konad

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by konad 16y ago
What I don't understand is why it bloats the shell instead of just using the OS' tools. # kill -STOP $pid # kill -CONT $pid in Plan9 we do: echo stop > /proc/$pid/note When they copied the /proc file system into Linux they
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by konad 16y ago
When "new and exciting" is all you got, what's the ROI ?
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by konad 16y ago
You can't be vegan, all you can do is aspire.
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by konad 16y ago
> If Ping tells you that all your friends are buying and listening to the new Ceelo single, you might be more likely to snap it up yourself. Or rather, I'd be more likely to ask them for a copy and buy nothing / something else.
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by konad 16y ago
Go is certainly there. It even has an easy to use Syscall module. See the File example http://golang.org/doc/progs/file.go?h=syscall
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by konad 16y ago
The September that never ends.
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by konad 16y ago
yeah I wish I had 100 upvotes for you
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by konad 16y ago
S P E E D
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by konad 16y ago
astroturf
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by konad 16y ago
Plan9 grep is competitive in my simple test, often faster. It is also immune from the pathological data that will kill GNU grep - see http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/ and the BUGS section of your local GNU grep #!/usr/local/plan9/bin/r
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by konad 16y ago
The series of steps that allows something with such a large attack surface as a Windows network to operate as last resort air traffic safety shutdown system. It's IT Dept. incompetence. I'd go so far as to call it negligence, maybe even cul
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by konad 16y ago
Insanity Wolf says : Buy straight jacket / wear it translation You bought your carrier branded phone because it was subsidised / suck it
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by konad 16y ago
s/author of this malware/person that decided to run critical safety equipment on a network connected OS known to be vulnerable to many many viruses from many many vectors/ s/law-breaking/incompetence/ Spanair crash - Windows Malware implica
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by konad 16y ago
You'd think there was going to be a list of names but only one stands out - Carly Fiorina
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by konad 16y ago
AV eats CPU cycles, Intel sells CPU cycles. That do ?
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by konad 16y ago
1) Get article written about you, linking to page on free hosting saying nice things about you 2) Change free hosting page to say something nasty 3) Sue for libel 4) Profit no need for ???
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by konad 16y ago
I recently wiped CyanogenMod as it wouldn't run the example scripts supplied with the Android Scripting Environment.
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by konad 16y ago
> Expect it to be every bit as geek-tastic as the Nexus One -- Google won't want to disappoint its early adopters. I've got a G1 matey, so I'll be skipping this tablet after being lumbered with Android 1.6 until I get a new phone.
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by konad 16y ago
It would be even better if ROOT didn't exist. Plan9 considered it a design error and eliminated it.
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by konad 16y ago
If this is new to you, ask yourself this question : Why haven't I read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" ?
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by konad 16y ago
Better still, use Google App Engine then it won't matter in the slightest.
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by konad 16y ago
Your mom would trust you and then her friends would trust her, then they'd all get burned because she meant to click No one time and it would all be your fault.
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by konad 16y ago
Surely one should credit Visual Basic with bringing GC to the mainstream. Bill got them to copy Algol 68's "Meekly deproceduring to MOID FORM" and beat y'all to it.
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by konad 16y ago
Shame it's more plastic to end up in an dead albatross' stomach in the Pacific Gyre.
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by konad 16y ago
It was happy times. Just like all the other fuck-you-up shit I've done over the years. They were a small startup yes. And we used to see and talk to them at the local business events. Come on, it's not that bad. I could have done it every
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by konad 16y ago
I can't justify it at all. I wouldn't do it now. Funny how people are sticking up for me. It did say "anything unethical" and unethical it was, criminal in fact. I didn't do it for long, tbh it was more for the lulz.
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by konad 16y ago
I used to crash our main competitor's email & login server at 6.01pm when free dial-up calls started at 6pm. They ran on NT and if you opened tcp/ip port 0, the kernel crashed. Happy times.
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by konad 16y ago
Yes, it's the sort of thing every programmer goes through on the road to enlightenment
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by konad 16y ago
On the subject of personal encryption I recently found some interesting plausible deniability software [1] in Phrack [2] for protection against "give us the password or you're going to jail" laws Different passwords decrypt different plaint
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by konad 16y ago
It runs Windows, end of discussion I'm afraid.

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