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mjpa··on Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
Seems I'm the idiot then, missed the "gateway" bit... so this basically sits between something providing VNC/RDP and makes it accessible with just a web server?
mjpa··on Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
It does say... "once Guacamole is installed on a server" so one would guess you do need Guacamole installed on the controlled machine...
mjpa··on My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qiRgB16...
mjpa··on Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts
One would hope Tesco would cover any costs incurred by customers that are a direct result of this. I know banks in the past have cancelled non-arranged overdraft fees when they've screwed up, but that's easier to do as it's cancelling a charge rather than actually paying money out.
mjpa··on Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts
I'd rather keep my money in one place - if you've got 3 accounts in separate banks that means 3 accounts to pay attention to to make sure nothing is going out that shouldn't and also multiplies the risk factor?
mjpa··on Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted
Sounds like you're describing a mistake there...
mjpa··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
I would :)

Was going to run the tests myself later but needed a box with python3 on it!

mjpa··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
"In conclusion, JSON is not a data format you can rely on blindly." - that suggests the format is bad when it's highlighting problems with the parsers. I see it like saying "Plain text is a bad format because notepad bails on large files"
mjpa··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
Wrote my own JSON parser (https://github.com/MJPA/SimpleJSON) a while ago... not sure how it's a minefield unless I'm missing something?
mjpa··on DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
Is it really an internet wide outage?

Only 2 of the points in the US are affected on https://www.whatsmydns.net/ for the domains we've got on Dyn - same for Twitter etc

mjpa··on On problems with threads in Node.js
Ah yes, so they do. My lack of sleep is showing!

For some reason I was thinking the readdir would run in series so output would go up by ~1s each time.

mjpa··on On problems with threads in Node.js
Ah yes, completely skipped over that bit :P
mjpa··on On problems with threads in Node.js
Is this another case of "here's the code I ran" when in fact they didn't? There should be 3 lines of output, not 6!

Also, the code says it will print the time taken since the start of the program, which again doesn't go with the output and the conclusion being made!

Anyway, how come the output isn't in order?

mjpa··on Centos.org Down
www.centos.org works for me, but mirrorlist.centos.org (what I want!) doesn't work for me.
mjpa··on Stop Using Your Inbox as a To-Do List
Same for me. If a request comes in via email, it stays there - takes more time to copy the request to somewhere else and then find the email again to reply to it.

My (work) inbox consists only of emails that either require me to do something or reply to them. As soon as I reply, it's moved to a different folder.

mjpa··on Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret
A 30s gap over an entire race isn't that big of a deal, Hamilton won the 2008 British GP by over a minute but that was changeable conditions. Watch the first lap of any race and see the gap Vettel builds in a single gap, it has hovered around 2 seconds for many races...
mjpa··on Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
I'm guessing it takes a higher resolution image than what the device would use? The sites I tried ended up rendering wrong in terms of what media queries were used...
mjpa··on You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript
There is of course the maintenance issue... what happens when their script is updated and breaks how you use it?
mjpa··on Drupal.org compromised
I'm not convinced by their salted claim, I thought Drupal 6 (what drupal.org is on) only did MD5() for passwords? Drupal 7 has the more securely hashed passwords.
mjpa··on My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me
Open source you want? Here you go https://github.com/operasoftware/dragonfly
mjpa··on JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
@hhariri / @rdemmer - any partial refund for anyone who recently purchased something? :)
mjpa··on The Problem With Free Apps
Surprised there is no mention of the 'free or pay' option. Wonder what would happen if Facebook etc gave the option to pay a set fee per year to remove all ads / sponsored posts from your timeline
mjpa··on Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year
"where we want people to copy us" - presumably so they have more people to sue?
mjpa··on 3% flat tax (UK) - A proposal
If i'm reading it right, you basically pay 3% tax on any unspent cash (under the non-depreciating assets) - how does that make sense?!
mjpa··on $50 comodo wildcard SSLs (while they last)
You don't need a wildcard for domain.com + www.domain.com. I've got several cheap (~$7) certificates that have both listed
mjpa··on Windows System Exploit
You can cause a blue screen by trying to copy the device context of the screen to itself with BitBlt - a stupid thing to do but still causes a blue screen
mjpa··on Show HN: BuddyHack - Mess with your friends' Facebooks
Without trying it for obvious reasons, going off the HTML, I'm guessing it just posts a load of status updates on various topics, eg "Posts ridiculous lyrics and statuses about love for artists like Nickelback."