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by zedpm 13y ago
Sigh. I'm glad I didn't give them any billing information (monthly invoice paid each time via Paypal). It's not clear to me how/why root passwords are compromised by this exploit; anyone care to elaborate?
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by zedpm 13y ago
It appears to be a widespread outage; no comments yet from @Dropbox or @DropboxOPs on Twitter.
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by zedpm 13y ago
Without knowing what program you've been through, what program you're planning on entering, and what focus or purpose you have in seeking a MS in CS, I can only describe things based on the program I went through. A student ought to have st
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by zedpm 13y ago
As someone with a BS and MS in CS (having written a thesis for the latter), it was amazing to see how weak some of the other grad students were. At my school, many of the foreign grad students didn't have an undergrad CS degree and it showe
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by zedpm 13y ago
Could someone explain what he means when he writes "...the payout breakdown was 30, 50, 20, meaning that Microsoft will probably get a 20% discount on your bonus if you were planning on leaving"?
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by zedpm 14y ago
Offering a complete streaming service might be a bad idea, but it's a shame they don't do like so many other content providers and offer individual episodes for sale via Amazon Instant Video. Many popular cable shows (and even shows from AB
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by zedpm 15y ago
Ha, I guess the free trial makes it an easy decision. I'll give it a spin.
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by zedpm 15y ago
As someone who currently has 8 explorer windows open and is often frustrated with how unwieldy it is to work with, I have to say I'm impressed and tempted to purchase this thing. I was just to the point of starting to set up Cygwin with a b
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by zedpm 15y ago
I run only SSD in my desktop and I was running out of space for VMs. I decided to move a VM to my NAS and I discovered, happily, that it runs great on the NAS, connected over Gig-E. I moved the rest of my VMs over there and I really don't n
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by zedpm 15y ago
In that case here's the Coral CDN mirror: http://www.askamathematician.com.nyud.net/?p=4524
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by zedpm 15y ago
You can argue about what constitutes "giving money" vs. loaning money, but in certain cases there has been very little difference. Take the "loans" made available to the top .1% via TALF. Matt Taibbi describes the non-recourse loans handed
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by zedpm 15y ago
This of course depends on the quality of the hammock, in much the same way that a poor mattress will make for a bad sleeping experience. I own a Warbonnet Blackbird hammock ( http://warbonnetoutdoors.com/blackbirds.php ) and it's extremely
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by zedpm 15y ago
You use both an under quilt and a top quilt to insulate the hammock, which is of course suspended above the snow. I haven't tried that yet as I'm more of a fair weather camper, but comments on various hammock forums suggest that winter camp
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by zedpm 15y ago
Yes, it appears I was using Slicehost prices rather than Linode prices because I'm in the process of migrating from Slicehost to Linode. I did the Slicehost to Cloud Server comparison because Slicehost is forcing migration to Rackspace in t
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by zedpm 15y ago
Unlike Linode, Rackspace Cloud decouples the server pricing from the bandwidth pricing. A base server on Rackspace is cheap and it remains so if you use very little bandwidth. If you calculate the Rackspace cost using the maximum bandwidth
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by zedpm 15y ago
In addition to adding new features (many of which are available as previews for Reddit Gold subscribers), the degree to which Reddit must scale means that they can't simply spin up a dozen new servers and call it a day. Due to issues they'v
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by zedpm 15y ago
Good grief, no. I have dozens of passwords. The 10 or so that I use regularly are committed to memory, the rest may require me to consult a legal pad or KeepassX, the latter being protected by an extremely long and complex password unique t
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by zedpm 15y ago
Yep, they wrote about this on their tech blog: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... . It seems that they identified EBS as potentially problematic and built their system with minimal dependencies on EBS. Conseque
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by zedpm 15y ago
If my algebra is correct, Square's fee is lower for purchases under approximately $23. In your scenario where your average sale is higher than $23, you do end up paying more with Square. The article suggests that they're targeting coffee ho
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by zedpm 15y ago
It depends on what your specific needs are with respect to persistence and other aspects of your application. Take a look at http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/ and read about RabbitMQ and ZeroMQ to see if either so