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by fduran 14y ago
Falling behind != default support for MongoDB Besides, adding mongodb support (including admin) to Django is trivial with pip install django-mongodb-engine pymongo.
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by fduran 14y ago
Virtualization is most definitively not useless, as any sysadmin managing more than a couple servers will tell you. The advantages are so many that in fact it should be the default go-to option when provisioning a server (even a single-purp
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by fduran 14y ago
You may want to change in the blog URL https -> http
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by fduran 14y ago
Hushmail? really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail
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by fduran 14y ago
All of the above.
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by fduran 14y ago
There's a MythBusters episode about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2004_season)#Needl...
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by fduran 14y ago
I got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with 1,600 x 1,200 in 2002
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by fduran 14y ago
"If anything a good catch is someone who you want to be with despite the fact they don't score well on your list of requirements." Right on. I read about a social experiment (I think it was "Blink" or similar book) where before going on spe
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by fduran 14y ago
It is way faster (at least with dd): $ time dd if=/dev/zero of=10MB.dat bs=1M count=10 real 0m0.213s $ time dd if=/dev/urandom of=10MB.dat bs=1M count=10 real 0m8.873s
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by fduran 14y ago
Nice! Purpose looks somehow similar to my https://whisperpassword.com/
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by fduran 14y ago
I have this little script running on cron on all of my servers https://gist.github.com/1870429
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by fduran 14y ago
I thought about the possibility of somebody hogging all the local ports in the level 2 server but I read somewhere that Stripe was resetting unused ports.
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by fduran 14y ago
Arrg! So close https://stripe-ctf.com/progress/fduran if only I had started earlier. For the last level I solved it locally but in the server I didn't get the '3' port difference for the first password chunk (at lest in the first rounds)
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by fduran 14y ago
A movie script couldn't do better: Assange's lawyer is Baltazar Garzon, the Spanish ex-judge who asked London for the extradition of Pinochet.
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by fduran 14y ago
"Switzerland finally allowed women to vote in... drum roll... 1971." the last canton to allow women to vote was forced to do it as late as 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden
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by fduran 14y ago
According to Bezos' biography he was looking for a name that started with 'A' to rank high in the web portals of the time and also he liked the idea of being 'big'.
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by fduran 14y ago
The website can be vastly improved both for SEO (so search engines find it) and conversions (so people buy), some quick ideas easy to implement: - get a domain name with the topic in it (like compilerbook or similar, it doesn't have to
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by fduran 15y ago
"The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" http://www.amazon.com/The-Code-Book-Science-Cryptography/dp/... has a chapter about the Enigma. This book is easy to read as a nice intro to many crypto to
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by fduran 15y ago
MongoDB makes a full flush by default every 30 seconds, it can be forced with the fsync command http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/fsync+Command#fsyncComma...
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Lessons from Canada's Silicon Valley diaspora(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by fduran 15y ago|0 comments
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by fduran 15y ago
This is great although I'm not sure I agree with showing a list of "Recent Worst-Rated" (graded "F", presumed with vulnerabilities), seems like painting a target on some servers.
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by fduran 15y ago
Same idea (one-time URI) but with client-side encryption and sender's email notification (including IP & geolocation of receiver): https://whisperpassword.com/
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Lean Startup Machine event: a little help?(formstack.com)
2 points by fduran 15y ago|0 comments
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by fduran 15y ago
Dropbox also uses deduplication thus reducing those figures
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by fduran 15y ago
You probably know about these but just in case you could also use the books "Founders at Work" and "Startups Open Sourced".
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by fduran 15y ago
I tried some time ago and didn't get the certificate or any email back, not worth the hassle to save $20 imho.
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by fduran 15y ago
I think you need to add an EBS volume (see page 13, Storage Minimum) for permanent storage.
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by fduran 15y ago
" I consider it ($6,612) the replacement value if it’s stolen, or how much my lawyer will send you a bill for if it’s found being used without my permission." I wonder how much his lawyer will send a bill for if someone uses 2 or more of hi
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by fduran 15y ago
Spamhaus may be "bad guys" but the DNS manager company is clearly the one at fault here, what they did is way worse in my book that a false spam positive from spamhaus or even their vigilantism.
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by fduran 15y ago
thanks for the answer, that's great news!

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