jrabone

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by jrabone 13y ago
Reading "The Soul of a New Machine" [1], the story of building the successor to the Eclipse, when I was 13/14 was what made me want to work with computers, although I couldn't decide whether hardware or software was cooler. DEC had already
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by jrabone 13y ago
Relays don't glow. Those are dekatron[1] gas-discharge (neon) tubes, the machine version of the human-readable Nixie lamps. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron
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by jrabone 13y ago
I think OP is (mis)quoting The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Ah, Notes; the best UI, bar none. I remember discovering the mail window had NO horizontal scrollbar as I moved the cursor down a line and it skipped to the end of a truly epic set of Received: headers, all on one line, with NO WAY TO GET B
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by jrabone 14y ago
Don't know if that's deliberate but I love the idea of a "rage view"; describes my browsing to a tee if I can't have my AdBlock.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yeah, because the scene totally needs more drama to distract us from the latest Bitcoin / Mtgox debacle...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Test coverage is a pain, but if you don't cover your exceptional cases the chances are good that your best bugs will be hiding there. For example, some HTTP client implementations require you to consume any HTTP entity to avoid leaking conn
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by jrabone 14y ago
Having grown up near Liverpool in the 80's, frankly I wished they'd just bulldoze the place. Does no one remember Derek Hatton and the loony left?
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's a similar experience in Java-land when you throw out the frameworks and all the servlet container bullshit and just start up an embedded Jetty. It's easy, lightweight, fast, you can do anything you want without crapping out mountains o
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by jrabone 14y ago
Just buy Draytek. Playtime is over. Pricy but mine lasted 7 years before I replaced it with another Draytek (for dual WAN support). Bomb proof and great VPN support out of the box. I bridge my parent's network to mine over VPN, and the Linu
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by jrabone 14y ago
Hmmm. I don't know where they are in terms of sentience, but I kinda feel sorry for the jellyfish. It's the main reason I don't keep pets of any sort, but particularly fish. I love aquaria, but even the truly huge ones don't seem large enou
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by jrabone 14y ago
A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Some of the Win32 GDI functions have been kernel-mode since NT4 for performance reasons (closer to the graphics driver). As for the font problem, the on-going saga of KB2753842 may be to blame: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2753842 It l
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by jrabone 14y ago
One could indeed, and again there is some precedent for writing services in "unusual" languages. However, the service ecosystem, tooling and deployment was/is entirely custom; they'd need to add support for JavaScript to an awful lot of int
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by jrabone 14y ago
- Amazon.com. Don't know. Very unlikely; Amazon's backend is basically Perl talking to an SoA via an internal service definition language. A change to server-side JS would require a re-write of almost everything (which isn't unprecedented
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by jrabone 14y ago
Or if you use AdBlock, give Fan boy's Social Annoyances filter list a go.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Nothing new here... https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/alt.humor.... [1997]
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by jrabone 14y ago
OP didn't ask for a complete firewall script, and besides they should be writing their own rather than copy-pasting the whole thing. Of course there's more to it. The global limit on scp is fine; this is an internet-facing server with minim
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by jrabone 14y ago
Simple 3 attempts per minute rate-limiter: echo " (eth0 - SSH rate check)" iptables -N SSH_CHECK iptables -A SSH_CHECK -m recent --set --name SSH iptables -A SSH_CHECK -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 3 --name SSH -j DR
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by jrabone 14y ago
That PayPal data almost certainly also goes directly to Palantir (another Peter Thiel company), to be added to the vast corpus of information they (and by association the three letter agencies & DoD contractors) hold on you. Palantir ar
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by jrabone 14y ago
I wonder how many people's ISPs are still inserting their mobile numbers into the HTTP request headers? (remember https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3508857 ?)
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by jrabone 14y ago
From the T&C: "You are expressly prohibited from accessing DEVAUCT through a virtual private network or by proxy;" WTF? a) unenforcable. b) breaks IronKey Secure Sessions. c) breaks compressing mobile browsers eg. Opera Mobile etc. d) d
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by jrabone 14y ago
I thought I'd seen "Friends of Christians who like...", "Spouses of friends of Christians who like..." which does a lot of the legwork for you in terms of inferences. The problem with Graph Search is, well, it's a graph; I suspect many peop
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by jrabone 14y ago
Or just use an IronKey ( http://www.ironkey.com/ ). I have an older device with > 130 unique login and password combinations and VeriSign VIP (RSA token) authentication. Works very well for me although the Linux support isn't great. It
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by jrabone 14y ago
Seen any music software or soft synth plugins recently? (eg. Rebirth http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/rebirth-reborn-as-synt... )
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by jrabone 14y ago
Actually, Windows 7 audio DOES do this - I see separate volume controls for applications if I click on the volume control tray icon. Likely requires driver support for the feature.
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by jrabone 14y ago
I'm afraid it's glitchy, and there's something horrible happening on the square panel above the door - looks like two flats superimposed, or transparency moire, or some such. Sorry, but I'm not especially impressed - this is on a high end d
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by jrabone 14y ago
I have to say I don't think Windows' Java situation is any worse than the mess that is gcj / classpath. Install4J is free-as-in-beer BTW, but you do tend to get what you pay for on Windows, especially with virtualisation software. Deleting
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by jrabone 14y ago
Indeed. Scratch a working heterogenous single sign-on environment based on Linux servers and I think you'll find well-paid admin staff behind it. Interop is just not simple, although with Samba 4 it might just have got better - I've not tri
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by jrabone 14y ago
Are you sure about that? Novell / NT Domains, then subsequently Active Directory has been a big part of every large corporation I've worked at over the last 20 years. Externally the web servers might be UNIX, but internally the infrastructu

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