jamess

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by jamess 18y ago
Click to focus is not (historically, at least) the only focus model nor necessarily even the best. It used to be the case that most environment used focus follows mouse. My personal preference for focus scheme is focus follows mouse, click
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by jamess 18y ago
I use the same password (OK, two passwords, one high strengh, one disposable) and have a bookmarklet that hashes the password with the site's base URL. Works well for me.
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by jamess 18y ago
It doesn't personally interest me, but I can imagine there are people who would use it. Why don't you prototype it on Ning and see if the idea gets any traction? That would seem like a quick and easy way to get feedback.
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by jamess 18y ago
If you're going to enter in to any sort of exclusive contact, you're going to want to make sure that the contact specifies some minimum sales volume that you are happy with. If they won't commit to any such term, or the volume is too low th
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by jamess 18y ago
Ah, my favourite vanity topic. This week I are mostly listening to Survival of the fattest by Prince Fatty.
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Nokia announce N97, remarkable touch handset with all the bells and whistles.(allaboutsymbian.com)
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by jamess 18y ago
To some extent, yes, this is short sighted. Languages are all much of a muchness. A decade ago, Perl was the flavour of the month. All the hot new sites used it. Today the same niche is filled by Ruby, and Perl is something of a pariah amon
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by jamess 18y ago
I'd go for the IBM position, regardless of which pays more. For one thing, the advantage of working at a large established company is they'll teach you how to write software. There are a truly vast number of things about writing software pr
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by jamess 18y ago
There are things you should do right now to deal with the debt. First off, the rack space contract. You can almost certainly get out of it by phoning the company and explaining that the choice isn't between cancelling the contract now or ge
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by jamess 18y ago
Your fundamental assumption is totally wrong. You simply cannot calculate the signature once and then store it and use it forever after, even for static content. That leaves you open to a whole class of attacks from a simple replay on up. T
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by jamess 18y ago
I think that would be a fair assessment, yes. Classic case of person with no security training or experience trying to do security. The more I read it, the more painful it seems. You have to do a TLS handshake with the server anyway to get
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by jamess 18y ago
Ever hear the term "computationally expensive"? Here's a hint, modular exponentiation of very big numbers is an extremely expensive operation. Encrypting a block of plaintext with a bulk cipher is a very cheap operation. Thanks to the marve
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by jamess 18y ago
For Linux, and probably a mac you can do such a thing with a small shell script, possibly even running it from cron if you so desire. Just issue an ifconfig down for the appropriate interface, and possibly swap the sudoers file if you're re
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by jamess 18y ago
Back in the day, I was heavily involved in reverse engineering iTunes to figure out the "authentication" hash sent with DAAP requests. I very quickly got sick of chasing my tail every time Apple unilaterally decided to change their protocol
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by jamess 18y ago
Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I really fail to understand new economy 2.0. Companies that have no revenue buying other companies that have no revenue and rejecting purchasing attempts from other companies who have no revenue who w
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by jamess 18y ago
Oy Vey. You know why netflix didn't happen before everyone had DVD players? Because VHS tapes are bulky and heavy. They cost more to send, and don't fit through many letter boxes. I can't imagine how you can possibly do this with any reason
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by jamess 18y ago
You'd be insane to ask for email conformation as part of your sales process. Go to any web store, none of them do it. Your customer has little motivation to supply a false email address, as they may need support by email at a later date. Th
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by jamess 18y ago
Are you sure that's not a bias you're bringing to the situation? I fail to see how it being a "poor country" comes in to the matter at all. You could say the same about any country, that people aren't going to turn down "free money" but in
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by jamess 18y ago
Have you tried the simplest possible means, merely asking them? Ask students who want the scholarship to apply, and discourage those who already have the means to pay from applying. Then simply award the scholarship to the most able from th
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by jamess 18y ago
Aw, man. Don't make me bang my head on the desk. You can't do this by polling free information from the web! Tourists aren't interested in when the next Linux user group meeting is! You need your own list of events updated from local knowle
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by jamess 18y ago
I tried a number of cities, your own home of San Francisco, my own of Cambridge, UK as well as some others I'm familiar with like Bangalore and Tapei. I was very disappointed that the San Francisco guide was of far worse quality than the Ca
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by jamess 18y ago
A great idea poorly implemented. Most of the info seems to be cadged without attribution from wikitravel, often with the formatting poorly stripped. I'd really love to be able to create a guide tailored to my interests, but this isn't anywh
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by jamess 18y ago
Oh dear god. I can only hope this is an attempt to crack idiots servers, rather than a serious service. I love the "it's your responsibility to secure your key in transit" disclaimer.
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by jamess 18y ago
I installed a firefox 3 beta some time ago and hated it. I'm still using firefox 2, though I guess at some point soon they're probably going to abandon the branch and push firefox 3 on me via automatic updates. I'm not terribly looking forw
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by jamess 18y ago
Not to mention that the average hacker is usually far better equipped to manage a Unix flavoured server than a Windows server. With small companies who can't afford to have a full time sysadmin on staff, what you know is a powerful motivato
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by jamess 18y ago
It's not really a joke, it's actually from an RFC. The IETF has a noble tradition of publishing amusing RFCs on April 1st. cf. IP datagrams on Avian Carriers, Electricity over IP et al.
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by jamess 18y ago
I simply don't buy this argument. Who cares if there's a wealth of experience out there regarding XML? When you're designing software, if your primary goal is making it easy on your developers, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. There is one situation,
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by jamess 18y ago
The problem with "not caring who you're dealing with", is that it raises the possibility that who you're actually dealing with is a man in the middle, who is snooping on your traffic. If you get warned that a certificate is self-signed or s
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by jamess 18y ago
They used to have a far more expansive certificate, with a subject alt. name good for *.google.com, and I think google.com as well, so they could use it on subdomains like adsense.google.com. It was a really handy server for testing TLS imp
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by jamess 18y ago
There's plenty of code on the Nokia wiki, including a complete compass application: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/GPS_Compass (See also, the location category index http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Symbian_C%2B%2B_Locati...

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