ianburrell

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1951.
by ianburrell 13y ago
The issue is that new devices don't have filesystems that can be exported over USB mass storage. Instead of having a small data partition and big FAT32 external storage partition, they have a single bigger data partition with a media storag
1952.
by ianburrell 14y ago
My cable modem and router are brand new since I deliberately bought IPv6 capable ones so I can use IPv6 when it becomes available. Mobile seems to be the area with the most IPv6 adoption. Verizon Wireless has 25% of traffic on IPv6. Verizon
1953.
by ianburrell 14y ago
At this point, IPv4.1 wouldn't solve the problem since it would require upgrading lots of software and hardware that already supports IPv6. If it had been developed ten years ago, then a slight modification to IPv4 might have flown. One pos
1954.
by ianburrell 14y ago
Comcast is a bad example since they are furthest along deploying IPv6 of any of the major US ISPs. They have coverage for 50% of customers. But only 1% of traffic is IPv6 mostly because customer equipment doesn't support it. Cable modems ne
1955.
by ianburrell 14y ago
I think you could make YAML safer and still support most usage by just preventing the deserializer from making any explicit native types. Just support the default types (string, list, map) and ignore all language specific tags. In fact, it
1956.
by ianburrell 14y ago
PostgreSQL intervals are smarter than just number of seconds between two datetimes. They can represent "1 month" or "1 year" which can't be represented as a number of seconds. Also, intervals can be used between dates or times, not just dat
1957.
by ianburrell 14y ago
With whole disk encryption, the disk is always encrypted. While running, the decryption key is stored in memory and used to decrypt/encrypt blocks. When communication is cut, they are presumably purging the key from memory. The password wou
1958.
by ianburrell 14y ago
Both OO-XML and ODF are XML based. They both put the main XML document in a ZIP archive along with metadata and other resources.
1959.
by ianburrell 14y ago
SRP is a protocol to authenticate without exchanging passwords. It has the advantage that the server only ever sees and stores a verifier based on the hashed password. However, the password is still vulnerable to brute forcing. There is an
1960.
by ianburrell 14y ago
Facebook does something different. They accept two extra variants of the password (first letter capitalized and case reversed). They don't uppercase the password before hashing or checking. This reduces the security slightly as opposed to u
1961.
by ianburrell 15y ago
You have to put the dot at the end to make it a fully-qualified name otherwise the resolver will think it is a hostname and add the local domain.
1962.
by ianburrell 15y ago
My impression is that OpenFlow is most useful for internal networks. Instead of having smart switch, you have controllable switches and a smart controller. But I guess it would be useful for splitting up border routers into a switch and con
1963.
by ianburrell 15y ago
The failure with fsync is not that the system call will fail but that it will succeed but be wrong about writing to durable storage.
1964.
by ianburrell 15y ago
That shouldn't be a problem for the Amazon Fire. It has the Amazon Appstore and that contains a bunch of ebook reader apps, including Aldiko and Kobo which both read ePub books. The former even does Adobe DRM.
1965.
by ianburrell 15y ago
Some of the other articles mention that the Nook Tablet runs Gingerbread.
1966.
by ianburrell 15y ago
I thought the researched decompiled the Skype client, posted the resulting source, reversed engineered the protocol, and wrote open source implementation. The decompiled source is definitely a derivative work and possibly copyrighted by Sky
1967.
by ianburrell 16y ago
It sounds like one of the motivations for this change is to allow the root partition to be kept read-only. For that to work, /var would need to be a separate partition and writable. There are still a few files and directories, like /etc/lvm
1968.
by ianburrell 16y ago
The problem is that they will be required to sell subscriptions through Apple. The new rule is that apps that offer subscriptions through other sources must also include in-app subscriptions for the same price through Apple's store.
1969.
by ianburrell 16y ago
A good example of this is Clickpass that Hacker News uses for logins. With Google, it asks for access to "Google Contacts". There is no explanation of why it needs access to Contacts or what it is going to do with it. As far as I can tell,
1970.
by ianburrell 16y ago
50% of IPv4 addresses were in class A (0-127). But only 40 of the blocks were assigned to organizations in legacy assignments.