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by m0nastic 15y ago
You can try using Bumblebee[1] or Ironhide[2], as they seem to be coming along fairly well. [1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee [2] http://www.martin-juhl.dk/2011/08/ironhide-reporting-for-dut...
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I don't disagree. I think maybe it's partly just "nerd exceptionalism" (which seems to run rampant in discussions with technical people). I like the idea of policies/laws being created with advise from people actually knowledgeable in the e
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I don't know if they "should get to decide", but as the group tasked sort of "de facto" with implementing the technical controls which result from enforcement, I think you could argue that they should be more involved than being told "hey,
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That is true. I think being a QSA would be a nonrefundable ticket to a miserable job (although I know some folks who came from doing government C&A's who are happy doing it). I just meant that if it's really just a situation where havin
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I disagree that being less shitty than the other shitty certifications is a vote for getting a CISSP. Whenever people ask me if they should do it, there are pretty much two instances where I recommend it: 1.) You work in corporate security
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Folklore.org seems to be down right now, but my favorite Steve Jobs exchange is the following: We worked our way up to the front of the crowd to get a good look at the units [Osborne 1] that were on display. We started to ask one of the pre
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When I was out in California, my company closed up our Santa Cruz office very suddenly. A large contingent of people working there decided to move to just outside of Portland (Vancouver Washington) mainly because of the fact that by living
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The one takeaway I see from these "Wikipedia article deletion stories" is that as time progresses, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain the notability requirement as society progresses from a smaller number of more authoritativ
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The notability link that was posted [‡] would seem to indicate that there is a difference between a work being notable and the inclusion of a biography of the author of that work. If I was somehow involved in some notable event (like, oh...
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For what it's worth, my experience also echoes what Thomas is saying here. When he speaks of larger firms pulling shenanigans around doubling up work or other suboptimal practices...yeah, that's my company. The only thing we ever billed at
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"Please, fix the problems instead of hiding them." I want to comment about this conclusion, lest anyone reading it actually follow the author's advice. You should absolutely be hiding notices/errors from appearing. This is orthogonal to w
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The general rule of thumb for cryptanalysis attacks is that they become cheaper over time (usually quicker than initially proposed), which is why finding issues (even mathematical issues that aren't yet practical) is so important. Consideri
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I think it would be a much worse sign if a separate group within Google launched a product (which required signing up partners) and the initial product wasn't targeted for the dominant tablet platform. I am surprised that they didn't try to
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To be fair, almost all of the proclamations I see from people about Windows being insecure are based on old, pre-SP2, pre-SDLC anecdotes and experiences (which were definitely true at one point, but haven't been true for quite a while). It
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I'm trying to ascertain that, but so far lost in a maze of twisty little links on the wireless.fcc.gov site, all alike. I'd actually be surprised if that was the case though.
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I'm still going through Skiena's book (we used CLRS in school, so I figured I'd use Skiena's as a counterpoint), but so far I've been impressed with Skiena. It's a lot more terse (as evidenced from the size differences between the two), and
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"Jamming" wireless transmissions does indeed run afoul of FCC regulation; but that's not what they did here. They disabled the power to the base stations which were deployed in specific locations (locations which are not public property). I
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Apple's security practices for Mac OS X could arguably be described historically as Microsoft-2006 (Lion would seem to be approaching Microsoft-2011), but to conflate that with IOS's security practices is disingenuous. Here's a fairly recen
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This sounds like the first couple chapters of Petzold's "Code" (which I finally got around to reading recently and thought was fantastic).
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My girlfriend just told me about a study that also seemed to show that exercise can be useful in treatment of schizophrenia (by promoting hippocampal development). This appears to be the study (she read it in Psychology Today, which didn't
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I'm moderately embarrassed to admit that I learned about this outage when both the Facebook games I play went down at the same time. Both back up now though.
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I was always partial to Dan Bernstein's Mail2000 idea: http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html But I don't know if anything ever came of it.
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I figured I'd let folks know, in case they wanted to hear Colin as a guest. Here's the show page (where the audio will be after the interview is over for those folks who can't catch it live): http://twit.tv/FLOSS
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I didn't get very much sleep last night, but it seems like a more complicated solution than just using "jug handles".
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Amusingly, that's even a different definition for what I was referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore (although principally the same thing).
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I've always had a bizarre nostalgia for telegraph operators. When I was a Boy Scout as a kid, we had to learn both morse code and semaphores. I wonder if they still learn them today (I suspect not). Edit: Yay, it looks like that merit badg
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The only time in my life I've ever been envious of syslog was when I had to build an aggregator/event correlator for a bunch of telco equipment that only talked TL1. Pretty much any other time I've had to work with it, I've wished for somet
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I must have grown up in a different part of the city than you frequent. Families in my neighborhood were not hardworking, or honest. The vast majority of them were either petty criminals (most of my friends growing up stole cars or robbed l
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Earlier this year I was working building the network for a security conference and one of the guys had a similar device‡. It came in really handy when we had to install all the servers (he had multiple flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, et

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