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by mattbee 14y ago
Valve aren't trying to make a business out of selling to Linux gamers. But Linux gamers are free, enthusiastic beta testers and bug hunters for Valve's console. I imagine most Linux using gamers already have some of Valve's games on Windows
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by mattbee 14y ago
You realise no British user can possibly take this app seriously? Anal sex. That's what bugger means. Happy hacking!
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by mattbee 14y ago
I've been trying this on lots of our customers' boxes and can't exploit it - no matter how many times I've tried I always get turned away when retrying root's password, e.g. trying "while true; do mysql -u root mysql --password=baha; done"
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by mattbee 14y ago
Another Carmageddon connection: Patrick Buckland, the Stainless Games founder, also wrote Mac shooter Crystal Quest which was the reason I don't remember most of 1988.
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by mattbee 15y ago
Brilliant news. Of course Valve wouldn't want their own console to be tied to Windows, and there are definitely enough Mac-ported games (e.g. including Assassins Creed, not just their own stuff) that Linux ports must be do-able in short ord
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by mattbee 15y ago
Yup, this worked really well for us too - we asked candidates to submit a 20-line "binary chop" search over a given data file (well, that was the solution, we described the problem and restrictions such that that was the only right answer).
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Compulsory ADR process gives UK broadband customers a stick to beat their ISP(revk.www.me.uk)
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by mattbee 15y ago
I disagree that high-performance blogs are a solved problem in distros - depends on who's linking to you. Wordpress on Apache melts on a small VPS under a few hundred hits per second, using gobs of memory for each call. So you turn on supe
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by mattbee 15y ago
I wrote a similar article trying to segregate hosting stages (though beware I'm a hosting company promoting a product) - http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2011/11/03/the-cloud-is-your-inst... . tl;dr version is that I think the ultimate flexibi
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by mattbee 15y ago
I suspect in large part because Rackspace are much better at marketing, or were quicker off the mark than Amazon. They realise that an "en vogue" name like github looks very good hosted with them, and are likely offering a big discount in
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by mattbee 15y ago
They're not the first - we did this with http://www.bigv.io/ did a few months back.
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Apple will take away your OS X root access, and soon(matthewblo.ch)
9 points by mattbee 15y ago|5 comments
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The cloud is your install script(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
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by mattbee 15y ago
I rather agreed, but only because I think Stallman's achievements trump Jobs' in the long run - http://matthewblo.ch/34/keep-it-classy-richard-stallman/
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Keep it classy, Richard Stallman(matthewblo.ch)
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by mattbee 15y ago
The security of Yubikeys (and RSA tokens, and most other two-factor authentication devices) rely on a shared secret between the authentication server and the devices themselves. If you wanted to authenticate your own VMs with your V-Key, we
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by mattbee 15y ago
No, they're virtual cores, currently 16 Opteron cores between a maximum of 120 machines. Right now you will get 16 dedicated cores for a 120GiB VM.
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by mattbee 15y ago
What gmac said, though his headline could have been better :) We call them V-Keys instead of Yubikeys, because the latter would imply you can use them on any Yubikey-supporting site. And with ours, you won't be able to.
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by mattbee 15y ago
You can download the client and take a look if you want :-) It's nothing particularly surprising, we map most resources to URIs and let you GET/PUT/POST/DELETE them. But it's not documented yet, because we are still changing it, and we're
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by mattbee 15y ago
The article says they are working to offer an "insurance option" to hosts. So what, if it happens again to a host who hasn't taken this option, they're screwed? What would have been more reassuring is saying "airbnb will of course fully i
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Duckduckgo.com easter egg: lorem ipsum(duckduckgo.com)
4 points by mattbee 15y ago|2 comments
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by mattbee 15y ago
Why, do they taste better? I'm pretty sure I could only eat one or two iPads for lunch.
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by mattbee 16y ago
My last gallon of fuel here in the UK was about $8.05 (£5.09), of which only 35% is for the actual fuel. $5 sounds cheap to me!
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What if the web browser comes second?(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
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Why Bytemark Hosting didn't use Xen(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
1 points by mattbee 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 16y ago
Worked for my company (UK) a few years ago once I'd sent a paper letter to Mountain View and waited a few weeks. Since then no ads now appear against our company name. Not sure how they handle it these days but I made an argument that our c
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by mattbee 16y ago
Wishful thinking, it sounds like one of Balmer's pronouncements over the years. You don't see Apple trash-talking potential competitors (well not until the antenna thing) in the run up to a product launch, they just quietly polish up a bet
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by mattbee 16y ago
...and I hired a couple of keen consultants 3 years ago who were working on a startup "on the side" (of course it was my work that was on the side). It took them nine months of doing very little before they admitted they weren't going to g
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Adventures in libel (or why I won't read your forum)(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
2 points by mattbee 17y ago|0 comments