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by c0nsumer 12y ago
This is a very good thought, and something I hadn't tried yet... Mostly due to the sporadic functionality of the issue. I'll give this a go tonight; thank you.
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
Unfortunately, it's anything that's slow... When I've got a tunnel live, Google properties and Facebook are pretty much unusable. Weirdly, sometimes it'll work fine... Other times it won't. (The server I'm test
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
I've been trying on and off to get IPv6 working at home, but the problem I keep running into is poor performance from tunnels. I have service via Wide Open West which is great for IPv4, but they have no plans to support IPv6. So, I try
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
Remember, the panopticon works... People grow to fear even considering certain actions when -- right or wrong -- they feel them hopeless. That's thought control right there.
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
What I find most amazing about Windows is how -- in the vast majority of circumstances -- modern versions will still run programs written for 3.1 (et al). If there's one thing MS can be relied on, it's backwards compatibility for
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
I host a forum and website for a state-wide non-profit that I volunteer for in exchange for a single sidebar Adsense ad on the main page and in the footer on the forum. It's a hobby of mine, but the $300-$400 (gross) covers my expenses
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
I'd work on doing all the political and fundraising piece of building some new trails in a local state recreation area. Sure, this isn't IT related, but it strongly benefits the local community and due to having a number of obstac
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
Thank you. It really, honestly is hard on our tech because they feel the pressure from all sides. Eight hours sounds rough for a reimage. I think ours are... maybe two or three? We've done a lot of work to get the reimage time down, an
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
Professionally I deal with much of the fallout from problems such as yours, and leading techs doing this kind of work. It really sucks, but for many problems like this the choice becomes spend-four-hours-reimaging-the-machine or spend-unkno
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
I wonder how many of these I've caused by having Fiddler w/ HTTPS decryption enabled (to troubleshoot one session) while accessing FB or whatnot with the other.
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by c0nsumer 12y ago
Something is wrong with this. A dot appears in Southeast Michigan in 1985 when "Philadelphia (Conshohocken)" scrolls past. We're not anywhere near there, and the first IKEA in this area (excluding stuff in Canada, a couple ho
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
Yep -- I understand where the name comes from, I just personally find it very frustrating when two OSS projects are so closely named. It gets really hard to search for one or the other once both become successful. (I also have this complain
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
This is a really frustrating name. Hugin is already used for panoramic photo stitching software: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ This just has another N bolted on to the end and does something completely different.
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
I can't help but wonder who the recruiter was. I was going through Google's interview process right around this time, knew the recruiter that I was working with had connections to folks at Apple, and one day she was mysteriously n
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
I've had a Fluke 87 for years, and one day I was testing inrush current draw on something and the meter stopped working. Why? Because I was using the 400mA fused port, and I'd put ~700mA through it. For some reason it was that det
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Michigan SB636 Passed, allowing termination of landline phone service. Now what?(timmins.net)
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
I've done a lot of mapping of local mountain bike trails, followed up by making official PDFs of the trails for many local land managers. OSM is a great, great, great way to go with this, but you're right... Lacking the aerial ima
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
The problem I have with editing Google Maps is that the tools are so much harder to use than OSM's. I really, really enjoy using JOSM and can really improve things in a short time. Google's web-based tool is much slower, and the d
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
"But and that a honest question: What would you do when you see that thing X will break in maybe a year and there is no way to scale it and the manager is ignore that it will break in the near future?" In my opinion the best optio
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
To me that's not a software problem, that's a management problem. That organization did not pass the hit-by-a-bus test, it's just that in this case the bus was the main dev walking away. That's a planning / organiza
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
I don't mean to sound rude here, but welcome to the real world where IT is not the focus of business and is often seen as a cost center and necessary evil. This may not be right, but it's something that has to be dealt with. I see
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
What's even niftier is, say with Windows and BitLocker, the BitLocker key can be recovered from a memory dump pulled this way. Couple this with live patching of RAM to bypass the lock screen and you're just kinda sunk. And yes, me
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
On Windows there's no patching to do, since this is by design. If you want to close this potential hole you simply stop the Firewire DMA driver from loading, which is pretty easy to do via Group or Local Policy. Microsoft has an articl
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
You're welcome. :) I've found that trail runners make great trail advocates as well. Both of our groups tend to enjoy the same sort of conditions and usually get along great.
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
My ISP, WOW!/WideOpenWest, isn't even there despite having a decent penetration. They are also great customer service-wise, etc. Oh well.
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
No, I'm saying that it's used as a blowoff answer for something that sounds important because it's outside of what one in said job would normally do, but when asked about it (to see how generalist the person is) they wave it
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
I love OpenStreetMap, see it as sort of like Wikipedia for cartographic data, and regularly use it as both a repository and source for data I collect about mountain bike and hiking trails. I then use this to make print maps; part of my work
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
More sysadmin / troubleshooter focused person here, and I love this sort of question. It also brings out people who will throw out things like "do a network capture". Then you either get the "well, send it to the network
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
Oppo has made some nifty, extremely useful, very high quality, just-on-the-edge of legit (read: you can disable region coding easily) DVD players for years. I really like their stuff, and thus would have very high expectations for this phon
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by c0nsumer 13y ago
A coworker and I were discussing this earlier so I priced out a Dell workstation with fairly similar specs: same number of cores but across 2x CPUs, same RAM, same video card RAM, no 1TB of flash storage. The Dell ended up costing negligibl

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