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by nisa 11y ago
So why don't I get at least an /48 if I rent a server online? Hetzner gives you a /64 and a lot of providers only provide something like /80 or /112. Having a /48 oder /44 would make deploying IPv6 VPNs a
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by nisa 11y ago
They bought german weapons and gave money to german firms.. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Greek_bribery_scandal
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by nisa 11y ago
There was an article in the NYT that sheds some light into the issue: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/business/dealbook/hopef...
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by nisa 11y ago
He gave 2 talks a few years ago that are well worth a watch - he talks briefly about the abuse of mathematics in certain parts of academic economy, cites a Star Trek Voyager episode and other interesting things: https://www.youtu
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by nisa 11y ago
This was the problem in 2010 and as far as I understood it a lot of e.g. German banks would say: We are done if they default... that's why they shifted the debt to the IMF/European countries.
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by nisa 11y ago
2003 - 12 years ago For fun some stupid and simple calculations: 300 CPUs*287 = 86.100 (Passmark Score for the Xeon) 86.100/11981 = 7.2 (Passmark Score for Intel Xeon E5-2660 @ 2.20GHz) So only _one_ 8-socket 4U rack machine with e.g.
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by nisa 11y ago
We saw this on several machines: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e693eb68cfedace84025
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by nisa 11y ago
I hope btrfs is more stable now... We've had problems with Linux 4.0.x
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by nisa 11y ago
The Hartz reforms did lower labour costs for some companies and created a huge new segment of low-income workers that have almost no chances to earn a a regular job and besides that temp work was legalized and is largely employed to lower w
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by nisa 11y ago
I guess it depends on what you want to do.. I stopped caring and looking at docker after reading this: http://iops.io/blog/docker-hype/ Using btrfs as cow is not ready for production (yet and likely not in the nea
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by nisa 11y ago
I guess he refers to the heavy lobbying that going on in the EU that goes as far as laws written by corporations are presented to members of the parliament and other similar unhealthy looking issues.
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by nisa 12y ago
There are also no PGP-signed Hadoop packages last time I looked... The other often misunderstood problem with Hadoop/Spark/... is that the security model is basically the same as NFS. If you don't use Kerberos any user with a
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by nisa 12y ago
Looks like it's only a one time fee? of 60$ here are some links: https://www.startssl.com/?app=2 as well as this answer: https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#27 A friend of mine got validated and he send
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by nisa 12y ago
StartSSL offers as many wildcard certs as you want for a low fixed yearly fee (50$)?
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by nisa 12y ago
Containers are in Solaris and FreeBSD forever.. before containers you could use virtual machines. Nobody has a problem with containers... The problem is that you run and download arbitrary unverified binary code in your system by design. E.
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by nisa 12y ago
> if you want to see what good code does look like in an MTA, take a glance at the source for exim one day. http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10919... http://www.cvedetails.com/v
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by nisa 12y ago
A good time to link to the Unix Security Holes Course djb gave in 2004: http://cr.yp.to/2004-494.html
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by nisa 12y ago
serverfault.com is the worst community in that regard. Asking a technical interesting question for an uncommon usage scenario always provokes grumpy and short comments complemented by downvotes. I'll always include a detailed explanati
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by nisa 12y ago
I personally prefer https://nixsrv.com/llthw - it's concise and the focus is on more on important details... I also enjoy the attitude and explanations on this site. It forces you to learn to learn and explore on your
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by nisa 12y ago
Huh? I never saw something like firewalld on Ubuntu? There is ufw but it's not enabled by default.. Looks like you mean Fedora/RHEL7? Ubuntu on the server (14.04) is quite okay in my experience.. you can even deinstall dbus and st
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by nisa 12y ago
I doubt it's another steel manufacturer but who knows? Maybe someone in the business with connections to black hats had some money to spare and said: Look what you can get going about this cyberwar stuff everyone is talking about... Th
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by nisa 12y ago
I'm using a tool called HDSentinel for all Linux machines: http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php - it's a small static binary (closed through) that reads the SMART values and calculates a health f
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by nisa 12y ago
* If you are an citizen of the United States. > I think the idea that data held within your home country is 'safer' may be a false sense of security. Widely deployed encryption is the only solution. The 'safe' EU data
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by nisa 12y ago
No idea.. I've found a reference to cd00r and the source documents various techniques quite well: https://www.phenoelit.org/stuff/cd00r.c
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by nisa 12y ago
Jails are fine for the most part I think. A problem is resources... FreeBSD lacks something like cgroups - But I think besides disk io throttling every other feature of cgroups is already there in FreeBSD but implemented in a different way.
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by nisa 12y ago
The US did something similar through: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Rock_exercises
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by nisa 12y ago
If they use WPA/WPA2 the WiFi signal is encrypted so can't see anything without the key. You can make assumptions about the traffic volume and the involved machines but the data is insivisible. If you are able to get the key or th
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by nisa 12y ago
sci-hub never let me down. It may take a while but it's quite effective.
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Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (2005) [pdf](cs.unm.edu)
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by nisa 12y ago
> Pulse Audio, Unity, Gnome 3, systemd (along with anything else Poettering has touched) are evil because they're new. At least for Unity and Gnome 3 (including GTK3) I'd rather say: Great ideas but they're evil because th

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