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by zvrba 9y ago
There's no date on the page itself, and the link contains the string "March2009". Is this really a recent change? EDIT: just tried to download a driver, and this is the page that gets displayed.
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by zvrba 9y ago
Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.)
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by zvrba 9y ago
How many of these even run on the latest Intel CPUs?
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by zvrba 9y ago
> but it's under threat of depreciation because the bootsrap build with MPX has been broken for so long. Huh. Even MSVC supports it (currently experimental though): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016&#
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by zvrba 9y ago
Which it is for most of internet infrastructure.
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by zvrba 9y ago
I expected to see something more sophisticated than a simple implicit conversion to string.
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by zvrba 9y ago
It worked fine in VS2015 and works fine in VS2017. It doesn't work in cases where it cannot work, as in ``` template<typename T> void f(const T& t) { auto val = t.some_method(); } ``` and here it cannot work because T c
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by zvrba 9y ago
> If you need ordered access a hashmap + key list is a superior implementation to red-black trees, so std::map still loses there. Superior in what way? > Do you have any examples? It's a couple of years since, but I remember havi
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by zvrba 9y ago
> I challenge you to find a single correct use of std::map to begin with. Before C++11, you only had std::map, so every use was correct. After C++11, you may still care about iterator invalidation or actually maintaining ordering. These
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by zvrba 9y ago
The problem here is search. The problem may have been solved, but finding the relevant paper is like looking for a needle in the haystack. It doesn't help that terminology has changed during the years...
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by zvrba 9y ago
So, as I read the article, the main objection is that the users aren't informed clearly enough about data collection. MS can remedy this in two ways: 1) by being more clear about data collected and asking for consent, 2) by turning off
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by zvrba 9y ago
If WCF is deprecated, what's the current preferred way for developing service-based applications?
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by zvrba 9y ago
She "hints" at this in a couple of sentences: > Rather, I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world, the expectation that coursework required
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by zvrba 9y ago
> Rather, I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world From my personal experience, exactly such courses have proven to have the most long-term value to
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by zvrba 9y ago
> Yes except that with that approach you still have all the other ways those processes could interfere with each other. Yes, you're right, add to that seccomp: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/secc
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by zvrba 9y ago
> inter-unikernel routing can be done by another (untrusted) dedicated unikernel If the routing unikernel is untrusted, how are you going to prevent another unikernel to impersonate it and route on behalf of it? > And yes, whenever on
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by zvrba 9y ago
> In a way that's always traditionally been used for untrusted communications (e.g. network sockets), so that they know not to trust each other. So your "trusted" components now incorporate a TCP/IP or another network
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by zvrba 9y ago
> The only way such an effort can ever hope to succeed is a) an extremely clear standard with a rigorous conformance test VMCALL is too flexible for being able to call it a "standard". What does the original article suggest? Y
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by zvrba 9y ago
> But then you find that somewhere in the lower layers of the framework/interpreter you were using there's something that relies on it. So you refrain from using the framework in question because the very same framework wouldn&
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by zvrba 9y ago
> If there was only one of pipes, sockets, system calls, and the filesystem, that would be fine. Instead there are all of those and more. So you choose ONE for the message-passing mechanism. If the process does not incorporate code that
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by zvrba 9y ago
> Pipes and sockets on a local system are usually implemented using shared memory. ... where the sharing is mediated by the kernel. You can't access the pipe/socket buffers directly from a user-space program. EDIT: IIRC, POSIX
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by zvrba 9y ago
> It's a smaller, cleaner, interface that's been designed from day 1 to be secure, Care to argue how something based on sharing memory could ever be more secure than sending messages over pipes or sockets (between different pro
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by zvrba 9y ago
SSTP (tunneling via HTTPS) is the interesting one.
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by zvrba 9y ago
He was sentenced for selling "VPN software", which Win10 has built-in. Did he also run a VPN server (not mentioned in the article)?
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by zvrba 9y ago
> This VM would not have an IP stack but a small, secure, and well defined interface. It can basically do two or three things to communicate with the host: [...] All of these mechanisms can be transported out of the VM through hypercall
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by zvrba 9y ago
What about using Windows 10 then which comes with a built-in VPN client? (A genuine concern of mine, we're building an embedded product based on Win 10 IoT and using its PPTP VPN for remote diagnostics.)
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by zvrba 9y ago
> As for the "memory leaks" --- I haven't looked at the source, but something whose runtime is very short-lived, like pkg-config, may be very well justified in allocating and never freeing, letting the process exit itself
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by zvrba 9y ago
> If it acted like a database, you'd be able to do consistent reads, or consistent writes (transactions! holy cow). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
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by zvrba 9y ago
This sounds like a rant from a person not really acquainted with operating systems. > Why can I dock and undock tabs in my web browser or in my file manager, but I can't dock a tab between the two apps? How would this even be semant
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by zvrba 9y ago
> Using the STL after using Java collections or Qt collections is a shock. Why? I prefer having a free-standing generic find function as opposed to it being implemented in each and every container. Even better example: copy. You can use

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