The "big deal" is things beyond simple video content.

• * Vector animations, that would lose quality if they were rasterized and compressed.
• * Interactive presentations; where rendering to a normal video and compressing it would strip out the interactive aspects.
• * Old games; it was easy for people who were learning how to create games to get started with flash, and there is a huge corpus of games out there which represent an interesting segment of indie game development history.

Hopefully things like Shumway will provide a path forward for viewing old content in the future.

I don't remember any user database crashes. I created my account the afternoon of the first day that accounts existed, and it still works.

I keep a Windows laptop around, to both keep up to date with how recent updates are coming along, as well as to play old games.

Windows is approaching the point where it might be workable for day to day use.

For work purposes, I don't need much, A bunch of terminal windows, a ssh client that can handle private keys stored on a Yubikey, and a web browser.
While the terminal emulation of the Bash prompt in the Ubuntu subsystem is still very poor, I could probably manage most of what I need for work from a windows box.

For my most common hobby, I need a few more things. Good NFS performance, a working automounter, an Xserver that supports hardware accelleration, and for the OS to not intercept any function keys for its own use.

The NFS performance of Windows 10 is decent, but alas if you install autofs into the Linux subsystem, it is unable to mount files. The few attempts I've made at mounting a NFS server from inside of the Linux subsystem have all failed. It appears that all mounts need to be done from Windows itself.

There are decent Xserver options for windows, but they (along with most other programs) suffer from Windows intercepting any press of F1 and using it to pop up a useless help screen, rather than passing it to the underlying application.

As far as I can tell, any program that doesn't make the right system call to indicate that it intends to use F1, will never see those keypresses as windows will intercept them.

If the automounter was working, and if there was a way to disable Window's interception of F1, I might actually be able to use it for hobby use as well.

Until then, I mainly use it for old games, and keep any productive work on Linux, BSD, and OSX.

4 digits? Still a newbie.

Would this make ocean-going ground-effect aircraft (a la Ekranoplans) viable? It could create a third tier of shipping in between ship and air. Assuming, of course, that the necessary data can be gathered while traveling across the waves at several hundred mph.

I saw him a couple of years ago at the 2012 Sen Francisco Electronic Music Festival; it was an amazing performance.

I had hoped he would make another US tour at some point; that had been his first solo tour in the US.

why would anyone want to run Google Chrome on a company Linux server?

Automated regression tests on the development build of a web application is one reason. Web pages can and should be tested, just like the unit tests for the code that backs them.

I've considered moving my SSH private key into a YubiKey Neo; but the Neo only appears to support 2048 bit RSA keys.

I could use a larger key on a normal USB drive, but it would be vulnerable to interception when the drive was inserted. The YubiKey would eliminate that threat, but the limited key size causes me some concern.

Do people feel that the reduction in the attack surface by keeping the key secured on a dedicated hardware device outweighs the reduction in key size?

ZZT?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z...

I've used Soekris hardware extensively with Strongswan IPSec at work. I love the boards, but a large number of our Internet circuits are now faster than the net5501 and net6501 can soak with AES IPSec. The net5501 is good for about 8Mbit/sec and the net6501 is good for about 25Mbit/sec with our firewall ruleset and some dynamic routing thrown into the mix. I'm looking forward to the net6801 when it comes out, but in the meantime for those circuits I've been building whitebox 1U routers that have CPUs with AES-NI support (which can easily soak several gigabit/sec). These can be low-power solid state too - recently we've been ordering the Supermicro A1SRi-2758F boards, which have the new Rangeley Atom CPUs, 4 gigabit ethernet ports, and no fans. Just add an SO-DIMM and a USB stick to boot off of, and stick in a 1U short-depth mini-ITX case (I like the Supermicro CSE-505-203B, which puts everything but the power socket in the front).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

It sounds like you are watching traffic inside of your network, and not the interface between your edge router, and the ISP device.

You could be missing many things; incoming traffic that your edge router drops, retransmissions between your edge router and the ISP device, and firmware/config updates for the ISP device.

We really need more detail.

This is definitely worth noting! It's really sad that they haven't had a release since 6.0.2 that didn't fix a critical security hole.

Java updates every 3 months. Every release they do fixes a gaggle of remote-exploit-without-authentication security holes, and comes with a warning such as "Due to the severity of these vulnerabilities, and the reported exploitation of CVE-2013-1493 "in the wild," Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the updates provided by this Security Alert as soon as possible." Exactly what reason do you have to believe that their latest release not only has no known vulnerabilities at the time of that release, but will have no known vulnerabilities for the entire time that that release is current, when there has been evidence to the contrary for *every* past release for *years*?