dfc 12y ago
For anyone that is interested in testing out the new git repo: git://gitorious.org/emacs-transition/review6.git It is remarkably fast compared to the bzr repository. ESR's conversion takes 10 hours to complete.
921.
Re-Proposal – preserve freedom of choice of init systems(lists.debian.org)
5 points by dfc 12y ago|0 comments
922.
by dfc 12y ago
> implicit guarantee of "you have to change EVERYTHING > all at once every few months" This is a strange conclusion to draw. What makes you think that debian/stable requires updating everything all at once ev
923.
by dfc 12y ago
How useful is prepopulating a DNS cache on a home network? How often do you expect OP is going to reboot the caching dns box?
924.
by dfc 12y ago
Earlier today the flesh on my index finger was torn asunder by a sheet of paper. Do you find that heartbreaking? If I told you that the paper cut was the worst thing that ever happened to me, would you consider it to be heartbreaking?
925.
by dfc 12y ago
What is the difference between the cask installation suggested in the link and the cask installation procedure suggested on the cask home page? $ brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask ; brew install brew-cask $ brew install caskroom&#
926.
by dfc 12y ago
When I look back on the consequences of the cold war, the fact that this gentleman did not get the gold medal (that he assumes he would have won) is not even close to making the list of heartbreaking episodes. Furthermore, one has lived a c
927.
by dfc 12y ago
Heartbreaking?
928.
by dfc 12y ago
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] I imagine that a lot of people also find "quick, weak jokes" to make for boring reading. [1]: http://news.yc
929.
by dfc 12y ago
This is not "yet another" vulnerability in the sense that it represents a similar risk: "Red Hat Product Security does not consider this bug to have any security impact on the bash packages shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Lin
930.
BAP: Binary Analysis Platform(bap.ece.cmu.edu)
66 points by dfc 12y ago|1 comments

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