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4,700karma·943submissions·March 21, 2011
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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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According to these people, Chrome and Safari also have ~20% each. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201308-... …
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Pretty sure it was a joke.
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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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IANAL, but The Tetris Company seems to have had legal successes in the area of copyrighting mechanics.
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I use Firefox, but it would be easier to recommend if it had a sandbox.
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Brazil's native search engine got bought by Google many years ago.
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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_…
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Traction, of course. Perl and TCL were far more popular when Java was exploding.
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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…
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Two interesting facts: these instances are HVM only and... VPC only, weirdly enough.
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You know what would be a nice twist, if database vendors added jepsen runs to their benchmarking mix.
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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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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!…
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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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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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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 paragraph…
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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…