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Re:Underrated Features of PostgreSQL on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:57PM (#3187732)
What's wrong with the console ?
Re:I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:44AM (#3186940)
OMG computers
You dawg!, I hear you like type systems ...
Re:In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks on Sunday October 30, 2011 @12:48PM (#3174760)
vultures
Re:Mark Zuckerberg has more friends on Google+ then Larry Page on Saturday October 15, 2011 @11:55AM (#3115027)
then Larry Page what ?
Re:"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:40AM (#3098719)
That's dynamically loaded, try it with the runtime

    $ gcc hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 4511 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
    $ gcc --static hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 574106 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
Re:Introduction to sed on Saturday October 08, 2011 @07:26AM (#3087683)
because GNU is Not Unix
Re:Introduction to sed on Saturday October 08, 2011 @07:25AM (#3087681)
Turn on locale UTF-8 for GNU software before benchmarking it to compare with Plan9 software.

GNU stuff gets a speed improvement from assuming single byte characters.

Re:Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork on Saturday October 08, 2011 @06:01AM (#3087594)
It used to be the case that licenses required you to submit your modifications back to the source. Lucent's first stab at opening Plan 9 From Bell Labs back in '99 had such a clause.
Re:Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:37AM (#3083868)
> Fortunately, thanks to the GPLv2, all the significant changes come back to the mainstream kernel.

How exactly, does that work ?

Re:Tell HN: Seriously We Get It on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:17AM (#3079514)
It's like Slashdot on April Fool's
Check your assumptions. The field could be updated at any time to any value by another connection.

And who's to say we started at zero.

You didn't check for overflow.
tac filename.txt | sed 10q | tac
Re:Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac on Sunday October 02, 2011 @06:07PM (#3064186)
Fortunately not.
Re:Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac on Sunday October 02, 2011 @06:06PM (#3064185)
There's so much more to Acme than piping. Actions based on regex matching via the plumber for a start. Menus you can type / keep in a text file anywhere you like. No stupid colour syntax highlighting or pointless fancy shit.
Re:Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:40AM (#3063078)
1) install plan9port

2) use Acme

3) program !!!???

4) profit

Re:“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl on Sunday October 02, 2011 @04:54AM (#3062405)
GNU is Not Unix
Re:Check out this hacker sting - poetry in motion on Thursday September 29, 2011 @01:00PM (#3053274)
So security minded they're using GPG, no wait ...
Re:Pre-branded domain names for startups on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:31AM (#3051876)
WineCoffer sounds like Wank Offer
Re:What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:26PM (#3045897)
Yes, that's the one. There are more than one available. I'm not going to spam the name of mine. It's a service I wanted myself as an early adopter of handheld computers, outgoing SMTP is one of those things where the ISP does everything it can to make you use [email protected] and even when it is plain, remembering the settings if your phone gets wiped, is it mail.example.isp.com or smtp.example.isp.com. Hopefully it is a bit easier to remember the smtp service one uses.
Re:What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:42PM (#3044069)
What am I saying: end to end encryption isn't there, just in-flight encryption. Encrypting the payload before it leaves your network is the only way to do that, not relying on intermediaries.

It's a shame we can't sign it for you as it leaves our network, but that would defeat the point.

Re:What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:28PM (#3044011)
Buy a Data sim, what to do as outgoing SMTP ?

Vodafone for instance : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vodafone+smtp

Our service, one of a few, offers SMTP Auth'd or just relying on MAIL FROM: envelope header for outgoing email, utilising TLS, especially useful when on free-wifi.

Set your SPF settings to allow our sending IP in order to improve one's SPAM score.

The TLS route means that if one is sending to a GMAIL account then it is the recipient who can break the chain of trust.

If you have an SMTP receiver you can send from an open wi-fi access point in Karachi and know that only in server was the plain text processed. I guess that's not saying much but you can easily set it up for yourself.

Re:What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:42AM (#3042571)
Email, still not dead.

My work has gradually moved from Web -> Email. I learned about email while working as a sys admin for a website sending 100k mailouts and now I've become a bit of a specialist writing email apps. Postfix is my weapon of choice, you can extend it externally via its unix pipe & socket routing.

Currently I'm building an outgoing SMTP service for people network hopping - Wifi, 3g etc.

It has been interesting to see the rise in inter-SMTP server communications going SSL. Google & Hotmail, for instance, both use TLS to send their email, even when there's no requirement to do so, TLS is chosen first.

So people often trumptet BBM as end-to-end secure but if you use Google Mail with your mobile email and set it to TLS only and only send to other Google & Hotmail users then the same is true.

I've also had a report of a German ISP that deep packets SMTP traffic and changes STARTTLS to XXX "for security reasons". I suspect that they have a tap in front of their closed source MTA to log the traffic to satisfy the European Data Retention Directive.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Kaiser, Krieg, Kanonen

Re:Without Flash the web is more readable? on Monday September 26, 2011 @08:13AM (#3038505)
Without questions, answering them is hard ?
ha, hoisted by usage
A ruler is someone who rules.

A rule is a device for measuring length.

Shame the project homepage introduces this error. Language barriers are cross domain, not just cross culture.

Re:Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor on Monday September 26, 2011 @05:29AM (#3038180)
> [The iPad has] set off a revolution in progress about how entertainment and other media are consumed.

Is this really true ? I know I'm a bit provincial but I don't know anyone with an iPad and have only ever seen anyone with one TV. I'm not even sure my friend who works in the Apple store has one at home (he's never mentioned it and he's the kind who would).

EDIT I got my reply from asking him. It's revolutionised how entertainment and other media are consumed in his house.

me: how do you like it ?

he: Very much. Lou uses it all the time ... She hasn't used a pc since.

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