richardkeller

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by richardkeller 12y ago
I see a lot of comments here about the quality of work that can be delivered on a $3500 budget. While this may be considered a shoestring budget in developed countries, it is completely reasonable in developing countries such as South Afric
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by richardkeller 13y ago
Assuming this is a botnet, it would be quite interesting to have the botnet controller simultaneously turn all of those tor clients into tor relays.
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by richardkeller 13y ago
Including the colour outside the primary content area wouldn't be very accurate, since this is dependent on the viewer's screen resolution. For example, viewing Facebook on a widescreen display yields significantly more white than on a non-
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by richardkeller 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a terrible response. Clearly this person's expertise is in web design, so why would you expect them to pick up an entirely new domain of knowledge when they're already able and willing to contribute web-design now? Ha
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by richardkeller 14y ago
A reboot is the last thing you should be doing on a problematic box. A reboot should only be attempted if you're 100% sure that the problem can actually be solved by a reboot (for example in extreme cases a buggy kernel module might requi
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Ask HN: Unsubscribing from a Netflix account which I did not sign up for
1 points by richardkeller 14y ago|0 comments
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Why are exceptions considered better than explicit error testing?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
1 points by richardkeller 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardkeller 14y ago
How do you guys take a screenshot server-side for sites that require a login? Or does this only work for publicly accessible pages?
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by richardkeller 14y ago
Yikes. Take a look at this gem from Microsoft's knowledge-base: "This doesn't mean that your password has been shortened. Actually, Windows Live ID passwords were always limited to 16 characters—any additional password characters were ignor
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by richardkeller 14y ago
Same date for me. It's really a pity that nothing has been released for so long. Restricting open signups is fine, but the fact that people request invites means that there is definite support for the product, and those people are clearly w
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by richardkeller 14y ago
Correlation != Causation. Fewer people searching for "Google Plus" as a search term may in fact mean the exact opposite to what you're suggesting: the service may have become popular enough that people know how to get to it without requirin
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by richardkeller 14y ago
Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.
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by richardkeller 14y ago
It's common practice to allow unqualified emails addresses (ie. without the @domain.tld) from local sources since it's trivial to look up against your own user list. Depending on the MTA, the domain may or may not be appended, but often the
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by richardkeller 14y ago
Funny, this does look like Comic Sans. Any reasonable explanation for this? I can only imagine that the text was added onto the digital image recently.
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by richardkeller 15y ago
It's about time we had some decent dev conferences in SA. The only other two worth noting are infosec-related, namely ZACon and ITWeb Security Summit.
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by richardkeller 15y ago
Nice seeing some fellow countrymen here!
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by richardkeller 15y ago
"Report" > "Other/abusive content" > "Spam or scam". Done.
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IPhone 5 launch window confirmed at South African event(mybroadband.co.za)
1 points by richardkeller 15y ago|0 comments