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by heywire 10y ago
I'll admit, I'm mostly just playing devil's advocate for the sake of discussion (I run Arch Linux at home), but for someone who doesn't like metro, Windows 10 can be used almost the same as Windows 7. I really wish they&
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by heywire 10y ago
That is a perfectly valid reason. Some people I've found are just resistant to change, and as such, put everyone else at more risk by using an older OS (thinking more XP than 7 here). Can you share the names of the software you use tha
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by heywire 10y ago
Oh, I completely agree with you here. I was just curious why they chose 7 over 10.
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by heywire 10y ago
Unless you actively seek out Windows 10 "apps" from the store, you can live pretty much outside of metro. The only times I find myself in any kind of metro app is for some of the settings, but in a lot of cases the equivalent con
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by heywire 10y ago
100% agree with you. I was just more interested in why they would go through the effort to wipe and reinstall Windows 7 once the upgrade was (forcefully) done.
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by heywire 10y ago
Honest question, why not just run Windows 10? I find that on older hardware it runs better than Windows 7.
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by heywire 10y ago
Qbasic on DOS around age 7, if you don't count editing autoexec.bat to put up funny boot messages :) after that I learned Clipper because my dad used it for work, so there were lots of hard-covered manuals around.
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by heywire 10y ago
When I first started programming in C, I had such a hard time understanding pointers. Even more so pointers to pointers, arrays of pointers to arrays, and so on. Then one day it just clicked. Now days I look back and don't understand w
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by heywire 10y ago
Just an FYI, my workplace McAfee Gateway filters this site due to "Violence"(??!). Not sure what you have to do to get off that list.
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by heywire 10y ago
I'd really like to try Backblaze, but I use a Windows Home Server 2011 Atom-based system as a makeshift NAS to store all of our family photos. The Backblaze Personal Backup installer fails with an error because it is considered a &quo
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by heywire 10y ago
Many times a retailer will install a whitelisting solution as a "compensating control".
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Crooks Go Deep with ‘Deep Insert’ Skimmers(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by heywire 10y ago
Somewhat on topic, anyone know of something like Little Snitch for Linux?
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by heywire 11y ago
Not 2.5%, but close, FHA still allows 3.5% down.. but then you're talking MIP and such
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by heywire 11y ago
Awesome work!
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by heywire 11y ago
I work on a Windows-based point-of-sale product, so my time is spent inside Visual Studio. Most of the time I use the remote debugger attached to a virtual machine. For reproducing issues from production, good logging is key. From our lo
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by heywire 11y ago
Something strange is going on with scrolling. When I scroll quickly down the page, it jumps back to the top. Looks like a great resource, looking forward to checking it out in detail later!
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by heywire 11y ago
I love seeing the handwritten notes...
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by heywire 11y ago
I wonder if this counts households which are carrying balances on cards which offer an introductory 0% interest rate? I know quite a few people (myself included) who have utilized the 0% intro rates offered by both branded (Visa/MC&#x2
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by heywire 11y ago
Well, someone has to be buying the new cars, or else there wouldn't be any used cars.
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by heywire 11y ago
Unfortunately it is cloud based (signalr), so if they decide to close the service, my Wi-Fi thermostat becomes a basic programmable thermostat. I haven't yet sniffed the traffic between the thermostat and their servers to see if it wo
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by heywire 11y ago
I actually chose a competing product, the Sensi Thermostat from Emerson, after reading so many complaints like this. While it doesn't have the fancy learning capabilities of the Nest, it does have full scheduling capability, which I a
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by heywire 11y ago
Exactly the type of information I was looking for, and not something I had even considered. Thanks!
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by heywire 11y ago
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm definitely not an encryption expert, but I was under the impression that full disk encryption on Linux with a sufficiently long passphrase was secure. I personally use cryptsetup (dm-crypt/LUK
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by heywire 11y ago
Even more, Microsoft and the OEMs don't really go out of their way to explain this choice to customers. I work with a senior software engineer who recently came to me for help with his new PC after having purchased the full version of
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by heywire 11y ago
I love my HD202's. I wear them for several hours a day almost every work day. Best ~$25 I've spent... I did have to resolder the connection on both ears after a few years, but haven't had any other problems with them. I t
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by heywire 11y ago
Just a heads up, my workplace McAfee Web Gateway filters this website under the category "Phishing" with a "Medium Risk" reputation. Perhaps the previous domain owner wasn't the most reputable. Not sure what you hav
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by heywire 11y ago
The variation I always heard (as a driver, not a police officer) was, "Five, you're fine, ten, you're mine!"
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by heywire 11y ago
He's joking. Right?
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by heywire 11y ago
They'll pay attention when someone emails them their own salary information. I'm kidding, that would be career suicide. Printing it out and leaving it on the printer would be much better.

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