ThatGeoGuy

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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
I hate to be that guy who plugs his own crap everywhere, but I actually wrote my own blog post recently about backing up my stuff on Linux. My setup is fairly rudimentary, and I had the help of a friend on IRC, but here's the link if a
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
> The hard drive can be extracted and read apart from the machine. Same for your phone/SD cards/external disks, etc. Perhaps, but in this case we can assume encryption works. They can't expect you to unencrypt the drive if
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
There is an interesting comment in the original article, that I wasn't sure about, and figured I'd bring up here: "There was always a question that bogged me. Imagine you are called aside to do a routine border check in airpo
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
This is likely due to the CRTC releasing a new wireless code back in June, where they specified that "[c]arriers must offer consumers the ability to unlock unsubsidized devices (ie. devices purchased at full price) at any time." [
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
Mostly just that Disconnect is open-source, and isn't backed by a media & analytics company (Evidon Inc.). Some find it to be more transparent, and in many ways it is, but really you won't see much of a difference between the
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
>Your TOS says nothing about your shutting down because the government asked you to do something you didn't agree with. Technically, you can't say that this happened, because they can't confirm that they shut down for this
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
Oh please that's complete garbage. The code for SELinux that's in both GNU/Linux distributions and Android are all open source, and anybody can go and review the code or change it. The existence of Linux on the desktop doesn&
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
If I recall correctly, the book does mention that it was designed with students at MIT in mind. I also recall that the students finish a couple calculus courses before taking the SICP course, so the math contained therein isn't exactly
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
One thing the article mentions is to alias rm, but they never mention just performing a chmod to change the user/group permissions on the actual command itself. I can't see why it's impossible to change the permissions on the
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
I don't know of any personally, but I'm going to say probably not. If you're looking for dual band / GLONASS + Beidou support high grade receiver, you're typically looking into the $1000-$10,000 area. The best I&#x2
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
On the topic of not being aware of the "spoofability" of GPS, it is interesting to note that many of the older Inertial Navigation Systems (GPS + IMU) use GPS to check against the accelerometers and gyroscopes in the IMU. Effectiv
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by ThatGeoGuy 13y ago
As somebody who's primary field of study is GPS / Navigation / Positioning, I'd like to remark that survey grade receivers such as in the eLoran stations can cost much, much more than £2,000. Their price isn't so mu