amcgregor

So your network doesn't support e-mail, eh?

On how the “secretary of the office of the president” retained me as a Rogers client.

I've been a long-long-long-time Rogers customer. Their support, for me, usually gets to the point not of desperation, but of joy. Admittedly it usually takes several attempts to reach someone who isn't a complete idiot reading from a script, but I've always been satisfied in the end. Satisfied enough to remain a customer, at least! This event in the mid 00's, though, taxed the limits I'm willing to reach for bad tech support while still managing to leave me as a customer. (Lesser of evils and whatnot.)

I'm a sysop. I need access to my boxen from anywhere and everywhere, and while GSM speeds are pretty suck compared to modern LTE it was more than enough for an SSH connection, or some light-weight HTTP or VNC/RDP over a VPN. The VPN turned out to be a sticking point, as no matter which technology (PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, etc.) I tried my phone would never connect and/or authent

Xe

        In the time before ponychat, the world was just not the same. Parasprites 
ravaged the scattered herds in their multitudes. Harsh rulers wantonly declared 
banishment. And frequent netsplits violently tore at the very fabric of the 
netscape, leaving even bronies of the same herd segregated from their friends. 
In despair of this abysmal situation, two intrepid independent groups of bronies 
forwarded their best minds towards finding a solution. They both arrived at the 
same conclusion, both knew that the brony communities needed a network to call 
their own. A place where tolerance reigned free, where the rulers ran with the 
herds, and where, above all else, friendship was highest prized.

alyx

Account Degradation

1. Current System

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1. Account reaches an age (e.g. 30d)
2. Services considers the account expired
3. Services removes this account. This frees all nicknames associated with the account for re-registration and removes this account, including all metadata, group and channel access from the database.
4. There is no D. That's all that happens.

natw

import random

for i in range(0, 100):
    if not i % 15:
        random.seed(1178741599)
    print [i+1, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][random.randint(0,3)]

davidroth

// Fast-Import / Fast-Export Rewriter to migrate bazaar bugtracking metdata properties to git.
// More infos: http://www.fusonic.net/en/blog/migrating-from-bazaar-to-git/
// Licence: Mit X11 / BSD
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections.Generic;

0xabad1dea

The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

I'm still holding out for this being a hoax, a big joke, and that they're going to cancel the kickstarter any minute. It'd be quite the cute "lessons learned" about anonymity scams. However, I will be treating it from here on out as a genuine scam. (As of May 2nd, the kickstarter has been cancelled, after the strangest attempt to reply to this imaginable. Good riddance.)

This absolutely ridiculous thing was brought to my attention by a friend and since it was late at night I thought I must be delirious in how absurdly over the top fake it seemed. So I slept on it, woke up, and found that it had gotten a thousand dollars more funding and was every bit as flabbergasting as I thought it was.

Since I realize that not everyone has spent their entire lives studying computers – and such people are the targets of such scams –

panicsteve

Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter

mcroydon

program TCPFing;
uses
  DOS, TrumpTCP, Crt, StrTools;


CONST
  NulAddr: TIPAddr = (S_B1:0; S_B2:0; S_B3:0; S_B4:0);

var Result: Byte;
    TmpAddr: TIPAddr;

EugeneKay

NOTE: This Gist concerns the old Linode KVM Beta, NOT the current Manager. Please see linode/docs#501 (comment) for more up-to-date instructions.

You will need:

• Windows Server 2012 R2 iso. Obtain from MSDN
• A server with libvirt/virt-manager/KVM/etc set up.
• Fedora-sourced Windows virtio drivers: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.103-2/virtio-win-0.1.103.iso
• A Linode 1GB in the KVM beta, booted into Rescue mode, with a 20GB(20480MB) "raw" image.

On the KVM source, run the following to create a VM:

kurtbrose

'''
Key wrapping and unwrapping as defined in RFC 3394.  
Also a padding mechanism that was used in openssl at one time.  
The purpose of this algorithm is to encrypt a key multiple times to add an extra layer of security.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend using this for most applications.  
Just use AES/mode CTR to encrypt your keys, the same as you would any other data.  
The time to use this code is when you need compatibility with another system that implements the RFC.  
(For example, these functions are compatible with the openssl functions of the same name.)