oasisbob

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841.
by oasisbob 12y ago
The odds of Seattle having late night bus service are good, but the goods are ... well: http://seattletransitblog.com/2014/07/08/metros-night-owl-al...
842.
by oasisbob 12y ago
He bought all those ones: http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/01/28/in-search-of-the-elu...
843.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Sounds like more of a pseudo-isotope? I thought proton equivalency was the fundamental definition of an isotope, though perhaps that's just a lie you feed chemistry undergrads.
844.
by oasisbob 12y ago
3SI, a company which produces other bank security devices (eg, exploding dye packs) claims to have methods to neutralize the explosive gasses in these attacks: https://www.3sisecurity.com/products/agn I'd be very
845.
by oasisbob 12y ago
In some older apartment buildings (eg, Portland, OR), the fire egress plan involves other residents being able to break into your apartment and exit using your external fire escape. In these buildings, you'll see an apartment on each f
846.
by oasisbob 12y ago
When I stumbled across a Verizon Wireless security problem last year, their security team was the silver lining in what was otherwise a terrible experience. (I was a bit disappointed that it took so long to find that team -- only found them
847.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Staging sites which need to interoperate with a third-party are one place I've seen obscured hostnames used. eg, You want to test some front-end changes in conjunction with changes to the CDN config. If the production site is origin.ex
848.
by oasisbob 12y ago
With regards to DMCA, 512(m) seems applicable.
849.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Dyn Research (née Renesys) was quoted in the article, and typically posts in-depth articles when this type of thing happens. [1] Based on the quote[2], I interpret the failure as someone attacking the routers themselves, overwhelming their
850.
by oasisbob 12y ago
It isn't strictly true that Ethernet separates data pins from power pins. Because the data transmission is differential, you can send power over the same cable. (The audio world has been using phantom power for years over XLR cables --
851.
by oasisbob 12y ago
For this particular maintenance, we're being told that Rackspace will be proceeding with all cells in a region, in parallel. They will not be respecting cell boundaries.
852.
by oasisbob 12y ago
It's not a moot point. Just because cell info is in Nova doesn't mean it's publicly visible. The only way we find out about cell locality is when our account rep gives us an updated spreadsheet. We've inquired about this
853.
by oasisbob 12y ago
I envy the AWS users who enjoyed the rolling reboots (which were AZ aware!) across a small minority of the EC2 fleet. (~10%, yeah?) At some point on Sunday, I'm going to be picking the pieces of our entire stack. Rackspace doesn't
854.
by oasisbob 12y ago
I believe bonds in lieu of insurance are commonly allowed across the US, though maybe not for taxis? As the fleet size increases, the amount of the bond goes up as well -- essentially giving companies the choice of self insuring. I'd b
855.
by oasisbob 12y ago
there is absolutely NO way a packet with an internal IP can get anywhere on the public Internet That very much depends on your definition of "public internet." My service provider doesn't properly filter RFC1918 space at th
856.
by oasisbob 12y ago
The backside of the reload-required TCAM reallocation is really brutal, as there are apparently a huge number of faulty cards out there in the wild which won't survive the reload: http://www.cisco.com/web/about&#x2
857.
by oasisbob 12y ago
As discussed on NANOG from a few months ago: http://markmail.org/message/n32fmeb2dmtnbsff I find the economics of the routing table to be fascinating. When someone announces a route, it makes use of a constrained (and
858.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Anyone know who the DNS provider was? This seems like a perfectly appropriate time to name and shame.
859.
by oasisbob 12y ago
I was going to raise the same point, but with India. Would be interested to hear how these "wide-zones" work in practice from people who have lived in them for a while.
860.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Another reason that the article doesn't touch on: there is so much extra money sloshing around in the US system due to high interchange fees that fraud pales in comparison. I don't see how you can ignore this as a disencentive to
861.
by oasisbob 12y ago
The pricing (on the compute flavor especially) is appealing -- can certainly see uses for it. Looking forward to OnMetal being available in other regions, especially ORD. I'm one of the skeptics -- but that's because I've had
862.
by oasisbob 12y ago
No problem! There are a handful of other components I've used that also work well, eg: * Traco TSR 1-2450 (available at Adafruit) * Cheap adjustable dx.com step-down converter (can't find the exact part #, but it's very popul
863.
by oasisbob 12y ago
There is a nasty bug with overclocking and filesystem corruption that is especially easy to hit under low-power conditions. Not sure if it's been fully fixed. eg: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2
864.
by oasisbob 12y ago
I've been providing power over the GPIO header directly, and have had great results. Combine a DC-DC supply with a few smoothing capacitors on a small daughter-board, add a barrel jack + 0.1" headers to interface and you get a lot
865.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Debit cards have the same federally mandated protections. In addition to the required liability rules, VISA and MasterCard both add on their own bits which reduce the liability to $0 under most circumstances, for credit and debit cards.
866.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Came to raise the possibility of die-cutting, as I've looked into it quickly in the past for another project. (Cutting panels for a geodesic dome.) Was rather surprised then that the tooling costs were so low. Appreciate you taking the
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by oasisbob 12y ago
That's good to know. How and where are ACLs handled?
868.
by oasisbob 12y ago
I think this is a neat development, but doesn't this post overstate the case for reduction in complexity? I hope a Racker will correct me if I'm wrong, but: - With the exception of the boot device, you're dependent on non-loc
869.
by oasisbob 12y ago
Perhaps. After working for a few years in the financial industry, I believe that interchange fees are fundamentally immoral. The US interchange market is fundamentally broken, and they act as a perverse incentive. I make it a point to use c
870.
by oasisbob 12y ago
The discussion on Hackaday [1] has some more details, supposedly the toolchain is Windows only. [1] http://hackaday.com/2014/06/16/cypress-launches-5-arm-dev-bo...

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