timf

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by timf 18y ago
I had a box downtown in the loop (in the Chicago Board of Trade building) here about 4 years ago: http://www.fdcservers.net/ContactUs Like all colo, it's not cheap (if you buy for a year, it's $82 a month). But you get a great pipe and 2
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by timf 18y ago
One heavy handed way around stuff like this is to use a VM (with shared storage to your laptop) for browsing and rolling back at the start of a session. Something polished and stable like VMware on Linux has never been overly annoying for
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by timf 18y ago
I like the added dimension: " In a poker room, you can only choose which table you want to sit at. But in business, you don't have to sit at an existing table. You can define your own, or make the one you're already at even bigger. "
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by timf 18y ago
If you just read: " RapidSSL's total lack of acknowledgement or response to this problem on their front page " See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414836
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by timf 18y ago
I am starting a small business.
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Ask HN: why doesn't Google use EV certs?
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by timf 18y ago
I wonder what their $10,000 warranty applies to, I can't find any details on the site.
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by timf 18y ago
There were too many to check out manually that way, so I exported as pem and extracted sigalg. I removed the list from that link, anyhow. I didn't understand the 'sign predictably' part you pointed out, much appreciated.
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by timf 18y ago
OK, if you're right about the serial number part that is great. All I did was export the CA certs in my Firefox install and then ran a quick program on all the files to extract the signature algorithm.
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by timf 18y ago
I wrote a program to list out relevant entries from my Firefox 3.0.4 trusted CAs, the list is here: http://www.gridvm.org/rogue-root-cas-because-of-md5-collisio...
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by timf 18y ago
Between ludicrous offices and the 37s "4 days a week" plan, I'd probably go with 37s. Or I was idly thinking once of a plan where you sprint for 3 weeks (still with weekends off) and then everyone has an entire week off. Over and over, ~1
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by timf 18y ago
As a slight tangent: for other purposes, one of the significant differences (not mentioned in other comments) is elastic block store (EBS) and free access to S3. There's nothing akin to EBS at slicehost. The closest I've seen out there is
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by timf 18y ago
Mint uses Yodlee Here's one take on it, http://www.brokegradstudent.com/mint-myths-debunked/
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by timf 18y ago
Note that storage redundancy is four . I wasn't expecting that, damn. So (without the administration cost guess) you can get four copies at $0.72/GB/year.