mattkirman's comments

mattkirman | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: SSL certificate dashboard

How do you know if your backups are good? Better to test a restore when everything is still working fine rather than waiting until you really need it and then finding out that your backups are broken.

mattkirman | 11 years ago | on: Warning: Wi-Fi Blocking Is Prohibited

My interpretation of this was that it was more of a reminder to hotels and convention centres that they're not exempt from the existing regulation. If they're found to be in breach of existing regulations then they will be fined.

mattkirman | 11 years ago | on: Samsung Unveils SSD Delivering Speeds of Over 2 GB/s

I have a 1TB SSD in my late 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina and System Information is reporting that it has a 4x link. Even with the additional overhead of having FileVault enabled I still see read/write performance in the region of 1000-1100 MB/s.

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: Ospari: PHP based Blogging software that can use Ghost themes

The Ghost Foundation is a UK organisation and I can assure you that USD is not the default currency here. If they're willing to make the effort to accept USD, I'm sure there are plenty of bloggers able to make the effort to pay using it.

Regardless, USD is the de facto standard for SAAS payments (whether this is good or bad is a discussion for another time). If you can't pay in USD then you'll find a substantial proportion of services unavailable to you.

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: Ospari: PHP based Blogging software that can use Ghost themes

Ghost and WordPress offer hosted blogs as well as source code. It's no longer necessary to worry about servers or FTP details just to get up and running. Creating a blog is now as easy as filling out a form on a website and clicking submit.

Your only other USP appears to be the ability to parse themes designed for a different engine. Is this going to be enough to distinguish Ospari from your competitors? Is it feasible for someone to write a WordPress plugin that achieves the same thing?

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: GitHub Security Bug Bounty

If you're referring to the browser screenshot I think it's Opera (which is now based on Chromium) rather than Firefox. That will at least explain some of the similarities.

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: How Obama's BlackBerry got secured

In this Foreign Office memo [1] from April 2006 "Firecrest is the FCO's IT infrastructure; it sits on the desks of our staff around the world. Firecrest is a globally-networked desktop system that provides users with a standard suite of Microsoft office products including Outlook email, web browsing, Access databases and Excel spreadsheets. Firecrest was developed in 1997 and in 2003 the FCO completed the roll out of the current generation of the system."

Whilst the timing is slightly out (Vista wasn't released to the public until 2007?) it may be possible that Microsoft provided them with a version forked from a much earlier build.

However, the memo does go on to say that the Government were planning a third generation of Firecrest due to be rolled out autumn 2006 with support from HP. This might be the version that is forked from Vista?

[1] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/c...

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: From hack day to Minority Report style browsing in two weeks [video]

A quick heads up, but at present your application is in violation of the SDK terms and conditions.

2.2.5. Unless otherwise provided in an agreement between you and Leap Motion, you may not use "Leap Motion", "Leap", "Airspace" or any other trademark of Leap Motion in connection with your Application or company, or in any URL, product, service, name field or logos created by you. However, you may indicate that your Application is "for Leap Motion" or "Leap Motion-enabled".

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why

The number of directly connecting users from Russia does appear to have doubled [1], but this can also be seen in UK user numbers [2]. For such an increase to be seen globally my hunch is that this is down to either the Pirate Browser [3] or some other software release - not necessarily a response to a particular law being passed, NSA leak etc.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-0...

[2] https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-0...

[3] http://piratebrowser.com/

mattkirman | 12 years ago | on: New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

Not had much luck with the two plugins I've tried to install so far:

1. The Nginx plugin has a broken init.d script. Not the end of the world, but hardly a plug and play solution.

2. The Varnish plugin download is behind a self-signed SSL certificate (which is for a different domain no less). Furthermore the Gems it requires are loaded from a GitHub repository that is no longer available to the public. There simply doesn't seem to be a way to get this plugin installed.

The install process and software requirements for the plugins also appear to be wildly different. It would be incredible if New Relic provided the ability to install plugins over the command line from a central repository - something as basic as `newrelic install $plugin_name` would be ideal.

I really hope that these issues are worked out as I think this platform has real potential. It's just unfortunate that the quality of the plugins appears to be far from production ready.

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