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brokenparseron Ask HN: New Laptop

Most important would be the capability to run any OS I feed it (without any signature bullcrap) because I am what I am and the supplied OS is never good enough.

brokenparseron Not Quite the Spirit of the Internet

This type of delusional corporate bullshittery is nothing new, but I commend you for taking the time to check their ToS before doing business with them. They appear not to want it.

brokenparseron International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware

There's also maliciousness to the benefit of the user. Read (s)elf-exploitation by Jonathan Garrett for an example, http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/

brokenparseron Real World OCaml

Debian describes OCaml as follows:

Objective Caml (OCaml) is an implementation of the ML language, based on the Caml Light dialect extended with a complete class-based object system and a powerful module system in the style of Standard ML.

OCaml comprises two compilers. One generates bytecode which is then interpreted by a C program. This compiler runs quickly, generates compact code with moderate memory requirements, and is portable to essentially any 32 or 64 bit Unix platform. Performance of generated programs is quite good for a bytecoded implementation: almost twice as fast as Caml Light 0.7. This compiler can be used either as a standalone, batch-oriented compiler that produces standalone programs, or as an interactive, toplevel-based system.

The other compiler generates high-performance native code for a number of processors. Compilation takes longer and generates bigger code, but the generated programs deliver excellent performance, while retaining the moderate memory requirements of the bytecode compiler. It is not available on all arches though.

brokenparseron IPad Air bursts into flames in Australia store

To those left wondering what the heck an "iPad Air" is:

• iPad, 2010

• iPad 2, 2011

• iPad marketed as "The New iPad" (a.k.a. iPad 3), March 2012

• iPad marketed as "iPad with Retina display" even though the previous model already had that (a.k.a. iPad 4), November 2012

• iPad Air (a.k.a. iPad 5), 2013

brokenparseron How Google May Be Planning To Make Android Apps Faster With ART

Move your apps to SD.

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It stops working at "Tell me when you're 'done'".

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    Research at NSA (gchq.gov.uk)

Derrrrrrrrrp

brokenparseron HostDB

It can be practical for very large records if, say, you use a NAPTR record to point at a web server which serves the actual contents. It just requires a little out-of-the-box thinking. They can both use the same SQL backend so everything is still in the same database.

In this regard, DNS isn't broken and doesn't need fixing. HostDB seems especially obnoxious since it also stores the FQDN and IP address of each host, information which ends up being duplicated in DNS.

brokenparseron HostDB

Congratulations, you have reinvented DNS. You can even pretty much s/HostDB/DNS/g:

    DNS: an old tool to help manage data center inventory and write
    applications around it.

    DNS is our attempt to solve the problem of finding hosts and
    their purposes in a large environment. DNS acts as a Single
    source of truth about all Physical and Virtual servers and is
    used to define their purpose. It helps us group our servers
    through domains and all the software written by the operations
    team revolves around DNS. DNS acts as the centralized
    configuration store for all sorts of information.

brokenparseron Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?

a totally awesome environment that is a living monument to modern architecture

FTFY. Also, infinity pools.

brokenparseron High Performance Networking On The JVM

AFAIK, section headers should be used sequentially, e.g. <section><h1>First level</h1><h2>Second level</h2>

< p>Foobar</p><h2>Another second level header</h2>

< p>Quux</p></section> (the space prevents HN from eating those tags).

It also uses paragraphs and breaks to create white space. On line 284 it even wraps a break in a bold tag.

Nice article, though.

brokenparseron CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For Specific Content

And the article is almost 2 months old.

brokenparseron Windows 8.1 now available

Would you mind sharing a bit more info on how to accomplish these?

