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I've had very good reliability from my SSD drives as well. Some have been running almost continuously since 2009.

I'm learning to do this again. At first, I had to make myself, but now I really enjoy it. I typically walk during lunch and in the evenings, just for the sake of walking and thinki…

tmux is included in OpenBSD base too. So if you use OpenBSD, it's there by default.

You could also remove the hard drive. It's very easy to do and would prevent any accidental write.

I very much agree. When that happens to me, it's usually because I'm thinking about the issue in the wrong way because of how I have read (or perceived) the code and how I think th…

The post was deleted, but it implied that all software closes TCP with a FIN. Some software sends a RST, no FIN. The issue is that the answer is relative. There are no absolutes. S…

The 'it depends' answers are good and I would not cite them as evidence of a problem. You employee people who understand what they are talking about and who also understand the imp…

I don't know much about systemd, so I can't say either way. So long as I can still get syslog style plain text logs, then I have no objections. Unix and text log parsing is unparal…

Also, I believe that only binaries can be FIPS certified, not source code, so there are times when one has to use an old, out-dated openssl binary in order to be compliant.

That's part of the culture. It's nothing personal. Don't take it to heart if what they say offends you.

Would a possible solution be to check how many people are using the random generator...? One preson may have multiple processes reading from /dev/urandom.

Yes. Here's a Windows keystroke logger (with source code) that uses GetAsyncKeyState. I wrote this years ago to show an IT auditor that a restricted user could run a keystroke logg…

I agree, and I think that the COPD is probably worse than the cancer. I only meant to point out that many people in affluent western countries smoke, over eat, drink excessively an…

I heard once that one cigarette a day as a stress relief may actually extend your life. I'm not sure about that, but I do think we need to be mentally and emotionally healthy too. …

Thanks. I did not know that.

What language is he implying to be "good"? It's obvious that he thinks C, C++, C# and Java are bad (due to syntax). The world mostly runs on those, so I guess we're all doomed. But…

I do not think this is significantly new as it has been documented in the official TC source code and various 3rd-party source code (TCHead, tcplay, etc.) for many years. I was the…

If I went around lording my specific domain knowledge over others, I would never learn anything new myself. What a waste of my life and human interactions that would be.

The truth stands on its own.

It's a client problem too. Many people are over-looking that.

Secure coding is very prevalent in C++ (outside the group of old C programmers who write C++ code as if it were C). C++ is far safer than C.

Thank you for pointing out that this is not an issue in C++, only in C. There are times when we need C and one can write C code and compile it with a C++ compiler. It's an option t…

I would suggest that they are only 14 years old right now, so none of them have made it to 100 yet. The truth will be know in 86 years, perhaps sooner.