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Comment Re:They hid it behind Cloudflare (Score 1) 33

does the recovery media involve some form of DRM that prevents it from being loaded into a virtual machine and still run as a web server without the hardware?

There doesn't seem to be DRM, however there isn't an easy option to use the restore CD to load the install on a generic PC or VM. The RaQ netboots from a PC running the recovery liveCD, but it is not using PXE. The RaQ has a custom firmware in place of a BIOS which does the netboot magic. There is a guy named Phintage Collector on youtube who published something on archive.org and github for how to run the RaQ software in a VM.

Does the RaQ support SSL at all? Obviously the website is being served via regular HTTP, but is it a server load thing, an ancient-openSSL thing, or does the RaQ not support HTTPs at all?

Out of the box (after restore), yes there is an SSL option on virtual sites. We haven't tried it since 1) it doesn't support modern TLS protocols, so it wouldn't talk with modern browsers anyways, and 2) it probably doesn't support SNI so we would need to use one IP per site, and we wanted to be able to easily work with multiple sites.

Obviously the thing wasn't designed to stand up to the modern internet; pretty much everyone understands that it's going to get hacked without some sort of protection in front of it. No shade against Cloudflare, promise...but was Cloudflare used due to ease-of-implementation, rather than putting it behind an nginx proxy or some other form of on-premise protection, or was there some sort of use case where Cloudflare was specifically needed?

We didn't know what level of interest the site would have when we got it online. Obviously it wasn't intended to be secured / hack-proof. It got way more interest than expected- unfortunately including script kiddies and people who intended harm. So we implemented Cloudflare as the easy option to try to fend off spam attacks / botnets / DDoS. Yes I've thought about deploying nginx reverse proxies in front of, but that wouldn't necessarily make for a more authentic experience either. But we might go that route.

Submission + - Museum puts decades-old Cobalt RaQ back on the Internet (serialport.org)

aphexx writes: A computer museum has revived and rebuilt a Cobalt RaQ 3 server appliance from the Y2K days of the internet. It's now online and accessible — complete with an ancient CGI guestbook at http://raq.serialport.org/ . There were thousands upon thousands of Cobalt RaQs and Qubes scattered across the globe in the 2000s, and I remember they were especially popular with ISPs. Judging from the guestbook comments, it looks like I'm not the only one that remembers their impact. Cobalt was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002 for a cool $2 billion, but discontinued the product line the following year.

Submission + - Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released

prisoninmate writes: On the first day of December, Softpedia was the first to announce the availability for download of the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" operating system, despite the fact that no official announcement was made. A few days later, it turned out that the Linux Mint project had a critical hardware issue with their servers, for which the devs apologized, so most of the website and forums were down for at least two days, but luckily the ISO images of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" were hosted on various mirrors around the world. On December 4, 2015, the Linux Mint developers managed to restore everything back, as well as to publish official announcements for both the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition and Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" MATE Edition operating systems. Here's what's new!

Comment Re:You still need iPhone 4S (Score 4, Insightful) 403

... or eavesdrop on somebody else's iPhone.

the reason why you can't do this is because Siri communicates in HTTPS, so it is not vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. hence, you cannot eavesdrop on somebody else's iphone

the reason why they could listen to the traffic in the article is because they had access to the root certificate on the iphone itself. you can do this if you have physical access to the phone, but obviously you can't just do this over the air to other people's phones

Comment Re:#include "less.h" (Score 2, Informative) 390

vim already does exactly this. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic

it looks like this. (ts = tabstop, sw=shiftwidth) // vim: noai:ts=4:sw=4
      -or- /* vim: noai:ts=4:sw=4
*/
      -or- /* vim: set noai ts=4 sw=4: */
      -or- /* vim: set fdm=expr fde=getline(v\:lnum)=~'{'?'>1'\:'1': */

so using your example: /* MS_VC_INTENT=2; MS_VC_TAB=4 */

if you put on top of your file, // vim: set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=2

then vim will do the correct thing.

Comment Re:Is that why (Score 4, Informative) 711

how did this get modded up? this is misinformation.

du(1) man page (snow leopard):
          -H Symbolic links on the command line are followed, symbolic links
                          in file hierarchies are not followed.

          -h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
                          Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.

df(1) man page (snow leopard):
          -H "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
                          Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
                          number of digits to three or less using base 10 for sizes.

          -h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
                          Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
                          number of digits to three or less using base 2 for sizes.

this is exactly same output as man pages fro those two in FreeBSD 6.1

this is man page from debian linux:
              -h, --human-readable
                            print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

              -H, --si
                            likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024

so it seems to me that behavior of darwin is exactly same as gnu tools.

Medicine

Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" 144

Slatterz introduces us to the first major study on "cyberchondria" by Microsoft researchers (abstract, paper [PDF]). The news that it can be a bad idea to search the Internet to see if you have a terrible disease should come as no surprise. According to the NYTimes article, the syndrome has been known as "cyberchondria" since at least the year 2000 (we discussed it a few years back). It refers to increased anxiety brought on when people with little or no medical training go searching for answers to common medical complaints on the Web. The article compares cyberchondria with a phenomenon well known among second-year medical students, called "medical schoolitis." The researchers note that Web searchers' propensity to jump to awful conclusions is "basic human behavior that has been noted by research scientists for decades."
Movies

Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users 205

CNet is reporting that Netflix has opened up its "Watch Instantly" feature to Mac users (here is Netflix's blog entry). They accomplished this by using Microsoft's Silverlight technology on both platforms, abandoning the Windows Media Player solution that had been employed in the first, Windows-only, version. Silverlight's DRM capabilities meet Netflix's needs, apparently. Netflix warns that this is beta software. Mac users can opt in here, then watch instantly with Safari or Firefox 2+, with the Silverlight plugin in place. Movie selection is somewhat limited.
Hardware Hacking

Hacking the XO Laptop 95

dulceLeche writes "While the OLPC was not designed with the American consumer in mind, people that took part in the Give One Get One program have been having fun with their XOs. The XO has a number of limitations, but with some work you can get Opera running, chat over your mesh network, and much more. An article at Geek.com explains what a few folks were able to do with their XOs."
Hardware Hacking

MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace 420

pizzach noted that the MacBook Air battery is actually fairly easy to replace. "All it requires is a philips screwdriver. Unlike some of Apple's other products, the battery is not so soldered in which should make a lot of people at least a little bit happier." I think I'll have to wait for something with a bigger screen and a faster clock speed.

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