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robinson-wallon Password prompts are annoying

My experience with the AWS console is that I get a 12-hour session upon logging in, and I never have to reauthenticate.

No, I'm not noticed this. That said, in the past (2years+) I have contacted AWS support about an instance that wouldn't start and was told shutting down from within an instance would normally work, but was not officially supported.

I think they were just looking for a scapegoat in that particular case.

robinson-wallon Debian 7.4 Released

Ah. The debian-cloud mailing list announcement for the new images just landed in my inbox. The archive[1] has yet to update.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2014/02/threads.html

robinson-wallon Debian 7.4 Released

I can't find any official announcement of it, but it looks like there are now official HVM AMIs available with the release of 7.4: https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Wheezy

robinson-wallon Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

As a google apps admin for my work I backup the entire domain's emails - there are a bunch of companies offering this as a service these days.

As a personal google mail user I use offlineimap to synchronise with a local maildir for both redundancy and reading my emails.

robinson-wallon Bitcoin $500

I think oleganza is referring to the fact a new block should be generated roughly every 10 minutes, and until the transaction has been confirmed you can attempt a double-spend.

robinson-wallon Docker and Go: why did we decide to write Docker in Go?

Or, more likely, Python and Ruby developers can distrust it equally ;)

robinson-wallon Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Over IPv6

I have FTTC with ipv6 from http://aa.net.uk/

robinson-wallon There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V

    -bash: sudo make me a sandwich: command not found

robinson-wallon (Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt

Play the twitter "Typo or not?" game https://twitter.com/search?q=viscous%20cycle&src=typd&mode=r...

robinson-wallon He got 1%, we can't hire him

It's perfectly valid. "X and I" is only valid if the sentence makes sense if you only used "I".

This article makes one valid use of "me and X":

> in an effort to score extra points with me and Carl.

If you changed that to "Carl and I" then took out Carl it would be "to score extra points with I", which is disturbing and wrong.

robinson-wallon PS1 generator

This just uses a literal dollar sign to mark the end of the prompt by default. That means if, like me, you don't put the username in your PS1 - instead relying on $ changing to a # when you run `sudo -s' nothing will happen.

I would suggest adding a "$/#" bubble which adds "\$" to the PS1 string.

robinson-wallon Split Tunneling on Cisco IPSec VPN

Cisco IPSec endpoints are more than capable of split horizon (split-DNS too) without having to bodge it on the client side.

If it isn't configured then netsec doesn't want split horizon. There is likely a company policy that if you are attached to their network, you are only attached to their network.

robinson-wallon Hacking Transcend WiFi SD Cards

Contrived, sure, but you could use these exploits to upload all files added to the card somewhere, assuming it can find a wireless network to connect to. Maybe even just keep a hidden copy on the part of the FS invisible to the host system if there is enough free space.

"Oh sure I've got an SD card you can borrow..."

robinson-wallon FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software

> at least now society in general has taken the red pill

No, this echochamber has been forced to take the red pill. "Society in general" most definitely has not, if you take 'general' to mean 'majority'.

robinson-wallon How Forensic Linguistics Identified J.K. Rowling

Tell that to Salman Rushdie.

robinson-wallon Useful Unix commands for data science

Indeed. I'm going to start calling myself a data scientist now, instead of a sysadmin. See if I can't get a raise.

robinson-wallon Let's deploy via Git

Late reply, sorry. I went with reprepro to maintain my apt repo.

It's nice, but has one major drawback which may be a showstopper, depending on your use case. It can only keep one version of a package at a time in each distribution.

robinson-wallon How People Think Facebook Connect Log‑in and Log‑out Work

> In fact, they've been trained to do that with services like Mastercard Securecode usually implemented inside a frame to "arcot.com".

Even worse, the domain used varies based on your card issuer so there's no consistency.

robinson-wallon Let's deploy via Git

> Install with native package tool

I'm sad that so few people seem to build native OS packages for deployments. My build system creates a release package and sticks it in an apt repo, then puppet installs latest version of package when it runs.

robinson-wallon Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses

Your example of good parallax scrolls SIDEWAYS when I scroll down. What?

robinson-wallon Buying the new MacBook Air

Reassuringly expensive.

robinson-wallon SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type

Are you thinking of Mosh? http://mosh.mit.edu/

robinson-wallon Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

No, they're actually using this trick to do the exact opposite.

If you right click and say 'copy link' you'll get the t.co URL, but if you select the partially rendered URL and ^C you get the full (non-shortened) URL in your clipboard.

robinson-wallon Today's Email Incident

I've already received an "invite to check out Dropbox" to an email address that only GitHub knew.

robinson-wallon GitHub just leaked 3032 email addresses

Just got an update through:

    This morning a routine email was accidentally sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making them visible to anyone who received the message.

    We have stopped the remaining messages in the email batch from being sent, and are investigating how this happened.

    We are very sorry that your email address was accidentally shared. Your GitHub Enterprise installation is unaffected, and no license keys or any other data were exposed during this incident.

    We are investigating the root cause of this email issue and will update our blog with our findings.
    
    Again, we are very sorry this happened. Your privacy is very important to us and we will be making changes to ensure that this does not happen again.

    If you have any further questions please email us at support@github.com

robinson-wallon GitHub just leaked 3032 email addresses

That's the thing - each email seems to be tailored for the company receiving it, it wasn't a one-shot to all on a list.

It feels kind of like the wrong variable was used for To when looping through generating the day's license expiration emails.