jingo

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by jingo 12y ago
"Found only on FreeBSD..." Also found on NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD.
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by jingo 12y ago
I suspected I would get downvoted for not loving Dropbox. And I was right. Interesting. FYI rdiff is the reference implementation or first example of a utility written with librsync, which is the library that Dropbox used to build their &
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by jingo 12y ago
I've got something I like better than Dropbox. It's called rdiff. It does one thing only: deduplication. All the other stuff needed for remote, incremental backups, e.g., moving files back and forth over a network, can be done wi
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by jingo 12y ago
Yes. Use lex/flex. You can write one-off (or reuseable) filters in minutes. lex/flex should be in every UNIX distribution that has a C compiler, but maybe that's changing.
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by jingo 12y ago
I use something like this everyday: awk '!($0 in a);a[$0]; print}' I rarely if ever use uniq to remove duplicates. Sorting is expensive.
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by jingo 12y ago
Well, that's another type of error (human error). And TLS will not address that type of error either. I was referring to the case where the email is redirecting to (or through) an unintended recipient. Before my comment is further mis
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by jingo 12y ago
"... during transport" Who cares? I'm more interested in knowing the percentage encrypted _before_ transport. "During transport" requires authentication; otherwise all bets are off. "Before transport" at
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by jingo 12y ago
This is why I prefer static binaries and preferably "crunched" binaries. Same goes for the use of "read-only" mounts and "RAM disks" as opposed to dependence on other, less reliable media. I hope your comment c
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by jingo 12y ago
Please accept my apolgies - I was mistaken. I was thinking of dnscurve.cz and extrapolated this to conclude that nic.cz was dnscurve-friendly. But we now know this is not the case. They do not view it as being worthy of adoption as a &qu
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by jingo 12y ago
I like nic.cz because they are utilising dnscurve. But when I try to compile knot it demands a lot more resources than compiling djbdns (tinydns), or nsd. A bit too much IMO. There is some amusing djb-phobia in this thread. Reminds me of
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by jingo 12y ago
I keep forgetting that GNU echo has an -e option, which, if I'm not mistaken, makes it behave like printf. (Why does it need this feature when there also exists a builtin printf? Nevermind.) Anyway, I didn't think about what hap
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by jingo 12y ago
To be young and running VMS again...
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by jingo 12y ago
echo rm * echo chown -R nobody:nobody *.php echo chmod 000 * echo tar cvvf archive.tar * echo tar cf archive.tar * echo rsync -t *.c foo:src This article starts with the premise that the person executing the com
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by jingo 12y ago
Quote from a bizarro-land lawyer who posts on HN who says he chose his job because he likes confrontation but then deletes his confrontational posts: "You've got the causality reversed. We're not bizarro world because we sue
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by jingo 12y ago
"... everything in this article reads like bizarro-land." Yes, that is how things will look if you live in a sane country like Denmark. But as the top post in this thread acknowledges, in bizarro-land people structure their lives
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by jingo 12y ago
Well, for what it's worth, I agree with you. I think this goes beyond email. Similar to the way consumer applications gratuitously became big and slow as processor speed increased and magnetic drive space increased, today we see gratui
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by jingo 12y ago
Nice to see rump make the front page again. The author's command of the English language easily trumps any deficiencies in multiplication. His little quips crack me up. "All that and a can of paint." "Rump" is jus
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by jingo 12y ago
I've never been impressed with WiFi in general. Glad to see others in this thread reflecting a similar sentiment. I still prefer a wired connection, where possible. Not because I like wires, but because it is more reliable and the pro
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by jingo 12y ago
"that has the well-traveled internet in its cache" I have the well-traveled internet in my HOSTS file. No DNS lookups, recursive or not, is always faster than 1 or more. When this sort of discussion comes up, I always ponder the n
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by jingo 12y ago
"They're trying to protect the integrity of the DNS queries." Then why are they using a DNS cache run by a third party (who they do not know) on the open internet, and shared with other users they do not know? The entire foc
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by jingo 13y ago
I hope that readers understand you don't need a RPi or dnsmasq to accomplish ad blocking. That said, this in my opinion an excellent use of a small form factor computer: as a gateway. As a side note, what would happen if we put our ow
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by jingo 13y ago
"... who likes to code." What language does she prefer? Does she prefer complexity or simplicity? Is her code verbose or terse? So many questions. Does any of this matter? If you're into coding, then the answer is "Y
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by jingo 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he was paid to write BIND, and maybe some other programs you think he did for your benefit, for "free". And I'm sure these "free" programs, with all their vulnerabilities, have resulted in quite
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by jingo 13y ago
Slide 55 http://image.slidesharecdn.com/bhslides-130803155156-phpapp0...
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by jingo 13y ago
Just because you cannot see an alternative does not mean one does not exist. Furthermore, it does not imply that we should not contemplate alteratives. But since you mentioned it, it's not unfathomable to think that NSA could help the
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by jingo 13y ago
"The web is improved to that point." I respectfully, but strongly, disagree. While you or I might be able to find what we are looking for, we cannot extrapolate this to mean that "users" (in the general sense) can do the
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by jingo 13y ago
Just so I understand correctly, are you saying you would like to be able to read HN using an nntp client?
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by jingo 13y ago
I've been using HTTPS Wikipedia for years. It's great to see them make it the default. But considering what Wikipedia is, users wanting increased privacy could just download a copy of the encyclopedia and do their searches offlin
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by jingo 13y ago
Imagine if the navigational system of the web could be improved to the point where most users could easily find what they were looking for... so much so, that there was little room for middlemen ("affiliates"). Imagine further tha
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by jingo 13y ago
The USC has been available in HTML or ASCII for many years. From house.gov, gpo.gov and cornell.edu, to name a few sources.

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