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by ax0n 8y ago
It's been a while since I used it on "embedded systems" but in our case it was running on top of OpenWRT and OpenBSD on appliance-like SOC systems (think of Soekris and Mikrotik), not directly on microcontrollers.
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by ax0n 8y ago
I worked with Lutz, the primary developer, briefly in 2006. I used NewLISP for a few years after that, mostly for distributed computing with net-eval(). I briefly tried using it as a systems programming language where one might have reached
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by ax0n 8y ago
When writing, read your work out loud to find phrases that are awkward to speak, and think of ways to be more succinct. Most people process spoken and written language differently, and this technique allows you to use the strengths of langu
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by ax0n 10y ago
Hotplugd is crazysauce. So much you can do with it. Toad claims to need kern.usermount so it won't work with a default install, and will be toadally broken once this option is removed in OpenBSD 6.0. I can't speak for all OpenBSD
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by ax0n 10y ago
As someone who's used OpenBSD daily as a primary desktop OS, usermount will force me to use doas(1) (the replacement for sudo) to mount external media on my desktops/laptops. No big deal. Honestly, I usually do that anyway, just f
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by ax0n 14y ago
A cautionary tale: I had good luck with ZoneEdit when they launched. It was/is kind of in the same space as this. Their new UI is okay, but yours looks a bit better. They started out with freemium, but eventually had to re-structure how the
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by ax0n 15y ago
better script to test if your ISP is blocking your ports (finished for me in well under two minutes): nmap -sT -oN output.txt -p1-65535 open.zorinaq.com
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by ax0n 15y ago
FWIW, Debian's package manager (and its concepts of package repositories and dependency resolution) hasn't changed much since I tried it in 2001 -- and probably even earlier than that. Slackware and Red Hat were my first forays into Linux,
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by ax0n 15y ago
Hackers do everything they do for fun. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing. It's important to note that fun things can be hard and very challenging, be it a grueling mountain bike ride or taking an idea all the way to a multi-billion doll
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by ax0n 16y ago
No, this does not open Apple up to lawsuits. Any corporation has the option of telling you what configurations are supported, and choosing to not support configurations that are the result of extensive tweaking.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Doesn't fail gracefully with javascript disabled. That's three strikes all at once for me. Thankfully, they still have a full-content RSS feed if you dig around deep enough for it. You can say RSS is dead, but I'll probably see your proclam
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by ax0n 16y ago
Most ICE's will run on pretty much anything as long as you nail stoichiometry and it burns at approximately the same speed as the hydrocarbon chains found in gasoline. It's actually pretty trivial to retrofit a normal car to run on liquid p
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by ax0n 16y ago
That sounds an awful lot like lazy and/or out-of-touch entrepreneurs being broken to me. Still, while the venture and angel money in the area isn't explicitly "must be present to win," you have to admit it helps. But being present doesn't g
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by ax0n 16y ago
No, that is an XSS exploitation (juxtapose: prevention) cheat sheet.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Exactment. Also, people damage the heads and/or the jack by trying to insert them the wrong way? Either the plug slides in gently, or it doesn't budge.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Without a massive boost in senility, a lobotomy or way too many psychoactive drugs, isn't it kind of hard for one to become a "former genius?"
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'm AT WORK 45, sometimes 55 hours per week. Productivity comes in spurts. I'm basically working in a field that's also one of my passionate hobbies, so while part of my work day involves grinding through mundane stuff, I am often inspire
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by ax0n 16y ago
In that whole thing, there's no numbers or names to back anything up. There's one hyperbole ($100 spent in ads to sell one book) and a bunch of really vague "people I know..." rhetoric. Also, the author does not know what a Ponzi scheme is.
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by ax0n 16y ago
It wasn't an overt knock on TSN -- I just don't watch many movies, so I really don't know what to expect. Aside from the geek jargon and a bit of drama, I suppose I was surprised that it was Best Picture material. I think the only movie I
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by ax0n 16y ago
I finally saw this last night. It wasn't a BAD movie: Reznor's score was magnificent, they didn't mince hacker jargon and it was interesting enough to sit through. It boggles my mind that it took Best Picture. Was 2010 really that bad for m
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by ax0n 16y ago
"leaving not only the juicy bits there for all to read but corporate hardware unattended and ripe for the picking." was indeed one of the threats I mentioned, and it happens all the time. It's relevant to at least part of the discussion. "S
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by ax0n 16y ago
I couldn't imagine using my old Canon point and shoot (PowerShot A530) without CHDK. If you load it onto an SD Card with a "bootable" partition flag and enable the write-protect tab before you insert it into the camera, CHDK automatically b
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by ax0n 16y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=stolen+laptop&tbs=nws:1
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by ax0n 16y ago
It wasn't around in the 1960s, but Crunchly was definitely one of the things I had to go back in time and appreciate, despite having not been born when most of them were drawn. http://xivilization.net/~marek/imgs/crunchly/
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by ax0n 16y ago
Everywhere I go, I see people who look at confidential information on laptops that are facing a crowdfull of eyeballs. Better yet, many of them get up and leave for a smoke or a piss without locking their screen, leaving not only the juicy
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by ax0n 16y ago
As one who loves GNUstep/WindowMaker, but kind of gags about Gnome while tolerating it, I don't know exactly how to feel about this one. It looks... interesting?
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by ax0n 16y ago
In Soviet Russia, source open you?
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'm one. And the guy who replied to you before I could has the right idea. There are also pyrotechnics hackers in general, too, many of which really get a kick out of almost any kind of projectile or explosive device. We're not all mouth-br
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by ax0n 16y ago
There are so many different kinds of hackers here, that I'd almost have to disagree. There aren't many folks here who could tell me all I wanted to know about Haskell, asymmetric encryption, the finer points of being a non-technical founder
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by ax0n 16y ago
Indeed. The front page is riddled with all kinds of alphabet soup. FSM, LLVM, RegExp just to name a few. I'd kind of assumed that most of us here have learned to cope with unfamiliar terms either by dismissing or researching them.

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