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Hi, I'm Ian
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lflux··on Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
Unfortunately if you have customers using IE on XP or older Android phones, SNI doesn't work and you need to use SAN certificates. EV-certificates with SAN is another huge amount of hassle I wish on nobody.
lflux··on Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
I had absolutely no problem getting a /27 from my ISP here in Sweden the other week.
lflux··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Itojun, to which we owe a lot of IPv6 work.
lflux··on Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
> Easy to read, console-based insight into what is happening in your cluster. Particularly useful to the sysadmin when the alarm goes off at 3am and JSON is too difficult to read.

It's these little details I love, when a project actually cares about operations and not just "well here's the API"

I've been using ElasticSearch only for Logstash, but i've been blown away so far as how easy it is to deal with.

lflux··on Toward Go 1.3
queue.h is pretty widely used as well: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/queue.h?re...
lflux··on Eve Online wages largest war in its 10 year history
The sovereignty claim (who controls a solar system and it's station) generates an in-game bill that needs to be paid by the corporation owning the system. In this case a Pandemic Legion holding corp in Nulli Secunda held the system. Enough money wasn't in the right wallet division, or the auto-pay glitched, and when the bill came due their claim dropped.

When sovereignty drops like that, it's free game to claim the system and station, generating a free for all frenzy. In this case it was Pandemic Legion's staging system with a good deal of their forward staged assets stuck in the station that they can't access until they retake the system and station.

Honest mistake or glitch, who knows. The corp CEO is claiming on reddit that it was a bug and petitioned it to the game developer CCP to have the sovereignty rolled back, but it's kinda hard to tell what's truth or just PR spin. CCP doesn't roll back losses like this often (I think it has happened like once or twice that they've rolled back sov)

lflux··on Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO
Well, not including the link you wanted to boost in the first place is a good start.
lflux··on Request for Funding OpenBSD Project's Electricity
There's OpenBSD Foundation, which is non-profit but not tax-deductible apparently: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
lflux··on The Wallaby Card
On the chip&pin terminal when you enter pin and ok the transaction, there's a selection for "debit" or "credit".
lflux··on How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches
The only thing welcoming of landing at Arlanda is that my 3G data starts working again, and I have access to Eduroam. Arriving from ex-Schengen, especially at the non F-pier gates (due to the small passport control where you have to go up 3 flights of stairs and then down), isn't very welcoming at all.
lflux··on Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
> didn't see it up on concrete blocks

Take a look at the annotation on http://www.flickr.com/photos/travisgoodspeed/8581912859/in/p...

lflux··on Eve-Online player loses a $9000 digital spaceship
People are also drunk / sleep deprived / have an attention span of a goldfish, or doing several things at once so you might miss who to shoot, where to point your spaceship et c unless it's repeated. I don't know if this is normal for Black Legion's voice chat, but when killing high-value targets the commander can sometimes get riled up over potentially missing the kill.
lflux··on Job hunting experience (and few advices)
When I review CVs I prefer them to be in PDF than DOC.

Then again, an ODT is better than a link to a very sparse LinkedIn profile.

lflux··on Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane
I've had a better experience from Norwegian planes than from some hotel WiFi networks.
lflux··on Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack
rabbitmq.com says "Copyright (C) 2013 VMware, Inc" and http://www.rabbitmq.com/mpl.html says "The Original Code is RabbitMQ. The Initial Developer of the Original Code is VMware, Ltd."

So yeah, it's owned by VMware.

lflux··on Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack
Not quite sure what you're getting at here.
lflux··on How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
To elaborate: In Sweden, even if you accept the defaults, your creditors and employers will send you statements (sv: kontrolluppgift) of your debts, interest, earnings, income et c that you can easily double-check against the defaults.
lflux··on How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
Last year I filed all my deductions from renovating and selling an apartment online. There's a fair amount of functionality now (according to the FAQ selling forest, business income, house/apartment sales (K2,5,6) investments (K4) et c) can be done online.

The swedish tax authority also incentivizes people to e-file: if you e-file, you'll get your tax return before midsummer, which in Sweden is a BIG holiday, when most people kick off their summer vacation. Even if you accept the defaults, but file on paper, you'll get your money in August instead of June.

lflux··on How Search Works
It's not only you, I found this irritating as well.
lflux··on Why Use Make
Ninja.
lflux··on Opera sends 90 out the door
Opera sells "speed dial" bookmark promotion, for one.
lflux··on There's No Protection In High Ports
Why would you have private keys on the server? Those are passphrase-protected on your laptop/workstation.
lflux··on There's No Protection In High Ports
You shouldn't be using passwords anyway, you should be using key-based authentication.
lflux··on My New FiberHouse in Kansas City
Most algo traders try to be as physically close as possible to the exchange. NASDAQ OMX even runs colo in the same datacenter as the nordic exchanges that traders can hire into.
lflux··on Accepting credit cards online for recurring payments in Europe
Klarna is a payment startup in Sweden focused on invoices and installments. Currently working in se,dk,no,fi,nl,de,at. Could be worth keeping an eye on.
lflux··on How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle
> They're a strategic resource that individual players would never use.

Except for that year or two when they could shoot smaller ships with immunity, a LOT of people in nullsec alliances got one with their own funds just to shoot bigger guns with impunity.

lflux··on How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle
Eve isn't sharded in the common MMO sense.
lflux··on Ask HN: How do you manage shared company passwords?
Binder in the safe.
lflux··on Taking payments online in Europe in 2013
Paypal is actually a regulated bank - it's registered in Luxembourg so it can do business in EU.
lflux··on What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
Try being a (American) football fan in Europe. Some games start at 2am, watching the Super Bowl usually involves me taking the next day off work as the game usually ends around 4am.
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