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Hacker News is not 4chan, and as such, do not reply "Cool Story Bro", unless you are replying to your brother that you thought the story he gave you was popular.

> this site doesn't use a DB engine but instead is pulling and rending content from an XML DB over a REST API

Just a random suggestion, but might it be easier (and less taxing) to have a background job pull the XML into a TMPFS (ramdisk) then update it every 5 minutes or so?

And whatever you do, test it on an iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 1G. If it performs reasonably on that, it will be blazing fast on an iPhone 3GS/4 or iPod Touch 3G/4G.

It's more of a HTML5 demo than anything else.

1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM...

Kind of sounds like the iPhone 4 (from July) with NFC support and a built-in VOIP client.

WWF is just a PDF with DRM to disallow printing, this isn't a new file format or anything.

Why would it even matter? The traffic from the DDoS is going to WikiLeaks' servers, not the DNS providers.

> The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

Sadly true...

I keep a patched version of Chromium around for that very reason. All you have to do is change one line in the sources. I'll dig up the patch and send it to you once I get back on a real computer.

> or there is some other part of this story that we are missing.

"Campaign Contributions" and access to a resort in the Bahamas.

Wait, so air print won't even be able to print to a normal jetdirect or IPP printer?

Well, Apple already has iDisk, which is Mac/iOS only and Microsoft has SkyDrive, which I've heard performs horribly, so it's already happened, except for google.

By the way, you can install sudo on arch if you want.

It is a great experience to setup arch. It is relatively straightforward and easy to maintain. The only reason I eventually switched away from arch was because of the lack of signed packages, which was a big issue to a security-paranoid person like me. If you're just going to run chrome, go with a lightweight WM such as dwm.

Probably, because the stream is normally recorded on both the client and the server as well as streamed.

And a way to fix it would be for google to release an updater client so you could update an android phone without being pushed an update from your carrier.

Feng office is mediocre, but if someone put the time and effort into making it a great app, it would be perfectly suited to this task.

Actually QWERTY was created to slow typists down. Back in ye olde days, when typewriters were still around, there was the problem where people who typed to fast would jam the typewriters. Thus, QWERTY was invented to slow people down so the typewriters wouldn't jam. Then, when computers came along, everybody knew QWERTY, so they continued using it.

> On my mac, applications are really directories with lots of stuff inside. Why insist on stuffing everything into a single file?

Actually, the executable is still a single file. The directory just contains things that would be shoved into /usr/share on Linux or into a DLL on Windows, such as the icon, metadata, any other assets (game levels, images, etc.) and runtime libraries.

OS X (and derivative iOS) are essentially proprietary GUIs put on top of a FreeBSD base system on top of a hybrid Mach/XNU kernel with a bit of FreeBSD mixed in.

Node.js is mainly designed for the server-side, so desktop apps are not a high priority right now.

So essentially it would be like Apple's X11. It will be there for backwards compatibility with older applications, but it will be considered "undesirable".

Between 10pm and 4am.

The subset of providers for in-flight WiFi is small enough that they could just create an Application (even the "dumb" phones can run JavaME apps) that spams it with HTTP requests for each different provider and auto-registers using fake data.

Internet Explorer: Commoners.

Firefox: Geeks, Biological relatives of geeks, IT people.

Chrome: Programmers, basement dwellers, hipsters.

It was really jerky and slow in Chrome 9 on OS X 10.6.4.

Just so you know, that is a horrific idea security wise.

I keep getting a "Failed to fix permissions" error. Any insight into that?

I believe that it is a file containing debug info, not an actual program, so you can't run it.

I found the binary "firesheep-backend" in:

    ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile>.default/extensions/firesheep@codebutler.com/platform/Darwin_x86-gcc3

I ran both:

    ./firesheep-backend --fix-permissions

and

    sudo ./firesheep-backend --fix-permissions

and it still asks me to run it with "--fix-permissions". I guess it's time to go digging around in the source to try and find out what it wants me to do.

EDIT:

After a bit of digging, I found out that running it with --fix-permissions really just chowns the binary to root then setuid's it. I don't see anything wrong with it on the surface, but I'll keep digging.