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Comment on Rosetta stone by Frank

Frank — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:21:59 +0000

It tends to be advertised at US airports for some reason

Comment on getaddrinfo with round robin DNS and happy eyeballs by daniel

daniel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:03:10 +0000

Peter,

I believe you’re right that perhaps most simple or first-attempt programs will just try the first address and not do anything more.

I think I perhaps aimed a little higher and thought about “most decently done programs” like in those we use mostly as found in various distros and those that have been around and have been polished during a couple of years.

Comment on getaddrinfo with round robin DNS and happy eyeballs by Peter da Silva

Peter da Silva — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:52:31 +0000

I think it’s worse than you’re assuming.

I don’t think you can assume that “most applications” will cycle over the addresses returned by gethostbyname/getaddrinfo. Most traditional applications will try and connect to the first address returned, and if that fails they will fail. Many scripting APIs (either for applications written in scripting languages, or applications with embedded scripting languages) don’t even provide a way to retry alternate addresses. At one job I ended up writing a simple proxy to do retries behind the application’s back.

Comment on Top-3 curl changes in 2011 by daniel.haxx.se » Top-3 curl bugs in 2011

daniel.haxx.se » Top-3 curl bugs in 2011 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:51:17 +0000

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Comment on A special thank you from Google by daniel.haxx.se » What I got from Google

daniel.haxx.se » What I got from Google — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:31:36 +0000

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Comment on My five ADSL modems by Kjell Kernen

Kjell Kernen — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:24:51 +0000

I have the same carrier as you and have had pretty much the same experience. I had been using their services for years without problems and then I got the bad idea to switch over to phone over IP. This required them to switch modem to the first model above. That didn’t work. So they sent me a new one. That one didn’t work either. I was able to get the third one to work, but after a week I discovered that it has a firewall turned on that blocks all traffic to the standard webserver ports. That is NOT a standard option. I called customer service for perhaps the 10th time and they discovered that the modem was uncontrollable from their site and that someone must have changed admin passwords on it, since I could not open it locally either…
So they sent me a fourth one…
When it arrived I decided that life is to short to deal with crappy hardware without getting payed and that I do not want to run a web server at home anyways, so I sent it back.
My guess is that they never check any hardware they get in return or even try to fix it. As long as there seems to be any life left in it they just send it back out to whomever happen to need a modem.

By the way. My neighbour got in in the phone over IP thingy early. They replaced his modem five times before they got it to work and the thing has broken twice since. Thats seven modems in like four years….

Comment on A special thank you from Google by Daniel Stenberg – cURL, Rockbox och FOSS-Sthlm | FOSS-Magasin

Daniel Stenberg – cURL, Rockbox och FOSS-Sthlm | FOSS-Magasin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:50:30 +0000

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Comment on Ten years of Rockbox by Rene Peinthor

Rene Peinthor — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:57:34 +0000

Hi!

I just wanted to say happy birthday and thank you.
Rockbox changed a bit of my life, I was helping porting to the first Sansa players and furthermore ported a little game to Rockbox(Clix).
I had no glue about ARM assembler or any hardware knowledge on how those little bastards work and there are still a lot of thinks I don’t know about it.
But Rockbox made me realize that, if you put enough effort and will in something, you can do it!

Comment on A special thank you from Google by Ant Bryan

Ant Bryan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:12:22 +0000

well done & well deserved!

Comment on A special thank you from Google by José Antonio G. de O.

José Antonio G. de O. — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:44:51 +0000

For sure, you really deserve it !
Congrats !

How many Google tee shirts can you wear at a time ?