cahrens

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by cahrens 15y ago
OI, this guy. In my opinion, this guy is highly unethical and really should be locked up. First off, what he is doing is illegal (vigilantism, invasion of privacy and computer fraud/abuse) and even if it isn't, he is still tampering with e
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by cahrens 15y ago
I usually swap the left ctrl and the Caps lock keys, mostly out of habit from the first computer I used (An actual computer, with the Magnetic Tape spools and punch-card boot loader). I have also dealt with crappy tiny keyboards that don't
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by cahrens 15y ago
I have always hated how the colon is used in windows for drive letters, there have been way too many times where I would type a long path only to realize that there is a semi-colon at the beginning.
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by cahrens 15y ago
This definitely applies to Tech Support as well. I used to work as a Data Center engineer and would get support tickets that were just written just like the bug reports in the article: useless titles, no info on what they were doing, set t
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by cahrens 15y ago
What I see that could happen is that you carry around a multiple form-factor device, e.g. alone it is just a phone, but plug it into a special screen and its a tablet. Attach it to a screen with a physical keyboard and it'd work as a lapto
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by cahrens 15y ago
Its probably because the game itself was designed for single-processor machines and was never adapted to SMP systems. The graphics glitches are likely because the game depended on certain features of older GPUs
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by cahrens 15y ago
I had an idea a few years back to build a multi-layer sim-world game You would have players create families of Sims, where they would have full control over their individual Home and families, then add on the ability to get elected to a sor
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by cahrens 15y ago
I imagine that multiplayer interaction would be similar to the 'neighbor deals' system in Sim City 4, with a few additional features.
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by cahrens 15y ago
They wouldn't need to decrypt any packets at all, they could simply look at ARP requests. ARP packets are typically left alone and sent un-encrypted,. otherwise it would be far too difficult to find that router and the client when connecti
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by cahrens 15y ago
I wouldn't even give them the password to accounts I have on their systems, they should be able to access it themselves if the requester really has permission to view that data. The only exception I would make is to encrypted hard drives t
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by cahrens 15y ago
Actually Starcraft 2 failed in its target group: South Korea, the original is still king in The Land of The Morning Calm. Blizzard screwed themselves over with the requirement of being online to play.