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New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:55:05 +0000

Alias does not change the root dir, according to Nginx documentation. This was what made us believe that through eventual exploit, it could be possible to reach the active root dir through a completely different path as set per alias. In addition to that, having an erroneous document root communicated to CGI components such as PHP or mod_perl can lead to problems. We're still following Nginx development, in case things evolve.

New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:14:54 +0000

We used something just like that to map users' home directories, but it doesn't solve the problem of not being able to set a unique root directory for each user case. Nginx accepts just one root dir setting, and it can't be conditionally set (or overwritten in a later if-else scenario) by putting it inside a location clause. One solution is to globally set /home as the definite root for all user location cases, but this does not sit alright with me - the document root should just not sit outside the target's home.

Safari 5 fails to handle 8192 bit RSA certificates

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:12:31 +0000

Article URL: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18420601

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992598

Points: 2

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New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:11:01 +0000

I wasn't aware that this was a Q&A or issues tracker for Nginx, which is why I never had the intent of bringing details up. My apologies for posting these things in the official Nginx resources. The sarcasm is on the house.

New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:08:36 +0000

One problem that comes to mind is Nginx' inability to have multiple root dirs set for one and the same host depending on what location directive will be in use, for example when wanting to set unique root dirs during userdir mapping - which also happens to be something that Nginx can't do as properly as Apache. Another problem I can recall is how some configuration scenarios require an abundance of PCRE matching clauses to fulfill, which in turn causes Nginx a tangible but most noticable delay for each request that happens to match the implied regexp portion. I am not sure why this is the case, and I am not sure why it isn't so in Apache, where regexp clauses introduce no noticable stall.

New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:27:05 +0000

Did I hit a nerve of some zealous Nginx user when mentioning the fact that Nginx isn't a silver bullet? :) I'm sure you can downvote this comment, too! Knock yourself out!

New comment by hackermom in "Nginx 1.3.0 is out"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:21:40 +0000

Looking forward to a day when I can give Nginx another try when its feature set has matured in more directions. Its unfortunate lack of fine-grained versatility in some areas of configuration forced us to stick with Apache's httpd after trying to replace an old Apache setup with Nginx - everything looked much better in terms of resource efficiency, until we hit the problem of simply not being able to translate a few specific configuration scenarios from Apache to Nginx, forcing us to deem Nginx as a definite no-go for our case.

New comment by hackermom in "Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors."

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:35:30 +0000

  [detached]
  melissa@tellus$ whoami
  melissa

  Last login: Fri May 18 09:29:53 on ttys002
  MelBook:~ melissa$ whoami
  melissa

phew!

New comment by hackermom in "Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator"

hackermom — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:29:58 +0000

The proper term for this effect is "raster bars", from how you traditionally did the effect by waiting for the raster line register to hit a certain vertical position on the screen, and then changing f.e. the background color of that scanline, then wait for the next line, change the color again etc. The name "copper bars" came out of the Amiga scene from how you could easily and without involving the CPU do this effect (and much more) on the Amiga using one of its co-processors, nicknamed the "Copper".

New comment by hackermom in "Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India"

hackermom — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:03:38 +0000

I wonder what Vimeo and Pastebin did to end up on this list. These two are definitely odd (and harmless) apples in that bunch.

New comment by hackermom in "The love and hate of Node.js"

hackermom — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:40:41 +0000

This makes me think of all the people who insist on using jQuery for exactly everything.

New comment by hackermom in "Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers"

hackermom — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:02:20 +0000

Not all of their regular post offices, just some.

New comment by hackermom in "Perian is shutting down"

hackermom — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:10:36 +0000

And in the OS X context the better form of it, MPlayerX: http://mplayerx.org/

New comment by hackermom in "Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:20:48 +0000

"We currently do not ship internationally", anyone? That message right there, when I'm shopping online, annoys me to no end. Clever way of doing business.

New comment by hackermom in "VLC has been downloaded over a billion times"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:03 +0000

I used to be a Perian user, but its complications and shortcomings made me ditch it in favor of MPlayer OS X Extended, which eventually led me to the better MPlayerX. I am in favor of Perian's solution of being a nifty QT plugin, though.

New comment by hackermom in "VLC has been downloaded over a billion times"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:03:44 +0000

I wonder how many percentiles of the Windows number comes from Windows' re-re-re-re-install-ish nature. "Dang, my FPS is low, I gotta "format Windows" again."

New comment by hackermom in "VLC has been downloaded over a billion times"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:19 +0000

If you want something smaller, faster and tons more efficient for OS X, I highly recommend MPlayerX instead. It's everything VLC is, and more, with none of VLC's bloat.

New comment by hackermom in "ZTE Backdoor"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:07:34 +0000

That's no guarantee for anything. It's already out in the open that Huawei has close ties to the Chinese government and military. The point OP is trying to make is that Chinese telecom cannot be trusted as the Chinese government is actively indulging in systematic deployment of espionage frameworks on this level - by infiltration through business.

New comment by hackermom in "ZTE Backdoor"

hackermom — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:06:52 +0000

Coming from a Chinese partly state-owned company, I'm not the least surprised.

New comment by hackermom in "Automatic programming: write code that writes code"

hackermom — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:31 +0000

This method is not the least uncommon or "advanced" with those who still program assembler - in particular with the coders in the so called demoscene of lower level machines like the C-64 and Amiga - most often for creating unrolled loops to save a few cycles on removing the increase/compare/branch portion (or similar) of the loop.