tquai

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by tquai 13y ago
It doesn't. My server is appropriately engineered to its task.
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by tquai 13y ago
Yeah, I think there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Some people think I believe a $5 computer could handle amazon.com's traffic, which is clearly preposterous. I know that almost all of my downtime comes from when I overengineer things. A
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by tquai 13y ago
It's a lesson in overengineering. At this point my $5 Pentium 3 server has a greater uptime than Amazon.
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by tquai 13y ago
FWIW, Obama and Romney have both lived abroad. I think it takes a certain kind of person to want to be president, and the effect of travel is different on a person like that. For this and other reasons, I think electoral politics is one of
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by tquai 13y ago
I compared US-based carriers with non-US based carriers. Southwest, a US-based carrier, competes with other US-based carriers. You're right, Southwest is a great choice if you're flying in the US, but that's not what my post is about. Yo
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by tquai 13y ago
Just a general comment on airlines: With US-based carriers, expect low prices, inflating awards points/miles, and bottom-level service. With non-US based carriers, expect higher prices, no awards programs, and excellent service. This is my
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by tquai 13y ago
The market is capitalized at $2.5 billion, but what does that mean in an economy with no production? Does the author define "production" as manufacturing where the exclusive currency used (for raw materials, wages, utility bills, etc.) is
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by tquai 13y ago
Recently I was offered a free flight for a weekend trip. I declined, citing the myriad displeasures of flying. Now, should we initiate a behavior recall? Take the number of McDonalds-level staff in the air (A), multiply by the probable ra
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by tquai 13y ago
How is this possible?! In any sufficiently large organization, the people who make the decisions and the people who enact those decisions are separated by distance, background, experience, or other reasons. This is why you see so much dy
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by tquai 13y ago
Earlier today this had 135 comments. Checked later, 200. Now 350! OMG BUY! BUY! BUY!
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by tquai 13y ago
The Open DNS Resolver Project has a list of 25 million open resolvers. You can query their database for your IP address or up to a /24. Their site also has information on how to reduce or eliminate the problem via a couple options (RRL, B
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by tquai 13y ago
Once you got black-listed getting removed wasn't always an easy process no matter how quickly you tried fix whatever caused it. I took a job in the year 2000, at a company with 3000 email users, listed by Spamhaus. First thing I did was
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by tquai 13y ago
Good point; I think both of our statements are true due to ambiguous wording upstream. I also took it literally, "any filter relying on the SBL" -- I use the SBL (via ZEN) but don't use SpamAssassin. And so my mail servers wouldn't block
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by tquai 13y ago
any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam. Impossible. The SBL lists only IP addresses; there is no content filtering at all. http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/ Furthermore, there's a lot of FUD
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by tquai 13y ago
In some countries, like France, asking someone you barely know "What do you do (for income)?" is considered vulgar. There, you ask what people are interested in, what they like doing, and so on. I like that. A lot.
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by tquai 13y ago
Any ETA for allowing to block Referer header from being included in cross-origin requests? This feature has been supported in Firefox for a long time, but you have to set it in about:config via the "network.http.sendRefererHeader" integer
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by tquai 14y ago
Run your own resolver on 127.0.0.1, and your own authoritative nameserver on 127.0.53.1, and configure the resolver to ask the nameserver (returning NXDOMAIN) for * facebook.com * doubleclick.net * google-analytics.com * su (abuse
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by tquai 14y ago
I did this once, too. It's so nice to hear other people appreciate the approach! The "CMS" I wrote was about 75 lines of sh, and had slightly fewer features than the one linked here. That's the beauty of writing your own: you decide what
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by tquai 14y ago
One of bitcoin's strengths is decentralization, and you just told people not to manage their own wallets. How do you accept bitcoin? Please enlighten us.
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by tquai 14y ago
I've lived/worked in both the USA and France, and this guy's comments are so transparently uninformed. To simplify things greatly: In France, there is more time off, but people are more sérieux while at work. In France, time off is taken
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by tquai 14y ago
Ahhh.... I wrote a response wondering out loud why this doesn't work on my browser, then checked the source, and it's javascript. No wonder, I browse without it! "Yeeaahhpp, with enough javascript one can blow up just about anything." ~Tyl
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by tquai 14y ago
They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable. Well, according to the already existing marketing, if I buy one of these things, I'll have a happy family, dance with a classy, beautifu
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by tquai 14y ago
Before I can respond to that, I think there's a misunderstanding about what "public service" means. HTTP is a public service: you open it up to the world, and want anyone to be able to connect to it. It is intended and hoped that as many
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by tquai 14y ago
SSH is rarely a public service. What's the motivation for making it so public?
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by tquai 14y ago
email is absurdly involved if you want to make sure that gmail etc. accept your messages as non-spam. I've self-hosted DNS, mail, web, etc. for years, and several people have posted the same kind of comment here, so here's what people wil
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by tquai 14y ago
you are infinitely more likely to take a flight if you know everyone is being molested. Speak for yourself; I for one don't like being treated badly. It's security theater at best, and runaway government power at worst, and either way it
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by tquai 14y ago
Inspiring! I'm glad to have read it. After posting this comment, I'm going to start something similar: reduce Internet usage to a minimum (checking health of my servers, etc.) for a week, and with the free time, de-clutter. OMG the clutte
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New Crypto Competition, CAESAR, for Authenticated Ciphers(competitions.cr.yp.to)
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by tquai 14y ago
In The Matrix Reloaded , Trinity uses nmap and then an OpenSSH exploit that was published a couple months before the film officially opened in theaters. Contrast this with Swordfish , where you get lines like (I'm paraphrasing from memor
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by tquai 14y ago
Even though getting officials fired is not your preferred method to help jumpstart reform there are no reasons for you to discourage others of doing so. Exactly. Bottom-up action is strongest when supported by a diversity of tactics. Al

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