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by brirec 7y ago
Oh dear god, why did you connect your iMac’s Ethernet port to mains? Did you expect it to survive?! The fact that Ethernet functions the same with a voltage bias across the leads is exploited for PoE — power over Ethernet.
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by brirec 8y ago
I've tried migrating from Inbox a while back because I knew this was coming… I'd never had the chance to see how Inbox's travel stuff works, but I just came back from a business trip from NYC to Mountain View and back. Anyway
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by brirec 8y ago
Well sure, a known-malicious app will be detected by Windows Defender, provided it has updates making it aware of the app. But a known-malicious signed app will also fail the code signature verification, in addition to the virus scan, if
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by brirec 8y ago
Are you okay?
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by brirec 8y ago
Some people wouldn't dare speak to their former employers, let alone help them, if they won the lottery. Death or not, winning the lottery can be just as effective in getting rid of someone.
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by brirec 8y ago
Reed switches are pretty damned huge when working at the scale of a laptop. Not to mention it would make the case of the computer microphonic — bump it hard enough and that’ll be transmitted through the reed relay.
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by brirec 8y ago
It sure looks like 2018/2019 is going to finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop.
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by brirec 8y ago
> Making a universal cartridge that can handle all of this is a challenge even today. Oh it is, but let me tell you: it's beautiful. http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=8045.0
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by brirec 8y ago
Sure, but if your CPU is new enough it will disable Windows Update to entice you to use 10
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by brirec 8y ago
It’s not included anywhere, but PowerShell is open source and you can install it on *nix now! Obviously the things that integrate with Windows aren’t there, but the object-oriented pipelining sure is.
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by brirec 8y ago
I would sure hope so, since the idea is that they're in order of best-to-worst for the environment. Reduce: don't buy water bottles in the first place, as they're one of the biggest pollutants. Reuse: If you're gonna buy