Except when they don't, for all the reasons I explained and more.
Posts made by another_sam
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
Extensions are doing it wrong. They are wrong, wrong, wrong. There is nothing right about them. File type is immutable metadata, file name is mutable metadata, don't mix them up or pain. Extensions are historically limited to three characters which makes them pretty opaque and painful. When they get re-used as they inevitably do, pain. There is no standard list, just a bunch of conventions, what a pain. When the user (accidentally or deliberately, whatever) changes them, pain. Browsers think they know something about content they're downloading from what they guess (How? What do they know?) is a filename extension in the URL and then pain! Extensions cause nothing but pain.
Heuristic file type analysis is a response to this pain. It's also badly wrong.
What is needed is metadata stored in the filesystem. It's not hard to do, it's just not widely used. But the world persists in causing itself pain.
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q are terminal stop and start control keys. Sometimes Scroll Lock works.
Unless you meant Windows. Then I don't know.
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RE: User logins? lets use the database!
Guess the gender, win a prize!Hurr durr, ugly lady must be a man. Ugly people are a valid target for my scorn because I look like Adonis and anyone who doesn't is an inferior person. I'm totally not a neckbeard and I'm way out of this lady's league.This post is not empty and Discourse doesn't understand taking quotes out of context is a thing.
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RE: Linux Firewall Suggestions
I don't think anything is going to do exactly what you want out of the box, but you can probably put a solution together from parts.
It has been a while, but two iptables-based firewall configuration packages I've used are firehol and shorewall. They are both configured with simple text files, so you can create configuration from your own sources. They both have a zone concept which you may be able to bend to suit your purposes. Shorewall even claims to support centralised administration. They both make configuring firewalls pretty easy, especially compared with the complexity of calling iptables yourself.
If you're running a cloud, I assume you're using something like Puppet? If so, you may be able to get away with defining the topology there.
Good luck. Most firewall configuration stuff on Linux seems to be GUI-oriented, unsuitable for use on servers and unscalable for clusters.
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RE: I thought education was a priority for the UK government
I don't know these guys because nobody cares about UK politics, but what's wrong with making funny faces when eating? You're smooshing your face all around to mash food, because we evolved faces with smooshy parts for just that purpose.
And the banana dude looks like he may have a sense of humour and knows what's going to happen to the picture.
I'd vote for either of them. I already said I know nothing so I'm fully qualified.
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RE: Just sharing a link to TRWTF for customer service
These are the kinds of bugs you can expect when you try to subvert the browser's implementation of fundamental features, such as
<a href="">
elements.Dear web developers: Stop using JavaScript to handle clicks to open links. The browser already does it, and does it better than you will.
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RE: JavaScript regex-to-string conversion
Awesome rant. Needs more Tony the Pony.