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AOL Security Update 12 years ago

The term "encrypted password" and talk of "breaking" that encryption appears a few times in the post - I guess AOL is another company storing user passwords using reversible encryption rather than hashing them. That is concerning.

StatusPage.io looks like a very good and needed product but I feel like the fact they are a 100% AWS service this wouldn't be ideal for companies who also host their product in AWS. What happens when an AWS-related issue comes up? Your customers may not be able to get to your product as well as your status page.

Ubuntu Edge 13 years ago

I wonder what 'Fastest multi-core CPU' actually equates to. Has anyone found technical specifications that include a more specific value than 'fastest'?

Great idea for a plugin, but it made my Sublime Text 2 install unusably slow. I'm not sure what could be doing that - the fact the developer suggested installing bind to cache DNS requests makes me think it checks in with the site very often and I have a poor internet connection where I am right now.

I don't feel like this could accurately identify a return user as browsers such as Google Chrome have an auto updater that goes so often. The version number could likely be different when returning a few days later. Does anyone have thoughts about this?

Repository Next 13 years ago

I just opted into the new design and I can attest that it is _very_ responsive and browsing code is noticeably quicker than before.

The swivel and the ability to bolt it to the counter appear to be very well designed, but I would personally have a hard time dropping $300 on it after buying an iPad for $400 - $500.

I'm very impressed with the Copy web interface. Drag and drop works flawlessly. The in-browser preview is really nice as well.

Does anyone have experience with Barracuda Networks (the owner of Copy)? The name sounds familiar, are the reputable?

When I'm working with CodeIgniter (which ExpressionEngine is based off), I always rewrite access to subfolders of the project to the index.php file, because that's the only file that there needs to be access to for the site to function properly. This keeps anyone from accessing configuration (or any other) files.

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^somefolder.*
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

I'm working on a project to integrate git history and time tracking. It's main purpose is for freelancers to see what they committed at what time and produce more accurate invoices. I have been working on it part time for a while but haven't come up for a name for it yet - ticker.io would be perfect.

Gmail.com was down 14 years ago

I host my own email as well and have been very happy with Roundcube - clean and fast, no bells and whistles.

If Windows adopted a freemium model I don't think it will attract many more users - I doubt there are consumers deterred form using Windows because of the price tag. I think this is the unfortunate future of desktop OSs though, with Ubuntu adding ads (or links to products they get a slice from) with local search results.