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by kevinday 8y ago
That may be true for some UNIXes, but not for all UNIXes. For example on FreeBSD, create a process that will stick around for a bit: # cat >sleepy.c #include <unistd.h> int main(void) { sleep(999); return 0; } #
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by kevinday 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16412541 It sounds like they distributed a tool that goes through your Chrome saved passwords database and if the installer thinks you're a pirate, it sends credentials
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by kevinday 9y ago
Facebook has a nearly unused feature where if you send it a text message, it posts it for you. When mobile phones that didn't have a web browser/facebook app were more common, this was how you did mobile status updates. https:&#x
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by kevinday 11y ago
Forum post with a little more information: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17834
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Transmission (BitTorrent client) v2.90 contained malware on OS X(transmissionbt.com)
13 points by kevinday 11y ago|1 comments
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by kevinday 12y ago
There are 6 bugs that were announced. #1 Weak default key in config_auth() If you're only doing local timekeeping, and not using authentication (you'd know if you were) this doesn't apply. Basically the automatically generate
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by kevinday 12y ago
You can see it sort-of in use at the start of this AT&T commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp6ca9Ppks
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iOS 8.0.2 released to fix TouchID, cell network woes on newest iPhones(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kevinday 12y ago|0 comments
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by kevinday 12y ago
The lack of unlocking really surprised me. We bought one for testing that some of our mobile software would run on it, so we got the no-contract version. Even if you pay full retail price, it's still locked to AT&T. That's jus
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by kevinday 12y ago
Hard drives store things with varying forms of ECC. Each sector has an ECC field, allowing it to detect many errors and automatically correct some. This isn't a replacement for something better, it just allows simple bit errors to be c
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by kevinday 12y ago
If you're looking at this and not seeing any difference between the "before" and "after" versions, it's because HTTPS Everywhere is redirecting all github urls to their SSL version, so http://jessepo
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by kevinday 12y ago
I've had really good experiences with Amadi Systems as a Supermicro reseller. http://amadisystems.com/ I've stopped buying Dell/HP entirely now, because the price of Supermicro's stuff is so much better
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by kevinday 13y ago
Is this also why when I hover over the menubar icon I get a beachball until it's done animating? I didn't see in this in the old version, but with today's I couldn't access the menu bar at all until it was finished fadin
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by kevinday 13y ago
For the lazy: the interesting part is on line 630.
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by kevinday 13y ago
I know you say you're not storing the password on your end, but what prevents you (or a hacker who somehow gets access to your server) to suddenly start logging the passwords as they're sent to the server when someone logs in? You