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by mvanga 14y ago
When I see this, I tend to automatically hit Ctrl+L to clear the screen and re-position the prompt. Quick and easy. I scroll up if I need to study the output further.
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by mvanga 14y ago
I think he was contrasting what he knew was legally wrong with what he felt was personally or morally right.
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by mvanga 15y ago
His earlier post he linked to has this information: http://www.freedb.org/en/download__database.10.html
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New Organic Radical Battery from NEC(theverge.com)
2 points by mvanga 15y ago|0 comments
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by mvanga 15y ago
I had forgotten about the TV! I imagine a lot of people will go that route to save the money on a new monitor. Though, I think about the insane hours I spend tinkering with my computer when I was a kid and it makes me wonder how many parent
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by mvanga 15y ago
I imagine the price being extremely low is a very useful factor when you are talking about giving every kid his own computer. With a Raspi, you can give your kid a decently powerful computer for around $100 (assuming you buy the keyboard, s
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by mvanga 15y ago
I agree that speed reading is not ideal for reading fiction. I think speed reading is especially great for skimming through articles online. I'm reminded of a Woody Allen quote: "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twe
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Everything That’s Wrong with Patent and Copyright Laws in One Brilliant Video(gizmodo.com)
1 points by mvanga 15y ago|0 comments
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by mvanga 15y ago
You might, for example, insert an entry into a hashtable and forget to remove it. The garbage collector can't go and clean it up because it can't know whether you plan to use it or not. This way, over time, the memory usage keeps growing.
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by mvanga 15y ago
Books you can read at any point in time: 1-5 :)
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by mvanga 15y ago
I agree that social networks facilitate communication on an unprecedented level and scale. The problem I see is that the users of social networks have become the product, being sold to the advertisers, rather than the other way round. I thi
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by mvanga 15y ago
When I look at laws like E-PARASITE that are aimed at "taming" the internet (whatever that means), I do not see a big lumbering government trying to gain control over the internet. What I see are big lumbering corporations trying to keep th
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by mvanga 15y ago
What bothers me more is that people have been powerless in helping Wikileaks with their struggle. There are people who want to donate to Wikileaks but are unable to do so in an easy manner because of the blockade. It's a really good demonst
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by mvanga 15y ago
Most people seem to be fixating on the changes introduced by Unity rather than the stability and usability of the entire distribution as a whole. My thoughts: On Unity: The fact is, Canonical cannot possibly satisfy every single Ubuntu user
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by mvanga 15y ago
That was mostly the point of the article: that it wasn't so hard to hack in the end and all the information needed to break it was visible in plain sight. Like you said, if you really wanted to write a hard to hack binary, just use a strong
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by mvanga 15y ago
That is much better! I had to dig up the articles on the AT&T syntax to understand the plain objdump out but with this, that's no longer needed. I need to get to know my tools much more :)
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by mvanga 15y ago
I was actually trying to find a good one to use when first trying to be lazy but to no avail. A few friends also (unsuccessfully) tried in parallel to get the password and they were using IDA ( http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/ ) but I have n
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by mvanga 15y ago
Nice catch! I didn't notice this because I restricted my search to between the printf calls. The strings output makes more sense now!
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Hackme: Deconstructing an ELF File(manoharvanga.com)
147 points by mvanga 15y ago|19 comments
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by mvanga 15y ago
I agree with some of the points the author was trying to make although I don't think he really expressed them with the right arguments. I think our culture was and will always be based on exploration and innovation and this is simply moving
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by mvanga 15y ago
With GNOME3, I really tried. I decided to give it some time to see if the workflow would sink in but after a month of using it, I reverted back to GNOME2. Using GNOME3 makes you feel like the developers have effectively decided how your des
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by mvanga 15y ago
Getting code into the Linux kernel requires patience and a lot of work to conform to the standards set by the developers. I saw a great talk at ELC 2010 [1] from Greg Kroah-Hartman on the problems they faced when trying to get the Android c