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X^Z would be proud
Tim pointed out in a comment on my previous post the existence of the W33 artillery shell, which (in a section headed Disinformation) is supposedly a double gun design: you fire the shell from a gun,...
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It kills me
I see some puff piece like this and there’s no ticker symbol next to Sun Microsystems. eBay survived and fucking Sun bit it. I may not bleed purple but I really enjoyed my time in NSPG and the products...
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Which is it?
From the front page of news.com. The articles are right next to each other – no editing needed.
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BeyondCorp is Google’s rethink of corporate IT security
Here’s the white paper (pdf). WSJ blurbs for slightly different details. This longer form post from 2013 includes two USENIX talks from LISA 2013. Not everyone works at Google’s scale, or with Google’s...
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Changes
Got the word today that a large portion of my former team has been let go; we had a GTG scheduled for Friday afternoon already, it just turns out it will be more of an Irish wake than planned.
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USB 3.0 thumb drive benchmarking
Bought five thumb drives to find one worthy of handing out by the gross. The goal is to run virtual machines directly from the thumb drive. I bought all of the USB 3.0, 16 gig thumb drives Amazon Fresh...
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USB Thumbdrive Bench marks, part 2
As a followup to part 1, here are the results of copying the VM over. lexar.log: Speed : 1176.492 MegaBytes/min. samsung.log: Speed : 719.846 MegaBytes/min. sandisk.log: Speed : 628.951 MegaBytes/min....
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The Valley
Visited the Valley for the first time since 2002. Had to see some old landmarks: As I told Joe, the Valley is a drug. After a few hours on the ground I was ready to move back. I drove over the Oakland...
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CES 2016 “enhanced” security posture
For months leading up to CES I’ve been getting email warning about the new rules and bag inspection regime. I watched thousands of people go through the gates in front of me without the metal detector...
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Building versus doing
I was thinking the other night – I don’t think any of the late nights and weekends I’ve put in working on stuff in this industry has moved the ball a single inch. Reading this I think that’s widespread...
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