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by notfoss 12y ago
For a tiny distribution, puppy or slitaz work quite well. Also, I would say that Arch Linux can be as tiny as you want, but it's not a fire and forget solution and I wouldn't want to maintain an Arch system for friends or relative
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by notfoss 12y ago
I have had good results with Syntastic for Vim. Running :SyntasticInfo lists 'sh' as the linting program for bash scripts.
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by notfoss 13y ago
I see a lot of people emphasizing on building a community and I agree that it helps a lot, but community alone might not be enough to get you the amount you would have preferred. Below is an example of a flash based game with very simple gr
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DomainTools addresses the Heartbleed bug(blog.domaintools.com)
1 points by notfoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 13y ago
I was confused after reading your comment, as I initially ran "git grep" in my $HOME and it worked fine. Then I remembered that my $HOME is managed using git! Indeed, it doesn't work in a non git directory without the switch.
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Google: Account Information Leak(blog.notfoss.com)
2 points by notfoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 13y ago
I guess it would be rather easy to identify an off-duty UPS driver, just by analyzing his/her driving pattern.
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by notfoss 13y ago
I like what GitHub does with a deleted account: https://github.com/ghost
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by notfoss 13y ago
I am surprised by the hostility displayed by the systemd guys. I was expecting them to admit they were wrong, and things would be back on track. With such a reply, I wonder what effect will this have on kdbus making forays into the kernel (
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by notfoss 13y ago
May I suggest OpenRC: http://blog.notfoss.com/posts/openrc-on-arch-linux/
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by notfoss 13y ago
I did a post about it recently: http://blog.notfoss.com/posts/mozilla-tabzillajs-easter-egg/
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Portable Games for Linux(portablelinuxgames.org)
1 points by notfoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 13y ago
> Why would the US deploy such satellites to view the southern Indian Ocean? I could understand deployment in potential areas of interest, but that particular area is about as boring as it gets. China has been venturing in the Indian Oce
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by notfoss 13y ago
> I'd love that. task warrior is nice to track my tasks, but to track what I'm doing/what I've done? So far it's not a good match. Try adding annotations to your tasks. $ task <id> annotate "text&q
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by notfoss 13y ago
I rarely use the search function of Hacker News, but at a quick glance, the new search does look better. Good: 1. The number of points and age of the stories are highlighted. 2. Thumbnails are a nice addition. 3. It looks less cluttered tha
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Piwik 2.1 – Massive Performance and Reliability Improvements(piwik.org)
1 points by notfoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 13y ago
So you find it more interesting to keep feeding fat elephants :P
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by notfoss 13y ago
As long as most of the internet's infrastructure is controlled/maintained by US based companies (Verisign comes to mind), such relinquishing of control is a meaningless gesture, since the government can force any US based compan
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by notfoss 13y ago
I contacted them 1 month ago for the same. Too bad, didn't even receive a reply. I am still a happy customer for the past year, though.
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by notfoss 13y ago
Interestingly, with OpenDNS, this does not show up using the any query: $ dig @208.67.222.222 any eff.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> @208.67.222.222 any eff.org ; (1 server found) ;; global options
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by notfoss 13y ago
Imagine the DDOS providers filing an antitrust case against google :P
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by notfoss 13y ago
> If you need to extract data from a web page, then the chances are you looked for their API. Unfortunately this isn't always available and you sometimes have to fall back to web scraping. Also, many times, not all functionality&#x2
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by notfoss 13y ago
For Arch Linux, they are available in the AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/html-xml-utils/
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by notfoss 13y ago
There's a minor typo below the HTTPS section. It should be TLS not TSL ;) Edit: By the way, it was a nice article. I especially liked the tcpdump explanation.