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by gwu78 10y ago
"Why do people use the version that's inferior and more complicated?" This question needs little context to be relevant, so long as the topic is "computer programming". Certainly not limited to writing ring buffers.
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by gwu78 10y ago
Is this a multiboot kernel? I use a non-GRUB bootloader than can boot multiboot kernels. Would I be able to use it?
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by gwu78 10y ago
Pipe dream: take over production of AirPort Extreme from Apple, release the hardware specifications to the public, and make it easy for users to install their own kernels, e.g., NetBSD. Reality: as someone else said already, PC Engines or S
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by gwu78 10y ago
echo '{"users":[{"name":"s1","id":1},{"name":"s2","id":2}]}' |exec tr '{' '\12'|exec sed '/name/!d;s/\"/&#x2F
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by gwu78 10y ago
Seems like the BBB is more versatile than the x220. Not to mention it has no ME. +1 for the use of ifdtool.
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by gwu78 10y ago
"And I can use it only at home." In other words you can use it only on a network you control. In other words, at home you can use your own router; you can set the gateway as a computer that you control. Correct? What if you had a
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by gwu78 10y ago
Prolog predates Perl by 15 years.
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by gwu78 10y ago
You can do this easily if you run your own nameserver, e.g., with tinydns. 1 ycombinator: 60 bytes, 1+1+1+0 records, response, authoritative, noerror query: 1 ycombinator answer: ycombinator 1 A 104.20.44.44 authority: . 25
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by gwu78 10y ago
I do this, too. It's called HOSTS and djb's cdb constant database. And one does not need to use a recursive cache to get the IP addresses. Fetching them non-recursively and dumping them to a HOSTS and a cdb file can sometimes be
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by gwu78 10y ago
k4 isn't so bad, either. :) http://kparc.com/q4/ha.txt
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by gwu78 10y ago
Just to clarify to the commenters: The reason it is "important" IMO is because it is a liability not an asset. I do not even use Bash myself; still, I am aware that it has this liability^W capability.
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by gwu78 10y ago
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/index.html
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by gwu78 10y ago
"(I didn't know about it!)" The reference is to the existence of /dev/tcp when using the "Bourne again" shell. Some other large shells, and gawk, have this "feature" as well. Then I noticed he i
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by gwu78 10y ago
Interestingly, no one mentioned a project like BusyBox.
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by gwu78 10y ago
Of the many recurring stupid ideas for startups I have had is a software company that does not write code. Instead it edits and removes code. This has been called "negative coding." Few people write small programs anymore. UNIX
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by gwu78 10y ago
Blogger.com blogs such as this one ("programminggroundup") can be obtained in a single file containing all posts. Text or minimal HTML file. No gratuitous Javascript and no comment spam. See http://news.ycombinator.com
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by gwu78 11y ago
You seem to be assuming that registrars are exempted from this imaginary problem of "tampering". Why should I trust the registrar's data? (Your data.) Why should you trust the registry's data? Why should we trust ftp.in
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by gwu78 11y ago
This is the fourth time in the last 30 days I have seen some blog post about DNSSEC on the front page. Three overtly pushing Cloudflare DNSSEC and one about email and DNSSEC written by a Cloudflare employee. But still no discussion of cach
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by gwu78 11y ago
"In fact, before DANE arrived on the scene, there was hardly a good reason to deploy it [DNSSEC]." As I recall, the problem DNSSEC aimed to solve when it was re-proposed (it failed mutiple times previously), circa 2008, was cache
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by gwu78 11y ago
"DNSSEC isn't about helping you with your security issues." My understatnding of history as I experienced it is that the resurgence of interest in DNSSEC was due to publicized cache poisoning of shared DNS caches circa 2008.
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by gwu78 11y ago
You should read my initial comment. I wrote that I use my own cache bound to the loopback, and not shared with anyone. I asked what benefit I would get from DNSSEC. Also, registrars, in general, are not known for their trustworthiness. Th
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by gwu78 11y ago
I try to avoid SNI and thankfully find a very small percentage of SSL-enabled sites using it, overall. I sniff my own SSL traffic and can see all the domain names for which SNI is being used. Are you saying SSL leaks the domainname in eve
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by gwu78 11y ago
"Here's where you're wrong." Are you sure? If the plain text packet used in DNSSEC is tampered with then how does DNSSEC ensure I get an "accurate result"? Are you saying failure is an "accurate result&q
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by gwu78 11y ago
"They solve two different problems." Well-known fact. And truthfully the most sensible approach would be to use both. Yet I never see anyone doing that. Given the choice between the two problems, I know which one I consider more
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by gwu78 11y ago
"... because DNS, invented in 1983 before the public consumption of the Internet, does not perform any authentication." Authentication of what? An end point? No. A domainname? OK, I'll play along. And why would "authen
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by gwu78 11y ago
It may be infeasible to run a new SMTP-based mail service from "residential IP's" that can interact with the existing email empire, dominated by store and forward middlemen who expect to make money from the "free" e
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by gwu78 11y ago
You could try this link instead. https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8704899696538705849/posts/defa... It will give the contents of the blog, but not sure how modern browsers will render it as is. However if
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by gwu78 11y ago
Hypothetical: Let's say you are a founder and VC tell you that you need to pay off someone to get a certain domain name that matches your startup name. Let's say that someone knows how badly you need this name, and they charge you
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by gwu78 11y ago
There's nothing to stop anyone from creating new RR types in djbdns and put anything in them they want. I edited dnstxt.c many years ago to print new lines, etc. so I could store, retrieve and cache small, _formatted_ ASCII files from
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by gwu78 11y ago
But Apple users (who do not "jailbreak") are prevented from accessing their own device's files, e.g., the HOSTS file. Apple denies the user reasonable control of the device they purchased. (Denying access to the HOSTS file i

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