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The problem is that the UX on the browsers for using client certificates is horrible.
Re:The Art of Monitoring on Saturday June 11, 2016 @09:36PM (#11886233)
Check_mk is not a nagios/icinga fork, it's an addon that works with them. It's a host agent (like NRPE) that bundles all the local checks in a single run and submits them on Nagios as a passive check.
I believe you can count yourself among them :)
Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:42AM (#11862203)
You can't use beta software and complain about stability issues.
Re:An introduction to Tmux on Saturday April 02, 2016 @11:39AM (#11411881)
Yeah, byobu is pretty much an opinionated tmux/screen (you can choose a backend).
Re:Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:49PM (#11114049)
Unless you automatically restart every service that is linked with a library when you update it, you are still vulnerable.
Re:Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:38PM (#11113994)
It doesnt't. There's the needsrestart package that does this though.
Re:Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:24PM (#10985298)
Yes let's cripple the web by continuing to use unencrypted http, just because computers from 15 years ago won't be able to properly display some webpages...
It's not at all strange. Security updates to publicly-facing services should be applied as fast as possible. Kernel vulnerabilities are a whole different attack surface
Re:OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:46AM (#10908647)
There is nothing to patch on the server side. You need to ensure the ssh client is updated on the machines you are sshing from.
This[1] is on the very top of the fronpage right now. TrendMicro has a daemon listening on localhost that can execute arbitary commands.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563

Re:Graphical Console Beta on Friday August 28, 2015 @02:31PM (#10137117)
We use twisted-vncauthproxy[1] to open a noVNC console from the UI to speak with the VNC port that each KVM is running on. Before that we used a Java applet with a similar vnc proxy software.

[1]https://code.osuosl.org/projects/twisted-vncauthproxy

Re:Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:31AM (#9770695)
I don't understand you reasoning at all. What could be the problem with using a chat software that is released under AGPL?
Re:Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Pocket Integration on Saturday June 06, 2015 @09:30AM (#9670727)
This is not about bloat. Mozilla was already developing read-it-later functionality for Firefox. In fact it's already on mobile versions. Hello and Pocket have almost no overhead because they are just APi calls to external services. This is about Mozilla endorsing thrid-party proprietary services.
Re:Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:17AM (#9366190)
I think they already do. You begin the download and after it has downloaded some portion of the game you can launch it and the stream the rest.
Re:Hackpad goes open source on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:31AM (#9353278)
gravatar?
I think most of that was because of Oracle buying Sun. The MariaDB for and Postgres's rising popularity are the outcomes of that.
Re:On Linux, 'less' can probably get you owned on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:49PM (#8655174)
Yup, cause apparenlty staying the same for 25 years is the new normal. Would you discard more too if it added the ability to page back in a document?
Re:Youtube-dl on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:17AM (#8652426)
Browsers don't natively handle .flv files, they hand off the file to the flash plugin. If you try that with files the browser can handle (.mp4 videos, .mp3 music, .png images, etc.) you'll see that it works fine.
Re:Write your first Linux kernel module on Saturday May 31, 2014 @09:12AM (#7825918)
There is a kernel-lts packages that doesn't update as often, so you won't need to recompile every time.
Re:Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:33PM (#6342197)
But Nginx is not running the PHP code, whatever the application daemon on the background does. Nginx simply proxies to it. Apache can get similar performance if you offload PHP and not use the mod_php.
Nop. 2.0.5 here (2.0.8 is the latest) and f works just fine. I guess barrkel had enough time to whine on a forum but not enough to look in the program's preferences.
Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:24PM (#6175751)
There's nothing ironic about that. Due to it's open nature (i.e. anyone can manufacture an android device that runs whichever version of the os he likes) there is fragmentations. Just like the different linux distros...
Re:An Awkward Conversation on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @04:46AM (#6165499)
And how do those millions of unemployed people feel about the fact that they probably won't get that call simply because of the incompetency of said recruiters?
Re: in Your System Prompt on Sunday August 04, 2013 @09:55AM (#6155646)
You are gonna loooove molly-guard then.

Although the different prompt style for remote systems is still handy, cause there's tons of other stuff you can do accidentaly that could cause damage.

Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:22PM (#5997519)
And what is the point if you can just disable acceptable ads in Adblock plus? Doesn't it use the same list?
Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:16PM (#5934280)
Genuine question: Why would you have Windows servers joined in an AD domain? Or are you talking about pushing changes to workstations?
Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine on Friday June 14, 2013 @05:42PM (#5882689)
This work only if you have search autosuggest on, which basically send everything you type in the address bar (includeing urls) to google.
Re:1984 on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:59PM (#5863088)
Any recommendations? I have read both Animal Farm and 1984 but I thought the rest of his work wasn't really noteworthy.
This is false. Not only Tab doesn't automatically send the email but Google has not overwrittern anything. This is the default behaviour on a web page. Pressing Tab selects the next interactive element on a web page (a link, form elemnts etc.) and pressing space/enter activates it. I'm guessing you press tab expecting to indent something, write a word and then press space to begin the next one which actually sends the message. This is how forms on a webpage work and AFAIR this is how the compose function in gmail always worked. I think i have seen a couple of WYSIWYG text editors that "capture" the tab keypress and actually ident the text but this is far from the norm.

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