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golem_deon Windows corrupting UDP datagrams

Man, you know, it's just a packet, not 1.500, but 65.535 bytes. There could be 4.294.967.295 bytes!!! :-)

For basically everything TCP is used. UDP is just used by DNS and they usually weight 100 - 200 bytes.

Look into your wireshark!

golem_deon Windows corrupting UDP datagrams

I don't know why you set the MTU to a lower value... What I do know, is that I've set it to 65535; my machine now transmits 64KB instead of just 1.5KB (per packet)... Can you imagine what would happen if I set this to UInt32.MaxValue...?

golem_deon Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Look on that 'user' table! Does anyone have a copy of lists.mozilla.org? hehe

golem_deon Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/vie... Line 56: _password = Column('password', Unicode)

golem_deon Tell HN: Show HN has become an awful way to introduce your project

2. "Show HN" shouldn't be a place to introduce startups and other "real world" projects.

Let's face it, a typical HN user is a programmer wanting to read something technical.

He will not take time to understand/appreciate your non-technical startup. What you can get at most is a snarky comment, but almost all will just ignore it.

golem_deon A Comprehensive Study of the Flaws of the Facebook Like System [pdf]

It's awesome, how much you can write about an iframe

golem_deon Win32/CompromisedCert

Does Microsoft also remove the Firefox and Chrome certificates?

golem_deon Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions

did you ever google for fartscroll?

golem_deon Passwords in plain text

I say just mailman.

Anyone from Mozilla, EcmaScript, GnuPG and thelike here? Don't miss your monthly "password reminder" mail...

P.S. Just save ONLY a salted hash. Hash functions are designed to be one-way, so no one but you can re-store your password. EVER.

golem_deon Red: help us build the first "full-stack" programming language

wait on microsoft, what they make out of roslyn and singularity/midori

golem_deon JQuery plugin to prevent excessive resizing of responsive design.

You should also have a look on fartscroll: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

golem_deon Where should I start learning Assembly?

As always learning by doing is the best, look at this old school website: http://www.japheth.de/index.html Aside of it's manual, he also recommends the (partially free) book http://www.phatcode.net/res/223/files/html/toc.html

golem_deon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

"Unknown or expired link."

This is somewhat annoying. If you have a page with 5 or more interesting links and then after some minutes want to continue, it breaks the xp on ycombinator entirely. I usually leave the page. Why in any hell don't you even just link to the start (or include the header bar)?

I bet it's because of caching the query, to avoid post sliding over page indexes after time, or whatever you thought with that non-session and non-user token. But. It. Is. Somewhat annoying, to cut the ?x=whatever just to return to news.ycombinator.com.

Use a timestamp to refresh the query or go back to use old school bad page indexes, but please fix something, at least the error message. Please!

golem_deon A demo http server and the TCP/IP stack on Windows

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.p...

golem_deon Your Facebook profile picture may be going into a facial-recognition database

Is that news? For how long now do they "suggest friends on that picture"? I'm off facebook now for at least one and a half years, even before they "deactivated" (made it invisible) for EU users. Anyone thought there are facebook moderators suggesting friends in just milliseconds while uploading? I personally was shocked it suggested me standing aside in the far background - I didn't recognize myself that fast!