tomlogic

5 ms·

1.
by tomlogic 3y ago
This is an important lesson. Anytime you're onboarding a new user/employee, your documentation will benefit by getting that person's feedback. What's incorrect? Where there any steps that weren't clear? Or missi
2.
by tomlogic 4y ago
So they have a financial incentive here to allow the domain to expire.
3.
by tomlogic 4y ago
I don't see anyone asking for that -- just for the ability for someone other than the domain owner to pay the annual renewal fee.
4.
by tomlogic 4y ago
It's not the case with GoDaddy. I just had a hosting client run into this a few weeks ago -- someone they know had registered their domain for them long ago, and they didn't have the GoDaddy login. I tried to help out when their
5.
by tomlogic 4y ago
Because unlike other registrars, GoDaddy only allows the domain registrant/owner to pay for the renewal.
6.
by tomlogic 6y ago
Digi International embedded it into some of their XBee wireless radios (802.15.4-based and Cellular models) to allow customers to run an on-device application without compromising any certifications for the radio portion of the firmware. E
7.
by tomlogic 7y ago
There are limits. The article describes them waiting on a federal court order giving them authority to execute their plan.
8.
by tomlogic 7y ago
I thought the same thing. No one is going to buy a 5MB hard drive in 1979 that only stores the equivalent of 5 floppy disks.
9.
by tomlogic 7y ago
Check your math. It was 70,000 tapes over 30 years. At $5/tape that would be $11,666/year or just under $1000/month. The movie trailer mentioned the multiple homes she owned, so she definitely had money. Being a Communist
10.
by tomlogic 7y ago
I saw this in house rabbits allowed to roam the backyard supervised. When the crows alerted to raptors in the area, the rabbits would get low and head for cover.
11.
Ask HN: Do you want 12 issues of Software Age mag (1968-1970)?
2 points by tomlogic 7y ago|2 comments
12.
by tomlogic 9y ago
A real-world example of this technique shows up in ColorDMD, an LCD to replace DMD displays used in pinball machines from the early 90's until just recently. Most of the displays were 128x32 with 4 (and later 16) brightness levels. Co
13.
by tomlogic 10y ago
This. I recently worked on updating an embedded TLS implementation from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2. I was told that it didn't need to implement TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, but once deployed we found a lot of non-HTTPS servers still using TLS 1.0. I
14.
by tomlogic 10y ago
q starts out larger than len, but is decremented inside the inner for loop.
15.
by tomlogic 10y ago
Not odd to include the null terminator if you want to ensure another string is "equal to", not just "starts with" the string you're comparing it to.
16.
by tomlogic 14y ago
Must have been a limited time offer -- I got a sample sent to my Kindle, and now that I'm ready to buy it's jumped back up to US$22.79.
17.
by tomlogic 14y ago
If over 50% of the domains out there are in the .com namespace, why will creating more gTLDs change that? If the 14 gTLDs created in the past 28 years haven't gained traction, what makes you think .lol or .youtube will?!
18.
by tomlogic 15y ago
It's been interesting to see Daisey's position change over the course of this incident. It seems that he's slowly coming to terms with the fact that he lied in his story. Listening to him in the This American Life podcast last weekend, it
19.
by tomlogic 15y ago
Ah, after a closer look at the original article, I see that now. Curious that Apple would choose to unicast those requests.
20.
by tomlogic 15y ago
IIRC, their streaming costs were based on number of subscribers. With this plan, they ensure that only people who actually use unlimited streaming (and are therefore willing to pay for it) will be included in that subscriber count.
21.
by tomlogic 15y ago
How can a lease be "unused" if it hasn't expired and the client that requested it never released it? Are you saying that the DHCP server pings (ICMP or ARP) each address and re-leases the ones that don't get a response?
22.
by tomlogic 15y ago
Regarding your security statement, I didn't get that from the packet capture. The Mac is sending an ARP request for the IP addresses of the DHCP servers of networks it's been on recently. An attacker would need to know the correct MAC add
23.
by tomlogic 15y ago
Maybe not. If you're at that level, consider reading "The Standard C Library" by Plauger. I used it as a reference for updating a non-compliant library to be mostly compliant. I gained a better understanding of why the standard C library
24.
by tomlogic 17y ago
The snprintf idea is a real-world example of something I worked on as part of a larger project. I took over maintenance of a poorly-written code base and cleaned up all sorts of problems. sprintf -> snprintf requires you to look throu
25.
by tomlogic 17y ago
Pick an open source project that you like and use. Look for open bug reports (easy to do on SourceForge projects) and then dive into the code to fix the underlying problem. Or, take an existing project and read through the code looking for