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by EwanToo 14y ago
If it was a $50,000 car, I'd expect the police to put in a fair bit more effort to recovering it than a $50 kindle. When your cell phone gets stolen, the police are the right people to turn to, not your network provider.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There was a story on here the other day which basically revolved around people removing their credit card details immediately after purchasing domains, to prevent auto-renewals - they managed to mishandle removing their details, and deleted
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You could give these 2 config files a try sometime: https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-... https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-... Basically they make nginx cache itself, which combined w
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You could just pop Varnish cache in front of Wordpress to do the same thing - any unauthenticated GET's will just hit Varnish, and come nowhere near Wordpress itself. That way you wouldn't need to worry about software updates.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
If you just want to walk through a basic setup which will cope easily with HN and other front pages, just follow this post (disclosure, it's my blog!): http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with... It works, has been on
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by EwanToo 14y ago
He didn't have a cache in front of it - he had W3 total cache installed, but not enabled for object caching. If he'd had W3 total cache, or varnish (my preferred option) in front of it, he wouldn't of noticed the impact. There's a bigger qu
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I've had great results from domainmonster and gandi (both European based, but that shouldn't make a difference).
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The value in skype comes from: Directory services Calling out to external services, e.g. cell phones (The value for yesterday's users) Skype integration with devices like cell phones (the value for tomorrow's users) WebRTC doesn't really ge
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Personally I think it's an awful diagram, it'll either confuse or mislead the vast majority of people who see it. The "best" is a personal opinion, but I think the best diagrams are ones that make something that's hard to express in words e
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Yes, "hotting up" is correct English, "heating up"is not wrong though.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Site's down for me, Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The first 3 of your requirements would possibly be better served with just a good International calling package on your mobile. Lebara charge £39 a month for "unlimited" calls to 39 countries, including Ireland, and Australia, and cheap(ish
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's kind of sad to see the "What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project" and "I'm Sorry" stories just above this one, where Alan Cox essentially says his former colleagues have released an unusable distribution.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Unless the parent comment has been edited, I'm not sure what you think is libelous about it? It's certainly a questionable company, they either didn't bother to scan for open source software being rebundled, or deliberately chose not to sca
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Unlike say a photocopier and a pair of scissors, or cutting a pasting a screenshot of a scanned document? It's always been trivial to forge a signature to pass cursory examination, this is just another easy way.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Dedicated Intel Atom hardware is already competitive with VPS services, for example you can see the Kimsufi stuff from OVH https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml Hosted in the USA or France, prices from £8.99 a month ($12?) f
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The link works perfectly in firefox here, can see the screenshots, descriptions, etc?
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by EwanToo 14y ago
No one is using the like button? I assume you mean "No one is clicking the like button", but of course they are, and even when you don't click the like button Facebook still knows exactly which page you saw it on, and that gives them plenty
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I've been running Android since 2.3, I've not installed a malicious app yet (to my knowledge of course). If you want, you can install security tools which scan apps prior to being installed, like Lookout, which will alert you to various iss
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by EwanToo 14y ago
He mentions "adblock", if I google for "vlc" I get an advert for a adware version of VLC above the videolan.org ones.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Fantastic to see a project like this underway, I'm a happy lastpass user but an open source version is a great long term project.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Of course, the "swallow you" option is what lots of these types of start ups both expect, and want. "Hey we built this feature on your site, it's really cool. So, erm, want to buy us?"
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's much more fundamental, it's are you pro or anti- the web as it currently exists? It's that simple, without adverts the world wide web would be locked down into silo's that make the Facebook of today look like a charity. Want to read th
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by EwanToo 14y ago
They can't retroactively revoke the licence, but they can claim the ownership of the brand and the various systems like the bug tracking database, which appears to be what they're doing.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Exactly, I think you're 100% right. The real "war" is a price one. If Intel are willing to cannibalise their own per-CPU margins, they'll sell bucket loads of mobile chips. If they're not, then they won't - it's not much harder than that to
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by EwanToo 14y ago
How do you find Ubuntu on it? I bought by arm chromebook totally expecting to put ubuntu on it, but I've just never got round to it
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by EwanToo 14y ago
To me this reads like pretty standard fraud, along the lines of carousel fraud[1] which was very common a few years ago. If nobody is arrested or punished for it, then that's more like weak enforcement than clever use of the system. http:/
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I do a lot of ssh stuff from it, there's a pretty decent ssh client available and that helps a lot. When I first got it, the default ssh client was javascript based, but you could get the native code version by joining a specific Google gro
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's far from crap, it's my standard day to day laptop now, has been since November. I still have my lenovo laptop for when I need it, but that's pretty rare
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Google (and others like AWS) don't use RAID, that's absolutely right - but they also don't use arrays from the regular manufacturers like EMC, NetApp, etc. Whether they eventually get around to swapping out failed drives or not, I don't kno

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