vogonj

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by vogonj 15y ago
yeah, I didn't go out of my way to find the cheapest price there. I just searched for "authenticode certificate" and that was the first result.
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by vogonj 15y ago
KeBugCheckEx(), the method that displays a blue screen, dumps memory to the paging file (which is contiguous and fixed, so it doesn't need the FS driver). When a dump is about to be made, it hashes all of the pieces of the pager and the di
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by vogonj 15y ago
There's a bug in either VMWare Workstation or the Win8 HAL that leads to it crashing on startup, and that's VMWare Workstation in the screenshot, so... not long. :P
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by vogonj 15y ago
from what I've gleaned from being a uTorrent user, it interrogates the server for a .torrent file and then downloads that torrent from a tracker they run. presumably, anyone who owns the host of the .torrent, or anyone who owns the tracker
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by vogonj 15y ago
courgette is just a binary diff algorithm -- there's nothing fancy to it (they use some really neat tricks, though), and apparently (I haven't verified) the source is in the chromium tree. validating your updates via asymmetric crypto can b
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by vogonj 15y ago
au contraire, they probably realized that people see the text on a BSOD, freak the fuck out , and go crazy wondering what's wrong with their computer. now at least they expose only the most useful information to the user ("you need to rest
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by vogonj 15y ago
"IBM also has the look of one of those short-lived companies that doesn't hang around for long." this is probably the funniest sentence I have ever read.
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by vogonj 15y ago
the security bug was a lack of authentication that rendered Dropbox nearly useless for its core purpose of securely storing files, that got pushed to production and _stayed there for multiple hours_. giving Dropbox some guff for it is compl
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://searchengineland.com/how-to-put-the-facebook-like-but... May 2010? and as for your reply downthread about Google Instant being a hit, how much of Google Instant being a hit is due to it being the default behavior of Google now, and
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by vogonj 15y ago
with apologies to ESR: "with sharp enough eyes, all bugs are visible." "the impact [is] negligible as long as you follow basic security practices and can recognize when something looks out of place" is a worthless statement, because the maj
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by vogonj 15y ago
yeah, this lines up with my external perception as well, and the same is generally true of steveb at Microsoft; the only time I or most of my teammates ever see him is at the Company Meeting every year, and occasionally at engineering town
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by vogonj 15y ago
Steve Jobs certainly looks like a great boss, calling the entire MobileMe team into an all-hands and asking them point blank why the fuck their software doesn't work. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Not-Shy-of-Using-t... we can
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by vogonj 15y ago
quite possibly. I'm not terribly familiar with Kerberos as a protocol, but I know I've definitely seen Kerberos login misbehave in a way that caused it to take multiple minutes and then time out. anyway, hope you figure out the problem. :
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by vogonj 15y ago
your Windows clients are probably using NTLM (or NTLMv2), Microsoft's old, terrible auth protocol that the Windows team eventually abandoned for Kerberos. there are policy settings you can change to force Kerberos; I'd suggest Googling to
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by vogonj 15y ago
The point he was trying to get across is that Apple shares attack surface with other Unix operating system vendors, which -- given his assessment of them as derelict in resolving vulnerabilities -- increases the harm their users are exposed
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by vogonj 15y ago
As an engineer (though admittedly one at Microsoft), Steve Jobs seems like he'd be a /horrible/ boss. All appearances suggest that he doesn't care about good engineering, but rather that he cares about good user experience, damn the torped
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by vogonj 15y ago
Apple has fewer advisories because it's their standard operating procedure to sit on security bugs for several months and then patch them all at once, even if their contemporaries are patching them as they appear. If you look at the numbers
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by vogonj 15y ago
> What makes the web great is its constant change and innovation. How is it that a 2 person startup can deal with it's users changing browsers whenever they want, but a giant corporation can't? That two-person startup consists of two ha