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by nicolas314 15y ago
Look for secure microSD cards: they are smartcards with a microSD form factor and a couple of GB of normal flash storage. You can store private keys in there and negotiate certificates with a PKI server, resulting in a full-fledged S/MIME-c
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by nicolas314 15y ago
I was lucky enough to know some of his relatives and got to meet Moebius a few times in the 90s. He was not just a genius, he was also profoundly human and simple. He will live forever in our culture.
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by nicolas314 15y ago
Subscription for 1h voice + 60 SMS per month is free (as in free beer) for broadband customers. My kids will immediately get SIM cards! Prices available at http://mobile.free.fr
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by nicolas314 15y ago
Not sure I understand how sync works when the same file is being edited from multiple places simultaneously. Who wins? Any pointer appreciated. Totally unrelated: how do you pronounce aerofs? If I try to say it in French it either comes out
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by nicolas314 15y ago
Another common use of mmap is allocating blocks of memory, e.g. by mapping /dev/zero in private mode. A couple of convenience functions to use mmap can be found here: https://github.com/ndevilla/mmapi
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by nicolas314 15y ago
Over my last 10 years with Lua I have never ever done the kind of things described in the author's first argument: call C functions with side-effects on the Lua stack. Things like: lua_pushnumbe(L, mycomputingfunction(L, ...)); are just cal
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by nicolas314 16y ago
That might have been the case 10 years ago but not today. According to G. Kroah-Hartmann, more than 80% of kernel contributors are full-time paid developers, the remaining 20% being spread among free-time contributors and companies who do n
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by nicolas314 16y ago
Any chance we could have this through https? Encrypting the download link is always a good idea.
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by nicolas314 16y ago
Very, very bad idea. Speaking another language is unfortunately not about translating words but transforming language into another form while conveying the same ideas and respecting the author's initial wording as much as possible. Sometime
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by nicolas314 17y ago
SFL saved my ass in the mid-1990s. I was in dire need of some easy-to-use, well-documented functionalities in C and SFL was easily the best there was. A million thanks for providing such high-quality code to the community!
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IPhone certificate flaws(cryptopath.wordpress.com)
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by nicolas314 17y ago
... and a standard ABI, otherwise you will never be able to link. C++ did not have standard name-mangling conventions until recently, which forced you to use the very same compiler to compile both your libraries and your own code. This is s