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wglb
69,333karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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Those are really two different things. Compare their projected cost with, say, a deep discharge marine battery at $200 for 10 ah, which is 120 watt/hour. The claimed figures are a huge improvement ove…
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Agreed, and quite expensive to rewrite.
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Well, if you are a very large company with say 40,000 seats and you have many internally developed applications that target IE6, there is a legacy that is justifiably expensive to replace. So it is al…
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I'm sorry, but "I am proud to say that the end result was the world’s first operating system that is nearly 100% IPv6 compatible (with only a couple unavoidable exceptions), and able to run on a netwo…
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Insanity.
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Well, they have done some innovation, but my memory includes them buying a C compiler company, buying an operating system, hiring Cutler to do an OS after he had already done two or three, doing C# wh…
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I have done this. Tried starbucks but the music was what was killing the concentration. So went to the library. But it is too small, so more than one day in a row and you feel like you are sticking …
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This looks gorgeous.
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Already work at home 24x7, so an offsite meeting with myself is often helpful.
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Grumpy, I would say. Did we overlook the part where Atwood helps run Stackoverflow which is entirely powered by user generated content? I think Jeff raises a good question, but unfortunately uses a b…
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I was wondering if I was asleep when that happened, cause I sure missed it. Both parts.
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Some good points about contributing your time for free, but the comparison is a bit inflammatory. Sharecroppers had no real choice, lots of risk, and such an arrangement was their only income. Most i…
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I am wondering, however, if the display time is faster now because the new site doesn't have much user load where the old google site is relatively busy. The claim about 'faster' is that newer search …
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I thought "nickled and dimed" was good, as it made the interesting point that for the low-paying jobs, it is very hard to get affordable housing. One thing that she did not explore while she was worki…
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Does anyone see how the new one is different? I haven't seen a description yet.
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Dude, this is good stuff. Don't stop.
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Well, you sign up for OpenDNS voluntarily and they tell you that up front, no?
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North of CH,IL.
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Well, this was before the +4, and the official address was Rural Route #.
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Well, Andover has 31,000 and Albany has 94,000. The first is as a puzzle, the second one not so much. In my case, the town is much smaller, and pretty much everyone knew everyone.
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No chocolate for him.
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It has been fashionable to trash the post office (USPS) but growing up in a rural route area, I occasionally did a test by sending a letter to the grandparents with just the last name, the city name a…
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I agree about the sensationalist tone noted in other comments here. However, and I have been away from c++ for a while, it is not clear that there is any widespread practice behind concepts. It seems…
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This is a very good article, and hits lots of very good points. However, it seems that there is a little bit of a self-diagnosis problem. For example, if you write "voodo code" (great description), un…
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A great personal story. It seems like you had both a push and a pull. Circumstances finally got you to leap off a cliff, so to speak.
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The source for the story, as are many things about SCO, is http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090805144623275 …
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Cool. Portable enough that they bring their own suds packed in dry ice. Also I was pleased to see that they are using open/bsd with pf as the firewall.