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by yyin 10y ago
There was a separate goto utility in early UNIX. Pretty sure you can still find the source code if you look. Meanwhile, it's mentioned here: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/
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by yyin 10y ago
Meanwhile qhasm.net and qhasm.org still "under construction". Will we see a surge in quantum_____.com domain regstrations? How about a .quantum TLD? Keep the hype machine rolling.
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by yyin 10y ago
One of his two nameservers, ns2.missoulaweb.com (66.235.178.171), is non-responsive. The other one works but it's listed second. No round-robin. That can slow down the DNS lookup, as the first listed nameserver will likely be tried
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by yyin 10y ago
Who are the clients and how much do they pay for these services? Whats the typical size of the dataset? Speed benchmarks shared with the public?
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by yyin 10y ago
Questions: What language are they using for cleaning up the data for import? Is there a market for a middleman (i.e., something as a service) that cleans up enterprise data, using customized solutions if necessary, for import into different
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by yyin 10y ago
This is a more accurate description IMO. However DNS does not have to be that way. Before DNS there used to be file sharing of all the data via a single file in the simple "HOSTS file" format. Then there was a feature in DNS fo
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by yyin 11y ago
I'd prefer to see decentralized email before "encrypted" email. Recipient runs qmail listening for connections on some personally chosen port from among 1000's of choices. She is also running a firewall such as pf. aut
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by yyin 11y ago
I can think of worse outcomes than having to use djb's software, whether it's dummy-proof libraries, well-designed, small programs that work together, or algorithms chosen as defaults by some self-authorized standards group or by
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by yyin 11y ago
"So the RPi foundation deliver the first mass-market hackable board,..." I notice this type of negative comment about inexpensive, "hackable" hardware freqently on HN. As if the fact that a piece of hardware is inexpens
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by yyin 11y ago
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by yyin 11y ago
Right on. I remember using a VAX in the 1980's and it still seems like the fastest computer I ever used. Everything that came after seemed sluggish by comparison. Then many years ago I tried someone's VAX image in the simh simul
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by yyin 11y ago
Why do you use http://packet.net as a URL in your comment when this only redirects to a www.packet.net subdomain, on Cloudflare? Why not just use http://www.packet.net ? From the perspective of the user, wouldn't
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by yyin 11y ago
"I will set up any network I'm in charge of with a DNS that has doubleclick.com as 127.0.0.1, and also many others." You mean doubleclick.net? Alas, that's a typo that would let the ads in. Like you I redirect doublecli
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by yyin 11y ago
Is ldns vulnerable? Did OpenBSD drop BIND and libresolv in favor of ldns and nsd, unbound, drill? Might be an interim solution.
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by yyin 11y ago
1. The truth is, I make far fewer queries than the average web user. Because I have the IP addresses I need stored permanently. And I only update those files periodically. Today's websites and graphical web browsers (that I do not u
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by yyin 11y ago
Back in 2008 after the cache poisoning hype, I developed my own method of resolving names without using caches (it is very fast); I use only authoritative servers. I still use this method daily. "... but we can set the tc "Trunca
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by yyin 11y ago
Does WSJ check visits from a Googlebot UA against a list of known Google IP addresses?
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by yyin 11y ago
"The fact that djbdns doesn't use BIND code is not really relevant." It is to me. It's true that in this case it's not what mitigates this vulnerability. Although it has certainly mitigated many others over the yea
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by yyin 11y ago
There are certainly more you omitted (similar to your code CDN for javascipt, fonts, etc.)... consider something like recaptcha. In my experience, all those requests to api.recaptcha.net get forwarded to "www.google.com" My experi
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by yyin 11y ago
Is djbdns vulnerable? It does not use these routines. I've never needed ENDS0, but maybe the need will arise someday. Meanwhile... Short term, I'd prefer to expunge all "C networking code" originating from BIND author
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by yyin 11y ago
"But this isn't addressing the real problem..." Well, he addressed a real problem in my opinion: readline is too large and too complicated for many uses. I used hping in the old days; while I'm not a Redis user (I use cd
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by yyin 11y ago
One could differentiate the two proposed solutions by the level of involvement of third parties (e.g., cloud hosting providers, authors of garbage collected or scripting languages, etc.). Some of these third parties have been involved sinc
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by yyin 11y ago
Why was the Consistent Instruction Sizes entry not posted but this one was? This entry appears to be yet another way to achieve it. Maybe I am wrong, but if all instruction sizes were the same I could imagine disassembling by simply parsin
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by yyin 11y ago
I wrote my own "package manager". It's nothing more than three short portable shell scripts, using only ftp, sed, gzip, tar, rm, cd, etc. Credit to the pkgsrc folks for making things simple enough that this is possible. Howev
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by yyin 11y ago
"... people who cannot edit /etc/hosts, but can change DNS server." e.g., "mobile" or "tablet" users who choose Apple iPhone, iPad, etc. The idea of an ARPA-networked devices that have no user-editabl
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by yyin 11y ago
What if the "owner" of the device, i.e. the person who paid her hard-earned wages to "own" it, is not interested in using the "TouchID" feature? Is there an untapped niche for a similarly-sized single board com
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by yyin 11y ago
One of the better websites on the internet, from the founder of Autodesk: http://www.fourmilab.ch/nav/topics.html Suggested starting point: http://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/atlast.html He recounts
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by yyin 11y ago
"It's a clever ploy..." Not really all that clever. Same old story. They take users for fools. Maybe users will stay dumb re: ads, but then maybe not. It's amusing to watch the companies that must jam the ads into yo
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by yyin 11y ago
I use rdiff as an open source, simpler alternative to Dropbox for syncing files across a network. Dropbox uses the same library of functions as rdiff: librsync.
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by yyin 11y ago
This made me chuckle. I've been doing this type of stream editing for years, on the client side. Of course I strip out Javascript. In addition to blocking google-analytics, doubleclick, etc. client-side, via DNS. Google reminds me

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