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brokenparseron Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04

Asus is also the company that ran an advertisement campaign titled "It's better with Windows".

No, thanks.

brokenparseron Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Enlightened intolerance

I cite:

> Of course, Mr Wilders leads the farthest-right party in the Dutch political landscape, one with which most Dutch parties have refused to cooperate.

False. The labour party announced a cordon sanitaire with them, but went on to propose legislation that this right wing party had described in their electoral programme, almost 4 weeks after the announcement.

The article concludes with:

> The fact that such statements are not welcomed in American public discourse is one reason why the American model of integration and tolerance works better than the Dutch model, and why the Netherlands continues to be wracked by tensions over Islam and integration—years after those tensions forced Ms Hirsi Ali herself to leave.

This is entirely nonsensical.

brokenparseron DNS breakage at Samsung.com

They were gone for a while (couldn't even query their whois record) but they're back and everything seems fine now.

Interestingly, I could still shoot them an email (perhaps because the relevant records were cached by my nameserver). Hi, Samsung!

brokenparseron Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform

I can follow instructions, but only one of these actually compiles.

EDIT: managed to compile it, it's just the RPM that wouldn't build :P (still wouldn't dare run this on the servers though)

brokenparseron Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform

Unfortunately, this requires MySQL. I guess it would be okay if you're already running that but I'd rather not introduce a third database daemon (after Postgres and Redis) to my servers.

brokenparseron Scientists Make First Embryo Clones From Adults

Only when you don't buy the value added PowerPack, which comes in variants Premium, Premium Deluxe and Premium Deluxe Dual Head.

brokenparseron Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code

FF28 Fedora, the animations work but scrolling is choppy (like a slide show).

brokenparseron CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked

Yeah, I bet that fix is real easy.

brokenparseron Drop Dropbox

Thank you. Mrs Rice isn't what would make Dropbox unsafe, it's their lack of encryption and other insecure practises. A quick DuckDuckGo search yielded these articles:

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-and-threats/dropb... http://www.wired.com/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/ http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/hacking-dropbox-account-vul...

(This is just a semi-random selection.)

brokenparseron Half-Life 1 engine based games

s/engine based games/SDK/

brokenparseron Google Now for Chrome

I still struggled, but that's just me :P

brokenparseron Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

You always need to learn the tools you're using. If you rely on autocomplete to learn those tools, you're going to write the kind of shitty software I loathe.

brokenparseron Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

Don't need no stinkin IDE, just a text editor and a compiler. You'll learn more than when using an IDE.

brokenparseron Announcing TypeScript 1.0

Ooh, undocumented features! How nice, thanks =]

brokenparseron Announcing TypeScript 1.0

The language is nice, but the compiler uses its own lib.d.ts which has all sorts of definitions for browsers and even proprietary MSIE ones. This doesn't make any sense when using TypeScript in any other context (like Gjs, NodeJS, Rhino, Seed, etc.). TypeScript shouldn't assume a browser by default, or at least provide an option for compiling without lib.d.ts.

brokenparseron Pkgr.io: Easy way to get a Debian package out of any app

Do the generated packages pass lintian?

brokenparseron Why all the fuzz about MS Paint – Just use Paint Dot NET

But those ads have 2 AdChoice icons on them, are huge click targets, have a border AND say "This advertisement will...".

If you can't figure this out, you won't be able to use paint.net anyway.

brokenparseron Why all the fuzz about MS Paint – Just use Paint Dot NET

This is why browsers show you the link target in the status when you hover a link. It reads "googleads..." when you hover it, so those who still think it's legitimate when they see that deserve to get pwned.

brokenparseron Why all the fuzz about MS Paint – Just use Paint Dot NET

It's quite obvious, the site is all static content so even if you can't tell the ads from the contents by their visual appearance, just press F5. It also quite literally says "download" right at the top:

http://drp.io/geKo

On the second page, scroll down if you don't see the buttons. Notice that the advertisement has an AdChoices button (and it also changes on reload). Also, the instructions are right there underneath the ad:

http://drp.io/geKp

On the final download page, there are obvious signs to tell where you should click. The download button is surrounded by a huge click target in a box that features an AdChoices button and if you look closely you'll see it quite literally says "Advertisement" (FFS). Most importantly, the page tells you to click the link labelled "Free Download Now" to the right, where the ad sits below.

http://drp.io/geKq

I feel dumber having explained this.

brokenparseron Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released

   pulseaudio -k

Tried that? Maybe if you use a previous kernel?

brokenparseron Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public

I'd rather start any project on a foundation of at least latest FreeBSD or GNU/Linux :P

brokenparseron Windows XP support is ending at April 8, 2014

> open source XP

And who would publicly maintain and support it? Security researches may find bugs or even write patches for it, but IT departments aren't likely to deploy them any time soon.

Besides, it encompasses lots of third party software whose right holders might be hard to find or simply wouldn't agree.

brokenparseron ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

> You can use a write-once hardware register at the end of the boot sequence for similar effect.

Or use a turn-key switch. First put it into II, wait for the boot sequence to complete, switch back to I. Yes, that does require someone to be on site but that tends to happen anyway when someone restarts the ATM in the first place. If you want to update the software remotely, you could download it into ramdisk and run it from there. For the base system, you'll want something robust so it's more or less guaranteed to get to the point where you can manage it remotely. And you could verify the downloaded application bits against a locally installed root certificate.

The old MS-Windows-based ATMs may be rebooted daily, but let's face it, that's just because Windows. When the base system has to be updated for some reason, a service technician will have to physically replace the storage device for it. If that happens very often, they're either doing it wrong or I'd recommend against such a setup. But perhaps the vendor can charge for the service, in which case /care ;)

Or they could turn the key into II every last Monday of the month for example (the ATM would go into maintenance mode) at a certain time and let the big maintenance server do its work overnight, avoiding the situation altogether at the cost of a slightly greater risk that the machine becomes defective.

In any case, a tiny embedded OS would be perfect for the job.

brokenparseron ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

Ah, I thought SUSE was split off into its own company back when they acquired Novell.

brokenparseron ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

> SUSE is now in the hands of a huge IT company

Which one are you referring to?

brokenparseron ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

NanoBSD would be easier to audit than anything Linux based. Once it's booted, you can physically disconnect the write pin of your storage device. If you can manage to dump the contents of it externally to the host, you can then compare checksums to see if anything has been compromised.

brokenparseron ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

Procrastination?

brokenparseron Why Does Backspace Go Back A Page?

It doesn't?

brokenparseron Happy Birthday Docker

Because the guests have their own SELinux policies. Docker containers don't come with policies, but if it would support running containers under a user account I could at least restrict each to their own category so that theoretically a chmod -R 777 / (inside a container) and access to the host wouldn't compromise other containers (unless the kernel is exploitable, in which case KVM would still win).

brokenparseron NetBeans IDE 8.0

IntelliJ also looks like shit. It has its own toolkit and the same horrible font rendering as any other swing program. If you want your IDE to be pretty, try Eclipse.