passcod

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   by passcod 4y ago

   Before HTTPS was all but required for everything, an intranet site would get blocked in one particular office at 11pm every night. We tracked it down to a night-shift employee signing in, whose last name contained "shit". After pl
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   by passcod 11y ago

   The rdesktop (and GUI frontends) Remote Desktop client on Linux is perfect for this. Supports the Windows RDP protocol. All you need is to find the raw connection data (if they don't give it to you, e.g. if they use "remote deskto
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   by passcod 12y ago

   When Pfiffer told me peh would post that on HN, my reaction was something like "Fine by me, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to get schooled." Looks like I was right. I got schooled, I'm learning, next time I'll b
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   by passcod 12y ago

   Most of the time is spent on generating the random string, which was because I very quickly realised looking through the entire possibility space in order would be unproductive. Granted, my entire approach was unproductive, as shown by linu
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   by passcod 12y ago

   This is for a spot instance, which could get stopped at any moment if the spot price increases, and that would be pretty bad for that task as I could lose computation results. The on-demand price is about $1.60 an hour. But wait! I'm n