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micro-ramon Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)

Maybe if all the apps were coming from the Mac App Store. I think the limits of Sandboxing have slowed that progress significantly. They should have reasonable allowances to bypass the sandbox for apps that really do need the entire machine. Instead we are now so restrictive a text editor isn't feasible and the Mac App Store is faltering.

http://www.panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/

PS-I don't think they will switch to ARM. The new USB-C MacBook is very power efficient.

micro-ramon In Defense of the Midwest

Agreed. Hi neighbor. Have 200mbit fiber now. Getting gigabit fiber in a few days. Welcome to Central Illinois. NO TRAFFIC!

micro-ramon How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport

Similar Train game called "Rails". It is fun until you get so much going on there are trains crashing into each other everywhere.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rails/id556517203?mt=8

micro-ramon Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard

Second this. Put a switch under the memory door. Problem solved.

micro-ramon RapidShare is Shutting down

You are using a spot instance right?

micro-ramon Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit

Don't forget about NTSwitch[1]. This little gem would switch Windows Server to Windows Workstation and vice versa.

[1] http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/making-windows-cl...

micro-ramon AWS C4 Instances

I would love to leave my colo for AWS but the numbers just don't work.

micro-ramon Samsung Unveils SSD Delivering Speeds of Over 2 GB/s

Ad-hoc connecting new Macs over Thunderbolt 2 at 20Gbits/sec is very nice! My MacBook Pro and Mac Pro share their 1TB SSD drives between each other via TB2.

micro-ramon Filezilla at SourceForge is malware

I like Cyberduck for quickly creating expiring S3 download links.

micro-ramon A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015

http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm

A cool realtime clock that shows the offset the GPS satellites work from, which do not include leap seconds.

micro-ramon Global Outage of AWS CloudFront CDN on Nov 26 2014

Could you add a global variable to your site code with the fqdn of your assets to point to the origin for times like this?

micro-ramon Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center

Because swipe up is disabled on my lock screen! Airplane mode renders find my iPhone unusable.

PS-PCalc was the first notification center app I enabled on iOS 8 and I actually use it.

micro-ramon Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

I do this for all my old technology books. Like most of you I was sure there was a nugget of knowledge I could still extract from some old book so I kept them for a long time. In one day I bar-code scanned in all of the UPCs and saved them in a wish list. If the book was available cheap then it went in the paper recycling bin. I told myself that if I really want that OLD book back it is available for $1+s&h used. I cleaned up a lot of shelf space and still have my books available on a few days notice.

PS-I have never needed to buy anything back from my old book wish list.

micro-ramon Move Fast, Don't Break Your API

Agreed. This bit me once.

micro-ramon My $300 Home Cloud Server

Don't let the sound bother you. Put it down in the basement or somewhere where you can't hear it and use the DRAC to power it on and off.

micro-ramon What's the matter with PGP?

We already have a start there. Make all NON-EV certs free.

micro-ramon Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

880 looks like a trap to keep you in Texas :)

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.1199335,-93.7106707,1513m/da...

micro-ramon Has RAID5 stopped working? (2013)

I think the assumed issues here are the long rebuild times and the expectation of an additional failure happening during the rebuild which could then trigger another disk error. Then the entire array of data would be taken offline and possibly corrupted. I have build many RAID5/6 arrays and have rarely lost any data, but I am leery and now and tend to just stick with smaller RAID 1 or 10's due to the large size of current disks. We really need native ZFS (BTRFS?) on everything now. Data should be automatically distributed to multiple disks and the file system should be able to guarantee via checksum the data read is what I wrote.

micro-ramon It's the Latency, Stupid (1996)

Isn't that why we used to have streaming protocols like Z-Modem that didn't ACK every packet or at least did so asynchronously?

micro-ramon Syntax highlighters are wrong

Red/Green colorblind doesn't mean we don't see red and green, it's just not as powerful. It should read Red/Green deficient. Maybe that is why it doesn't seem so bad because to a Red/Green colorblind person the colors are more subdued.

micro-ramon Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups

Metered service...OK. Bring on the gigabit pipe and turn the meter on.

micro-ramon Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

> why would we want to lose all of that information.

Because the url past the domain name is not for the user to be messing with most of the time. We the developers control everything to right of the first single slash. Maybe if it was hidden then it would force us to do a better job showing the users where they are in our sites with breadcrumbs and menus and at the same time keep them from trying to poke around in places where they shouldn't be. I think this is a perfect opportunity to open up our minds and build better UI inside the frame.

micro-ramon Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

> I would wager that most people who fall for phishing attacks are not people who look at or understand URLs to begin with. Updating the URL bar to show just the host is not going to cause more people to look at it.

I respectfully disagree that it is less secure. Showing only the domain will reduce the clutter to where the user can determine which domain they are typing their password into. I say can because in the phishing example the user would be unable to determine the domain name.

The full url is only a click away. A click that is going to be happening anyway when the user wants to copy the URL.

I welcome the clean look as user. As a developer I will re-enable the full URL on my development machines, but not on my family members machines.

micro-ramon Is Your Site HSTS Enabled?

Yes, upgrade Apache. These settings are for Apache 2.4

micro-ramon Tourism, Construction and an Ongoing Nuclear Crisis at Chernobyl

bp;dr

micro-ramon Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale

  repurposed an old flag

The flag was not OLD since there was still code in the CURRENT code base which COULD use it.

micro-ramon Is Your Site HSTS Enabled?

These settings are giving me an A+ on SSLLabs.com...

  # - Apache 2.4 PFS & BEAST attack Safe   /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf
    SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2
    SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH
    SSLHonorCipherOrder on
    SSLCompression off

  # - HSTS Apache directive to force SSL (.htaccess or per site in control panel)
	Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000"
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
	RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,R=301,L]

micro-ramon The Case Against ISP Tolls

ITV-3?

micro-ramon QEMU 2.0.0 Released

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview