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by jackalope 13y ago
Be careful when doing this. Some systems require an email address and employees will make one up to get to the next screen. If that address is valid (or not bounced), someone can get control of your account with something as simple as a pas
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by jackalope 13y ago
There's HTML's rel="next" & rel="prev"[1], but that doesn't help if you want pagination on non-HTML resources (like a slideshow of raw images, or an audio/video playlist). There's an interesting article on Technical Taco, "Range header,
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by jackalope 13y ago
I also considered using a DNS resource record (like SPF and DKIM), but HTTPS is more secure. What is the reasoning behind this statement? Resolving the hostname for the HTTPS site still requires DNS. Is it because DNS isn't encrypted, so
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by jackalope 13y ago
Another possibility was that the hostnames were leaked via the SSL certificate. I've seen evidence of spiders using this for discovery, including Google. Your best protection in that case is to use a wildcard certificate, if you want it to
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by jackalope 13y ago
They're not. That comparison was taken from the Inconsolata-g page and is either outdated or inaccurate. Visit the Inconsolata page to see the actual font (which hasn't changed since 2009, I believe): http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconso
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by jackalope 13y ago
Once upon a time, I drank this koolaid, but no more. Many things in life are ephemeral, including information. To suggest that a webmaster's responsibility is to hoard data for eternity is both scatological and counterproductive. As the Web
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by jackalope 14y ago
I use mutt's built-in IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It works flawlessly for me (Mutt 1.5.21).
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by jackalope 14y ago
I could cite multiple reasons, but the main one I see is that the people who pay for and specify the requirements of a project are often nontechnical and don't delegate any decision making authority to technical personnel, no matter how muc
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by jackalope 14y ago
"...it was fair use because the ads were preserved..." Since when does fair use require the preservation of ads or any specific portion of the content? Your argument dilutes the meaning and intent of fair use. Even the matter of being fre
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by jackalope 14y ago
It's extremely unlikely that spoofed headers or the lack of an SPF record would get you listed on an RBL, especially Spamhaus. I can't guess what happened in your case, but somehow your IP address obtained a bad reputation or was unlucky en
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by jackalope 14y ago
Even worse, Persona promises that "Developers get a verified email address for all of their users," which might be mistakenly construed as some degree of identity assurance, which can't be guaranteed by this system at all, especially when
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by jackalope 14y ago
But requesting a resource without knowing it exists is abusive, and the fact that more and more developers think it's an appropriate means of discovery is becoming a serious problem. It saps resources, fills logs with noise, and can tri
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by jackalope 14y ago
Data corruption is unforgivable. My bank might have have better accountants, stronger safes, great hours, terrific customer service and round-the-clock security, but you can bet that if they randomly lost my money on a regular basis (or eve
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by jackalope 14y ago
Wow. When I ran OS X Leopard on this 17" MacBook Pro w/4GB RAM, all the fancy pages posted on HN used to peg my cores at 100% and made the fans roar like jet engines. Now I'm running Slackware Linux (64 bit) on it, and this page is running
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by jackalope 14y ago
Yes. If self-driving cars significantly reduce accidents, insurance companies can use it as incentive to lower rates. The rates for cars that can only be driven manually might even skyrocket.
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by jackalope 14y ago
Are we to believe that these are some sort of magic eagles to which the laws of physics do not apply?
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by jackalope 14y ago
From the same article: RHEL trees are forked off the Fedora repository, and released after a substantial stabilization and quality assurance effort. Which adds a quote from the Fedora Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial ent
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by jackalope 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that comparison. Slackware-current will become the next stable release once all of the kinks have been worked out. Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora?
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by jackalope 14y ago
The ServerAliveInterval option might also help with another issue mentioned in the post: 'sshfs_mount' is not really stable, any network failure will be troublesome' To avoid trouble with remote backups and other long running processes, I
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by jackalope 14y ago
I use agent forwarding often, but you still need to be careful, especially if you forward your agent to a machine not under your control. From the ssh man page: Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to by
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by jackalope 14y ago
One merely has to refer to RFC 1149[1] to determine why this solution is obviously unacceptable: "Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service." "...only guarantees best effort delivery, loss of a carri
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by jackalope 14y ago
I haven't tried Windows 8 on a desktop, yet (I couldn't get the consumer preview to work on any of my machines or in a VM). But I did switch from an Android to a WP8 phone and couldn't be happier. In that form factor, WP8 is exactly what I
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by jackalope 14y ago
You can do it locally with qrencode[1], which is available via MacPorts and Homebrew. It would probably simplify the script, too (especially if converted to bash). On an X11 environment, I can select some text and get the same results on th
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by jackalope 14y ago
It's a fair point, though. The href attribute tends be very long, so if your criteria is readability, do you opt for attribute soup or put it in a wrapper div or span? It's a subjective decision, and I don't think there's a right or wrong a
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by jackalope 14y ago
I see, but I think the same principle applies, even in this narrow case. As a server admin guy or fellow software dev guy, I have to trust that any code you've written has been properly reviewed before checking it into a repository that I p
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by jackalope 14y ago
Maybe this is considered a preinstallation step, but the very first thing to do is set the system time on the hardware, before you even boot the OS for the first time. Then the first step after booting is to confirm the time and reset it, i
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by jackalope 14y ago
Your private key should have a strong passphrase. I agree that using a passphrase-less key is bad practice. As for keyloggers, once they obtain your password, they have succeeded. But after obtaining a key's passphrase (which you normally o
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by jackalope 14y ago
Quite the contrary: You're probably going to end up with documented procedures for deploying software that are simplified, follow existing standards/best practices, and don't rely on complex stone soup build/init scripts concocted by inex
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by jackalope 14y ago
Before Software Update was integrated with the Mac App Store, Xcode was an optional install from the DVD that was also freely and anonymously updated via Software Update (beginning with Snow Leopard, I believe). It allowed me to freely and
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by jackalope 14y ago
But it still requires an Apple ID, and that's what bothers me. Xcode should be an optional install included with the OS or downloadable anonymously. After all, I need it to install free software with MacPorts/Homebrew/pkgsrc, so I don't t

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