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Comment business model to manage and release libraries (Score 2) 193

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to have a central repository of libraries they manage and release.

Could be an interesting business model for some open source projects.

If you are building software and just blindly using libraries from the internet, you are a nimrod.

Comment Re:Exchange is insane (Score 3) 47

That is surprising. I have been working with Exchange since 5.0 came out. It is a house of cards and way to complicated for what it needs to be; especially for small installations. I have had many times where just applying a CU completely hoses the installation and I had to revert to a backup snapshot. Lots of times the database just won't mount on startup, so you need to run edbutil to "fix" it -- even if it was already in a clean state.

The only thing that gets exposed to the Internet on the exchange servers is the Active Sync virtual directory. I am guessing that is what saved me from being compromised -- or it could have been because I disabled all external access as soon as I saw the vulnerability. I may need to start tucking the active sync service behind a vpn as well.

Exchange requires a ton of care and feeding to keep running.

Compared to imap servers like Dovecot which are basically install and forget.

Submission + - Russia claims to have first covid vaccine. (cnbc.com) 2

Hmmmmmm writes: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the registration of what Russia claims to be the first vaccine for the coronavirus in the world and said one of his daughters had already taken it.

"Although I know that it works quite effectively, it forms a stable immunity and, I repeat, has passed all the necessary checks," Putin said.

Clinical trials of this Russian vaccine have been completed in less than two months and phase three trials are set to begin on Wednesday, despite the vaccine having already been registered. Countries including the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia are taking part in those trials.

The vaccine developed by Russia is a so-called viral vector vaccine, meaning it employs another virus to carry the DNA encoding of the needed immune response into cells.

Gamaleya’s vaccine is based on the adenovirus, a similar technology to the coronavirus vaccine prototype developed by China’s CanSino.

The state-run Gamaleya institute came under fire after researchers and its director injected themselves with the prototype several months ago, with specialists criticizing the move as an unorthodox and rushed way of starting human trials.

Comment Steady progress and under the hood improvements (Score 2) 288

4.3 brought major changes in the vt-x code for stability and performance improvements.

You should look at the change log and source code commits.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wik...
https://www.virtualbox.org/tim...

It wouldn't surprise me if 4.4 gets released soon with a new batch of improvements. 4.3 will then get put into maintenance mode and 4.4 because "unstable". I normally don't deploy the current branch in production for several releases as they fix the issues.

Project development is far from a standstill. I don't need any more flashly features. I hope they continue to focus on stability and performance issues.

Comment Samsung Galaxy S5 glass quality is awful (Score 1) 203

I dropped my Galaxy S5 out of my hand when walking and it completely smashed the glass. I am shocked how fragile the new phone was compared to my older Nexus S. I am on the hook for a $250+ bill to get it repaired.

I have no clue how you can engineer a mobile phone which can't withstand a drop from that distance. I will never buy another Samsung product again.

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