Obscure's comments

Obscure | 2 years ago | on: Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers

If anyone would like to make up their own minds about this, it's available on archive.org. I still remember watching it first time round and it was definitely a formative experience for me. I had no idea it was being shown to kids - it was broadcast after the 9pm watershed (when the little dears should have been in bed).

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

Obscure | 9 years ago | on: The Plan to Save a Life by Head Transplant

Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith?

Obscure | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Bear CMS – A new, much better way to build websites

Am I reading the pricing page right? To get the highest discount and save around a dollar a month I have to pre-pay for more than 48 years?!

2200/(3.75*12) = 48.888

https://bearcms.com/help/pricing/

Obscure | 12 years ago | on: OpenSSL 1.0.1 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information

Great, thank you. Just realised the repo is linked from the page too (I didn't stay long enough to spot it last time).

Obscure | 12 years ago | on: OpenSSL 1.0.1 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information

Thanks, but I have already installed an updated package [0] that is supposed to fix it but doesn't bump the version number, so I'd like a direct check, just to quell my internal raving paranoid :)

[0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-April...

Obscure | 12 years ago | on: OpenSSL 1.0.1 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information

I have to say I'm wary of using this for any servers I control; what if they turn out to be vulnerable and this page is just collecting a list of machines to examine in detail later?

Has anyone found an offline tool for checking this?

Obscure | 12 years ago | on: PostgreSQL Exercises

http://pgexercises.com/questions/basic/where3.html

The query I used was "select * from cd.facilities where name ~ 'Tennis';" which got me the tick, but the page didn't detect that I hadn't used LIKE and the feedback was therefore wrong. You might want to think a little more about different solutions to the exercises.

Other than that it's slick and impressive so far, thanks. I shall be sending the URL onwards.

Obscure | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a dual pane version of HN?

You might want to give this one a try:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fox-splitter-...

Obscure | 15 years ago | on: Start-ups? We need more finish-ups

Only if 60% of the impossible doesn't equal 80% of the ordinary.

Obscure | 15 years ago | on: The Google Webmaster Quiz

What a pointless exercise - fill in the form and it doesn't even tell you how you did. All I got was "Thanks! Your response has been recorded.". I was hoping for an explanation of the bits where my understanding was flawed.