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this.josh

00:26

@Iszi "This has to be one of the most 'I'm better than you' answers I've ever seen on this site." Mike S, as a comment to my answer on "What is the best password storage..." I actually though my answer adressed every point except the easiest.

Iszi

@thisjosh Ah, yeah. And my comment was to say that it wasn't meant to be "I'm better than you" - it was meant to say "It's impractical to try to solve this problem as presented, but here's a way you might if you had superhuman mental abilities."

this.josh

01:24

@Iszi I didn't think you were criticizing me.

I was commenting on the higher than average ambient lameness around that question.

Iszi

01:57

@thisjosh "Ambient lameness"? Nice one!

Iszi

02:17

Is it just me, or have plugins been a lot more crashy in recent versions of Firefox?

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Stack Exchange

05:06

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this.josh

07:01

@Iszi Never trust new software. Its hard for someone who loves technology, but new software with new features also has new bugs and a low level of robustness.

It does additionally seem that the quality bar for releasable software has been lowered over the last ten years.

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Rory Alsop

08:38

@thisjosh Yep - there has been a lot of chat between moderators on that one, as the OP has been misbehaving. I thought your comment was grand. The 'ambient lameness' has been an issue

@Iszi Yeah - I have moved to 90% chrome and 10% firefox in recent months just to avoid the crashiness

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Scott Pack

12:36

Do you know if there if the tab management on chrome has gotten any better?

Rory Alsop

12:51

@ScottPack not sure - I am slowly learning how to use tabs efficiently, so I don't think I have pushed the boundary as much as you may have:-)

Scott Pack

13:09

@RoryAlsop Yeah, that's probably true. :)

My mythbackend has a failing drive. This makes me unhappy.

Have you looked at the hard drive prices this week?

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack back on the increase. Wish I had picked up that terabyte at £50 two weeks ago :-(

Scott Pack

No doubt. The cheapest 1TB I find on NewEgg is $130. A couple of weeks ago I could have gotten a 2TB for cheaper.

Luckily, the drive I have going out is under warranty. Unfortunately, I need to replace it first or else the VG fails.

Rory Alsop

13:56

@ScottPack look at these numbers:

channelregister.co.uk/2011/11/07/hdd_drought

Thomas Pornin

14:43

@ScottPack That's because it turns out to be very hard to teach a hard drive how to swim.

Scott Pack

14:58

@ThomasPornin Yeah, worked out to be bad timing on my part.

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Jeff Ferland

16:04

Good morning

Thomas Pornin

Hello

Scott Pack

Morning Jeff.

Jeff Ferland

Anybody wrong on the Internet today?

Scott Pack

Heard anything about the Sourcefire interview?

Jeff Ferland

16:21

@ScottPack No, I'm guessing I dropped it by acting overly confident... also, really got stuck on a stupid thing with regular expressions... I consider myself well-versed in it, but was asked to write one for identifying an IP address... and I've got it ingrained my head that you just don't do that with a regex -- not efficient.

Or at least with a regex alone. Anyway, I think I came off as somebody who talks it more than he knows it, which sucks. I realize that never having to formally interview for a job is a negative in trying to do so... I've always been hired from knowing people.

Scott Pack

use RegExp::Common;

Jeff Ferland

It wasn't hard to write... /([12]?[0-9]?[0-9])\.#repeat a few times... I was just stuck in a different mindset of splitting on "." and verifying ">=0, <=255, array size of 4"

Scott Pack

Ah. We do a lot of our data analysis in perl, so we've made heavy use of IP regexes.

I've been trying to push our code towards using RegExp::Common::Net, but it's a change.

Rory Alsop

16:40

@JeffFerland :-) morning

Thomas Pornin

16:51

@JeffFerland It would accept 10.0.0.295 as a valid IP address, though

... which would happen to work on NeXTstep, but not on any saner machine that I have encountered

Scott Pack

What we've done is defined octets, and then defined an IP as four octets separated by periods.

It makes it easier to limit the number down to 0-255 without being too overbearing.

The limitation being that it might accept 0.10.0.243

err

Rory Alsop

17:07

hahahaha

just remembering doing something like that a while ago

err indeed

Scott Pack

17:25

So I started watching the show La Femme Nikita last night. I thought to myself, 'Wow, the best fashion, graphics, and sound effects that the late 80s had to offer."

Then I realized it didn't start airing until 97. 0_o

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Jeff Ferland

20:23

@ThomasPornin Yeah, that reminds me... I did some fiddling to get it to match 0-199, then 200-250, then 250-255

and it's just evil!

1?[0-9]?[0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4]#in four grouping separated by a period

Also, if I offer to take the 3 square inches of paint transfer you have on your fender off (nevermind the 10 other ones you already have) on your beat up old Honda Civic with a falling off bumper, filing an insurance claim for the 30 minutes of professional labor makes you a douche.

I hate people.

Thomas Pornin

I feel like a caitiff

I have just setup Chrome as my default browser instead of Safari.

I hope the ghost of Steve Jobs will not come to haunt me at night

Jeff Ferland

... and you know what? I made the same faux-pas on the white board then as I did now. It's just not the right thing to evaluate numbers in base 10 by regex.

Even if I can

Tom Leek

20:43

@ThomasPornin THAT'S EVIL

Thomas Pornin

Ok, Chrome goes "boing" on MacOS too

@ScottPack But it is based on a French movie from 1990

Rory Alsop

21:44

@ThomasPornin Which was an awesome movie!

just set up my new iiyama monitor next to my dells - it is soooo shiny :-) So now I can play on one very widescreen while compiling/surfing stackexchange on another. Think the other will have to go. Not enough room

Thomas Pornin

22:02

@RoryAlsop For the last month I have used two screens, and it is quite addictive

It is convenient to keep a Web browser open, which displays documentation, while having a bunch of open terminals visible on the other screen

There is a comment on my last post on the blog, which seems to be spam. What's the procedure for that ? (@Rory)

this.josh

22:32

@ThomasPornin I did not know catiff. Does it exist in modern French?

Thomas Pornin

@thisjosh "caitiff" is actually en English word, derived from a Latin word which means "prisoner". This came to English through Normans, would spoke something which became (much later on) French.

Closest modern French word is "captif", which means captive

but the French word does not convey anything dishonourable

being captive just means having been somewhat unlucky on the battlefield

while "caitiff" implies cowardice or some similar level of villainy

I learned the word "caitiff" while playing Nethack

this.josh

Ok, the reference I consulted said it originated in "Norman French" but I didn't exactly know what that meant for modern usage.

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