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javanix

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About javanix

Linux software engineer

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    What regulations / standards would actually stop these things from getting out though?

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    Comment #12043963

    Link to full resolution downloads: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/pr2015002a/titles...

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    Comment #11997987

    ZFS. I created a raid-Z zpool in 2010 on FreeBSD and those same bits, with two different drives, are still floating around intact 6 years later, across multiple different operating…

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    Comment #11390502

    I'll be very curious to the the source of this native-Windows port.

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    Comment #11123536

    Absurdly high taxes (my parents pay half my tax on a non-rural property twice as big about 120 miles north of me), but still, owning a home is hardly a fiscally ruinous proposition…

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    Comment #11122131

    Well, in some areas, but it really depends on the market - the property taxes on my home in a University city of 200,000 are 1/3 of what I was paying in rent - with the interest on…

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    Comment #10934488

    The /proc/kallsyms values are identical across identical kernel compilations. Suppose you have a vulnerable CentOS 7 system that you want to exploit - you could get the proper addr…

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    Comment #10934080

    Is SMAP required for mitigation, or is SMEP enough? IIUC SMEP is on Sandy Bridge processors too.

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    Comment #10932467

    Thanks, that worked.

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    Comment #10932285

    How do you find those addresses?

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    Comment #10006390

    I cannot for the life of me make it through a game of chess without making some catastrophic blunder. If programming was that unforgiving I'd have to buy a new system every time I …

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    Comment #10003840

    I'd consider myself a good programmer but an absolutely terrible chess player, so no, I don't think they really have much bearing.

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    Comment #8919833

    I wonder if the fish actually ended up helping with the mosquito population?

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    Comment #8396362

    Red Hat's communication on their distribution of Florian's patch was sorely lacking, especially after http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/09/bash-bug-apply-unofficia... . It was in no…

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    Comment #8291774

    Anecdotally I see better performance using ZoL than I did when I was running the same zpool and hardware on FreeBSD.

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    Comment #8291758

    Do you boot from your ZFS partition? The initramfs limitation would only come into play in that situation, I believe.

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    Comment #8260004

    The "postcard -> unencrypted email as letter-in-envelope -> encrypted email" seems to be a very good analogy for explaining the need for encryption to laypeople. The technicals are…

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    Comment #7675384

    Unfortunately, not that I can find. I'd love to expand this concept and do full window manager integration with tmux/screen, actually. I can't see any problems with having a bottom…

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    Comment #7673266

    Iterm2 can do this with tmux (newer, non-GNU screen basically).

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    Comment #7621016

    Even if I wanted to put up an antenna, certain spots are just not going to get reception easily for all of the channels I want to watch.

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    Comment #7504317

    Isn't "except in emergencies" just asking for a company to liberally define "emergency"?

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    Comment #7498029

    His "D3D interop" layer (I'm not sure why he called it emulation) is almost exactly what Valve just open-sourced. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

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    Comment #7488400

    Very very pretty graphics. I love that it doesn't look like voxels. I wonder if you could use this to import and export meshes from a physics sim? If you could turn the brick wall,…