alaaibrahim's comments

alaaibrahim | 9 years ago | on: Are Index Funds Eating the World?

no

-- Betteridge's law

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI

You mean criminals that get caught.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: Welcome to the CHIP Operating System

They are distros, they are usually referred to as distros (Although you can claim that they are Operating Systems). And they are definitely not new Operating Systems.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages

Thank you, learned something new today.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages

> configure multidomain ssls (which everytime they need to add a new domain, that means they have to reset the certificate for the other domains on the same ip),

Sorry should've called it SNI.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages

Yeah, and please send me a free flying car while you are at it.

Obviously everybody would like that, but it's not as easy as it seams. As github pages, technically are virtual domains, they share the same ip with many other pages, if you want to support https, you need to serve either each page on a different ip (not free), or they need a to configure multidomain ssls (which everytime they need to add a new domain, that means they have to reset the certificate for the other domains on the same ip), and I think there is a limit on the number of domains that can share the same ip - citation needed - . And all of this for free.

Want SSL on gh pages, setup a proxy infront of gh pages.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: How to Legally Own Another Person [pdf]

L1B would be a better example :-)

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: To Master Vim, Use It Like Language

> Vi(m) is a model, not an implementation.

I think you are talking about modal editing, vi is an application, vim is another application.

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: To Master Vim, Use It Like Language

Depends on your needs, Pathogen only manages your plugins, but Vundle, will checkout the plugin, install it, and you can update all your plugins from inside vim.

Edit: spelling

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers

You do understand that urandom does not block waiting for entropy, I think you are confusing /dev/random and /dev/urandom.

  $ man urandom

alaaibrahim | 10 years ago | on: The Fake Bomb Detectors in Iraq

I thought everybody knew that they don't work.

alaaibrahim | 11 years ago | on: Improve your touch typing

Thanks for this comment, as I'm learning to touch type, and for me every time I had to type the bottom row with my right hand it feels awkward. This will definitely change the way I learn :-)

alaaibrahim | 11 years ago | on: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

So the solution to this, if you want to abort an fsck, go back in time, and pass fsck.mode=skip to the kernel parameters.

alaaibrahim | 11 years ago | on: Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM

you understand that in order for this to be marketing it needs to be public information.

alaaibrahim | 11 years ago | on: What's the matter with PGP?

> Now let's ignore the fact that you've just leaked your key request to an untrusted server via HTTP. This is a public Key, so secrecy it's not needed here, also he is providing the Fingerprint on another location, so if there was a MITM attack, it should happen on both twitter (HTTPS) and pgp.mit.edu

alaaibrahim | 11 years ago | on: Mayhem – A hidden threat for *nix web servers

curl_exec and curl_multi_exec ???

alaaibrahim | 12 years ago | on: OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)

Depending on your needs, but you can check:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_Implementati...

alaaibrahim | 12 years ago | on: Is the Supreme Court about to rule software ineligible for patent protection?

Or software could be a process, which is eligible.

alaaibrahim | 12 years ago | on: Next Arab American on a stamp could be Steve Jobs

You know Europe is not a country, Although Americans seam to think Africa is :)

alaaibrahim | 12 years ago | on: Next Arab American on a stamp could be Steve Jobs

Actually Arabs were living in Syria in 9th century BC.