tacoman

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by tacoman 12y ago
There are many, many companies that provide customer-facing services that don't develop their own software in house and rely on vendors for all their systems. The TV services provided by telcos and cablecos are one example. Of all t
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by tacoman 12y ago
I work primarily in operations on an entertainment service not too dissimilar from Netflix. Every couple of months I have pager duty for a week. I'm lucky to get 6 hours of consecutive sleep in a day. It seems to take a week to recov
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by tacoman 13y ago
They were likely doing full packet capture and in my experience it's not as rare or difficult are you might think. At my place of employment we're doing it on much more mundane and less sensitive services with up to 4 weeks of b
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by tacoman 13y ago
It's how they deliver instant channel change. The unicast udp burst is about 30% higher than the nominal bitrate of the multicast. The STB stitches the unicast and multicast together seamlessly.
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by tacoman 13y ago
What you describe in (2) doesn't just apply to software developers. It can also apply to sysadmin/SRE-type roles. I'm what passes for an "expert" at operating a very complicated yet unremarkable piece of software u
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by tacoman 13y ago
"Massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields, shot into space on July 23, 2012, would have been aimed directly at Earth if they had happened nine days earlier, Luhmann said." This is incredible to think about. The chaos thi
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by tacoman 13y ago
The Debian version might be mine. https://rednerd.com/2013/12/07/portal-for-debian/ As is mentioned above, I think the way to do this in a VM is to emulate OpenWRT in qemu.
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by tacoman 13y ago
tshark also has a fabulous ring buffer feature that lets you run captures continuously while chunking the files up into manageable sizes. e.g. -b filesize:100000 -b files:200 -w somefile This will make a ring buffer of 200 * 100MB files. A
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by tacoman 13y ago
And here are some instructions to do the same thing with any old Debian box. https://rednerd.com/2013/12/07/portal-for-debian/ It works well.
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by tacoman 13y ago
"Ottomate cuts the electricity completely and, he estimates, can save you up to 75 percent on your energy bills." ...except running my clothes dryer or stove for 60 minutes (~3kWh) uses more power than most things I could plug int
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by tacoman 13y ago
I didn't know him, but was familiar with his work and this obviously is all very sad. Infosec is a very strange slice of the tech industry/IT. I've been a generalist sysadmin for more than 25 years so I have broad exposure t
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by tacoman 13y ago
As someone who is socially awkward, especially at small talk and the superficial dialog that seems to preface any real discussion or conversation, I find Howard Stern to be amazing to listen to. He can talk about one small thing for minute
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by tacoman 13y ago
In the not-too-distant future, doing things on the internet that we currently consider mundane and ordinary will require using alternative identities carefully compartmentalized from our real identifies using the type of OPSEC he describes.
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by tacoman 13y ago
Also, as a Blackberry 10 user this will come in very handy. It can be sometimes tough to find more obscure apps outside of the Play store, nevermind trying to keep them updated.
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by tacoman 13y ago
Uber should also overhaul their website. I had to go to wikipedia to figure out what this company does.
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by tacoman 13y ago
I work for a telco so I understand what it's like to work for a big unloved corporation. FWIW, the MSFT employees I work with are a great group of very talented and helpful people.
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by tacoman 13y ago
And things like ACPI: http://www.osnews.com/story/17689
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by tacoman 13y ago
For me, it's kind of like sports. Why do you hate certain teams? I'm a 90's linux user so my hate for MS is self explanatory and these days mostly irrational. Recently I found myself working with a group of Microsoft employ
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by tacoman 13y ago
I disagree. My young kids and wife love the stuff on the Canadian service. It's easily worth the 8 bucks a month.
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by tacoman 13y ago
BlackBerry is doomed and not because they don't make good products (BB10), but because their image is so tarnished and their reputation has been severely damaged. I have no idea how their going to change the perception that their phon
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by tacoman 13y ago
I've watched your pycon talk twice. It makes this stuff pretty accessible. The only thing I had a hard time following was your description of a hash length extension attack. I had to go and look it up afterward. Otherwise, a very g
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by tacoman 13y ago
Awesome. I've been using your software since mid 2009. I've transfered ~100GB of pictures using it. Thanks!
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by tacoman 13y ago
I have a few random thoughts on this. "convenience and mobility rule the day" This happens to everything eventually. When I see someone take salad out of a plastic bag and pour dressing on it out of a little package, I have a s
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by tacoman 13y ago
That's how it worked previous to BB10, but BB10 no longer uses BIS. This person disagrees with the original story: http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?singlepost=3242...
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by tacoman 13y ago
Can you paste the config line that adds this to your iptables?
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by tacoman 13y ago
We use these extensively: http://vssmonitoring.com/products/traditional_tap.asp I'm not sure how they work, but the sales engineer said "mirrors". The fibre units are completely passive.
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by tacoman 13y ago
Typing this on a PlayBook. It's a very well designed tablet and works very nicely with a BB phone. Despite being two year old hardware, it's as useful now as when I originally got it. Now that hardware and software are mature, it seems li
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by tacoman 14y ago
I use Dovecot. I can't tell you much about it though because all I've ever had to do was point it my own SSL cert and turn off not non-encrypted connections. I use it with BlackBerry, Android, iOS and Thunderbird.
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by tacoman 14y ago
When you have kids and you realize how little time you have, it forces you to learn to identify and focus on the things that matter. This easily translates to your career.
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by tacoman 14y ago
This isn't really related to the link but,I'd be really interested in hearing what an experienced android developer thinks about the BB10 development environments. I've downloaded the SDKs and tinkered a bit. They seem quite nice (even on

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