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by luser001 14y ago
IMHO, yes. At least on Ubuntu, it's never been too clear to me how I should save my rules so that they come back on startup. The ufw man page is pretty decent.
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by luser001 14y ago
Why do you say a VPN server is more secure? Which one? I, for one, trust ssh more than any other software wrt security, especially with password login disabled. Disclaimer: I am not a security expert.
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by luser001 14y ago
Are you insinuating that the user could have used sudo access to install a backdoor of some sort? If so, changing the password won't stop them either. Am I missing something?
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by luser001 14y ago
The fuel efficiency of a vehicle rolling on rigid steel wheels on a rigid steel track is FAR higher than that of a vehicle rolling on pneumatic tires on asphalt. The number I have seen quoted is that a train can move 1 ton 400 miles using
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by luser001 14y ago
High speed Internet access whether DSL, cable, or ethernet requires "a copper wire in every home" [ok, fiber requires a glass wire, but it's still the same concept]. Why do you say copper wire is useles?
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by luser001 14y ago
Pretty cool tool! My passphrases (omitting spaces between words) get a score of 2. But if I drop the vowels, the score goes to 4 and crack time to 'centuries'. I wonder if this is a good way to create passphrases. Anybody want to chime in?
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by luser001 14y ago
Wow, I think I learned more about Linux + UEFI from this comment than anything else so far. Thanks!
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by luser001 14y ago
> Why? Do you really consider it worth $100 to you just to prevent someone else from getting $9900, or do you just value $100 so little that you are willing to round it down to $0? Not the original commenter. But yes to both. Look up mu
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by luser001 14y ago
You seem picky. :) But check out libconfig. Maybe it'll work for you.
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by luser001 14y ago
Thanks! I didn't know that a CSS px wasn't the same as a screen pixel.
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by luser001 14y ago
Hear, hear! :) I'm really happy to see this get to the front page. But why pixels (px) and not points (pt)? I made a site using 12pt text and it looks good everywhere (ipad, iphone, chromebook, linux, windows, mac). I suspect 16px is going
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by luser001 14y ago
> you might end up getting burned by the extension when travelling. Good point. This could happen. I'm assuming by "burned" you mean "unable to login". If so, you can always type in your home country's domain into the webapp version and
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by luser001 14y ago
> Doesn't seem like a good fit for the paranoid. Agreed. But OTOH it's a very lightweight solution, which is an advantage. And in any case, it's MUCH better than using the same unhashed password everywhere. I'm claiming that using P
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by luser001 14y ago
Amazing. Also, this is yet another privacy threat that I dodged because I use the PwdHash extension ( https://www.pwdhash.com/ ). You type the same password for all sites, but the extension invisibly uniquifies them on a per-site basis.
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by luser001 14y ago
I didn't see it uploading a lot over about 20 minutes. (1) I was listening to an obscure album, (2) I listen to small number of songs repeatedly, although I have a large number "starred" and in playlists from previous installs of the app.
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by luser001 14y ago
Awesome. Ubuntu even has packages for this. Thanks for the tip!
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by luser001 14y ago
Maybe somebody else in the house is running Spotify? [See "bufferbloat": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088389 ]
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by luser001 14y ago
I use Spotify on Ubuntu Linux. Looking into how it behaves there.
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by luser001 14y ago
> I eventually realised that typing sudo every time he touched a box was no defence against doing the wrong thing. IIRC, sudo logs all commands to syslog. Which might come in handy. Yes, root commands will be logged by bash to .bash_hi
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by luser001 14y ago
Agreed, infinite loops are a little hard to protect using asserts. When I hit the first infinite loop bug on a code path, I frequently add code to assert that the number of calls is less than $A_LARGE_NUMBER to catch future occurrences of t
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by luser001 14y ago
I use assertions to protect against things like this. I liberally sprinkle my code with assertions (CS theory calls them pre-conditions and post-conditions, iirc) to crash early if the system is an invalid state. One my pet peeves is that f
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by luser001 14y ago
IIRC, even manual transmissions have a speed limiter that will prevent you from shifting into 1st at 100 mph.
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by luser001 14y ago
Kids, listen to this man. :) When I was newbie, I didn't downshift and was instead keeping the brakes lightly pressed. After a few mins of this, when I pressed them a little harder to slow down more (at a turn), the pedals sickeningly went
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by luser001 14y ago
What car? Without cruise control? My car doesn't downshift unless I've set it on cruise control at an intermediate speed like 55 mph and it is a long downhill slope. I understand why: it's most efficient to drive in the highest gear even at
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by luser001 14y ago
Ummmm. It is possible to run a full-blown Ubuntu including arbitrary kernels etc. Some are doing it. This is just an easier method if all you want is access to a powerful Debian userland: it turns out that Debian already solved the proble
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by luser001 14y ago
Can you get 6h battery life for $250? I have the Samsung one and it delivers on the battery life promise.
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by luser001 14y ago
Second sentence of the paragraph that follows the one you pasted.
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by luser001 14y ago
None: it isn't an investment advice article.
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by luser001 14y ago
http://venturebeat.com/2010/12/21/fcc-net-neutrality-is-a-go... I wonder if this is legal because of the net neutrality ruling on mobile networks that the FCC put out a couple of years ago.
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by luser001 14y ago
You can do EB-1, EB-2 only if you first acquire a H-1B visa. Wrt which you wrote: "Acquiring a H1B visa to work in the United States is not hard. When, I (a foreign born student) graduated and applied for an H1B visa, it took ten days for i

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