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by dlitz 15y ago
I've posted some updated stats on my blog: https://www.dlitz.net/blog/2011/10/most-common-losenord/
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by dlitz 15y ago
A few weeks? Thanks to rainbow tables (and several online sites that allow you to look up MD5 hashes), it's trivial to get at least 26,025 of those passwords. A plain MD5 hash of a password is as good as the password itself. No, I'm not
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Why XML Security is Broken(cs.auckland.ac.nz)
3 points by dlitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlitz 15y ago
It's too damn slow and chews up way too much memory unless you're writing a single, long-running, multithreaded process. So, it forces you to write all applications as single, long-running, multithreaded processes. Memory-mapped shared lib
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by dlitz 15y ago
> While you can install that package and get a half-working GNOME menu system, you cannot get your taskbar or configurable panels back. Configurable panels: Alt+rightclick the panel Taskbar: I dunno, it works fine for me.
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by dlitz 15y ago
So, what's so great about something completely new and HTTP-specific like SPDY, as opposed to using something like the SSH2 protocol (with its multiple channels)?
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by dlitz 15y ago
My high school (1997-2001) reinforced this. They suspended kids from school for tinkering. And by tinkering, I mean "bringing up a DOS prompt instead of using the pre-canned IBM ICLAS menu system".
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by dlitz 15y ago
Both of those "advantages" of closed systems are best solved with reasonable defaults.
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by dlitz 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that having different search engines indexing each other would be bad. Don't cross the streams.
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by dlitz 15y ago
null or false, actually.
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by dlitz 15y ago
"All design files are available under a Completely Open Source Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial." ( http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.Hardware ) Um... Non-commercial? "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor. The lic
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by dlitz 15y ago
TL;DR: OOGABOOGABOOGA!
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by dlitz 15y ago
I want to know the TCO of just Oracle's ridiculous empty-string-is-almost-but-not-quite-equivalent-to-NULL VARCHAR2 behaviour.
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by dlitz 15y ago
If you're wearing a suit at an event where everyone else is wearing t-shirts and other casual dress, then you are the one who is dressed inappropriately. You're communicating that you're either too clueless to understand that, or you tha
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by dlitz 15y ago
I don't think Linus would have any qualms about using proprietary stuff. c.f. the whole BitKeeper fiasco.