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by zorked 12y ago
You will be shocked to learn that the Linux kernel is actually much bigger :/
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by zorked 12y ago
Democracy also works as a system (evidence: Norway is footing the bill), and that is what Liberia is lacking.
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by zorked 12y ago
Ah, sendmail in the 90's. So many buffer overruns you might just as well enable telnet and change your root password to "hackme".
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by zorked 12y ago
According to these people, Chrome and Safari also have ~20% each. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201308-...
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Tripping through IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook(arstechnica.com)
50 points by zorked 12y ago|17 comments
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by zorked 12y ago
Pretty sure it was a joke.
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by zorked 12y ago
I felt cheated when I discovered that Windows 3.1 with Video for Windows would play all those Win95 movies identically.
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by zorked 12y ago
IANAL, but The Tetris Company seems to have had legal successes in the area of copyrighting mechanics.
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by zorked 12y ago
I use Firefox, but it would be easier to recommend if it had a sandbox.
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Russian blogger law puts new restrictions on Internet freedoms(washingtonpost.com)
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by zorked 12y ago
Brazil's native search engine got bought by Google many years ago.
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by zorked 12y ago
People are overrating language features I believe. The thing Sun did really well was marketing. They didn't go only to the core "tech" people in the enterprise: they reached _everybody_, and made it look like every company ha
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by zorked 12y ago
Traction, of course. Perl and TCL were far more popular when Java was exploding.
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by zorked 12y ago
The point of the convention is making the text fit on a 80-character fixed-with screen. QP-encoding the text won't solve that problem, as it will only create a very long line that is encoded in a way that has literal line breaks into i
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by zorked 12y ago
Two interesting facts: these instances are HVM only and... VPC only, weirdly enough.
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by zorked 12y ago
You know what would be a nice twist, if database vendors added jepsen runs to their benchmarking mix.
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by zorked 12y ago
I am in Brazil and I have a 15ms RTT to googleapis.com and a 160ms RTT to cdnjs.cloudflare.com. So please don't switch.
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by zorked 12y ago
While the author called the exploit "shocker" I don't think anybody is shocked by it. There are likely many other ways to break out of Docker. And while I assume the Docker (and kernel!) people are closing them as they come a
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by zorked 12y ago
Lua is very popular in some niches, like games and embedded stuff. Language adoption is a very social thing though. Maybe if Rails was a Lua framework we would be wondering why Ruby never made it big.
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by zorked 12y ago
There's a new binary that recommends moving to BitLocker during install, and the signature matches. Edit: with a new, compromised key.
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by zorked 12y ago
That's very interesting. Why not write about those experiences? By the way, though I know what an IBM 1401 is, I had never heard of Varian and even their Wikipedia page is only like two paragraphs long. The Internet needs more informat
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MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain(answers.microsoft.com)
100 points by zorked 12y ago|77 comments
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Linguist Deciphers 1,800-Year-Old Letter from Egyptian Soldier(sci-news.com)
24 points by zorked 13y ago|0 comments
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Heartbleed: Technology Monoculture’s Second Act(securityledger.com)
1 points by zorked 13y ago|0 comments
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OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL(zdnet.com)
62 points by zorked 13y ago|57 comments
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by zorked 13y ago
Well, even considering the world outside of a PC and Windows was probably OS/2, which I know nothing about, or the incredibly fragmented Unix world (Linux was still a wannabe) with Motif/CDE/xlib, C++ without working compiler
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Where everyone in the world is migrating(qz.com)
6 points by zorked 13y ago|0 comments
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by zorked 13y ago
We're doing 3.5 billion requests a month on Node and I'm sure it's still a small number compared to what other people are doing.
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Amazon's War On The House Of Otto, Germany's $18 Billion Family(forbes.com)
1 points by zorked 13y ago|0 comments
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Enemies of the Internet 2014: entities at the heart of surveillance(12mars.rsf.org)
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