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Ultra Marathons Might Be Ultra Bad for Your Heart(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
3 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Obnam 1.0 (backup software); a story in many words(liw.fi)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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TomTom: from PND to FUD(systemed.net)
2 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Dancer Template, now with more cowbell(cowbell.cancan.cshl.edu)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Ah, I missed that, sorry. I think the point stands for the Blizzard case - there seems to be an assumption in some corners that the password is stored plain text, but I would imagine case neutralised (so to speak) passwords are hashed.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Why not just lcase everything during initial hashing and later auth? sha1sum(lcase($passwd). $salt);
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by fuzzix 14y ago
I recommended the Minimoog VA VST to some people earlier: http://home.no/gunnare/ A lot of fun if you have a Windows installation knocking about. Free VST host, if you need one: http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm Not quite t
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A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering(arstechnica.com)
2 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"English is my third language" I don't think that's the problem - I had no idea what shrinkage is and: - English is my first language - I've worked in retail (though I rarely paid attention back then)
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Le PERL est mort(slideshare.net)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Traveling salesman art(johndcook.com)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Most frustrations I've had with Perl/Ruby/Python have been down to inconsistent, incomplete or out-of-date packaging by the software distribution. I've found I can mitigate most of this by using perlbrew/cpanminus, pythonbrew/pip and rvm/ge
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Life-extending properties of buckyballs questioned(newscientist.com)
5 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
The work done on the Perl SDL bindings of late has been sterling - it had been stagnating for quite a while, AFAIK.
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SQL Pie Chart(code.openark.org)
5 points by fuzzix 14y ago|1 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"Prepared statements? PHP is actually more secure..." The most commonly used module for mysql access, mysql (not mysqli for some reason), does not support bound parameter prepared statements instead opting for some very funky string escapin
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The Hacker Shelf(hackershelf.com)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Many software distributions are deprecating tcp-wrapper which denyhosts depends on. I've migrated to fail2ban which supports iptables and can monitor services other than ssh.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
"Tizag, which is second in the results, is a pretty good resource." Their Perl tutorial set is pretty terrible. They call it "PERL" (it's Perl), they believe the latest stable version is 5.10 (it's 5.14) and the code samples are simply awfu
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by fuzzix 15y ago
"There are even government initiatives such as the JobBridge scheme that allow start-up companies hire people free of charge" JobBridge has been roundly derided as a source of cheap/free labour for less than scrupulous restaurants , shops e
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The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists(nytimes.com)
389 points by fuzzix 15y ago|262 comments
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MPAA Exec: Only We Can Make Content That People Want(techdirt.com)
4 points by fuzzix 15y ago|3 comments
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by fuzzix 15y ago
51% of zdnet.com is PR fluff churnalism. Only 49% is legitimate banner ads.
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Should we rewrite the autism rule book?(newscientist.com)
5 points by fuzzix 15y ago|0 comments
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Object-oriented design patterns in the (Linux) kernel, part 1(lwn.net)
1 points by fuzzix 15y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 15y ago
We're all well aware of the Usenet flamewar 20 years ago. What has that to do with Minix now?
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Mojolicious + Bootstrap = Awesome(blogs.perl.org)
2 points by fuzzix 15y ago|1 comments
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Again, sorry for the shite submission. Some people enjoyed it, I guess.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Yep, sorry about that, didn't realise the clickthrough article forced signup either. Delete?
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Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40(newscientist.com)
177 points by fuzzix 15y ago|76 comments

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