SageRaven

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by SageRaven 14y ago
Rain-X/Fox-X hardly eliminates the need to wipe windshields or clean bathroom mirrors, so my guess is that while it will reduce time between cleanings, it won't rid the need altogether.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
My preferred method of setting up many apps on a new PC is using ninite.com's installer, which includes Java as an option. Does anyone know if this path to installing Java bypasses the cruft the article speaks of?
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by SageRaven 14y ago
For the first time in my 40-something years on this planet, I utilized passenger rail in the US. I recently took a vacation on a leg of the California Zephyr Amtrak route (which goes from Chicago to San Francisco). During a wait one of th
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by SageRaven 14y ago
We're close. Online cam performers are taking bitcoins for sessions/requests. There's at least one subreddit for this, though I can't recall the name, having stumbled across it with the /r/random page. It wouldn't surprise me if bitcoins
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Giving your anger a focal point can be productive, as it may inspire you to promote change. Since IP lawsuits entered my field of awareness, starting with the Napster Trial, I've always wanted to set up a web site called "idancedonyourgrave
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by SageRaven 14y ago
From these past couple of weeks, I have picked up on the basics of the PACER incident. Is the archive out there anywhere to be found? Maybe at Wikileaks or an onion address? How about the mass of data Aaron got from JSTOR? Surely someone
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I certainly didn't have a prescription. As best as I can tell, the linked article above states the FDA wants manufacturers to voluntarily label their products as prescription-only, which will presumably reduce indiscriminate selling and us
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Why would I want to do that? No need to get a vet involved when you know what you're doing. It's not like I used it as a feed additive for growth stimulation (which is a horrible practice, in my opinion).
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Tell that to my local feed store. I picked up package of Terramycin (Oxytetracycline) powder at one a few months ago.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
From TFA: "The DMCA only permits you to unlock your phone yourself once you've asked your carrier first." This struck me as odd. Not having read it myself, I didn't realize the DMCA was that particular. So, is this "illegal" in the sense t
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I think that "pace" is something very much disrupted with various doodads vying for one's attention. I spent several years with my family in a rather primitive house. We tried to minimize use of power when possible to save money and not be
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by SageRaven 14y ago
And that document was written in 1997. Think of all the post 9/11 crap that's in place now. I'd love to see a more recent account of "the system" from a convicted hacker.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I think Hushmail made the same claims, until compelled by law enforcement to send altered client software to the machines of suspects. Not sure how these other companies operate, but unless the user hand-encrypts files with openssl, gpg, pg
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Very admirable, and I envy you. Any public online account of your journey?
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I've always dreamed of taking a year or more to walk the back-roads of the US and visit all 48 contiguous states on foot. The technical challenge of plotting a route to traverse each state exactly once is appealing in its own right.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
As an experiment, I bought a Max Burton Delux 6200 1800-watt portable model (110V) about 3 years ago (from amazon, around $80 at the time). I love it. It boils water in my kettle much faster than our 220V electric-coil stove burner, and e
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by SageRaven 14y ago
These are pretty nice, given the price. They conduct heat fairly well and are fit for induction cook-tops (which are awesome).
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I was greatly peeved at how many times Jackson expanded a 1- or 2-sentence mention in the book into major scenes. See Radagast and the stone giants for prime examples. I think a PJ-style movie adaptation of The Hobbit would have fared well
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by SageRaven 14y ago
What features are open source ZFS implementations (ZFS v28) lacking to that on Solaris aside from encryption? I run a 6-drive raidz2 array on my FreeBSD workstation, and I put it through its paces, and it's pretty awesome. Rock solid stab
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I'm surprised at the footprint of evilwm (217MB/62MB), as shown in the htop window here: http://awesome.naquadah.org/w/images/6screenshot.jpg I had always assumed it was pretty lean. I use evilwm, and on my system it weighs in at 32MB/2.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Oh, I know. However, it seems that whenever one of these super-cheap technologies from abroad are announced, many folks from the US wonder if it would be available/legal here.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
It's funny, this brings IMDB almost full-circle to its origins. Back in the early 90s it was first this huge text file distributed via usenet and ftp. I remember contributing a few points of a trivia about T2: Judgement Day , one being
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Concerning 2/2a: Many places in the US enforce a minimum square footage for real/permanent homes, some places 1500-ft^2 for new construction (appalling, I know). I imagine this might be useful/legal for people wanting to drop a temp shelt
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Sure, the key files won't be on the computer, but the decryption key must necessarily be resident in RAM or otherwise accessible by the CPU (in a register, such as with TRESOR mentioned elsewhere) to encrypt/decrypt disk blocks of a runn
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by SageRaven 14y ago
A decade ago, I was eyeing up the "Lectra" (electric motorcycle) for work commuting. With the price of solar panels having halved their per-watt price in the same intervening decade, such a vehicle might make sense today. Are there any cur
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by SageRaven 14y ago
The main difference being that the modification was code sent to, and then executed by, the end-user's browser in the form of a Java applet. I personally believe that Lavabit (a tiny company composed of a few dedicated folks) would rather s
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Supposedly lavabit.com is (from the admin perspective) about as close to zero knowledge as it gets. Logs are kept for a minimum to diagnose abuse/performance issues, and crypto keys are strictly between the user and server. As I understan
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by SageRaven 14y ago
That's good to hear. It cancels some of my ill-will toward the company due to the ZFS lawsuit.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I heard during some NetApp training I took (not certain how authoritative my instructor was)that Data OnTap was a customized version of FreeBSD 4.x, which has long since been EOL. While I believe NetApp did contribute back some things to t
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I use a password manager, and I have a unique password per site. I generally try to use an MD5 hash resulting from a "ps waux | md5" at the time of registration. I've encountered sites that rejected this due to lack of upper characters (o

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