Alnitak

United Kingdom

Age: 43

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

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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43 votes

Why are Perl 5's function prototypes bad?

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

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13 votes

Virtualbox booting from a real drive?

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

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12 votes

Code golf - hex to (raw) binary conversion

binary hex code-golf asked Apr 27 '09 at 19:53

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9 votes

Library resolution with autoconf?

autoconf asked Feb 5 '09 at 19:40

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9 votes

Android layout - alignment issue with ImageView

android layout asked Mar 17 '09 at 20:56

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5 votes

Frameworks for network protocol fuzzing?

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

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5 votes

Receive “undefined symbol” error when loading libary with dlopen

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

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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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5 votes

Javascript - poor performance in V8 of functions added to String.prototype?

javascript performance google-chrome v8 asked Dec 6 '11 at 11:37

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DNS failing to propagate worldwide

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Makefile variable assignment

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Java String.equals versus ==

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

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javascript - Array.map and parseInt

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

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

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

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Java: dividing 2 ints makes an int?

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

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

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Do you use 'this' in front of instance variables?

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

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How do I declare a debug only statement

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Reasons to not allow people into the server room

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Why change default ssh port?

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Does Active Directory support DNS names with spaces?

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Prime factor of 300 000 000 000?

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Why do I have to use free on a pointer but not a normal declaration?

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Does HTTP use UDP

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DNS problem, nslookup works, ping doesn't

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How can I fill an NSArray dynamically?

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Is there any advantage to using pow(x,2) instead of x*x, with x double?

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Is there any way to specify a suggested filename when using data: URI?

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