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by rwg 13y ago
It seems strange to estimate when you could download Wikipedia's database dump, reformat the content in the same style as the Encyclopedia Britannica, and count how many pages/volumes you end up with.
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by rwg 13y ago
For most of 2004, nginx didn't handle POST, either: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/http/ngx_http_...
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by rwg 13y ago
/dev/urandom is usually pseudo random, so as an initialization for SHA1PRNG random number generator it is not good enough. OpenSSL on most Unix-alike platforms has been seeding its default CSPRNG (which uses SHA-1 internally unl
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by rwg 13y ago
As an added fun bonus, it looks like the NativeCrypto Java wrapper around OpenSSL wrongly assumes that RAND_bytes() returns 0 on failure and not-zero on success. In reality, it returns 1 on success, 0 on failure, and -1 on super ultra mega
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by rwg 13y ago
After staring at convoluted Java code and OpenSSL's code for three hours, I need a stiff drink...
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by rwg 13y ago
The short answer is yes: The first call to ssleay_rand_bytes() (which is what RAND_bytes() calls eventually become with the default RAND_METH) will call RAND_poll(), which on Unix-but-not-OpenBSD-or-VOS will try reading ENTROPY_NEEDED (32)
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by rwg 13y ago
You're aware that gmail.com was registered to an entity that wasn't Google between its original registration on 1995-08-13 and Google's acquisition of it on 2004-03-31, right? While looking for that second date, I dug up a pi
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by rwg 13y ago
FWIW, you can get an unused Unix layout (Control left of A, Esc left of 1, Backspace directly above Return) Sun Type 6 USB keyboard for around $40. http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/memx_2267_226185665 If you're using
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by rwg 13y ago
To be fair, I've only tweeted screenshots of the AES spreadsheet -- you'll be getting the actual .xlsx file with my set 6 answers. AES128.applescript is waiting in the responses@ and cryptopals@ mailboxes right now, along with my
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by rwg 13y ago
Whenever I see tptacek tweet the current stats, I try to update this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AscYGzcM4zJNdHR... I've probably missed a few tweets and typo'd a few numbers alo
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by rwg 13y ago
Related discussion from two days ago: Android AOSP maintainer quits https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6174514
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New Nexus 7 “razor” Factory Images and Binaries Now Posted(droid-life.com)
2 points by rwg 13y ago|1 comments
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by rwg 13y ago
"Just quit" doesn't always work out so well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5778653 If I've learned anything about working, it's that you never quit without another job lined up. Employment s
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by rwg 13y ago
That looks like a slightly less hellish version of Ksplice's working environment circa 2010: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/resource/ksplice-iap-14.jpg (I hope they at least got more office space out of O
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by rwg 13y ago
"A shameless ripoff"? Seriously?! http://i.imgur.com/r8mDlVU.png
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Geeks.com Ordering Is Being Turned Off...(geeks.com)
15 points by rwg 13y ago|2 comments
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by rwg 13y ago
Persistence is key to participation -- they've got almost 10,000 participants, and e-mails seem to fall through the cracks sometimes. (I've been trying to turn in my set 4 answers for two weeks. Hopefully some filter isn't ea
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by rwg 13y ago
Random "LabVIEW isn't a general purpose programming language...except it kinda is" story: About a decade ago, my then-boss dragged me to a weeklong LabVIEW training course. The course was geared toward scientists and enginee
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by rwg 13y ago
There's something about "bold" building designs and leaking like sieves that goes hand in hand... http://chronicle.com/blogs/buildings/mit-sues-frank-gehry-ov...
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by rwg 13y ago
For targeting advertisements? Absolutely.
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by rwg 13y ago
You don't need a super-dense AP deployment for location tracking of clients to work. A client that's actively looking for networks to join will occasionally broadcast a probe request frame on all of the channels it can transmit on
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by rwg 13y ago
At ${PREVIOUS_JOB}, the director of another department tried to recruit me. One of his selling points was that they often worked insanely late nights and slept at their desks. Considering I was already thinking about quitting my job due t
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by rwg 13y ago
And if the browser supported a full-screen mode and WebGL, that might be really really cool...
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by rwg 13y ago
sysadmin...sense...tingling... Get in the habit of putting $file (and, in this case, ${file%.jpg}_s.jpg) in double quotes. Your one-liner (and theirs) will blow up spectacularly if there's whitespace in a filename: bash-3.2$ for
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by rwg 13y ago
Every programmer should be forced to implement a non-trivial algorithm that involves lots of bit twiddling in a few languages that don't have integers ("all you need are double-precision IEEE 754 floats...and love!"), don&#x2
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by rwg 13y ago
It seems he might've said a variant of exactly that... http://web.archive.org/web/20080613100445/http://www.cheezhe...
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by rwg 13y ago
The downside of the DE2 boards is that they're really stinking expensive if you don't qualify for the academic pricing. I'd love to have a go at Verilog and/or VHDL, but I'm turned off by all of the sub-$100 FPGA de
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by rwg 13y ago
The Y-axis should've started at 0 watts, not at (a rather arbitrary) 18 watts. Look at the "Flash Video" and "HTML5 Video" bars in the original chart. The blue IE bars are roughly half the size of the green Chrome bars, which might lead yo
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by rwg 13y ago
The misleading Y-axes on two of the charts on the IE blog post were the first thing I noticed: http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/06/05/internet... Here's the top chart (left) and the same chart except with a less misleading Y-
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by rwg 13y ago
And one of the biggest attack surfaces to come along in browsers in quite a while. (Immature DTLS implementations! SCTP stack in userland! Woooooooo!)

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