kogir

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by kogir 16y ago
While it would be great if every website were designed to be accessible, it isn't actually going to happen for various reasons. What can be done and should happen is screen reader software can improve. If google can index Ajax websites, scr
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by kogir 16y ago
Sounds like they currently run their network in "trusted" mode. They need to start treating all clients as potentially rogue and malicious. The internet at large suffered similarly when it grew to general use and is now better for it on ma
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by kogir 16y ago
Price plays a big role too. As your company grows you'll find that the valley has cheaper offices, cheaper housing, and cheaper food. Caltrain is decent for your employees in the city, and Mountain View is tolerable for your employees in Sa
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by kogir 16y ago
Perhaps I'm old school, but I view undocumented functionality as something that may not always be there or behave the same in future releases. While I can deal with that since it's open source, it doesn't mean I want to. Libraries with g
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by kogir 16y ago
Zune.net has worked on Mac with Silverlight for ages. Given that WP7 doesn't support email, contact, or calendar sync with your computer even on windows, I'm guessing this is just for firmware updates and maybe Zune downloadable content?
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by kogir 16y ago
Because crypto in JavaScript would likely be vulnerable to side channel attacks (timing, processor use analysis, power analysis, etc). Even FIPS certified java and .net libraries call into c code. There's a reason. Also, the number of peopl
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by kogir 16y ago
Enabling instant search in Chrome did this for me. Pretty sad really.
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by kogir 16y ago
All of the methods he uses have been known to the web-app security community for a while. He's simply raising awareness of what's already broken. Keeping these things quiet helps nobody. We need more privacy and security issues to be publi
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by kogir 16y ago
We don't require employees to link their personal phones. It's their choice, and the activesync policy is part of the bargain. In fact, I'd personally recommend employees not link their phones. Work isn't so important it should be alway
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by kogir 16y ago
After the remote device wipe completes the device is usable again unless they try to link to exchange again. In the cases I talked about they shouldn't be joining again. In most cases there is more than just email, and the line between e
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by kogir 16y ago
Actually, this has existed since exchange integration was first added to PocketPC (a long time ago). It allows companies to control the security of their data. Joining your personal phone to exchange is much like joining your personal
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by kogir 16y ago
Amazon doesn't bill you until an item ships, even for third parties that sell items through them. I've verified this on my credit card statement.
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by kogir 16y ago
If you like to receive incoming calls, yes. You can get 1-2 days standby on an iPhone. Good luck getting anywhere close with that combination.
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by kogir 16y ago
Actually, Silverlight can play video just fine on less powerful machines where flash completely falls apart. There is a reason Netflix uses it.
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by kogir 16y ago
Loopt is based on Microsoft's technology stack. We use: Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS 7, C#, ASP.Net MVC 2, WCF, AppFabric and more. We also use Ubuntu, Apache, PostGRE SQL, and many other open source technologies and li
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by kogir 16y ago
The thing I don't understand is how few people in the US are willing to move to a different state, nevermind another country. There's plenty of work for those willing to seek it and be flexible.
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by kogir 16y ago
Two easy solutions come to mind: 1) Use pens and pads for computer character entry so the same characters can be used by both. 2) Switch to a new written form that can also be typed. I'd personally love to see global adoption of a new langu
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by kogir 16y ago
SQL injection is platform independent. It usually targets a specific vendor's DB, but it's crappy code by users of the DB that is at fault. So it's really SQL injection attack hits sites running crappy custom code. Neither SQL server nor II
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by kogir 16y ago
Yawn. Sql injection again. Can happen on any platform. Hint: Use SPs for all your data access and don't give your app direct access to the tables. Makes stuff like this infinitely less likely to work.
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by kogir 16y ago
I use IIS 7.5 for http, tcp, and message queue serving. It's fast and simple. If the last IIS you saw was 6, take another look. It can even host PHP and Python apps (we run trac in it) with fastcgi.
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by kogir 16y ago
Andrew Ng is great. He's worked on some really cool and practical stuff. Check out his projects: http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/research.html I helped build parts of the hardware and control software for Retiarius and the Snake ro
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by kogir 16y ago
Actually, open source just means open source. The source is available, can be modified, and can be redistributed. Opensource.org even lists the MS-PL ans MS-RL licenses as open source. Free software (as in beer), is a whole different matt
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by kogir 16y ago
My sneaking suspicion is that the video element in IE 9 will happily play any video for which a codec is installed. It'll of course guarantee H.264 since the codec ships with all supported versions of Windows, but there's no real reason for
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by kogir 16y ago
Without knowing why they chose a Window POS system, claiming Linux would have been better, or was even an option, is pure speculation. Give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they had reasons that made sense. It's awesome that Linux
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by kogir 16y ago
The real issue here has nothing to do with Linux or Windows. Rolling out updates to production without testing them first is a fail, not matter what OS you're using. If they'd tested the McAfee definitions on even one of the POS terminals
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by kogir 17y ago
So they'll soon also stop accepting cash? I don't see how this can actually have the effect they want. The people overseas doing this are super motivated and aren't married to gift cards.
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by kogir 17y ago
Ok, bad example. Imagine an item for sale that has 100KB of text as a description. Does it really make sense to link to the description text rather than keep it along with the name, price, etc? Does it make sense to update it every time fr
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by kogir 17y ago
There is a real need for this in collection oriented REST interfaces. While PUTing the individual properties is possible, it doesn't allow you to 1) Commit a set of changes together as a single transaction 2) Commit a set of changes
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by kogir 17y ago
If you have no interest in virtualizing Windows then this won't be of much use to you. First class support for Linux is limited to Suse and RedHat Enterprise. However, if you're a Microsoft shop and want to virtualize Windows (be it for pr
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by kogir 17y ago
I've found that the best sys-admins know enough programming to automate their jobs and debug application issues. They don't have to be the greatest programmers, but they're fantastic debuggers. The best programmers know all the system sett

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