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This is an important lesson. Anytime you're onboarding a new user/employee, your documentation will benefit by getting that person's feedback. What's incorrect? Where there any ste…

So they have a financial incentive here to allow the domain to expire.

I don't see anyone asking for that -- just for the ability for someone other than the domain owner to pay the annual renewal fee.

It's not the case with GoDaddy. I just had a hosting client run into this a few weeks ago -- someone they know had registered their domain for them long ago, and they didn't have t…

Because unlike other registrars, GoDaddy only allows the domain registrant/owner to pay for the renewal.

Digi International embedded it into some of their XBee wireless radios (802.15.4-based and Cellular models) to allow customers to run an on-device application without compromising …

There are limits. The article describes them waiting on a federal court order giving them authority to execute their plan.

I thought the same thing. No one is going to buy a 5MB hard drive in 1979 that only stores the equivalent of 5 floppy disks.

Check your math. It was 70,000 tapes over 30 years. At $5/tape that would be $11,666/year or just under $1000/month. The movie trailer mentioned the multiple homes she owned, so sh…

I saw this in house rabbits allowed to roam the backyard supervised. When the crows alerted to raptors in the area, the rabbits would get low and head for cover.

I'm cleaning my office, and found 12 issues of Software Age ("the magazine for programmers * mathematicians * analysts * edp * managers") spanning January 1968 to May 1970. They us…

A real-world example of this technique shows up in ColorDMD, an LCD to replace DMD displays used in pinball machines from the early 90's until just recently. Most of the displays w…

This. I recently worked on updating an embedded TLS implementation from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2. I was told that it didn't need to implement TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, but once deployed we fou…

q starts out larger than len, but is decremented inside the inner for loop.

Not odd to include the null terminator if you want to ensure another string is "equal to", not just "starts with" the string you're comparing it to.

Must have been a limited time offer -- I got a sample sent to my Kindle, and now that I'm ready to buy it's jumped back up to US$22.79.

If over 50% of the domains out there are in the .com namespace, why will creating more gTLDs change that? If the 14 gTLDs created in the past 28 years haven't gained traction, what…

It's been interesting to see Daisey's position change over the course of this incident. It seems that he's slowly coming to terms with the fact that he lied in his story. Listening…

Ah, after a closer look at the original article, I see that now. Curious that Apple would choose to unicast those requests.

IIRC, their streaming costs were based on number of subscribers. With this plan, they ensure that only people who actually use unlimited streaming (and are therefore willing to pay…

How can a lease be "unused" if it hasn't expired and the client that requested it never released it? Are you saying that the DHCP server pings (ICMP or ARP) each address and re-lea…

Regarding your security statement, I didn't get that from the packet capture. The Mac is sending an ARP request for the IP addresses of the DHCP servers of networks it's been on re…

Maybe not. If you're at that level, consider reading "The Standard C Library" by Plauger. I used it as a reference for updating a non-compliant library to be mostly compliant. I ga…

The snprintf idea is a real-world example of something I worked on as part of a larger project. I took over maintenance of a poorly-written code base and cleaned up all sorts of pr…

Pick an open source project that you like and use. Look for open bug reports (easy to do on SourceForge projects) and then dive into the code to fix the underlying problem. Or, tak…