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by indygreg2 15y ago
Firefox's Sync synchronizes more frequently now than it did a few releases ago. If it doesn't synchronize fast enough for you, power users can always open about:config and fuddle with the services.sync preferences. services.sync.syncInterva
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by indygreg2 15y ago
Through versions 2.x, there were assert()s peppered throughout the code that could be triggered if malformed data was sent over the wire, making it unsuitable for internet exposure. There was also behavior in durable sockets where messages
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by indygreg2 15y ago
There are some follow-up posts in the thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/84469/fo... To summarize, use the FFI library ( http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html ) which enables LuaJIT to directly access C types and functio
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by indygreg2 15y ago
Blogofile works for me. http://blogofile.com/
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by indygreg2 15y ago
Technical details would be interesting. Until then, here's Urban Airship's post from last year on 500k connections on Linux: http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-...
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by indygreg2 15y ago
For Firefox users, may I recommend ShareMeNot ( http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ ). It also nukes the tracking behavior of Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Google +1. Or, if you are an Adblock Plus user and want to kill Faceboo
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by indygreg2 15y ago
It is worth noting that support for CSS 3D Transforms was committed to Firefox this week. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505115 for all the gory details.
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by indygreg2 15y ago
This was published in 2003: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251354 That doesn't change the importance of securing against timing side-channel attacks, however.
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by indygreg2 15y ago
An identical file encrypted with key X will be a different blob from one encrypted by key Y. About the best you can do is slice the file into N byte blocks and dedupe on that (this is what some modern filesystems like ZFS do).
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by indygreg2 15y ago
If I were the product manager of a search engine and our chief competitor had an offering (411) that we didn't (at least branded in our name) and the cost to deploy said offering was cheap (because we already had one very similar due to a r
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by indygreg2 15y ago
I was working at Microsoft/Tellme at the time Bing411 was launched and would like to state a few facts: - When launched, Bing411 was essentially a re-branding of Tellme's 1-800-555-TELL service. - 1-800-555-TELL has been running since 2000