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There was a separate goto utility in early UNIX. Pretty sure you can still find the source code if you look. Meanwhile, it's mentioned here: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/

Meanwhile qhasm.net and qhasm.org still "under construction". Will we see a surge in quantum_____.com domain regstrations? How about a .quantum TLD? Keep the hype machine rolling.

One of his two nameservers, ns2.missoulaweb.com (66.235.178.171), is non-responsive. The other one works but it's listed second. No round-robin. That can slow down the DNS lookup, …

Who are the clients and how much do they pay for these services? Whats the typical size of the dataset? Speed benchmarks shared with the public?

Questions: What language are they using for cleaning up the data for import? Is there a market for a middleman (i.e., something as a service) that cleans up enterprise data, using …

This is a more accurate description IMO. However DNS does not have to be that way. Before DNS there used to be file sharing of all the data via a single file in the simple "HOSTS f…

I'd prefer to see decentralized email before "encrypted" email. Recipient runs qmail listening for connections on some personally chosen port from among 1000's of choices. She is a…

I can think of worse outcomes than having to use djb's software, whether it's dummy-proof libraries, well-designed, small programs that work together, or algorithms chosen as defau…

"So the RPi foundation deliver the first mass-market hackable board,..." I notice this type of negative comment about inexpensive, "hackable" hardware freqently on HN. As if the fa…

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Right on. I remember using a VAX in the 1980's and it still seems like the fastest computer I ever used. Everything that came after seemed sluggish by comparison. Then many years a…

Why do you use http://packet.net as a URL in your comment when this only redirects to a www.packet.net subdomain, on Cloudflare? Why not just use http://www.packet.net ? From the p…

"I will set up any network I'm in charge of with a DNS that has doubleclick.com as 127.0.0.1, and also many others." You mean doubleclick.net? Alas, that's a typo that would let th…

Is ldns vulnerable? Did OpenBSD drop BIND and libresolv in favor of ldns and nsd, unbound, drill? Might be an interim solution.

1. The truth is, I make far fewer queries than the average web user. Because I have the IP addresses I need stored permanently. And I only update those files periodically. Today's …

Back in 2008 after the cache poisoning hype, I developed my own method of resolving names without using caches (it is very fast); I use only authoritative servers. I still use this…

Does WSJ check visits from a Googlebot UA against a list of known Google IP addresses?

"The fact that djbdns doesn't use BIND code is not really relevant." It is to me. It's true that in this case it's not what mitigates this vulnerability. Although it has certainly …

There are certainly more you omitted (similar to your code CDN for javascipt, fonts, etc.)... consider something like recaptcha. In my experience, all those requests to api.recaptc…

Is djbdns vulnerable? It does not use these routines. I've never needed ENDS0, but maybe the need will arise someday. Meanwhile... Short term, I'd prefer to expunge all "C networki…

"But this isn't addressing the real problem..." Well, he addressed a real problem in my opinion: readline is too large and too complicated for many uses. I used hping in the old da…

One could differentiate the two proposed solutions by the level of involvement of third parties (e.g., cloud hosting providers, authors of garbage collected or scripting languages,…

Why was the Consistent Instruction Sizes entry not posted but this one was? This entry appears to be yet another way to achieve it. Maybe I am wrong, but if all instruction sizes w…