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TeamViewer service breach, client hijacking reported(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by Hoff 10y ago|0 comments
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The Dangers of the Burr Encryption Bill(zdziarski.com)
1 points by Hoff 10y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 11y ago
Not a surprise. There's a lot of that stuff around, on OpenVMS. There are new systems — yes, using BASIC on OpenVMS — being installed, too. There are new Itanium servers with support added last year, another (final) generation is p
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by Hoff 11y ago
There are presently OpenVMS servers and clusters in production in a number of locations, and new configurations are being installed — primarily for existing applications, obviously. The most recent OpenVMS release shipped in June 2015, and
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by Hoff 11y ago
Interesting article. Rather than arguing what can or cannot be done or what might or might not work, here's some code, and some history. Here's full-mixed-language programmable, locally- and fully-remote-debuggable, mixed-user a
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by Hoff 11y ago
For those interested in the old Burroughs stuff, the folks at Unisys have announced a hobbyist program for the ClearPath MCP Express systems: http://www.unisys.com/offerings/high-end-servers/clearpath-f...
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by Hoff 11y ago
FWIW, the top-end HPE SSD models are rated for up to 25 writes of the entire SSD drive, per day, for five years. The entry-level SSDs are rated for ~two whole-drive writes per week. Wear gage, et al. http://www8.hp.com/h2019
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by Hoff 11y ago
In no particular order... OpenVMS and NonStop (NSK) do not compete. Entirely different products and markets. VMS Software Inc (VSI) have licensed OpenVMS from HPE. They've not acquired the product. The company was newly formed, not a
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by Hoff 11y ago
From the FAQ: "A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there." Some will accept remote workers. There's also a Freelancer thread. The November threads
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by Hoff 11y ago
Thanks. re: "those days" — FWIW, those days are still ongoing. The latest OpenVMS release shipped out in June 2015, and the native port to x86-64 is underway.
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by Hoff 11y ago
While the term unikernel is fairly recent,the basic concept goes back a long time. One example of this general design is VAX ELN. The following is a brochure from the V2.2 release, from 1986: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com&#x
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Improvements to the Energy Efficiency of Big Intel Cores [pdf](kentcz.com)
26 points by Hoff 11y ago|0 comments
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IoT: How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5M Meters(highscalability.com)
12 points by Hoff 11y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 11y ago
Most recent NSA transitional recommendations are for 3072-bit asymmetric, and AES-256 symmetric. Details: https://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/suiteb_cryptography/index.sh... For network transfers, you'll lik
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by Hoff 11y ago
Google Groups has various options, one of which is a comparatively poor web-based front-end to Usenet. (Yes, there are still active Usenet groups.) Getting this right across multiple browsers isn't easy, but Google Groups postings to
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by Hoff 11y ago
You might be interested in Itanium and the IA-64 architecture, which has what is referred to as branch predication: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc411/projects/IA64-2... http://www.d
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by Hoff 11y ago
vim works fine on OpenVMS, as it's in use in some other OpenVMS windows right now. (But thanks for the reminder to upgrade to the most current — upgrades underway.) I'm not particularly inclined to port neovim to OpenVMS right no
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by Hoff 11y ago
Careers and jobs and employers and technologies all come and go. Figure out what interests you yourself, whether you want to go somewhere or do something, and how you might get there. What's important to you. If your current job can o
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by Hoff 11y ago
For your own web servers and your own clients, use your own CA and your own certs.
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by Hoff 11y ago
Former EMS provider... The laws on whether ambulances must stop at red lights and stop signs vary by locality. It's almost always legally your mess if you don't stop at a traffic control device and are then involved in a collision
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by Hoff 11y ago
OS X and iOS both: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/
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RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of TLS and DTLS(rfc-editor.org)
20 points by Hoff 11y ago|5 comments
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by Hoff 11y ago
What's old is new... Unikernels are quite reminiscent of the VAXELN product from ~30 years ago; write the application code, link in the various services you need, and disk or network or ROM boot the results: http://odl.syswo
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The Space Review: The weird ones(thespacereview.com)
7 points by Hoff 11y ago|0 comments
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Human eyes are wired backwards: here’s why(theconversation.com)
5 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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The Machine: HP's Memristor Based DC Scale Computer(highscalability.com)
4 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 12y ago
So somebody used shellshock to break in, then plugged the hole to prevent others from accessing the server, and is now using your server for... whatever?
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by Hoff 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_sp...
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STS-93: Dualing computers: Shuttle reliability thru redundancy(waynehale.wordpress.com)
1 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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Dienstag iOS App Development Postmortem(mulle-kybernetik.com)
4 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments

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