fowl2

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1. 181.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   I think scaling is more about serving demand - whether you you use more resources on a single box, more resources by using more boxes or use the same resources more efficiently you're still scaling.
2. 182.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   this... is certainly not my experience. However, they're a large organisation so they're most likely schizophrenic.
3. 183.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   Does it still include your real email address in the headers?
4. 184.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   When you purchase a nexus device, it's IMEI, effectively a serial number, can be linked to a Google Account so that the first boot experience can prefill stuff - I think this is optional but it's been a while.
5. 185.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   Interesting that Apple's root program is effectively anonymous– sent from a group alias and signed off as a program.
6. 186.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   They're hinting/implying that there'll be no captive portal - that makes it 1000% times more useful and friendly, even with just a small data cap. If only it extended to the airport - their stupid registration system is a PIT
7. 187.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   Or CAML... hides
8. 188.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   Both? ;)
9. 189.▲
   by fowl2 10y ago

   So, uh, why doesn't he just use OpenBSD? They take security seriously. (not being snarky, really!)
10. 190.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    Does uploading music to Google Drive work as an ingress point for Play Music (and it's 50k free song storage)? Their uploader is... something.
11. 191.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    Linked FTA: "However, a source with direct knowledge of the situation has now responded to Light Reading about the report by saying these claims of drastic job cuts at Google Fiber are false. " (emphasis mine) http://w
12. 192.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    And yet, the first thing I did was read the comments here- to determine if the article was worth tapping.
13. 193.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    thanks!
14. 194.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    Good to see they're going back to a simpler branching/linear model. The combinatorial explosion of versions to test/support with 20+ independent patches PER MONTH must be/have been ridiculous. They've been moving th
15. 195.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    "McAfee Web Gateway" thinks this is porn, great.
16. 196.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    Hopefully they didn't tie their integrity/authenticity enforcement to their encryption... Although I'm guessing the whole segment is loaded into ram and verified by the bootloader at boot then never touched again.
17. 197.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    distance in this instance, is your friend. (have you ever looked at a bus stop ad or billboard up close?)
18. 198.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    > the telco who most assuredly would have known what the lines were for yeah, about that...
19. 199.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    insert saying about how configuration is just programming but worse in every way
20. 200.▲
    by fowl2 10y ago

    Once you get into emails/data you're blurring the line seriously... (I mean, that means you've got a HTML renderer, so you've gotta push updates every 12 weeks or so)
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    Office365 Auth Bypass (fixed) – The road to hell is paved with SAML Assertions(economyofmechanism.com)

    3 points by fowl2 10y ago|0 comments
22. 202.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    The fact that the software was Open Source is completely irrelevant, other than the fact that it means that it was possible to fix it, given resources.
23. 203.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    That was intentional to force programs to work with spaces and "special" characters.
24. 204.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    A slightly easier option is "powercfg -energy" - does a 1 minute sample and spits out a little html report. Also includes some info about driver/firmware limitations, wake up sources, supported power states etc.
25. 205.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    it's also installed by millions of other applications - a sony laptop I had once shipped with some "music management" app installed by default that used it.
26. 206.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    well there there is also the option of 'just' refunding the cars
27. 207.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    SOMA flashbacks Watch out for that structure gel!
28. 208.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    It's beautiful and flat in IE11 ;P
29. 209.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    It'll all be iCloud. Caching server I'm kinda surprised they haven't done P2P content distribution. or at least sold caching servers 'Appliance'-style.
30. 210.▲
    by fowl2 11y ago

    I think he's refering to things like Apple's "bitcode". http://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/