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andfarm

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    Comment #5754563

    Also gone for unrelated reasons, sorry: https://files.dreamhost.com/

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    Comment #3493053

    Just shell/FTP passwords. As noted above, panel passwords are fine.

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    Comment #3493050

    We've got a mass email going out now.

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    Comment #3491755

    We're not quite done investigating the issue and resetting passwords; once that's done, though, we will have a mass email going out.

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    Comment #3491643

    Embarrassingly... no. Our login/authentication system was written in 1999, and it shows -- we store panel login passwords using symmetric encryption, and send out the decrypted pas…

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    Comment #3491456

    We're currently in the middle of resetting passwords, machine by machine. If your old password has stopped working, that means we've gotten to the machine that you're on, and you'r…

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    Comment #3486090

    Input elements can have :clicked states... :)

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    Comment #3212386

    Specifically, the "standard compression" version is MainConcept at 10 Mbit, and the "Raystream" version is x264 at 1.15 Mbit using the following options: > x264 - core 112 - H.264/…

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    Comment #3166184

    It plays on iPods and other iOS devices. Other than that, not much -- FLAC's compression ratio is a bit better on average, and more non-Apple devices support it. The release of thi…

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    Comment #2962768

    Harvey Mudd doesn't have a masters program -- I'm pretty sure he graduated in 2008. I lived across the hall from him at one point. :)

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    Comment #2961359

    It's almost certainly based on the author's experience in Harvey Mudd's CS 151 (Artificial Intelligence) course, in which developing a Mancala AI is a standard project.

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    Comment #2913322

    SCTP is at a different layer of the network stack -- it's a replacement for TCP, not for HTTP. As such, it's much more difficult to deploy, as it currently requires a kernel extens…

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    Comment #2887657

    Pages' full-screen mode is relatively new -- as far as I'm aware, it wasn't added until the Lion update. Scrivener et. al. have had the market to themselves up until now. That bein…

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    Comment #2847198

    As far as I can tell, most or all of the one-bit errors on those are already registered by typosquatters.

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    Comment #2843415

    I don't think it's actually any more powerful in that regard than, say, tags. If your application lets users perform destructive actions with a GET request, you were already vulner…

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    Comment #2711682

    aufs isn't mainline, and will probably never be mainline, because it's ~27,000 lines of poorly documented and often buggy code, written by a single maintainer in a style that doesn…

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    Comment #2680113

    Probably worth noting that the vertical tab UI you end up with looks pretty weird (on Mac OS, at least), as it's literally just moving the existing tabs over to the side without ch…

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    Comment #2565530

    Which is enough for two to three thousand thick books. And I believe that, unlike Apple, Amazon will let you delete and redownload books at will.

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    Comment #2553938

    I'm having trouble thinking of any situations where you're free to use any alphanumerics, but you absolutely can't use anything else. The closest thing that comes to mind is DNS, a…

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    Comment #2545487

    Far worse. As defined, you can't write a parser for "tagged netstrings" without: * Infinite lookahead - the type for a tagged netstring doesn't appear until the END of up to 100 MB…

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    Comment #2545370

    Harmless Javascript minification can be difficult to distinguish from intentional obfuscation. Packer in base62 mode ( http://dean.edwards.name/packer/ ) is a good example.

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    Comment #2518294

    > Any possibility to upgrade RAM? Probably not; they're likely using a SOC with integrated memory.

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    Comment #2394253

    We're currently taking registrations under COM/NET (Verisign) and ORG/INFO (Afilias). US is a third, separate registry (NeuStar), and we aren't currently a registrar for them.

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    Comment #2377435

    You know, that's a really interesting observation. Having lived across the hall from day[9] in college and seen him play both Starcraft and poker, the intense concentration, and fr…

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    Comment #2370561

    So, comment spam tools? That's deep into the realm of "black-hat SEO".