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I agree with what you wrote, and add that you should make sure that your service's executables and scripts also should not be owned by the user they run as. It's unfortunately very…

> All of recommendations about efficiency seem misguided to me. I've seldom had to worry about the performance of my scripts. It almost always is dominated by the performance of wh…

Thank you! I didn't have many options at the time, having a small family to provide for, so I went back to work as a software developer. The career has been good. I regret not bein…

I had picked my advisor at the start of my PhD. I also had 2 backups. My pick was on sabbatical my first year. He and I agreed I'd load up on the required classes that year. He e-m…

https://www.fugue88.ws/ I regret the TLD. I also run my email server there. Telling people my email address, I have to go character by character. Oh well! :-)

I still run djbdns as well, as both an authoritative server and a caching resolver. The biggest downside to djbdns, to me, is its lack of DNSSEC support. There are patches availabl…

Yes, rss2email ( http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ ).

Instead of changing the escape, you can tap it one more time. So, to drop your 2nd (nested) connection: ~ ~ .

I like the color of fire, and I seem to be doing pretty well, if I do say so myself. :)

Yes, you're exposed to MITM. But if you permantly mark the cert as trusted, and the MITM goes away, you'll know somethings has changed. You'll be blind as to which way things chang…

Great question! Unfortunately, I don't think you can. If you use CA certs to trust site certs, the site certs can change on the fly (i.e. be replaced with an NSA interloper) withou…

We could use GPG for normal e-mail correspondence. But I really don't know if this would do anything more than delay any problems. In a similar vein, I've deleted all the trusted r…

To be fair, naming a bill is a lot of work, maybe over half of what goes into the whole package.

Corn products are stuffed into maple syrup? I think you got that backwards: we stuff a little flavoring into corn syrup and then call it maple!

To use story points, you would have a linear model of some sort so that you could calculate how long, on average, a story point would take to complete. If you know how to do that (…

So are us reader-only commenters! P.S. I upvoted you. :)

Ditto. When I had problems with my wrists, I started to play the piano, a lot. I would bang on the keys fortzando and make a lot of noise (the noise got better over time :). I also…

We adjusted by changing the order to count, attack, place (cf attack, count, place, as I remember). If the 1st player goes on a major offensive their first turn, they end up spread…

"Dramatically improve Sun's hardware performance...." I think they're going to use the CPU simulator Sun used to design a processor (the T1) optimized for MySQL (I think it was) to…

It seems that the more the site focuses on bids, the more likely this is to happen. Bidding systems inherently ignore distinctive qualities of at least one side of the transaction.…

Other: autodidact Greater than any other "qualification...." ;)

man wget wget --save-cookies cookies.txt ... wget --load-cookies cookies.txt ...

It sounds like you want to rewrite Sandy ( http://www.iwantsandy.com/ ), which is good because they're closing down. They show several examples of commands that Sandy accepts. That…

That's called simple interest, as opposed to compounding interest.

They better ban all birds, too, then (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 ).