One of the nice things about researching things like the history of dump is that it teaches me things about Unix's historythat I didn't know. For example, until I decided to write up dump 'shistory, I had no idea that it had actually originated as far back asV6; for some reason I had it in my mind as a UCB invention.
(Perhaps because the idea of dump always struck me as the kind ofbaroque thing that UCB would come up with, instead of
This is one of those things that I shouldn't have to write butapparently I do: anything that is called 'email marketing' is prettymuch always spam, and everyone involved in it either knows this or isactively hiding their head in the sand. Theoretical good intentions inthis do not matter, because there are simply too many pressures pushingthe other way. There are too many reasons for salespeople to lie aboutwhether their leads have consented to email, too many reasons for themarketing department to be optimistic
Although this is rather behind the times, I don't think I've seen thepractical consequences of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability written downclearly and in one place. So here is my list, concentrating on SSH andSSL certificates:
From its founding in the the 1980s through the early 1990s, Sun was apowerhouse that delivered both a stream of technical innovations andan evolving range of machines, from small workstations through largeservers, that were excellent values. While never quite as sexy as SGI(even if they sometimes tried hard), Sun's workstations were somethingthat you could dream of having on your desk even if you weren't aHollywood SFX worker, a CAD/CAM operator, or
某天看到 Othree 寫了個 short-amazon 來縮短 Amazon 網址，我依樣葫蘆地試用 regular expression 的方式做一次：
function convert(){ var output = parseUrl(document.getElementById("input").value); document.getElementById('output').value = output; } var parseUrl = function(input){ if(!input) return ''; var lines = input.split('n');