1. This is probably a matter of running gpedit.msc (IIRC) and then enable disable lock screen somewhere.

2. This might be an option in inetcpl.cpl, perhaps under Advanced?

3. Task bar properties? Not sure if the "boot to desktop" option sits there, though.

4. That's probably using Windows Setup, so appwiz.cpl and select "enable/disable features" or something like that.

Asking because people often resort to me for their Windows problems even though I don't run it myself.

brokenparseron Windows 8.1 now available

Windows 98 SE upgrade boxes were sold separately and they looked like this: http://i.imgur.com/RfgHpb3.jpg

Though registered users could apparently get the CD for free (see elsewhere in this thread). This site has an overview of most versions (it omits 2003, 2008 and 8): http://ackadia.com/blog/computers/a-brief-history-of-microso...

brokenparseron Windows 8.1 now available

Ah, never mind then. This is notable because neither Windows 98 SE or Windows 8.1 really are updates or service packs (it's not like the usual "KBxyz restores the start button in Windows 8" and it won't appear in Windows Update), that's why they have distinct names and packaging to set them apart from the other Windows versions. The MS press release / blog post (and related press coverage), however, made it look like the free upgrade was a first. I stand corrected, but I don't loathe Windows any less because of it.

brokenparseron Windows 8.1 now available

Once again Microsoft has learned a lesson from Linux: the upgrade comes free of charge to existing users. Not quite the same yet, but it's getting there.

brokenparseron Oracle releases 127 security fixes, 51 for Java alone

About half of them have been patched in Java 5, more details here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013...

brokenparseron Introducing TogetherJS

And for those intranet sites which only work on old IE, you could use the IE tab add-on (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab/ ).

brokenparseron Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine

Where's the hack?

brokenparseron Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager

It has fastboot just like unlocked Android devices. More details here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

brokenparseron Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager

The Geeksphone devices are sold out, but you can get a ZTE Open with FirefoxOS on eBay for only $80/£60. Details at https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/dev_phone

brokenparseron The Average American Man's Body

Good luck with that, as there are about 2 weeks of nice summer weather per year. Try Aruba, Curaçao or Sint Maarten (if you don't mind being jet blasted), they're part of the kingdom of the Netherlands so technically still the Netherlands.

brokenparseron Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor

And if he did, I wonder which door they've shown him on the way out.

brokenparseron Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director

DOS was actually pretty simple itself.

1. Insert disk (as always) 2. A: 3. DIR.EXE 4. Type in the name of the exe

Precise commands were often printed on the label. Having to manually figure out a correct SET BLASTER command was rare but sound cards came with a useful manual to keep you going. No one seemed too bothered by the lack of a GUI. Now people ask me if they should click the left or right mouse button all the time and I have to tell them to single-click hyperlinks and buttons. Heck, some don't even see them until I point them out. Does a GUI really enable them to use a computer more easily or would they more easily adjust to a written language akin to commandeering a dog?

brokenparseron An open letter to Rockstar Games

This.

It's an extra mission: You just got some illicit bag of money you have to get rid of, so buy cars from a shady dealer and drive em to the compactor (there is a car compactor in GTAV, right?).

brokenparseron TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden internet

How long until the NSA/GCHQ backdoors this site, if they haven't already? Would the thought police jump to conclusions if one uses this to search for classified documents? FBI files are probably of no use to me, so I'm not interested in those. But I hate it if people (in particular journalists) are considered to be some kind of al-shabab just for exercising democracy (i.e. holding their governments accountable under the exact letter as well as spirit of applicable legislation).

brokenparseron NSA Surveillance: What We Know; What to Do About It

Does anyone know the timezone for this?

brokenparseron Dune allows running privileged instructions in userland using VT-x on Linux

From the paper:

This paper introduces a new approach to application use of kernel hardware features: using virtualization hardware to provide a process, rather than a machine abstraction. We have implemented this approach for Linux on 64-bit Intel CPUs in a system called Dune. Dune provides a loadable kernel module that works with unmodified Linux kernels. The module allows processes to enter "Dune mode", an irreversible transition in which, through virtualization hardware, safe and fast access to privileged hardware features is enabled, including privilege modes, virtual memory registers, page tables, and interrupt, exception, and system call vectors.

...Our evaluation shows both performance and security benefits to Dune. For instance, we built a sandbox that approaches zero overhead, modified a garbage collector to improve performance by up to 40.7%, and created a privilege separation system with 3x less context switch overhead than without Dune.

brokenparseron Perl 5 + Perl 6 = Perl 11

Perl. It really whips the camel's ass.

FTFY