2012/5/18-7/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54392 Activity:nil | 5/18 On my Win7 machine, I've been using a PuTTY ssh session to soda as a
proxy for my FireFox to bypass my company's OpenDNS when I visit
http://tv.yahoo.com and so on. It has been working fine for a long while.
However, in the past couple weeks or so, my FireFox would either take
several minutes to load the page, or failes to load it after several
minutes. I haven't changed any settings on my Win7 machine. Rebooting
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2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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2010/2/18-3/9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53713 Activity:nil | 2/18 Why is there now Firefox 3.5.8 when there was already 3.6 a month ago?
\_ Why is there Windows XP SP3 when there was already Vista?
Generally companies manage patches for at least two levels of
product. -tom
\_ I see. So Fx 3.6 is more like a new version than an update to
3.5.x. --- OP
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2010/2/8-18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:53695 Activity:kinda low | 2/5 I like Adobe Flash. When written correctly, it scales along
with your browser size. It looks consistent on every single
browser. It is predictable. On the other hand, I'm not a big
fan of CSS/HTML, which for the most part, look wildly different
between browsers, and don't even work consistently or
correctly at times. So why do so many people (like Steve Jobs)
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2009/11/27-12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53546 Activity:low | 11/27 What did you guys buy on Black Friday?
\_ cold medicine
\_ me too!
\_ Nothing.
\_ I bought a Mac Air for my wife when Mac Mall announced their
"Black Friday sale" on Wednesday. But that was technically not
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2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate | 10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
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2012/8/29-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54467 Activity:nil | 8/29 There was once a CSUA web page which runs an SSH client for logging
on to soda. Does that page still exist? Can someone remind me of the
URL please? Thx.
\_ what do you mean? instruction on how to ssh into soda?
\_ No I think he means the ssh applet, which, iirc, was an applet
that implemented an ssh v1 client. I think this page went away
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2012/3/29-6/4 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54351 Activity:nil | 3/29 A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
card--no game)?
\_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
most machines were custom built.
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2011/10/26-12/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54202 Activity:nil | 10/24 What's an easy way to see if say column 3 of a file matches a list of
expressions in a file? Basically I want to combine "grep -f <file>"
to store the patterns and awk's $3 ~ /(AAA|BBB|CCC)/ ... I realize
I can do this with "egrep -f " and use regexp instead of strings, but
was wondering if there was some magic way to do this.
\_ UNIX has no magic. Make a shell script to produce the ask or egrep
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2010/3/10-30 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:53751 Activity:nil | 3/10 What email program do people in Cal CS use nowadays? In my school days
people used /usr/bin/mail, then RMail in emacs, then VMail in emacs.
After my days people used Elm, Pine, Mutt (I forgot which order). In
my first two jobs we could tell the seniority of fellow engineers based
on which email program they use at work, because everyone used what
they used to use in their school years. In my last two jobs though,
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2009/11/13-30 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53523 Activity:nil | 11/12 How does one find out if a system has rootkit installed?
\_ Unix or m$?
\_ Unix. On M$ I always assume it's compromised.
\_ Install Tripwire before you plug your server into The Net?
The only other answer I can think of is to reinstall the
OS from scratch on another server and do an md checksum
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2009/7/24-29 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:53195 Activity:low | 7/24 Is dos2unix available somewhere? Someone added all those Ctrl-M's to
motd.public.
\_ %s/^V^M//g in vim. What has your editor done for you today?
\_ that works great in vi actually... in vim :set filetype=unix
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