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by davb 12y ago
None of my personal accounts in the UK use two factor authentication. Same goes for the majority of friends and family. Only one (former) account ever done this, and it was own used when adding a new payee records. It used EMV CAP ( http:&#
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by davb 12y ago
I actually think I've got some spare MX-4 from my recent PC build. I think I'll take your advice over the weekend. Thanks for your help!
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by davb 12y ago
Yeah, pretty bad. It's quite bad. I try to do any compilation on my desktop machine or one a remote machine. Mine is a 2013 edition (MLK / 2nd edt) w/ Core i5 3rd gen (I think).
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by davb 12y ago
Yeah I don't use the touchpad most of the time either. With a huge SSD and plenty of RAM, the i7-3520M T430S gets the job done. I'm not entirely pleased with the screen quality, but perhaps I've been spoiled by the IPS displa
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by davb 12y ago
Ah, I did see the T440P but there was something that put me off. Maybe I got the weight wrong (thinking it was much heavier than the T440). Or perhaps there was something in the service manual (which is fantastic, by the way) - awkward HDD
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by davb 12y ago
T430s here. Was running XUbuntu 13.10, now running stock Debian 7.4 (I don't like XUbuntu 14 one bit). Really happy with it. I bought a T440 for someone recently, which is also really nice however it seems the RAM is limited to 12GB ma
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by davb 12y ago
I'm using a Dell XPS 13 too and really like it. My biggest gripe is how hot it gets. So much so that it's uncomfortable to use on your lap (with the air vents all along the bottom). I've cleaned the inside, verified the fan o
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by davb 12y ago
A really good tethering plan is one of the main reasons I've stayed with Three UK for so long. £20.50 (with a £4.50 retentions discount) for SIM-only 12mo with unlimited tethering, plenty of minutes and texts. I'm regularly >20
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by davb 12y ago
My understanding is that they rely primarily on the IP packet TTL. If you're tethering, each packet will have a TTL one lower than if the phone was the originating node. I know that at one points some carriers used DPI to check for pat
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by davb 12y ago
Yes, I agree. Sometimes it feels like Mozilla recruited a bunch of UI/UX designers and told them "The Firefox UI is all wrong - change it until it's fixed. For inspiration look at Chrome and mobile apps". As though &quot
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by davb 12y ago
I disagree. When I type something into the search box, I'm explicitly saying "send this to the search provider". I'm more than happy for that box to auto-complete. However when I'm typing into the URL bar, I want di
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by davb 12y ago
> There are a lot of people who initially did not like ... > ... take a stand for the user ... These statements seem at odds. I'm all for change when there's a clear need for it, but when it's done just to keep up with
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by davb 12y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I, too, am against the push to integrate all of my services. This is the main thing that's pushed me towards Twitter and stopped me really getting into Google+. I don't use it for
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by davb 13y ago
There's been a shift over the years towards end user workflow-based visual programming and report generation (something many traditional ERP systems left to tools like Crystal Reports). There are limitations to what can be accomplished
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by davb 13y ago
ERP software is often highly customised for individual businesses and their processes. There are commonalities across packages (JDE, PeopleSoft, SAP, Dynamics, etc) but for the most part they're different for each organisation. That&#x
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by davb 13y ago
OT: This is the first time I've noticed a website hijack the Page Up/Down keys to navigate between articles. This is stupid. I can't imagine anyone equating Page Down (the universal key for "scroll down a view") to
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by davb 13y ago
> it's only some parts of Africa I think it would be safe to say that the vast majority of Africa is connectivity/bandwidth starved. Even in a (very) affluent South African neighbourhood, I struggled to get one of our remote wo
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by davb 13y ago
I had a similar thought. Less about the regulation, more about liability. If I'm deaf and I pay for an app to tell me when an alarm is sounding, I have a certain expectation that it has been rigorously tested and will work without fail
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Ubuntu removes CACert from default trusted CAs in 20130906ubuntu0.13.10.1(bugs.launchpad.net)
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by davb 13y ago
That's not how I read it. It seems as though all traffic (globally) to those net blocks was rerouted to Venezuela, for a brief period.
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by davb 13y ago
It's interesting that this should pop up today. This morning I attended a Google-sponsored event where they spoke a little about GSA. I'd have assumed that another HN reader was present but I'm in a city with a pretty non-exi
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by davb 13y ago
Perhaps modern operating systems (or hardware?) need two modes - "Safe mode", where everything is sanitised, checked, limited and Secure Boot-style verified, and "Open mode" where it's not; where experts and enthusi
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by davb 13y ago
I'm surprised at how many people here seem to like infinite scroll. I personally can't stand it. Imagine having a book where no matter how much you read, it never seems to end. No milestones, no sense of progress. Just page after
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by davb 13y ago
I don't have a Mac so can't compare, but on my machine (xUbuntu 13.10, Intel Core i70470K (not overclocked), Asus NVidia GTX 770 2GB GDDR5, 32GB Corsair Vengeance CL10, Corsair M500 SSD 960GB) it runs buttery smooth at full settin
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by davb 13y ago
Yes! I found exactly the same with my ZTE Firefox OS phone. The touch handling was extremely poor. I had hoped it would be resolved in an OS update. That said, I believe that even a slow Firefox OS phone that at least handles touch interact
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by davb 13y ago
I enjoy stories like these. I read them throughout my high school years (late 90's, early 2000's). Now I've been in industry for close to a decade, sometimes I feel like I missed the golden age of computing.
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by davb 13y ago
Full-bleed dye-sub panel ribbon printers aren't all that expensive - under £2k for a current model Evolis printer. And most card suppliers doing 5k+ cards will offer card pre-printing services, allowing you to have sheets of [blue, gre
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by davb 13y ago
> Printing on the back does present a costly proposition, not only does the printer need a flipper, but you have to use more costly ribbons to do it with. Not necessarily. I done some badge printing for a very large organisation about 8
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by davb 13y ago
I strongly disagree. Like many others in the industry, I've had network applications which have run for years without unscheduled downtime. When I'm hosting my own application, I can architect whichever failover/redundancy so
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by davb 13y ago
In the UK, pharmacies sell pharmaceuticals, healthcare, beauty and toiletry products. I was really surprised when I last visited the US to find a pharmacy with a deli counter, electronics aisles and a fridge full of frosty beers. It really

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