draebek

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by draebek 16y ago
I'm a little irritated by the end of this quiz telling me I'm "addicted to my desktop" and "why not switch to online alternatives?" Hey Google, why don't you make it so I can indent lines with tab in Gmail, or give me some confidence that m
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by draebek 16y ago
Worst than just "ports" AFAIK: last I checked PPTP required use of either GRE or its own protocol (I can't remember which)--so not TCP nor UDP, and thus more likely to be blocked or simply NATed incorrectly. I don't recall how L2TP works,
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by draebek 16y ago
What I assume is the video ataggart referenced: Hayek vs. Keynes Rap video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
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by draebek 16y ago
> The story isn't encouraging or discouraging anything. That's not our role. PCMag's job is to cover all aspects of technology, which includes the products, services and activities that some groups and individuals might deem objectionab
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by draebek 16y ago
Is it just my Motorola Droid that has a camera I'm not satisfied with? The pictures just don't look nearly as good as my (six year old) point and shoot camera, and the LED flash is for shit. Maybe I need a new smart phone. Or is my proble
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by draebek 16y ago
Lots of people seem to recommend port knocking still today, but I personally won't use it as I'd hate to get behind a firewall (e.g. hotel, airport, university) where I can't send the right sequence of knocks for whatever reason (outbound p
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by draebek 16y ago
> My girlfriend and I will routinely pick a place to eat on a Friday or Saturday 30 minutes before we intend to eat. I don't like having to call a half-dozen places in order to get a table, and I wouldn't have much choice without these
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by draebek 16y ago
Agreed. My next question is: why are our _schools_ comparable to prisons in this way? Is it really such an inescapable facet of human nature? Why can't we change the culture of school such that, at least while you're actually _in_ school,
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by draebek 16y ago
Video, music, lots of software (e.g. ISOs). Mind you it's also nice to have it redundant like he does.
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by draebek 16y ago
I was once shuttled to a business meeting in a small plane (maybe six to eight seats). I had no idea what to expect, showing up for my small flight. I parked at the airport, walked down to the runway where I met the pilot. I said, "is th
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by draebek 16y ago
I most commonly use gitsum which is fast and easy and, in combination with Emacs' diff-mode, lets me edit my pending commits all to hell. (In my experience few other people like doing this.) gitsum is really only good for committing, of co
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by draebek 16y ago
I liked Wesabe's approach to my data, period. Wesabe let me export my all of my data, and even provided an API for it. Mint, last time I used it (a long time) did not.
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by draebek 16y ago
> it brings many useful standards like mandatory network layer security Wikipedia and Google seem to confirm that IPsec is mandatory for IPv6 hosts, but how many hosts are really going to support it? I'm pretty sure I can turn on IPv6
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by draebek 16y ago
>The problem in big organizations is that different folks are worried about different things. That's why they keep making and giving out lists of stuff for people to do -- they don't want you screwing up. If you have a hundred teams and
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by draebek 16y ago
Well, if your corporate office is in e.g. India, at least. So this whole hullabaloo is just about whether or not India will be able to sniff messages going through RIM's servers? (I think I've seen this referred to as BIS?) Do they just w
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by draebek 16y ago
For SMS I know of TextSecure http://www.whispersys.com/ on Android--though I've never used it and haven't researched its security. (I do use OTR through Pidgin/Adium.)
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by draebek 16y ago
Are there many new applications that require the use of Android 2.x? It seems to me that could be a serious problem for "Android": consumer buys new Dell phone running "Android," finds they can't run half the cool apps their friends' EVOs
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by draebek 16y ago
In Git, at least, some commands expect the first line of the commit message to be meaningful and self-contained. For example, `git log --oneline`. Following the custom of making the first line a short summary makes some tools more useful.
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by draebek 16y ago
> Do they jump on someone's desktop and start searching for evidence? Do they say "nobody touch nothin' ya hear?" and take over as sysadmin? Do they use Google Desktop search or the local office's Google search appliance to search for t
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by draebek 16y ago
I've spoken with another developer or three that tell me that, although ActiveX controls remain supported, security policies have changed in some meaningful ways between versions of IE. The result is that your controls that were working fi
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by draebek 16y ago
Seconded, though I'm more interested in Canonical's commitment to Ubuntu LTS releases: at work I don't want to have to upgrade distributions every two years (or six months: Fedora, Ubuntu non-LTS). The same goes for RHEL/CentOS. These dis
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by draebek 16y ago
If I had to guess I'd say the demand is for "housing within N kilometers of point X" and there is nowhere left to build housing in that area, whether because of physical constraints or legal/regulatory constraints (e.g. can't get a permit t
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by draebek 16y ago
memset's job is to fill a block of memory with a given byte. The most common fill byte is 0, to initialize or otherwise clear a buffer. It looks like it is so common, in fact, that a programmer accidentally made Android's memset _always_
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by draebek 16y ago
Is anyone else not terribly concerned about this? I wonder if this isn't an overreaction: I suspect I'd rather Google keep collecting wireless data and improving its location services. I'm vastly more concerned about, say, what Google is