Posts by Jack Douglas

Security! experts! slam! Yahoo! management! for! using! old! crypto!

exactly what I was going to ask — though you mean "hash the MD5 hash with salted bcrypt", not "encrypt the MD5 hash with salted bcrypt"

Take that, creationists: Boffins witness birth of new species in the lab

Re: Meh...

> I thought viruses officially weren't alive, so I find this an unconvincing demonstration that living things can speciate.

"they are non-living particles with some chemical characteristics similar to those of life" according to Wikipedia

It's indirect evidence really — 'species' means something different for a virus that it does for living organisms, particularly those that reproduce sexually.

Microsoft ❤️ Linux? Microsoft ❤️ running its Windows' SQL Server software on Linux

Re: Target audience?

> I can't help wonder who their intended target audience is going to be

Organizations that want 'free' but don't care about 'open-source'? SQL Server Express running on Linux means a proper database for no money. Postgres is lovely but if you have SQL Server skills in-house you'd probably prefer to use them.

Whether we can trust Microsoft to stay invested is another matter — I'd be very worried about being abandoned after a year and yet another change in strategy.

Karhoo who? Uber challenger shuts down after burning through $250m

Kiss of death?

We'll have to find some other "ethical" transport now:

> "…but Karhoo works in a different way. It deals only with accredited cab fleets, not with individual drivers, so it's actually good for small businesses and small businessmen - and for the drivers and various other people they employ, and for the government’s tax coffers…"

http://lewispage.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/how-to-live-ethically-drink-smoke-eat.html

How a chunk of the web disappeared this week: GlobalSign's global HTTPS snafu explained

How a chunk of the web disappeared — and some important stuff too

SSL isn't only for the web of course — some RDS client machines ended up unable to connect to their server. Clearing the caches was no help (I don't know why) but reissuing the cert and/or using the new intermediate did the job, after a reboot.

The most annoying thing was GlobalSign continuing to tweet marketing drivel in between updates about the crisis on their Twitter feed.

Is there ANOTHER UNIVERSE headed BACKWARDS IN TIME?

Re: Ah!

Why are you flinging insults about, do you think it makes your argument more credible? It makes me treat the rest of your rant with a lot more suspicion - and yes, you do come across as intolerant.

Chrome makes new password grab in version 34

Are you sure?

"That means that even if users turn off Chrome's feature that collects and automatically enters their login credentials to web services, the browser will nonetheless make the offer to do so."

Are you sure? Or does it mean that Chrome will offer to remember passwords for fields that have the autocomplete=off attribute set *by the server*, just like Safari does (if you toggle a setting).

Intel bakes smaller, slower flash memory. Aah, now that's progress

The s3500 does *not* "potentially replace its DC S3700"

They are very different beasts. The 3500 is for read-intensive workloads and the 3700 for write-intensive. Other than write IOPs the major difference between the two is write endurance (and the difference is huge)