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by ploxiln 9y ago
The Mate desktop is pretty good. It's Gnome 2, maintained and polished, and ported to gtk+3 in the latest release. But there are a few better options than the latest KDE or Gnome. These projects have built houses of cards in their atte
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Unfortunate naming - I used this other graphical MS Windows music player back in high school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusikCube EDIT: oh, same developer, so all links are "legitimately" taken over for t
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by ploxiln 9y ago
It's the nvidia card. The binary drivers are good for 3D acceleration, but bad for system integration. The open source drivers are not good enough. Intel and AMD graphics have much better open source drivers (but are not as good at 3D
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by ploxiln 9y ago
There's no good way. You have to use heuristics. CC companies won't help you. https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi... This is pretty much why I think credit cards are unfairly one-side
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by ploxiln 9y ago
True, it's a bad idea. But we're getting to the heart of the issue now. What enterprises insist on being able to do is at odds with the security the TLS working group is trying to give users (and service providers like Google and
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by ploxiln 9y ago
"proxy/MitM" (man-in-the-middle) means the enterprise appliance terminates the TLS connections. The client negotiates the session key with the enterprise appliance. The custom user-installed CA grants trust to certs the appli
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I think proxy/MitM is perfect when combined with BYOD and app cert pinning. The user needs to opt-in to the end-to-end-security undermining corporate network. An app can opt-out of such networks. In which case you'll just have t
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Dealing with dumb and possibly conflicting PCI requirements is between these enterprises and PCI. It's not appropriate for them to get accommodations from the IETF and various internet companies/users to help them with that.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
The easier way is to install their own CA in all internal-network devices, proxy/MitM all TLS traffic, and effectively block TLS traffic that does not trust/use their internal CA. (Easier way to guarantee all applications are &quo
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by ploxiln 9y ago
A company I used to work for specialized in exactly this case - high density WiFi. They have an 8 radio / 24 antenna AP: https://www.xirrus.com/product/xr-4000-series/ You can use 6 20 MHz channels in the 5GH
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I think the real take-away here is that there is just no substitute for looking at the URL bar to see the domain. HTTPS means that the url bar is not lying, but you still have to look there and see if it's the correct entity. EV certs
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by ploxiln 9y ago
It annoys me that most games don't seem to offer this option - if they have this level of control, they just offer vsync on or off. The AMD gpu control panel can force triple buffering, but only for OpenGL, and I think the vast majorit
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by ploxiln 9y ago
My bash always starts near instantaneously, because I have never tolerated it not doing so. bash-completion (available in many package managers) used to be one culprit, should be less of one now due to on-demand completion loading, but stil
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by ploxiln 9y ago
As noted by others, the cost of Evzio is up from $690 to $4500. So, yes, there always is some reason. The pharma company needs to cover the costs to their whole business with the revenues from their whole business, and they'll play wha
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Without being facetious, that strategy does work for this particular problem: turn off your wifi if you are walking around, traveling, or not in range of a network you intend to connect to. I also have Bluetooth and NFC off most of the ti
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by ploxiln 9y ago
> We wrap the kernel in a U-Boot header that claims to be a Linux kernel; this is no accident! This tells U-Boot to use the Linux boot protocol when loading the kernel, which ensures that the DTB (loaded by U-Boot) is processed and passe
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by ploxiln 9y ago
SmartThings | Software Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | INTERNS, Full-Time | https://www.smartthings.com/ SmartThings is a consumer IoT platform company, owned by Samsung. I work with a small team in Manhattan (out of a Samsung ac
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by ploxiln 9y ago
He left another 9.8% for the other costs
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by ploxiln 9y ago
> Extending the TCP paradigms (basically retries and acks) to messaging is not hard > Just ack after you commit locally. wait ... what is this "retry" and "ack"? is this so that the sender knows not to send the mes
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I don't think it's bad that Google, and you and I, have an easier time of switching to and from Linux kernels.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
And Firefox saved the Web, and the Web saved non-Windows platforms. Let's not forget that.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I worry about hyperthreading hurting worst-case latency (since a thread might be assigned to run on a virtual core which does not work as fast as expected).
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by ploxiln 9y ago
That's absolutely true. When it comes to CPU/memory, skilled software engineers always think, "it must be my bug, it always is". So in that super rare case of actually running into a CPU defect, it's a mindfuck, it&
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by ploxiln 9y ago
You can do what Cisco did with the domain name. Just don't create a CA-trusted cert for it. Instead, as you suppose, generate a unique cert on each machine and install it to the appropriate/needed trust stores on that machine.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
This is like an "eternal September" - when tabs vs spaces comes up each year, most commenters have never seen one of the rather simple ways of using tabs correctly.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Don't be surprised, and don't feel bad. There is innumerable open source software we all depend on everyday without thinking about it. Consider zlib, libpng, libjpeg(-turbo), bash, bsd or gnu core utilities, random stuff ... and t
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Supporting a JS-disabled experience should not be your first priority. But, reducing needless reliance on javascript will improve your site for every user - making the page load / respond faster, use less CPU and memory, etc. It will a
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I don't think more powerful tools are the solution here. The problems and solution are obvious. The root problem is that many "product" teams will take any 10x improvement from tooling and adapt by being 10x more inefficient.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st... > There have been 61,998 cash seizures made on highways and elsewhere since 9/11 without search warrants or indictments throug
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Not every possible 16 bit value is itself valid UTF-16 - some need to be represented as two UTF-16 code-units, aka "surrogate pairs", 4 bytes total.

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