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ambiateon Letter From A Psychopath

You've noticed that too? Completely lexical followed by C:\AMBIATE\INTRODUCTIO~1.TXT This__-you__are__ will believe _- you __that_this_then_ if and only if _generated_text from _some_thing.

ambiateon Letter From A Psychopath

I've actually kept up with most of his comments throughout the years. I think he has a handful of other usernames. I know there is TempleOS. If you read between the lines of the crazy/racism/religion, rarely, he has very interesting points.

ambiateon Target stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards

You actually hit the nail on the head with the regional comment. My experience in Mississippi at Home Depot and Walmart was a complete 180 from my experience in Texas. There seems to be less trust in MS.

ambiateon What are Linux containers and how did they come about?

I suppose I was thinking from the 'lazy throw up apache, mysql and wordpress' mindset. If example.com is in its own container with its own mysql database, I do not have to worry about www.test.com getting exploited and example.com's mysql data getting leaked into the wild. I'm also from the days when buffer overflows were on every daemon. Unauthorized remote shell access was always a threat back in those days.

ambiateon What are Linux containers and how did they come about?

Segregate applications. If app one gets compromised, app two is off in another land. If my linode box gets hacked, without containers, all 16 websites will be compromised/go down.

Desktop virtualization using the NX protocol and Linux containers is also really friendly. Our company uses old Pentium D boxes for desktops. The performance gain from using a thin client + lxc + lubuntu is insane! I can actually watch youtube videos and draw in OpenOffice Writer. (Also great for disaster recovery scenarios).

ambiateon What are Linux containers and how did they come about?

As far as I understand, the clock and such are tied to the base host. Typing 'uptime' in my linux container shows 5 days, the uptime of the base host.

ambiateon AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

Sadly, not any that I have found other than a few alternate coin systems.

ambiateon LXC Networking introduction

We are currently virtualizing our infrastructure's desktops with QVD and LXC. There have been a few challenges, but overall, it has been painless and exciting.

ambiateon Zero to Peanut Butter Docker Time in 78 Seconds

I will not lie, I felt kind of silly opening the page at work and did the quick ctrl+1 to switch to a tab when a coworker walked by my office!

Aside from that, I have had a recent interest in Docker, LXC and QVD. Thanks for the information, jnoller. I have been doing the reading (without the typing), but this just reassured me that I am on the right path. The Docker part rolls in for segregating applications from each other. In case one app gets compromised, they do not all fall down. Another interest is hitting a few compliance standards by utilizing LXC on its own. Finally, virtualization with QVD and LXC.

ambiateon Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide

The greatest problem of statistical analysis is throwing out observations which do not fit the bill. All analysis should be thoroughly documented with postmortems.

ambiateon Getting Physical - Seagate Kinetic Drive Hardware

RAID over IP was a joke. I remember reading this story about someone flooding routers to turn them into a broadcasts to view the flow of packets over the network. I imagined the same thing, then said, hey with HDDs and broadcast, you could simulate RAID. I made a long stretch on that one.

ambiateon Getting Physical - Seagate Kinetic Drive Hardware

RAID over IP via broadcast? From a security standpoint, it would seem there are many hurdles to jump. Not too long ago, I talked to Dickinson about what you guys do. I never considered the amount of harddrives necessary to facilitate Swiftstack's goals. Of course the software challenges are interesting, but the amount of hardware and maintaining risk/DR/costs/etc. Oh man. Hats off to you guys.

ambiateon Android for all and the new Nexus 5

I will be sticking with my Nexus 4. I do not utilize the camera too much. KitKat will come to the Nexus 4 in time. The price is the really questionable point.

ambiateon The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet

An aged domain typically has higher page rank. I imagine it has a ton of backlinks from just existing in that time. Companies pay for its page rank to be funneled into them by association.

ambiateon Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails

http://docs.meteor.com/#spiderable

Could this could be used if the browser does not support JS?

ambiateon What is Continuous Deployment?

We are language and environment restricted to waterfall at my job. The language does not have any form of unit testing and an extremely archaic version control. The language does not have a viable way to encapsulate small changes without coding the whole shebang. The environment itself follows some of the same pitfalls. CD sounds amazing in theory, but some languages simply do not fit into the paradigm.

ambiateon IBM wants to use big data to predict heart disease long before it strikes

One of the main issues is that cellular analysis in the basement is nearly impossible. I could actually see this coming to life if hardware was in the hands of the correct person.

ambiateon ‘Sitting is the new smoking’

In basic training, the lines were grueling coming from a computer background. The motto is 'hurry up and wait', and most of that waiting is done in a uniform line. After a few weeks, I noticed I did not bend my knees or twitch around as much.

Five years later, I transferred to a standing desk after sitting in labs and office chairs for three years. After that three week point, once again, I noticed the uncomfortableness of it fade away. Standing desks nearly insta-improve posture if you setup your angles correctly.

