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by phicoh 11y ago
MINIX3 is not a ground up rewrite. It started off with the MINIX2 sources. A lot has been added and changed. Mainly to provide complete fault isolation for device drivers. (Aside from adding missing functionality)
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by phicoh 11y ago
In the early nineties, Kees Bot and I created a fork of MINIX called Minix-vmd. Some instances of that have been running production for close to 20 years now. Mainly as mail, usenet news, and http server and as routers.
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by phicoh 11y ago
I'm saying the government framed it in a weird way. The court case compels Apple to act. That's clearly wrong. However, Apple is a neutral third party that holds information needed in an investigation. And there are ways to use th
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by phicoh 11y ago
Basically Apple created the current problem by making it possible to push new firmware to a locked phone. I'm not saying that Apple is worse than industry standard, just that the backdoor already exists. So what prevents the FBI from a
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by phicoh 11y ago
The problem with the C standard is that most programmers treat C as portable assembler whereas from the beginning the group that wrote the standard tried to make it a proper, abstract high-level language. So we got an enormous disconnect be
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by phicoh 11y ago
No need to boycot the museum, that's not the organisation that has the copyrights.
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by phicoh 11y ago
The idea is that the copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author. It's really sad that the Anne Frank Fonds, which now hold the rights, claims that the diary was (partially) written by her father, Otto Frank.
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by phicoh 11y ago
One option is to get one of those big name companies to write a report on how much that change cost to the economy due equipment that had to be written off, downtime, etc. Doesn't have to accurate, just impressive. And then maybe next
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by phicoh 11y ago
Wow, how did that happen? I meant to write centimeters.
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by phicoh 11y ago
Looking at this from a 'Unix in Europe' perspective, the timezone data has rules. So as long as the rules don't change you don't need updates. And due to the need to coordinate with many countries, timezone rules in the
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by phicoh 11y ago
If with legacy web server you mean a dedicated server somewhere in a colo that has an IPv4 address, then yes. You can keep that until parts of the internet will no longer have any connection to IPv4 anymore. If you expect to move that serve
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by phicoh 11y ago
The killer feature of IPv6 is that is has more addresses than IPv4. For anything else, for every good feature of IPv6 there are a couple of bad features. So if you look at it, if you want to delay investments as long as possible, you wait f
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by phicoh 11y ago
Comparing wikipedia to openstreetmap, it seems to be a community problem, not a software problem. An open structure means that you have to watch what others are doing constantly. But that doesn't explain the huge number of stories wher
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by phicoh 11y ago
Belgium and The Netherlands were not one country since 1579 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Arras ) except for the period between 1815 and 1830.
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by phicoh 11y ago
It seems to me that having Dual_EC_DRBG in your code today is an extreme case of incompetence. Ideally, that should be enough to sue them out of business.
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by phicoh 11y ago
That's sort of where it went wrong. You offer video streaming rates and now people think, cool, tv, let's turn it on all day. If you offer data rates where you can afford to offer fair use, then each year you can offer higher data
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by phicoh 11y ago
1 Mbit/s sustained translates into a bit above 300 Gbyte per month. So they can easily get back to fair use by limiting speeds to a couple of megabits. Of course that would kill streaming tv. Another way of looking at it, you can liste
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by phicoh 11y ago
That's a good thing. Because the same applies to just about anything else. Where your servers are, who announces your IP space. Or outside the internet, where you are living, where your company is registered, where you do business. The
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by phicoh 11y ago
The nice thing about DNSSEC and the ccTLDs is that you can pick what country you trust. So you can get a domain in a country that is compatible with what you are trying to do. Of course, with domain validated SSL certificates, you also have
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by phicoh 11y ago
During one lifetime, you will see (at the current rate) about 60 leap seconds. Do you really notice if the sunset time is off by one minute? Note that moving 30 km (or 20 miles) east or west also changes the sunset by one minute.
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by phicoh 11y ago
At least for me the problem is that leap seconds are unpredictable. How many seconds are there until January 1st 2020? We don't know, nobody knows. You can only know for sure in 2019. That's bad, that's really bad. Performing
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by phicoh 11y ago
Take Raadhuisstraat, etc. from the palace to Mercatorplein and back and you should pass just about all misfeatures except for the roundabout. Another nice example of poor design is the intersection Aletta Jacobslaan / Johan Huizinglaan
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by phicoh 11y ago
(Taking terminology from opentreetmap), a cycle lane is part of the main road separated from it using paint, a cycle path is separated physically using a curb, parked cars, etc. I have no problem with cycle lanes, I do have problems with cy
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by phicoh 11y ago
In this context, that statement is wrong. Cycle paths mostly keep cyclists safe from cars. They don't do much for pedestrians. Worse, it seems that in recently years the city of Amsterdam is set on creating cycle paths in just about al
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by phicoh 11y ago
There is an easy way to solve this at the protocol level: maintain a hash of everything that was said and sign it during authentication. Any downgrade attack will show up and cause the wrong hash to be signed.