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9y ago
The other benefit is that users can send to the list without the (possibly huge) administrative burden of getting a full and complete list of public keys for all subscribers. A similar setup is used for e.g. the (linux-)distros lists[0] at
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10y ago
There isn't anything on that exam that didn't get covered in my undergrad Physics program. From the title I thought it was an exam for entering a Mathematics graduate program rather than a Mathematics test for graduate programs, s
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10y ago
>Is there any way to tell the OOM killer which program to kill first? From TFA: >Without swap, the system will call the OOM when the memory is exhausted. You can prioritize which processes get killed first in configuring oom_adj_score
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10y ago
>I have a system for building RPMs of CPAN modules and their dependencies automatically. I would be interested in this: is it open source?
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10y ago
Hm, yes in the case where there's only one layover it does say where and for how long. It doesn't show you that detail for 2+ layovers, and it doesn't show you what the length of the legs are or the local arrival/depatur
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10y ago
>I almost never use anything other google flights when searching for a ticket. The UI is just so much better and easier to use than the ridiculous bloated crap that most travel sites are Funny, I was just thinking of how dissapointing th
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10y ago
Right, OP was asking why having physical access to a "normal" machine means pwnage: cold boot is one of those ways. The ORWL page describes how they mitigate that.
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10y ago
The key isn't in your head: you know the passphrase used to decrypt the key which is then kept in system memory. Techniques like the cold boot attack[0] or row hammer[1] can be used to retrieve the key and access your data. In the case
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10y ago
>what is an "Old Millenial"? Someone currently in their early-to-mid 30s. End of Gen X, beginning of Millennials.
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10y ago
A regex is one big implicit AND already. The OR is an exception to the normal rule. /(abc|def)(123|456)/ You can read that as "(abc OR def) AND (123 OR 456)". The string "abc789" wouldn't match, for instan
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10y ago
This can become problematic if you're using an SSH agent and have 4+ keys loaded into it. The problem is that your agent will step through keys to try auth with, but most OpenSSH servers will reject keys after 3 failed attempts. This m
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10y ago
With the addition of "amazing router" in the title I was expecting some modern iteration of the 500 mile email [1] story. [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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10y ago
>Single-threaded sequential 1KB writes for a total of 4GB, without even oflag=sync? Bonnie++? Sorry, but these are not "good benchmarks to run" at all. They're garbage. People who know storage would never suggest these. As
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10y ago
>For desktop Linux, SELinux is indeed difficult to use on a day-to-day basis. To the point that there's no way I'd consider using it. It's on by default in Fedora, has been for years. Most people never even know it's
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10y ago
The targeted policies and functionality booleans in CentOS are really nice. I took the same step with finally buckling down and actually using SELinux for version 6 and there was definitely a learning cliff, but just like anything else afte
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10y ago
Also this is privilege escalation within the DomU (guest), it does not break out into the Dom0 (hypervisor). It looks like he'll do one of those next, though. The last paragraph in TFA: > A future blog post will talk about a guest-t
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10y ago
The initial release of Phoenix was in 2002. Many long-time Netscape/Mozilla users (myself included) switched very early on.
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10y ago
There's a two year minimum that you must hold the home to qualify for the exclusion. So it's not "every time" it appreciates, but it is "once every two years". https://www.irs.gov/publications&#
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11y ago
It's present in my netstat, from `net-tools 2.10-alpha`. Man page says it's shorthand for `--protocol=inet` (as opposed to `inet6`) which shows only IPv4 sockets.
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11y ago
>Since these tunables are not dynamically adjustable, we manually patched the running process to avoid sleeping in this case. Holy crap. You wrote a jump into an active process' memory space?
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11y ago
>Although my opinion is "not a strong correlation between the two", and that certainly seems to be supported by the supplied data. That position is supported by the first analysis, but not the other two. The three analyses prov
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11y ago
I am using "reliability" in the sense of RAS[0]. An HA datastore which erroneously ACK's writes has lowered reliability, as there are known cases where it gives incorrect outputs. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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11y ago
>Redis is really reliable (in my experience at least) Redis has been demonstrated[0][1] to lose data under network partitions. This is particularly concerning when discussing the type of partial failure that GitHub reported. 0: https:
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11y ago
You used to be able to underflow the score in MS Solitaire by repeatedly dealing new hands (would subtract 52 points or so). I believe that, in Win95 at least, the score was a 16 bit signed variable so you could underflow it with a mere 126
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11y ago
>Android with per-app permissions controlled by user (e.g., user can enable/disable access to location data for particular apps). This could be a fork of Android or maybe there is security software that could be installed, such as o
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11y ago
Funny, I switched from a rolling release distro to Fedora around 2006, having gotten sufficiently annoyed with the lack of wide scale integration testing. I like that there's a Fedora "image" that gets tested as a whole, and
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11y ago
It is something being worked on, though [0]. Extremely difficult does not equate to impossible :) 0: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03966
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11y ago
I was super excited when I started reading this article, I thought they were talking about a direct measurement of the CNB. Right now, the CMB is as far back as we can see in time. That radiation originates from a time when the Universe was
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11y ago
I was sad to see that the link to the domain generator was broken. The new one on the home page is a div that's generated server-side. I hope you don't mind that I wrote a quick one-liner to see if you're still detecting bots
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11y ago
Hell, CentOS 5 is still pretty widely deployed (and supported by RH until 2017).
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