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Re:Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency ... on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:43PM (#13330632)
Looks very cool! How hard would it be to add a feature to keep track of your holdings per coin?
Re:Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have? on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:15AM (#12835528)
Few problems:

CPU is slowing down lately, even switching tabs in Chrome sometimes takes a 1sec to actually render the page.

Disk is getting too small. I use a lot of VMs for work and I never have enough space to run them all.

Laptop is dead, if I replace it I will be without a laptop for weeks according to Apple.

I let it drop once making the fan very noisy, not really a problem just annoying.

Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?

Posted by Maran on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been very happy with my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina and was looking forward to a worthy successor. However the unveiling of the new Macbook was a big letdown for me. Everything that made the Macbook "Pro" seems to be removed. Enough has been said about the topic already what I want to do here is look at what alternatives there are.So my question for you is; Which laptops, around the price...

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Re:Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @03:12AM (#10936652)
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 which should be affected. I just hoped it would be harder without having the correct kallsyms version. It seems I will have no options except to reboot my cluster :)
Re:Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @04:47PM (#10934326)
As I understand it the whole idea of this exploit is getting sudo access from a normal user.

Exploiting from root to root doesn't make a lot of sense. If the values are not retrievable as normal user this exploit can't be used.. Right?

Re:Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @04:44PM (#10934300)
It is indeed compiled with CONFIG_KEYS=y. Does this protect me against this issue? I'm not sure what this means.
Re:Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @04:07PM (#10934034)
Question for you.

As a normal user, grepping these values I actually get 0000000000000000. I can't imagine these being the actual values. Is it possible that because I remount my /proc with the hidepid=2 option the values are not visible for normal non-root accounts?

Re:Bitpost – Private decentralized messaging on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:34AM (#8101511)
Not sure if the poster is also the author but why is the application connecting to a server? Is it using a centralised point to connect to the Bitmessage network?

Edit: It also appears to connect to Tor. Perhaps a quick overview of what's happening under the hood could be useful.

Re:RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @07:40AM (#784625)
Me and a friend created Snapshare. The design part took up way to much time for us since we are both hardcore coders, we will be bringing a dedicated designer on the team next year. It was loads of fun though and we created a good codebase to build upon.

Read about our product on http://weblog.brightlight-ict.nl/2009/08/we-are-not-trying-t....