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by afreak 14y ago
Reminds me of a fellow who got OS X to boot on an 680x0-based Mac: http://blog.makezine.com/2006/10/10/mac-os-x-panther-on-a-25...
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My (small) experience using Retr0bright(afreak.ca)
1 points by afreak 14y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 14y ago
Disclosure: I work for an AV vendor. Mine was one of them listed that does scan within RAR files regardless of a hidden attribute. One of the things about scanning within archive files is that it's quite IO intensive and by default isn't en
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by afreak 14y ago
>When $50K of BitCoins is stolen today, and is $500K of BitCoin five years from now, every last cent of that filthy lucre can be monitored with acute cryptographic precision until the end of time. Unless I am mistaken we can also see Bi
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by afreak 14y ago
There is a certain point where density begins to become a hindrance and can as a result create communities that are just as 'dead' as some suburban ones. For example, here in Vancouver we have more condos per capita than anywhere else in No
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by afreak 14y ago
The case can be made that Google does not have an effective monopoly on web video actually.
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by afreak 14y ago
The gateways provided by the cable ISPs here in Western Canada tend to have unique passwords. It would be prudent on the part of the device manufacturer to just create a scheme for creating default passwords based on the unique serial that
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by afreak 14y ago
That would make the devices more costly to produce and would raise prices. I know that ISPs do this with their devices sometimes, but some companies will cheap out and will just ship with a generic username and password since they only have
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by afreak 14y ago
I posted this in that Reddit thread, but I will post it here too: Hootsuite has a level of arrogance like no other. I've called them out on this several times: hxxp://ow.ly/jN4M1 vs. hxxp://ht.ly/jN4M1 (Just replace "hxxp" with "http") If y
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by afreak 14y ago
It's really sad to see him go. There are very few movie critics out there left who have an objective point of view rather than those who are just doing it because the seat needed to be filled and luxurious tickets were passed to the publish
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by afreak 14y ago
In the case of Venus, the Soviets had sent several probes (Venera) from the 60s into the mid-80s. When the first probes were sent to land on the surface, it was discovered that the atmospheric pressure induced (about 100x the pressure here
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by afreak 14y ago
The amount of energy you'd have to expend to fix Venus would be far more costly than trying to keep Mars warm by using baseboard heaters on every square metre. One of the largest issues facing Venus is that it is effectively a dead planet.
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by afreak 14y ago
No. Simply put: the core is likely solidified just like Mars and its magnetic field is very weak, causing the weather to be influenced by only its rotation and solar winds. It would be far more difficult to terraform than Mars really. Also
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by afreak 14y ago
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0 A good look at previous thefts. The last page contains links to the current Instawallet issue.
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by afreak 14y ago
It's been long enough for me to state, but I used to work for a contractor hired by CMA Communications. ISPs of this size try and maximise as much profit out of their customers and being that a lot of CMA's sites were over provisioned and a
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by afreak 14y ago
Point two isn't an issue in Commonwealth countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_of_right It would fall under the definition of "means an honest belief that an act is justifiable". If the photo of the girl getting raped in a park w
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by afreak 14y ago
If I had to guess, it might be related to this: http://www.cloudlinux.com/blog/clnews/sshd-exploit.php The details on that page are weak and there are all sorts of problems with the content in general (namely asking users to run a script
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by afreak 14y ago
I think that you can say this about Apple too. Here's my rewrite of your statement: "The problem isn't just the relationship that Apple has with OSS, but with developers in general. As developer in their "ecosystem" for years, I've come to
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by afreak 14y ago
Facebook's API is definitely something that I have played with as of late. It is being incorporated into a somewhat related project I have in the works so I might have something to say more about it once I have worked with it a bit more. Re
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Data-mining Twitter for personal information(afreak.ca)
55 points by afreak 14y ago|10 comments
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by afreak 14y ago
An oddity in all of this is that Wal-Mart has been removing the self-checkouts from here in Canada. The comment I got from a family member who is a contractor for them is that they removed them due to the fact that there was an increase in
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Sharing that Facebook page can be a bad idea(afreak.ca)
1 points by afreak 14y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 14y ago
Isn't Spotify losing money hand over fist so as a result this is just going to dig a deeper hole since they're taking on the juggernaut that is Netflix?
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by afreak 14y ago
And here I was thinking it was about the collapse of the Internet should another World War were to break out... Isn't the take away from the Google Reader et al issues is that we shouldn't leave our eggs in a single basket? And that we're b
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by afreak 14y ago
Since when does everyone have the right to being offended? To put this into context, Adria is most certainly allowed to be bothered the comments made during this conversation. However, there has to be a distinction between whether or not th
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by afreak 14y ago
The whole malarkey with TEDx I have found is that organisers in their respective cities are vetting the topics and attendees while at the same time are coming from backgrounds that make me question their ability to make decisions. Case in p
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by afreak 14y ago
I've suffered with chronic pain since my car accident a few years ago. It amazes me how I have gone from wanting to pop pills to deal with the damage done to my back to just saying "fuck it" and letting the pain exist while I move around. P
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by afreak 14y ago
There's that and then there's this: http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=148 The SCART method is fairly straight forward, but getting at it on other non-SCART capable consoles is something else so hence "RGB lines". :)
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by afreak 14y ago
The big difference between the graphics card modification and the modification of those modems is that unlike the Internet connection, you're stealing from nobody when you modify the card. If you're going to spend the effort to modify the c
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by afreak 14y ago
Enterprise-class SSDs are grotesquely expensive at the moment. A quick gander around shows that a 200 GB SSD from HP runs you about $1,400. Since Linode needs ample space, the largest I found was 800 GB which runs you almost $7,500. When yo

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