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zaa

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Software Engineer at Echo (http://aboutecho.com). Personal site: http://ikato.com/

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code.facebook.com 9y ago

Robotron: Top-down network management at scale

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www.viva64.com 10y ago

The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything

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tonsky.me 12y ago

Unofficial guide to Datomic internals

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business.opera.com 13y ago

WebKit based Opera for Android launched in beta

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blog.ikato.com 14y ago

How to install Consolas font on Mac OS X

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blog.101ideas.cz 14y ago

The 3 + 2 Rule

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mzsanford.wordpress.com 15y ago

MySQL and Unicode

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calendar.perfplanet.com 15y ago

Performance Calendar

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www.usenix.org 15y ago

Brendan Gregg: Performance Visualizations

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hseeberger.wordpress.com 15y ago

Introduction to Category Theory in Scala

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developer.qt.nokia.com 15y ago

How can a rubber duck help a programmer?

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www.cuddletech.com 15y ago

Ben Rockwood on Time Management Tips from Randy Pausch

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www.gemalto.com 15y ago

Gemalto Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Over Android

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cyber.law.harvard.edu 15y ago

Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere

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calnewport.com 15y ago

How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night

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blog.gnip.com 15y ago

From API Consumers to API Designers: A Wish List

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lionet.livejournal.com 16y ago

On FaceBook's Thrift semantics, code generation, and OCaml

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www.voltdb.com 16y ago

VoltDB launches next-generation open-source OLTP DBMS

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lionet.livejournal.com 16y ago

NoSQL: Riak vs. Voldemort performance comparision

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arxiv.org 16y ago

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks

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Web server is installed for the web control panel, which can be disabled afterwards.

I do like step by step guides as they provide a higher level of control, but after you've performed a setup like that 2-3 times, you start to lean towards more automated installs as iredmail or custom written scripts. So why maintain your own scripts when you can start with a ready made package.

Personally, I just do not understand all the drama around the issue. I absolutely support the idea that a company has exactly the same right to "fire" a customer in the same way as a customer can "fire" the company. Google does not have to offer services to anyone. A customer can accept the terms of service or just move on and choose another provider to express his/her thoughts.

"a new version of the JCP Process document and a formalized Executive Committee Members' Guide and is expected to be completed and approved within about six months."

What an irony. It will take them half an year to only come up with a process on how to modify the language, when the creators of languages like Go, Clojure, etc can modify a substantial part of their respective language during this time frame.

Basically, this applies to a lot of developing countries (I believe, to Russia, India, Brazil, African countries, etc). USA also has it, but at a bigger scale (think of a politician supporters, the Cenate, etc). Personally, I think bribes in one or another form are just inevitable. It is just a part of human nature.

I bought a cheap VPS at linode.com, installed and configured pptpd and set up a PPTP connection to the VPS on my mac (using standard Network Preferences panel). When I need a secure connection I just connect over PPTP to the VPS. This enables pretty secure connection from the place with wireless access to the VPS for all tcp protocols (http, smtp, etc).