Alnitak

United Kingdom

Age: 44

Networking and standardisation specialist, currently focused on DNS and telecoms standards.

Author of RFC 5625, RFC 5966 and RFC 6915, and co-chair of the IETF HOMENET Working Group

Previously, Director of Network Operations at a successful business-focussed ISP in the UK.

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Android - what's the difference between the various methods to get a Context?

android android-context asked Jun 22 '09 at 12:38

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69 votes

Why are Perl 5's function prototypes bad?

perl function prototype asked Nov 17 '08 at 21:37

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16 votes

Android layout - alignment issue with ImageView

android layout asked Mar 17 '09 at 20:56

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15 votes

What's the best way to set a single pixel in an HTML5 canvas?

html5 canvas pixel asked Feb 4 '11 at 15:38

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13 votes

Virtualbox booting from a real drive?

windows-xp windows-7 virtualbox hard-drive asked May 1 '09 at 18:28

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11 votes

Receive “undefined symbol” error when loading libary with dlopen

shared-libraries dlopen asked Jan 26 '09 at 17:29

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11 votes

Library resolution with autoconf?

autoconf asked Feb 5 '09 at 19:40

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6 votes

How do I find the DNS servers in Android from a Java program?

java android dns asked Oct 30 '08 at 11:49

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6 votes

Frameworks for network protocol fuzzing?

networking network-protocols fuzzing asked Dec 8 '08 at 15:01

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5 votes

Detecting additions to a Javascript object's properties

javascript properties asked Mar 17 '11 at 13:19

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What is the purpose of NodeJS module.exports and how do you use it?

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238

What are the best practices to follow when declaring an array in Javascript?

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Java String.equals versus ==

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131

Makefile variable assignment

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How to determine if a port is open on a Windows server?

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Pass in an array of Deferreds to $.when()

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javascript - Array#map and parseInt

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Why does 10..toString() work, but 10.toString() does not?

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What does “var FOO = FOO || {}” mean in Javascript?

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DNS failing to propagate worldwide

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How can I pass a parameter to a Java Thread?

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How can I tell when a MySQL table was last updated?

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Get random item from array with jQuery

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SQL - find records from one table which don't exist in another

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.NET How to check if path is a file and not a directory?

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How to check if hex color is “too black”?

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Java: dividing 2 ints makes an int?

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How can I convert a string to a number in Perl?

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Is it possible to add an HTML link in the body of a MAILTO link

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How to load program reading stdin and taking parameters in gdb?

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DNS problem, nslookup works, ping doesn't

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What is the fastest way to get the 4 least significant bits in a byte (C++)?

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Can I use the /etc/hosts file to configure an alias

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How do I declare a debug only statement

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If Javascript has first-class functions, why doesn't this work?

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Is this a bug in PHP?

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Which method is preferred strstr or strpos?

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Types of URLs

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How to sort a date array in PHP

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How can I fill an NSArray dynamically?

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