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by sigil 15y ago
> Encrypt with Truecrypt, share with Dropbox. Problem solved. Not so fast. How big is the binary diff when you change a file within a Truecrypt volume? Ie, how much Dropbox bandwidth will you be using, even with a small change? I perfor
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by sigil 15y ago
> Of course even if Dropbox didn't have the keys to decrypt your files you're still trusting them (or SpiderOak or Wuala or most of Dropbox's competitors) by running their proprietary software. You don't have to trust tarsnap. Block enc
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by sigil 15y ago
Along these lines, I had a fun encounter with the Linux OOM killer the other day. The scenario was roughly this. Process A consumes 55% of available memory but has stable memory usage and has been running for days. Process B has a memory al
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by sigil 15y ago
What benefits does this have over daemontools? http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
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by sigil 15y ago
There's probably still a gender gap, but look at the trend -- it's been shrinking steadily since the early 70s: http://i.imgur.com/RnpSl.png Can you look at that graph and claim 80% is a ceiling? The data [1] for this isn't even adjusted
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by sigil 15y ago
> Given the complexity of Wikipedia's deployment compared to a typical MediaWiki installation, it really wouldn't be much effort to hook into a parser in say, Java rather than PHP... No doubt the incremental complexity for Wikipedia wou
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by sigil 15y ago
> it'd be cool to build a working MediaWiki + Markdown => LaTeX converter....in something like Python. For parsing MediaWiki in Python, check out mwlib [1], which was part of cooperation between Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress.
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by sigil 15y ago
It's great to see people tackling this problem, but I wouldn't declare victory for sweble just yet ("The Parser That Cracked..."). There are other promising MediaWiki parser efforts out there. For one, sweble is a Java parser, and I'm not s
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by sigil 15y ago
It's worse. The MediaWiki PHP code doesn't implement a proper scanner and parser, it's a bunch of regexes around which the code has grown more or less organically. Silent compensation for mismatched starting and ending tokens abounds, and c
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by sigil 15y ago
In src/webserver/Webserver.Incoming.cc you have an ad-hoc HTTP parser that internally buffers partial request data and does some questionable things like recursing on each request header line. Consider using a finite state machine parser fo
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by sigil 15y ago
I had to dig for it, but he references another article he wrote [1] which says: There is never a reason to use source control to version your data This will be painfully obvious to most people, but I’ve seen it done before, and more than
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by sigil 15y ago
Guess I'm a little too young for the 12c. I grew up on the 28S. Concatenative languages like the HP RPN offer a nice gentle introduction to programming. In fact, I'll go further and say they trick you into programming without even realizin
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by sigil 15y ago
7. Versioning your database isn’t optional He's talking about versioning schema, not data -- he should have been clearer about this.
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by sigil 15y ago
For both individuals and society, all drugs present a dilemma: are they worth the risks to health, wealth and sanity? For me, the pay-off is the scientific inspiration, the wealth of new ideas and the spur to inner exploration. The most
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by sigil 15y ago
> MAC spoofing would only be relevant if you were regularly using random spoofed MACs on your own network. Or, if for some reason that practice was widespread enough that it provided plausible deniability.
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by sigil 15y ago
Yup. I've actually used this, to work around certain cable modems that only allow the mac address they were set up from.
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by sigil 15y ago
You are correct, there's a whole disk auto-partition option now. I guess it's been a while. :) http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstDisks
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by sigil 16y ago
> Its actually one of the easiest O.S to install. Hmm, really? I love OpenBSD, but last I checked the installer tells you to create slices then drops you straight into fdisk. Has this been polished up? I'm just concerned "one of the eas
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by sigil 16y ago
> Buffett has navigated far worse situations in his business career. Look at what he went through with Solomon. Absolutely. Or, to a lesser extent, the Buffalo Courier-Express antitrust case back in the 70s. Buffet's "go honest early" p
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by sigil 16y ago
> Wired != wireless. One is passively observable, the other isn't. Not true. Ever heard of promiscuous mode? > How does the printer having its own encrypted channel prevent it from printing stuff? It doesn't. You can set up an encry
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by sigil 16y ago
This is the way a normal ethernet network works. Consumers expect it. For instance, I have a printer that connects to my WPA2 network, how else would I print stuff?
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by sigil 16y ago
Unless you do deep packet inspection, people may get clued in to your "mundane destination / port filtering" setup and start using other protocols like bittorrent on that port. I actually saw this back when I ran an open network, in trying
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by sigil 16y ago
I had big problems with bittorrent and QoS back when I ran an open network. It's not uncommon for remote seeds to run on an alternate port like 22 or 443 to get past their own firewalls. At that point, you have to do deep packet inspection,
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by sigil 16y ago
Yes. WPA and WPA2 secure the network segment as a whole, not conversations between each pair of devices on the network.
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by sigil 16y ago
Lucene, I believe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443675
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by sigil 16y ago
The "sharing a certain amount of bandwidth" idea from the article is way more difficult than it sounds. Fundamentally, anyone with access to a network segment can saturate it. Like you, I ran an open network for years (this was pre DD/Open-
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by sigil 16y ago
This will quickly devolve into the Four Yorkshiremen skit, but... > I recently worked on a project where the microcontroller had 768 bytes of RAM and around 32k flash. Luxury! I'm in an entertainment industry startup. Our main product u
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by sigil 16y ago
Let's put this in context. Here's what I don't get: the DropShip code is just an exploit of the fundamental architecture flaw of cross-user content deduplication, revealed earlier this month [1]. As the closest thing to a resident security
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by sigil 16y ago
> C, A, and P are not variables you can multiply together or perform mathematical operations on. They are more like booleans. Right, but I wasn't restating CAP, just wondering about a follow on to CAP that considers the probability of
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by sigil 16y ago
> Suppose that there is a network that is never partitioned, and machines connected to that network that never fail. In that case consistency and availability should be perfect. You mean, in that case tolerance to partition and availabi

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