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by ax0n 17y ago
Really? The menu bar at the top is basically the same, albeit squishier than before. They added a dock, and a ton of chrome. I'm not seeing how anything was "a step back" by any means. The only irk I really have is lack of keyboard navigati
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by ax0n 17y ago
Well, at least there are some helpful tips in there. It sounds like his "secret" questions came with predictable answers.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I found my wife on a local dial-up Bulletin Board System and she's a fully certified geek. She does WOW raids two nights per week, she digs Fringe, sci-fi and fantasy fiction. She dual boots Ubuntu and Windows 7, and when I was stranded wit
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Paper-based data breaches on the rise(voices.washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ax0n 17y ago|2 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
And here it is. I have a specific account for only my GVoice. It would, rest assured, be tied to that one. Not much else happens on that account.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I love Google. I use Google. And I would have said the exact same thing two years ago. At least Schmidt came out and eventually said what pretty much every company that has shareholders stands for. Ergo, this is not a tired reference to any
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by ax0n 17y ago
Would you sell your privacy for a bargain on a phone? I think I might be tempted to. Sheesh.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I agree we need easier-to-use documentation on this stuff, but have you considered documenting what you've done yourself? I started keeping a notebook of helpful tricks back in the 90s. By the mid-90s I was publishing some of the info, and
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by ax0n 17y ago
If it's not a groundbreaking idea that can be monetized, particularly one that's both helpful yet easy for others to replicate as you say... I'd be tempted to open-source it if it were my baby, but the call is yours alone. You can always at
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by ax0n 17y ago
Whenever someone starts a sentence with "Steve Gibson says..." I usually kick them in the nuts and run away.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I've been meaning to try zsh. Maybe now's the time. Thanks for sharing and reminding me about it!
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by ax0n 17y ago
I do infosec in the financial industry, mostly UNIX, but a little mainframe and windows stuff as well when needed. I believe you can find my email address in my profile. Feel free to contact me.
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by ax0n 17y ago
++ on "expert" But seriously, it seems "hacker" is thrown in self-reference too much. While anyone can do something clever to perform "a hack," to actually be a "hacker" takes a mind-set, not an accomplishment. People can become hackers by
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by ax0n 17y ago
I usually just tell normal people that I work with computers or that I keep bad guys out of bank accounts. It's a word that one can use in self-reference, but only once you've been accepted by other hackers as being one. It doesn't apply on
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by ax0n 17y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the first part of this statement. I've been called a "hacker" plenty of times, and once that happens, I say it's fair to call yourself one, but not before. No one would have ever called me a software developer. T
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by ax0n 17y ago
THIS. Or writing raw machine code to a diskette.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Like many here, I remember when people would eke out all sorts of crazy demos from relatively anemic hardware. I still love the demo scene. All of it, really. From the die-hard retro-grouches with their 68ks and z80s that scoff at all thing
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by ax0n 17y ago
There's a pharmacophobia joke in here somewhere.
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Fixing Ubuntu's broken excuse for a login screen(h-i-r.net)
2 points by ax0n 17y ago|2 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
Wow. I was so expecting that to get downmodded.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I had 3000ms latency on a 1200bps SLIP connection. Damn entitled kids these days. shakes cane
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by ax0n 17y ago
This technology has been around for quite a while. I was able to attend a High Technology Crime Investigation Association meeting because I was helping with the computer forensics coursework at a local college (featuring a police academy an
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by ax0n 17y ago
While it's vague, I think the spirit of the "challenge" is that once a command has been used, you should not use it again. Although one can make a cat() function in bourne-esque shells such as bash quite easily: cat() { while IFS="" read l
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by ax0n 17y ago
That "faux-to" at the bottom is a HORRIBLE photoshop perspective hack. It's obviously a 2D image that's been skewed and hacked to look 3D with the buttons moved to look like they overlap. I call shenanigans.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Hear, hear! I've had nothing but horrible luck with DreamHosed. I moved to Rackspace's Slicehost solution for a few of my sites earlier this year and never looked back.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I think its interesting retro style is noteworthy in its execution. Then again, my 'crew' and I started writing articles in the e-Zine era before finally migrating to a blog format. I may be showing my age.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Macbook C2D 2GHz ca. december '06. Upgraded to 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Used mostly for Firefox, Virtualbox (OpenBSD and Ubuntu), iTunes. I only power it off when it locks up. That happens anywhere from every few days to every three weeks. Most
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by ax0n 17y ago
It's the new vagina dentata.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Otherwise known as prolonging the death of an industry that refuses to innovate. How appropriate.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I noticed this with calls/SMS between myself and a local bike commuting pseudo-stranger whom I gave my GVoice info to, instead of my real phone number. He gave me his real number, but when I SMS'd him, it appeared to his phone via Google vo

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