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I never tried VMF so it may be faster, sure. The thing about VBox is, like I wrote, features. VBox is basically a full-featured Virtualization-Suite, has multiple UIs and an API. It is also available on Win7,8,10/macOS/Linux and Solaris.

You may add: excellent documentation and friendly support (board, irc, list).

If I'll ever have to switch, I'd first need feature-parity.

better than Virtualbox

Just take a look at VBoxManage --help for a crazy list of settings and features that VBox has accumulated during the past ~10 years.

It even supports ATA TRIM so your fs-driver can discard blocks and keep the VDI-file deflated at all times.

Performance-wise: Compiling stuff within VBox on an i7 quad-core (-j5) is almost as fast as native. X on Linux-VMs feels native too, especially when running in fullscreen.

Bridging to a wireless interface is done differently from bridging to a wired interface, because most wireless adapters do not support promiscuous mode. All traffic has to use the MAC address of the host's wireless adapter, and therefore VirtualBox needs to replace the source MAC address in the Ethernet header of an outgoing packet to make sure the reply will be sent to the host interface. When VirtualBox sees an incoming packet with a destination IP address that belongs to one of the virtual machine adapters it replaces the destination MAC address in the Ethernet header with the VM adapter's MAC address and passes it on. VirtualBox examines ARP and DHCP packets in order to learn the IP addresses of virtual machines.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged

So what? Many standards originated from some particular need of one or two companies popular at that time. Look at the current IETF WGs and the authors of the drafts they produce.

but the only commentary it seems to offer is by Vietcong themselves

Yeah, nobody cares about the point of view of a 60kg Vietcong soldier. They are not supposed to have a face and keep quiet beneath that 2+ million bodycount. The brave war stories are reserved for the american GIs.. and hollywood.

This is the fourth time in the last 30 days I have seen some blog post about DNSSEC on the front page. Three overtly pushing Cloudflare DNSSEC and one about email and DNSSEC written by a Cloudflare employee.

Absolutely, this is getting out of hand.

Would be easier to just buy HN and replace all top stories with your crappy DNSSEC ads..

this server was configured perfectly: (...) SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies in place

SPF, DKIM and DMARC are no indicators of spamminess of a source. These systems have a completely different purpose.

How to Get Tenure 11 years ago

Would you consider (after killing what you've been working towards for the last n·10 years) founding and running a 501(c)(3) non-profit like http://NGLY1.org/ a career for you?

Because if you answer yes, you are full of it.

For DNSSEC 11 years ago

SSH relies almost exclusively on the first connection to a server being correct and an attacker being unable to perpetuate a MITM attack against a given host.

Do you rely almost exclusively on the first connection to a server being correct? Apparently. Does SSH? No.

Debops (2014) 11 years ago

The thing with "rolling-releases" is that updates will bite you in the ass exactly then when you have absolutely no time to deal with them.

So even if the system boots, it doesn't mean anything because booting a system is only one out of 100+ use cases that you will never be able (or willing) to test after each pacman -Syu..

Swiss people, who have all law-making authority here

Law making is done by the two chambers of parliament, National- and Ständerat. General constitutional amendments as well as particular laws can make their way to the electorate but that does not happen automatically.

Edit: If by "introducing his or her idea to the public voting" you mean constitutional amendments.. they require 100k signatures, not 20k. Why don't you look these things up, patriot?

    > because Swiss people have basic understanding..
    > Many journalists don't understand how Swiss political system works..
    > this otherwise excellent system..
Right.. swiss people are so smart. Like that one time where they didn't have any problems with institutional child-slavery for decades.. and the other time where they started to trample on rights of religious minorities.. I could go on.

whenever I try dist-upgrade in Debian et al. I always end up blowing up something.

Back this up with examples, please. I use Debian since potato and can't remember dist-upgrade failing me once.

blaming Github for doing crypto right

So github is doing crypto right by unnecessarily exposing data that is _only_ relevant to a) the user and b) his personal access to his repos?

By this logic, why not make crypto even better and add something like github.com/user.address, github.com/user.mail or github.com/user.phone?

Let me quote from "PGP & GPG -- EMAIL FOR THE PRACTICAL PARANOID":

You can send someone else’s public key to an old-style keyserver. Although you might think this would be a favor, it’s actually extremely rude. The public key owner might have reasons for not using a keyserver and might prefer to distribute his public key via some other method—or he might not want to publicize the key at all beyond a small group of people.

Never publicize someone else’s key for them!

Now, if your reply reiterates your argument that public keys are public because it's in the name, duh, then I can't help..