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El servicio de almacenamiento en la nube de Mega ofrece hasta 50 GB de espacio gratuito (10 GB de transferencia al mes), cifrado, multiplataforma, con sincronizado selectivo y está disponible desde el navegador. Con 50 GB da para guardar algunas copias de seguridad de nuestros archivos, correos o bases de datos. A continuación, veremos cómo instalar el cliente y acceder desde el terminal de nuestro servidor. Instalación en el escritorio Aunque vayamos a instalarlo en el servidor, no he querido dejar de comentar la instalación de escritorio, que es realmente sencilla. Instalamos la librería libcrypto++9 desde los repositorios y, a continuación, descargamos el paquete, en este caso para Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 32 bits, y lo instalamos: ...

The program Bentley asked Knuth to write is one that’s become familiar to people who use languages with serious text-handling capabilities: Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies. » Dr. Drang | leancrew.com

The Old Testament is full of examples of chiasmus, which is a figure of speech used in ancient times to emphasize balance. It lists a bunch of ideas or things and then repeats each of them in reverse order. It’s often not an identical repetition. It frequently uses the opposite of what came before or something similar to it. » Robert Lockard | dejareviewer.com

There was a time not so long ago when Minecraft was actually a game. Now, it’s an insane sandbox where people build all kinds of incredibly complex things… like a word processor… out of blocks. This crazy contraption is the work of a a third-year robotics student who goes by the name of Koala_Steamed on YouTube. It’s the result of nearly two years of painstaking work inside the Minecraft world. That’s not continuous, mind you. Breaks were obviously taken to do things like attend classes, use the washroom, and interact with people and things that had curves. ...

The dynamic creation and destruction of objects was always one of the bugbears of C. It required the programmer to (manually) control the allocation of memory for the object, handle the object’s initialisation then ensure that the object was safely cleaned-up after use and its memory returned to the heap. Because many C programmers weren’t educated in the potential problems (or were just plain lazy or delinquent in their programming) C got a reputation in some quarters for being an unsafe, memory-leaking language. ...

Using HSTS to track your browsing habits evades the features of web browsers designed to control more normal ”cookie” based tracking mechanisms. Using ”incognito” or ”private” modes means that existing cookies won’t be shared with sites you visit. Browsers also let you entirely delete cookies that could be used to track you. Because HSTS is a security feature and isn’t intended to be used for tracking, web browsers treat it differently from cookies. It is only by intentional misapplication that HSTS can be exploited to track users. ...

HipHop Virtual Machine, or HHVM, reduces the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds, and the mean page-saving time from about 6 to 3 seconds. Below, I’ll explain the technical background for HHVM on MediaWiki and some of the far-reaching benefits of this change that will go beyond the recent performance gains. » Ori Livneh | blog.wikimedia.org

Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today. Scientists have designed a computer program, named Cepheus, with a strategy for the game that is so close to perfect that statistical analysis shows it can’t be defeated by a human poker player, even if that player competed against the computer for an entire lifetime. This means that no matter how the game starts out, the computer will win or break even in the long run — making it essentially unbeatable. » Cepheus ...

The background is set, you know why I took interest now it’s time to tell what solidified the decision. Each change made to the OpenBSD codebase undergoes a code review before it’s committed to the tree. If you managed to get that far in this article you perfectly know why I deem that of upmost importance. No matter how many features your software has, if your documentation is sub-par then your software is most likely useless. The quality of OpenBSD documentation is on a level I didn’t expect even after reading about it in so many places. Not only will you get information on how something works, what’s possible and how to use it. It will also tell you the best practices for using the tool and warn you about the common pitfalls. ...

Reading the documents, I have the feeling that the NSA can 1) decrypt weak crypto and 2) steal keys. Let’s focus on the crypto first. SSH supports different key exchange algorithms, ciphers and message authentication codes. The server and the client choose a set of algorithms supported by both, then proceed with the key exchange. Some of the supported algorithms are not so great and should be disabled completely. If you leave them enabled but prefer secure algorithms, then a man in the middle might downgrade you to bad ones. This hurts interoperability but everyone uses OpenSSH anyway. ...