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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
I only worry that if Linux isn't an official platform, it won't get the same updates that the real ones will and will fall into bitrot.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Trivia time, the Windows kernel actually does implement fork, it just doesn't expose it to the Win32 subsystem. I keep trying to convince the kernel devs to expose it, because it'd be extremely handy for UAC if you had a ForkAndElevate()
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Dropped Linux support in the process :-/
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
This was used in several Linux drivers (PPPoE if I recall..?) as an EoP exploit - mmap low addresses, then get the kernel to jump to a null pointer. This is one of the reasons that all addresses <= 0x10000 in Windows NT are invalid, reg
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
As I mention on his blog post, both of these tactics are inherently evil and can result in security vulnerabilities, since the attacker now can keep trying memory addresses until he succeeds, which defeats ASLR for one. It will also turn an
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Awesome tip, thanks for pointing this out!
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Seriously - if any of these Ritalin / Adderall etc help you think clearly and do more than just let you work on less sleep, you most likely have ADD , and can treat it in a structured way with a doctor helping you, instead of ad-hoc self m
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
We read the bug reports, I promise.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Small bug, times appear in GMT, not my local TZ...
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Not to mention - the registry hive file is an internal data file for Windows; why would the author have the expectation that it would always have the same format.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Because Registry / gconf et. al. provide cheap notifications of when a specific key changes. This is the reason that a registry-type solution is useful, as well as helps performance. Your solution means that every app interested in a sett
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Microsoft makes a majority of its F/OSS software as the MS-PL which is functionally equivalent to BSD licensed.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
All of these are implemented in Parallel Linq, though they're called "Take", "Select", and "Aggregate" (slices are the one I'm least familiar with, I could be flubbing that)
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
On Windows, if you use the new manifest-based Event Log APIs, it will automatically translate Event Log messages for you based on the language (you provide the actual translations in the manifest of course, Event Log just knows how to decod
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Me too - I only see this at work where we're running MS ISA Firewall
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Why are people so excited about this? It's not actually useful, just something the Shell folks left in and gave a weird name. They did that with other stuff too, I think the paint fumes around their new building were getting to them - they
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
If you run a site geared towards novice computer users, my advice is DON'T. OpenID is still far too janky of a user experience, you're totally beholden to the providers, which are all different, and the "IE6" crowd just does not get it.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
I agree - I really think that when it comes down to it, Lisp isn't popular because it's harder to read . Even if it's more terse and far more elegant, the mental tax of trying to understand another person's code is far higher than C, where
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
The title is "Does Netflix Know Javascript?" (i.e. implying they don't), then he writes: "Overall, I have to give the netflix site an A- in the way they handle their javascript/css. The do almost everything right, and are strongly optimized
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
I wrote this to help myself out with porting a project, and figured some other folks would find it handy
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Convert .NET 2.0 DLLs to 4.0 without recompiling(blog.paulbetts.org)
1 points by xpaulbettsx 17y ago|1 comments
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
Yep - DeepZoom a PivotTable of Wikipedia
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
You can make your own collections, it's relatively easy unless you have 100k+ items, then you have to write some custom server software
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
This guy is still living in 2001, most of his arguments are pretty much nonsense, and I am highly skeptical of his performance claims
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
The methods he improved the perf of were in string, array, and struct. I think that counts as "globally improves performance", there are very few non-trivial methods that won't benefit.
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
You can also do this with "cd -"
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
"Massive security hole" needs to be added to that list of problems :)
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by xpaulbettsx 17y ago
As long as it gets people to not use IE6, it's doing the world a favor
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by xpaulbettsx 18y ago
GNOME code and the Linux kernel are both pretty good examples - writing a well-structured, small GTK+ app will do wonders for your C skills