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Unfortunately, I can't recommend anything, but I'm not a wide reader on the topic so my knowledge is limited.

Perhaps I was a bit hard on that book, my expectations were that it would be a deep, expert type of book. If that's not what you are looking for, it is perfectly fine. Actually, now that I think about it, the epub version is good to keep on your mobile phone as a handy, easily-accessible reference for use in the coffee shop, so I guess it does get a credit from me.

I can't. I bought with some high expectations, unfortunately I knew almost everything in it from a couple of years of using ssh to my several VPSs. I was quite disappointed at the level of detail it had -- StackExchange level, I thought.

FreeBSD's jails have had a lot of work done on them over the last couple of versions. Now that 10.0 is out, could be worth another look.

A friend of mine was a trader of some long term with a particular bank and, because of his length of service with the bank, had to receive a few month's notice of termination.

They terminated him and made him come in to work to sit in a featureless room with only a table and chair -- no computer, nothing. He'd rather stay at home and garden or whatever, even it meant finishing up early, but they wouldn't let him. He always said that he must have seriously pissed someone off in HR.

Despite the other commentators' views, I completely agree. My Panasonic's YouTube app cannot ffwd or rewind. WTF! For a video streaming app! Unbelievable.

What I do is fire up the XBox. It's a brain-dead app there too+, but at least I can rewind a few seconds if I missed a word or two.

+ Titles truncated too much; no comments viewer; unresponsive UI.

because it can't hold atmosphere easily

But neither can Mars. Most of its early atmosphere was blown away and that will continue. There's nothing we can do about the lack of gravity.

The problem with Mars is that it is cold, terminally. The nuclear furnaces have gone out. I haven't seen a proposal from the terraformers that counteracts that. You might be able to counteract it with CO2, but then that gets blown away by the solar wind. It's crazy hard to fix.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see us on Mars. Unfortunately, the engineering and science obstacles are huge, enormous.

That's neat, you could almost convert me.

For Bash, M-# (alt-shift-3) puts a comment token '#' at the start of the current line and begins a new empty line. Handy if you are 150 characters deep in a command and realise you need to do something else for a moment (i.e. momentarily in the correct sense). You can store your 150 char command and come back to it, it is in the history and can be retrieved with a couple of Up-arrows.

Nah, having a "summer break +" that's extended a bit longer ;). I plan to do a crypto course at some stage.

  + Southern hemisphere

Completely agree. I've done Scala, Algorithms, and one other and Dan's course stands out for its interest, enthusiasm and clarity.

Plus it uses functional programming! What's not to like.

emotionally broken at some point in his early development

Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw him interviewed. He had no empathy at all. He basically admitted he ran a shady business that monetises peoples' misfortunes, but, hey, if he didn't someone else would. As if that justifies it, somehow.

I have four VPSs, mostly on different hosting companies. 99% of ssh attacks come from China, the rest are eastern Europe (mainly Romania or Ukraine) or Brazil.

The Chinese attacks use a group of about 15 IP addresses, then, every so often, they all change the addresses to new ones at once. This has just happened, last week, in fact. So now I have dozens of attackers all coming from a group of about 15 IP addresses, which are different to the 15 or so IP addresses they used a couple of weeks ago. (No kidding, the regularity that this happens, it would not surprise me if their military is training a new class of crackers and has been assigned a different set of addresses to use this term.)

When I get a new IP address in the log, I do a whois and rewrite the "inetnum:|NetRange:" field to a class A|B|C address and then DROP it in iptables. Fuck 'em. The whole darn network class gets dropped. Not that I'm likely to be logging in from China any time soon anyway.

I now have a list of network classes with about 35 address ranges that get dropped, if anyone is interested in the list.

Early horseless carriages didn't sell well

Exactly. Henry Ford paid his workers very well, not out of altruism because he was the one of the most unaltruistic people you can think of, but because he wanted them to be able to afford his car. They would become mobile advertisements of his new technology.

In that, they were much like the Google Glassers are today.

self-signed cert for all the people who can access the admin.

This is what I do. The browser generates a warning on first use, and I then put the domain in the "ignore" list (since I trust my own domain). After that, it works fine.

Well, in my case it was because I was a little uncertain of what the various classes meant. This was my pre-university days before I studied networks formally.

My first router could only do the 192.168 range so I got in the habit of it. Later with subsequent routers, all my devices were already set up on a specific class C network, so it was easier to change the router than go through all the devices and change them.

One thing I do is put my router and network on a different Class C than the default, for example 192.168.56.0 .

That's the actuality of it. It's all based on seniority.

DVR

Which DVRs? Mine had better not be doing that.

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A late reply for anyone still reading...

I've been here for far longer than you and I'm still stuck in the 300 karma range. Why? Because of my timezone. Most people are asleep when I'm awake.

It is virtually impossible for me to submit an article and have it viewed by a large number of people before it is pushed off the front page. So all my submissions get low score, only for the same article to be submitted later in the day once NY and LA have woken up and get big karma scores for someone else. I've given up submitting, which is how you accumulate the big karma scores.

Hawaii did in the 70s when I lived there. Don't know what the current situation is.

Do you know if either of those two methods do tcp-over-tcp, or is it tcp done correctly?

Fines aren't a tax deduction.

Ha. Not for a while now, though. Deckers has 95% world market share. I can remember the trademark battle a decade or so ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots

Because I live in WA, I used to read The Australian to get Australia-wide news and decent political analysis. I don't bother any more, it is absolute rubbish now and has been for a few years.

I'd say Malaysia, myself, with their growing radical Muslim extremists, and the instability caused by the institutionalised racist attitudes to Chinese and other "non-native" Malays.

You could argue that Indonesia has a muslim radical problem as well, but at least the govt recognises it as a problem. Indonesia seems to be trying to become more democratic and neutral in religious matters, whereas I'm not sure Malaysia has the same degree of commitment or willpower.

I map Ctrl-q to beginning of line in .inputrc.

    Control-q: beginning-of-line

I use the Windows Menu key (the Windows key to the right of the spacebar) for that. Except I use yeahconsole, which is the same concept without the Gnome dependencies.

Such a handy feature, isn't it. I would be lost without my drop-down console.

That article is behind a paywall for me.

I went the MSP430 route, it was essentially free (from memory about US$5 incl postage). If you are on a very tight budget, this might be better. There are a ton of free tutorials, forums, development tools available. The caveat is that setting up the dev environment in Linux is not that easy, whereas for Windows it is essentially plug-n-play.

BTW, Texas Instruments has recently upgraded the MSP430 to 128K.

A little of both I suspect ;).