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by alyandon 10y ago
I have very complex password generation requirements for some of the services I need to access and KeePassX does not: 1) have nearly the same level of support for defining complex password generation rules 2) have support for savi
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by alyandon 10y ago
I'd probably switch to KeePassX instead of running KeePass in wine if the password generator were as flexible.
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by alyandon 10y ago
People would probably be more excited about updates if they actually received more than one or two minor updates from their OEMs and carriers over the lifetime of their device. I'm very happy now that I've switched to a Nexus devi
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by alyandon 11y ago
If you've recently upgraded to VirtualBox 5.0.18 you might try downgrading to 5.0.16 as I had a similar issue earlier this week.
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by alyandon 11y ago
It's really annoying to get caught in a blog.domain.com subdomain without any obvious links back to the main domain.
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by alyandon 11y ago
Is there really any need to generate non-alphanumeric passwords as long as they are of sufficient length? Sticking with plain old A-Za-z0-9 seems like it avoids a lot of interop issues.
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by alyandon 11y ago
Yes, that does seem like a pretty straightforward hardware configuration and I've certainly felt similar pains in the past. For a period of several months Windows 8/8.1 on my laptop refused to download and install updates due to
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by alyandon 11y ago
I just find it interesting that over a wide range of random hardware that Windows 10 appears to have not been a problematic upgrade for me and this is speaking as a power user that has oddball software/hardware configurations. Also, my
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by alyandon 11y ago
That's a really unfortunate experience upgrade experience. My experiences after upgrading multiple machines has been flawless so far - even on an old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop.
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by alyandon 11y ago
Yep, that change broke CrashPlan's JNI module that handles inotify on Linux because they were checking only the minor version number. I had to write a shared library to override the call and inject that into the CrashPlan process so it
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by alyandon 11y ago
True, I already pay a higher premium due to living in a large city. However, my point is I believe insurance companies will intentional use the data they gather about one's moment to moment driving habits in order to justify premium i
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by alyandon 11y ago
Yeah, I won't be signing up for something like this precisely because this is nothing more than a gimmick that insurance companies will use to maximize their profits. How does the insurance company know you are hard braking because you
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by alyandon 11y ago
Unfortunately, all this story does is confirm what I already knew about Lexmark. I've refused to purchase Lexmark gear after they started using the DMCA to try and prevent third parties from manufacturing compatible toner and ink cartr
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by alyandon 11y ago
I wonder if that will prevent McAfee (and other AV) from injecting their monitoring dlls into the browser process as well.
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by alyandon 11y ago
I'd be more likely to pay in exchange for no ads whatsoever than to pay money and continue to be exposed to essentially an unaccountable 3rd party (the ad network) when it comes to security issues like being served malware when that 3r
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by alyandon 11y ago
Yes, I know that Flash can be manually kept up to date. However, it's nice to have Google taking care of that issue via updates to Chrome. Regardless, for me it's more about risk management. What's the more likely scenario?
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by alyandon 11y ago
Chrome won't be getting updates and I'm assuming that means no security updates for the version of flash bundled with Chrome.
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by alyandon 11y ago
No, not within the past 6 months. Has there been an improvement in that area for the OS X port?
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by alyandon 11y ago
If it were just the web browser I would have probably moved him to some incarnation of Ubuntu. Unfortunately, when it comes to applications like Photo Booth that are easily approachable by a 6 year old the situation becomes more complicate
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by alyandon 11y ago
He is on a non-admin account and can only visit a few white listed sites that I've pre-screened. The chances of him getting hacked are basically zero and I don't have the money to replace a perfectly functional computer with a ne
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by alyandon 11y ago
Don't get me wrong. I don't dislike Firefox but my experiences with Firefox on OS X has been less than stellar compared to Chrome. Also, being an educational model iMac with an old C2D, Chrome runs noticeably faster than Firefox
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by alyandon 11y ago
Looks like I'll be moving my 6 year old son to Firefox on his perfectly functional educational model iMac which is stuck on 10.7. Shame, that.
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by alyandon 11y ago
So my question is - how much extra power does the IBM Power8 cpu need in order to get performance that is on par with Intel's Haswell?
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by alyandon 11y ago
In case anyone is really interested in seeing some actual numbers. On my system, using the default system Monospace 11 font: ls -lR / in urxvt terminal window - 16 s vs ls -lR / in gnome-terminal window - 3m17s ls was run several
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by alyandon 11y ago
This type of wholesale spying on law abiding citizens goes back 15+ years. I blame Obama, Bush, Congress, et al for not showing a backbone and ending these programs. Edit: I'm in an exceedingly grumpy mood today. :-/
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by alyandon 11y ago
Cry me a river. The widespread adoption of encryption wouldn't have been such a pressing issue if spy agencies like the NSA hadn't been abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance on law abiding citizens.
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by alyandon 11y ago
This is a pretty sad state of affairs with the modern web. I have an old Linux box running with 4GB of ram under my desk right now and it is borderline unusable for surfing the web with Chrome if I have any other applications open in the ba
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by alyandon 11y ago
I really love how my employer gets to define the options I have for investing the money in my 401k. I'm basically forced into investing my money in the volatile equities market if I want to have any hope of living comfortably in retir
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by alyandon 11y ago
Democrats and Republicans both know that reducing benefits to the largest segment of society that actually goes out and votes would be political suicide. It'll simply never happen. Instead, I fully expect both parties will keep doing
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by alyandon 11y ago
Glad to see that Paypal hasn't changed their ways in the past 6 years. From another thread: I once made a major purchase off eBay and received merchandise that was substantially different than what I ordered. It took 4 months, many exc

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