ErrantX

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811.
by ErrantX 15y ago
> tl;dr: Don't be a cunt. This is interesting. Because my initial though was; "who is this guy, and how the fuck do I go work for him?". I liked this; simple and clear rules that attempt to force "underlings" (who are obviously historic
812.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Even better example; Casino's - I know people barred in pretty much every UK Casino, because they share the info.
813.
by ErrantX 15y ago
On the one hand (a) is probably right. On the other hand it is a story of technical interest to those of use who are not part of the "angry mob". For me I have voted up some of the stories because they contrast interestingly - the way, for
814.
by ErrantX 15y ago
I presumed they can be :) so my systems needs a text like this: <machine nickname> <passcode> It is on my todo list to improve this at some point - but not had chance yet.
815.
by ErrantX 15y ago
A shared hosting account which has a free (5 credits a month) SMS gateway included - I think it is reselling txtlocal.co.uk (who look quite good, but I haven't gotten round to trying them out directly yet). It was kinda thrown together in a
816.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Servers are with Gandi - which has a hosting API. So... SMS gateway via some shared hosting I have had for ages. This calls a script which figures out which server I mean and uses the API to shut it down. I did used to use Twilio until they
817.
by ErrantX 15y ago
My custom monitoring program (probably not as advanced, it only does some light monitoring) accepts a text message back to shutdown the machine. Not perfect but can work well as a line of defence.
818.
by ErrantX 15y ago
I think a lot of the commentators are saying (and this my view too) that the concept is brilliant - but the execution was terrible and the valuation way too overblown. After all the fanfare... nothing seems to have come of them, at least no
819.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Interestingly... no. The heat tiles are an incredibly cool* bit of engineering that retain heat like mad. To the extent that you can technically pick up a panel that is super-hot inside and it will take a reasonable lenght of time to actual
820.
by ErrantX 15y ago
The crew are doing final checks and making it "safe" - and the ground grew do remote external checks for leaks etc. (there are a few toxic bits and pieces they don't want to walk into if they are leaking :)).
821.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Welcome to my job..... and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Mork is one of many painful "things" that no one seems to be able to produce a decent forensic tool for :S
822.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Things like Chrome and Dropbox have made this less of a chore. Speaking only for myself... I have a gold disk plus a little script that syncs scripts and configs to backups. And I use Chrome logged into my Google account. I do see your poin
823.
by ErrantX 15y ago
The better solution here is to have a couple of "gold disks" of a default developer machine; with all the required programs etc. That way if you go down you can just swap the drive out and be on your way again. This is what we do (and we ha
824.
by ErrantX 15y ago
I didn't read the questions - just picked the blindingly obvious answers. And I never read the policy, just clicked the buttons to see what was at the end. As I am sure most did.
825.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Absolute useless gimmick. I clicked without reading and still got 5 out of 5 on the "test". When they make that test actually difficult to answer , then it will be a good privacy policy.
826.
by ErrantX 15y ago
> If I were a pilot, the last opinion I'd care about would be the eccentric billionaire CEO One news stories I read said he became involved at the request of the pilot's union - so I guess they do care about it :)
827.
by ErrantX 15y ago
The French government has been going this way for a while now.. they also tend play heavily on the "think of the children" emotion which annoys me.
828.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Don't quote me on this; but someone [a professional contact] better placed to speculate on the details than the media (or dare I say; more likely to know the truth) just told me this is not related to LulzSec but an older investigation. Thi
829.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Knowing a little of the internals of ONS... It may take them a while to figure out what a "computer" is and how it might be "hacked". You could be waiting some time :) ahem.
830.
by ErrantX 15y ago
True, but you at least get a head start on changing passwords/emails on other websites to limit the damage.
831.
by ErrantX 15y ago
The biggest editing bots tend to do template maintenance (so correcting formatting issues and adding dates to templates). Bots simply do tedious work (that would have to be done anyway) faster - so hence a big edit count. My bot (which noti
832.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Honestly I am surprised it is only "three quarters"; I'd be unsurprised if it were close to 100%
833.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Ugh. No. That looks like a decent tablet interface, and a good interface for the vast majority of users who will be using the core apps and little else.. But for me it's a bit useless - file browsing looked difficult. - App switching looked
834.
by ErrantX 15y ago
I think his point was that he, personally, would have liked to play it :)
835.
by ErrantX 15y ago
This is how the submission should have started. :) Thanks, it now makes for a lot easier reading.
836.
by ErrantX 15y ago
That's a brilliant landing page; demonstrating the tool in-page is all the description anyone needs :)
837.
by ErrantX 15y ago
Just on the design of the page for the moment - I'd consider having a simpler "demo image" at the top of the page. I was distracted into reading the text and wondering what QuietWrite was :)
838.
by ErrantX 15y ago
That can only happen if the British authorities approve, though. So if the US wanted him there is, legally, no practical difference trying to extradite him from the UK or Sweden. So it seems unlikely. I think the rumour started as part of t
839.
by ErrantX 15y ago
It was a copy/paste error to include the reference to Conway; from what I have read about him I very much doubt he expects instant, the next second, replies. Just reasonably prompt replies. Which is not really what that point was saying. I
840.
by ErrantX 15y ago
God, I tell you what. That sodding Swedish affair caused more trouble on Wikipedia than the whole of Wikileaks so far (i.e. people desperate to gleefully discredit the guy at any cost). Painful to the extreme. Now, I am not his greatest fan

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