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by hosay123 14y ago
Every time a service like this appears (along with Fiber, Google DNS, Ajax Libs, Google Analytics, ..) I'm left feeling that traffic data produced as a side product is somehow being reused internally. My wild (and least paranoid) guess is s
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by hosay123 14y ago
An evil person with e.g. a stolen SSH key can escalate privileges on a machine without needing the user's password. It's not simply about sudo working as designed, it allows bypassing sudo's user authentication entirely. I can think of a ha
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by hosay123 14y ago
Did it literally crash, or just hang? One joyful misfeature of LevelDB (which forms the basis of Chrome's implementation) is that when a particular write rate is exceeded for a sustained period, LevelDB will fall behind merging old segments
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by hosay123 14y ago
That's a fair point, however my personal expectation would be that unlike a perl (or PHP or Python or .. solution), App Engine probably won't exist in its current form as a supported product in 16 years. Maybe it'll go the way of Wave, or p
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by hosay123 14y ago
> I'm going to assume everyone experiencing this issue is using M/S. Upgrading to HRD will solve your issue. This is the reason I abandoned AE and part of why adopting a platform that isn't standardized is incredibly dangerous. The
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Businesses can't claim PCI DSS compliance by using cloud providers(out-law.com)
1 points by hosay123 14y ago|0 comments
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's worth pointing out this is done in pure Javascript , and works by compiling PDF functions to equivalent Javascript functions which are then visible to Firefox's JIT. Despite being only around a year old, it still manages to render the
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by hosay123 14y ago
You mean the one where if you stop using an account, it gets deleted?
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by hosay123 14y ago
Remember Emscripten is not the last word, it only demonstrates such translators are possible, and I believe is still the only such example thus far. Given a small team the experience might be significantly improved, especially considering E
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by hosay123 14y ago
Failed to create random directory /tmp/pulse-CcctT9RwKSB1: Permission denied Looks like something bad has happened to file permissions? As root, "chmod 4777 /tmp" and reboot. If a recursive chmod has gone awry and messed up permis
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by hosay123 14y ago
So login succeeds but it kicks you out again immediately? Check /var/log to ensure authentication succeeds. If it does, then something is broken with your X session. Start reading from ~/.Xsession and work outwards. Try replacing your homed
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Google sues BT in UK and US over alleged patent infringement(out-law.com)
7 points by hosay123 14y ago|2 comments
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by hosay123 14y ago
As with many (but not all) things Microsoft do, when the thick layers of gelatinous hivemind diatribe are pealed away what's left are sound, conscientious engineering decisions made by an organization with a near pristine history of support
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by hosay123 14y ago
Encrypt it and store the key anywhere except on the drive. To erase, simply destroy the key. Many motherboards come with a tamper-proof key storage device you can reset on command (the TPM). There's a SATA secure erase command, but its been
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by hosay123 14y ago
Good point, though I think for a machine averaging even 40mb/sec this only amounts to one 'batch' every 1.2gb receiving an extra sync. Linux recently changed so that pdflush doesn't exist at all, when the dirty list fills, a per-device thre
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by hosay123 14y ago
Modern SSDs simply don't work like this, they all internally use some variant of log-structured storage, such that regardless of the user's write pattern a single continuous stream is generated and only one method is needed to distribute mo
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by hosay123 14y ago
ptr = mmap(..., len, ..) /* do stuff with ptr */ msync(ptr, len) No sane OS will pay attention to an mmapped region while it isn't under memory pressure, so dirty pages are effectively buffered until you explicitly tell th
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by hosay123 14y ago
On many architectures almost any stack overrun will overwrite the frame pointer in C, resulting in a corrupted stack trace. As mentioned in my second comment, I slightly conflated what C and JVM crashes look like – the comparison was poor.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Sorry, I'm conflating my own crash experiences. :) You're totally right, a JVM and a JSVM can crash in horrendous ways, but 99% of the time you'll get a nice stack trace.
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by hosay123 14y ago
How does this differ from debugging any other VM? Except in Javascript you're almost guaranteed your 'crash' will come as an exception with a stack trace – guaranteeably raised by the only executing single thread that could contribute state
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by hosay123 14y ago
OP, please heed http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. * If the original title includes the name of the site, plea
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by hosay123 14y ago
As much as I love Mozilla for precisely this reason, it cannot go without remark that the majority of their funding continues to come from the metaphorical privacy antichrist, Google. This could change as early as 2014 when the search contr
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by hosay123 14y ago
There is little motivation in commenting unless in the process I can enhance or validate my understanding. Often this naturally means arguing details until out of breath, or my diatribe is so sufficiently beaten back that I'm too exasperate
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by hosay123 14y ago
Are you objecting to the removal of "overpriced" (irrelevant opinion) or the addition of specific examples?
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Apple manufacture consumer entertainment devices that are neither safety critical in nature nor difficult to field test. Think more along the lines of Boeing, Northrop Grumman or Raytheon.
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by hosay123 14y ago
It would take an immensely ballsy release engineer to approve switching from GCC to clang even for a modestly sized, mature codebase. I can think of at least two Fortune 500s where this will almost certainly never happen: the potential cost
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by hosay123 14y ago
Certain "journalists" are seriously jumping the gun if they assume GCC is just going to shrivel up and die. In addition to mainline, it is used privately in a hundred different branches, several of which are commercially supported (e.g. Cod
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by hosay123 14y ago
A social network that does nothing but serves web pages isn't a "social network", it is a "web server" A social network that does nothing but allow the user make use of web applications is not a "social network", it is often called an "appl
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by hosay123 14y ago
According to the definition from the source document, visiting this link is probably sufficient for you to be counted as a Google+ user.
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Google Fiber "not a hobby": scoring the web at 1Tbps(mewzings.posterous.com)
4 points by hosay123 14y ago|0 comments

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