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by krenoten 14y ago
For many, it might be too much. For me, and possibly others, it was exactly what was needed. I wanted to learn about things like partitioning (I had just destroyed my family's HDD while using another distro's GUI installer, and wanted to
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by krenoten 14y ago
That is exactly why I switched to Arch linux a few years ago :) I love Arch's KISS approach and the ease of administration. Gentoo is an incredibly customizable distro that leaves quite a lot up to the end user, and because of that it can
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by krenoten 14y ago
World-wide flood? There has never been a worldwide flood during the brief time that we have been on earth. There are a few potential periods where the earth might have been covered in snow, the last of which might have been around 650 mil
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by krenoten 14y ago
This looks like a great guide. One piece of advice I was given early on was to start with a minimal distribution like Gentoo. While not as essential for day-to-day use, knowing about how the various lower-level components interact has got
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by krenoten 14y ago
It might better be viewed as a behavioral "mutation" of sorts that improved the viability of those who adopted the practice. There are many interesting things that happen by chance.
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I don't think it's very likely that the shutdown stopped them from communicating. Risk/reward? The risk is that the honeypot was the only way they could communicate, and that keeping it alive was the only way these attacks could continue.
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by krenoten 14y ago
Actually, a TON of trash gets left there. Oxygen tanks especially. Also- if you die there, expect to stay put.
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by krenoten 14y ago
I'm curious about this as well. When I hear "without writing any server code" in the demo video, my mind says that this is client-side validation, which does not suggest it is secure to me. What server-side validation happens under the ho
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by krenoten 14y ago
The reviews tend to paint a pretty grim view of the quality of these books, but the sarcastic ones are some of the funniest reviews I've ever read. Here's an honest one that shines a light on the quality: "The description for this book is T
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by krenoten 14y ago
A vital part of that is to ask questions that don't just regurgitate dictation, but to encourage risk taking. The more comfortable a student is with the possibility of being wrong, the more natural experimentation becomes. Always connect
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by krenoten 14y ago
Since DNS (usually) uses udp, does anyone have access to information showing that syrian lookups are coming out?
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by krenoten 14y ago
It is impossible to implement a system without a de-facto recursion depth limit.
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by krenoten 14y ago
True, and learning on a monday morning is certainly easier than learning during peak hours for some of these companies. It does lead one to reexamine the value of another 9, however. Out of curiosity, does it often cost triple to shift ha
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by krenoten 14y ago
The wikipedia page for EC2 lists a couple similar incidents at the Northern Virginia datacenter. Victims of the previous NVa outages included Reddit, Quora, SpringPad, FourSquare, Netflix, etc... Many of those companies are down right now.
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by krenoten 14y ago
How often do these happen? I've been using EC2 for about a week and it was a surprise when my instance ground to a halt before my eyes. Here's the series of events from my perspective: Nginx is no longer able to connect to uwsgi Instance s
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by krenoten 14y ago
It's a thorny issue. In the latter case, there is a US firm responsible for the integrity of the hardware they sell here. When malware was discovered in the firmware of PowerEdge servers Dell was shipping, Dell stood to lose a lot of cust
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by krenoten 14y ago
"The Grugq: I’m not joking. You don’t even need to do that. You just send an e-mail which says, you can literally just say, "Run this code." Some of the anti-phishing guys I’ve worked with are just shocked at what happens. I had some friend
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by krenoten 14y ago
Computational complexity attacks are actually quite rampant in various types of software. A good example is an "evil regex" which is usable on software that accepts regular expressions as input, and similarly costly regexes already contain
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by krenoten 14y ago
Things like automatic exploit generation[1] and exploit hardening[2] in particular rely on SMT solvers to accomplish their goals. They allow for some truly remarkable things to be done. Expect skynet to utilize them heavily in its distrib
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by krenoten 14y ago
>>They don't want to partner with anybody They run iCloud on Windows Azure, why not run their map service using Bing Maps data?
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by krenoten 14y ago
I've been using something similar called XMind for a few years. It's a lot more visually appealing to me, and the customizable relationships are a big plus. The first month I had it, a huge backlog of ideas were freed as I made dozens of
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by krenoten 14y ago
You're ignoring local failure, the much much much more common occurrence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
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by krenoten 14y ago
I've been horrified by my experience after moving to NYC. I have been unable to find any providers that offer upstream of > 5 Mbps, and my current provider, time warner, supplies a locked down cable modem that doesn't allow me to port
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by krenoten 14y ago
>> Could the US have a bigger fake ID market simply because it is easier to fake an ID here? It probably has more to do with the increasingly harsh cleavage that exists between the underage seeking novelty and the overage acting in
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by krenoten 14y ago
You can buy a bank in a number of island nations for a few thousand dollars, as of a few years ago anyway. The book Dirty Dealing contains a lot of interesting details. http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Dealing-Laundering-International...
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by krenoten 14y ago
If you're on a BSD descendant check out dtrace instead - it's got a small learning curve but it's an unbelievably powerful tracer.
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by krenoten 14y ago
For a desktop OS, I'd only recommend it for experienced users and those who are willing to hit lots of walls and keep going. You will have a harder time getting almost everything running. For sound, you may have a lot of headaches if you
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by krenoten 14y ago
In Swedish law, rape can mean something quite different than it does in the states. They both consented to sex, there was a contraception miscommunication, and afterward they decided it would be a good idea to have Assange tested for an ST
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by krenoten 14y ago
Well, it's not uncommon for code to be blurted out without first thinking about the implications - to similarly embarrassing effect.
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by krenoten 14y ago
I'll take that over feeling like I'm about to die while a careless driver is at the wheel any day.

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