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by paxswill 15y ago
Probably the Gawker penetration. The dates of the data sets are listed below the email entry.
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by paxswill 15y ago
It's not can it be broken, but when . It took 13 years for MD5 to be thoroughly broken. There are already theoretical attacks on SHA-256, which is one of the reasons there is currently a competition for SHA-3. If Bitcoin is to be a curre
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by paxswill 15y ago
Just an interesting sidenote, Apple is guilty of abandoning good products as well, especially in the tablet space. The Newton was very well designed, and the user community around it to this day is a testament to this fact.
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by paxswill 15y ago
My biggest peeve with Chrome on OS X is the nonstandard behavior for clicking on the Omnibar. Normally, a single click places the caret, double clicking selects the word, and triple clicking selects the whole field. Chrome reverses this for
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by paxswill 15y ago
Or even the Mars Pathfinder mission.
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by paxswill 15y ago
The US rovers have used a rocker-bogie[1] system for their suspension. While the wheels look similar, the suspension on the Lunokhod almost looks like leaf springs. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker-bogie
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by paxswill 15y ago
Not anymore. It was removed after Facebook wouldn't share data back to Google.
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by paxswill 15y ago
Old Dominion University The school is mostly Windows for user-facing machines, with OS X machines also available. The university-wide HPC machines are running Solaris 8. The CS Department also uses OS X and Windows in the labs, but usually
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by paxswill 16y ago
Just as an example, I had a font rendering issue with the defaults in XP in IE, but not under Vista. It was a while ago, so I can't remember the exact nature fo the issue, but I think the fix came with defining a different font preference o
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by paxswill 16y ago
I would guess they have a VPS. A VPS with Dreamhost allows you to do wildcard DNS, so I'm guessing they're doing something along those lines.
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by paxswill 16y ago
Yep. A couple I know off the top of my head are iCab and Opera.
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by paxswill 16y ago
Apple does contribute beyond what is required. They are not required to post their updates to LLVM+clang, but they do. launchd was considered for Ubuntu before they licensed it under Apache (it was under APSL at the time). They didn't have
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by paxswill 16y ago
I have had 7 force reboots before (usually while I'm in game), but there is an option to disable that 'feature'.
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by paxswill 16y ago
Going off of what has happened in the past, you can keep using that copy you downloaded (and the use the copy on your computer to load it onto more devices) as long as you want. It's just not sold anymore.
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by paxswill 16y ago
Blackboard (the webapp) itself isn't that bad, and the iPad app is really nice. It's just any site that tells you that you just failed a quiz is bad by association.
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by paxswill 16y ago
To give some context, most of the content of the blog deals with some of the edges of Obj-C and Cocoa, such as defining classes at runtime and other generally weird things.
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by paxswill 16y ago
The MDM APIs are not public (at least, not to my extensive searching).
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by paxswill 16y ago
It was broken for the past couple days (that I noticed) but I got this post.
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by paxswill 16y ago
But MacPorts requires the Apple Dev tools to be installed, it can't go by itself.