mattbee

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541.
by mattbee 10y ago
http://www.visual6502.org/ does it in the browser & flashes transistor states at you! And if you liked that you'll probably also enjoy http://www.megaprocessor.com/progress.html
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by mattbee 10y ago
For an article that is about the precise time of 9.06am, why use an illustration of a wall-clock that is 18 seconds late? Is it a coded message?
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DDoS protection company Cloudflare is hosting all top 10 matches for DDoS tools(twitter.com)
3 points by mattbee 10y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 10y ago
Yup, any discussion of Thiel or YC's ethics is flagged, e.g. these threads with hundreds of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716825 Because
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by mattbee 10y ago
Software Engineer (Rails / Linux) | York (UK), Manchester (UK) or remote | Bytemark | https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ | £32-40kp.a. Bytemark have been the UK nerd's choice for cloud servers ( https://www.by
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by mattbee 10y ago
That was an amazingly capable bit of software, sold as a games cheat but the best debugger for RISC OS. I learned so much ARM assembler with it, and also how floppy disc copy protection worked :) It was like having the whole OS in a a virt
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by mattbee 10y ago
Sure, Bytemark Cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud will let you install from a CD image if you need to, and we FreeBSD works fine.
548.
by mattbee 10y ago
If I understand correctly, the exploit needs no special privileges to run the exploit code. Google Play doesn't vet apps before they go up, they take down apps in response to complaints. So no it's not safe, but I'd (maybe na
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by mattbee 10y ago
At Bytemark we've done network as standard since 2012, so we can do 100GB of higher-capacity storage for £2/month, and all discs are expandible / migrateable online: bigv.io/prices
550.
by mattbee 10y ago
The UK has a pretty fierce reputation for plaintiff-friendly libel laws, and hosting companies get loads of dodgy complaints. At Bytemark we got sick of them a few years back and spent _thousands_ taking advice from Carter-Ruck, the UK&#x2
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by mattbee 10y ago
As MD of a medium-sized UK-based cloud server company (Bytemark, cough), I'm so glad to hear someone else saying this. We made the decision in 2010 to design and build our own cloud services stack - from scratch, ultimately includin
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by mattbee 10y ago
Additional: Maybe it's just me but not being able to debug drives me CRAZY, sorry that I'm not being more helpful :) I've done bits of embedded systems work where you have to chisel out your own debug tools from glue and LE
553.
by mattbee 10y ago
Oof - seems like you're running on a managed platform that can't be debugged in a reasonable level of detail? If it were me I'd want to take the problem somewhere I _could_ get root access and debug it properly. So I'd
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by mattbee 10y ago
I don't know the full story it was a spin-off of the work that Argonaut did for the SuperFX chip in Star Fox on the SNES -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_%28processor%29
555.
by mattbee 10y ago
If you're in the UK, Andrews & Arnold have been providing "nerd SIMs" with proper networking and configurable voice services for years. Not that they're easy to configure or cheap :) but -> http://aais
556.
by mattbee 10y ago
This is tinfoil-hat rubbish - all it shows is someone who was a) banned from posting from Facebook, b) posted some conspiracy gobbledigook, then assuming b) was the reason for a). The banned user could have been posting racism, abuse, publi
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by mattbee 10y ago
Also on RISC OS "The Hacker" was one _the_ best ARM disassembler / OS inspection / debugging tools. It was sold as a game cheating tool, but was particularly great for pulling apart copy protection :) Learned so much w
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by mattbee 10y ago
Zap, the text editor for RISC OS - http://zap.tartarus.org/ (not that it's not still available, just that I can't justify working on a RISC OS system for the last ... 16 years :) ).
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by mattbee 10y ago
It's staggering! The above is immediate-mode code which is what's gone and that's how a lot of people learned OpenGL 1-3. Anton Gerdelans's tutorials are the best I've found and just look at how much typing there i
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by mattbee 10y ago
I'm a customer & fan of balsamiq.com for sketching user interfaces - it does the job really well.
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by mattbee 11y ago
Someone I know (in the UK) was arrested and spent a day in a cell when some criminal postings to Twitter were traced to his Tor exit node. When the police interviewed him and admitted they _knew_ what a Tor exit node was, and that he was un
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by mattbee 11y ago
Our BigV service has done this since 2012, on more traditional KVM-based virtualisation - up to 8 SSD or spinning discs which you can add & remove (as well as RAM & cores). We think vertical scaling has been pretty underserved...
563.
by mattbee 11y ago
For what it's worth, we use the free / open source https://wekan.io/ at Bytemark and it's really smooth, runs our whole-company to-do board with 28 people. As a hosting co we'd rather have self-hosted t
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by mattbee 11y ago
I love WeKan - we use at at Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk) for our internal to-do board - high level project tracking across the company with 28 staff.
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by mattbee 11y ago
Oh, OK, you don't have that in the US apparently. Why's it necessary?
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by mattbee 11y ago
The Nest comes in two parts - the "smart" bit with the USB charger & battery & wifi, and the Heat Link - the actual radio control for your boiler. The Heat Link has a big button on which lets you turn the heating on and of
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi perfectly on the first boot(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
14 points by mattbee 11y ago|0 comments
568.
by mattbee 11y ago
Their server hardware has always been excellent. I'd pay extra if they didn't take 3 minutes from power on to booting :)
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by mattbee 11y ago
Heh, I thought the punchline was going to be people seeing _this_ San Francisco font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(1984_typeface)
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by mattbee 11y ago
From that DWP advice to their staff on handling suicidal clients: "Expressions of suicidal thoughts are common amongst the general population. This does not mean that they are never serious statements of intent." What the fuck? N

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