The real problem with chairs: most people do not take the time to adjust the arms, height, angles, monitor angles, and keyboard/mouse position for correct posture. Usually, the adjustments are made for comfort. Temporary comfort does not equate to long term comfort. Our CIO suffers from extreme back problems in his older age.

ambiateon Google's IOS hackathon.

There was some discussion yesterday on the validity of this contest.

" No, this is not a phishing scheme. We are hosting a hackathon to give you an opportunity to join fellow hackers build a photo viewing app. The hackathon will take place on Sat, Oct 26th on Google's Mountain View campus. (...) On behalf of the Google Industry Programs Events team "

ambiateon Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera

My Nexus 4 paid for itself on Straight Talk within a month by selling my older phone on craigslist. One of the best decisions I have made in a long time.

My wife's Samsung phone is so incredibly foreign to the vanilla Android experience. I have had some recent issues with Google Maps draining my battery, but that was corrected by simply reverting the update. All in all, a great phone. If I destroy it, I can just get a new one for $250. Flops consisted of the wireless battery charge, frictionless glass back that slides, and (original) nubless back that left the speaker against the surface.

ambiateon King, the Swedish Creator of Candy Crush Saga, To File For IPO

With this attitude, most developers should toss in the towel at 'Hello World.'

ambiateon Newell's history of porting Doom to Windows to show it can be a gaming platform

Quakeworld was my entry point into wanting to program. BSP, VIS, DISP, oh yeah. I remember trying to figure out the math for projectiles and the various splash damage routines.

I remember bunnyhopping and attempting to figure out the glitch to alter the effect even more on sharper turns.

So many 'wasted years' that resulted in a wonderful career and field of study. I emailed John a few times throughout the years. He was the most courteous and honest person I have ever met. One of the replies from Carmack went along the lines of, 'Yeah, those models are our IP. If your community is small and the growth is not going to explode, feel free to use them. Just do not brag about it on your website. Our lawyers are not hunting for people, unless they wish to be seen.'

ambiateon Google Trends - Hot Searches

Godaddy. Promo code cjcRMN199. Comes out to $2.17 after ICANN fees.

ambiateon Google Trends - Hot Searches

Jumped on that keyword. Hopefully, it will help someone out. No ads or nonsense. Just a $2 contribution to the internet. Haha. I have so many of these that it hurts.

http://howtocloseappsonios7.com/

ambiateon Researchers can slip an undetectable trojan into Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUS

I agree. Sounds like a number theory halting problem.

Generate sequences of numbers continually, ad infinitum, and determine if distribution rates are (?).

How would one begin to fill in that question mark? A PRNG that spits out three million 'zeros' and a single 'four' is as reliable as a PRNG that spits out an even distribution of random numbers.

ambiateon It's A Terrible Time To Buy An Expensive House

It is important to weigh in many factors. The easiest to grasp is debt to income ratio. (Debt/Income)100. Student loans, phone bills, internet, netflix, insurance, etc. Tally it all in. Divide it by your monthly income.
For example: $650 student loans,$100 cellphones,$90 car insurance,$300 food,$250 gas,$150 electric (average over 12 months),$80 water/sewage/trash ---- $1620

($1620/$4000) 100 = 40.5% recurring debt to credit ratio

Note: Most lenders do not factor in utilities. You should. They will let you drown.

It is always wise to take your Good Faith Estimate and refactor your d/c ratio.

$1620 recurring,$350 mortgage,$120 home insurance,$150 taxes,$80 mortgage insurance ---- $2320 (2320/4000)*100=58% 42% of your income remains to be spent on fed taxes, benefits at work, non recurring debt, random quirks of life.

I really think 2x Household salary is pushing the limit of what you can afford. Vehicles break, pipes bust, utilities are going to have fees/unexpected jumps, people get sick, etc, etc.

Don't waste your life preparing for the unknown. Just don't dig yourself into a hole that you can't swim out of once the floods come.

ambiateon An Investigation of World of Warcraft Character Names

I actually reserved my most creative names for Mages. I am not sure why. Some left over love from my Diablo 2 mage? I would always just pick hard to obtain names on other characters.

A use case for this data is creating a game and reserving the most popular 100 names. A few years down the road sell them for in-game currency or real life currency. Auction em to help support newer updates, etc.

ambiateon Linux-Kernel Archive: RIP - dead harddisk

My SSD died. Much like a USB drive, when it died, I could still read from it. Just made a direct ghost of it onto another SSD. Was up and running in less than 15 minutes.

ambiateon Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today

All they had were my vehicles. They also think I'm a 72 year old African American. Nothing on my home, shopping, etc.

ambiateon A most bizarre and mysterious cocoon

Looks like some form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyridae