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by josephb 10y ago
You can only imagine it's being done for malicious reasons. It doesn't seem like there is any good reason for Comodo to do this, other than try protect revenue loss.
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by josephb 10y ago
Really this should read, "Telia having problems in EU". They are a big transit providing, clearly causing issues for quite a few services in all directions. Some content providers use Telia to reach the Internet in part or full. S
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by josephb 11y ago
Lovely piece. I liked this bit: > the diversity of themes and opinions is less online today than it was in the past. New, different, and challenging ideas get suppressed by today’s social networks In a crowd environment or mob mentality
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by josephb 11y ago
Dragging from Dropbox, One drive, hubic all act as a move, not copy.
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by josephb 11y ago
Even on an iPhone 6 the Facebook app can feel sluggish and clunky. The mobile site in Safari is a good alternative and feels quicker.
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by josephb 11y ago
Which provider is that? Are you using their app or something built into the OS?
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by josephb 11y ago
Nice clean and simple. Service works as advertised! Keep up the good work :-)
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by josephb 11y ago
Agreed! Nice piece of well written suspense and intrigue in the tech world. If it's also factual, that's a bonus :-)
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by josephb 12y ago
It worked for them, so good on them for trying something different and also sharing about it! As always, what works for one company, won't always work for the next :-)
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by josephb 12y ago
Hopefully sites like BBC, The Guardian and others will maintain an article listing all the de-registered / hidden articles.
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by josephb 12y ago
It's definitely the point.
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by josephb 12y ago
Namesilo include whois privacy and email forwarding for $8.99 This seems like a 30 percent premium over other offerings currently available, no doubt the value is there for some folks.
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by josephb 12y ago
Another recommendation for Ramnode, love them. For your storage needs you might be better looking for an OVH/kimsufi deal for a cheap Atom server. Also, haven't used their storage plans but VPSDime have large disk VPS that work ou
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by josephb 12y ago
I've found namesilo.com to be a decent registrar. Growing at a rate, which is good to see.
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by josephb 12y ago
I don't get the headline, it's the only place SaaS is mentioned in the whole article. Is there an assumption that all Project Management tools are SaaS? To be honest the whole article seems a bit disjointed, it tries to be emotive
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by josephb 13y ago
16gb works just fine, regardless of what the sticker says :-)
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by josephb 13y ago
Unexpected HN traffic is likely to have used all the site owners pre-paid credit. Edit: To clarify, NearlyFreeSpeech hosting is prepaid.
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by josephb 13y ago
> Your other issue in Australia is the latency to DO's servers Roughly 160ms from East Coast AU to DO's LA droplets, most of us are used to the extra milliseconds by now :-)
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by josephb 13y ago
There was some good discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5673628 see orofino And in an even older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619132 see akmiller
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by josephb 13y ago
There are plenty of options in AU that are priced similarly to their presence in other countries. Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Rackspace via Akamai etc
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by josephb 13y ago
Another happy Fastmail user! I just wish it had an address book and calendar that I could sync. Those are the things I miss the most from Gmail.
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by josephb 13y ago
Good use of the sites.
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by josephb 13y ago
For creating an online profile or gallery use hosted services at Flickr, Smugmug, Zenfolio, 500px etc. For creating a self hosted gallery use Zenphoto or Jalbum. For backups, first point, be deliberate and separate it from an photo sharing/
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by josephb 13y ago
Yes, there are a number of sites blocked by Australian ISPs Those ISPs have been given a directive to block sites on the "worst of the worst" Interpol list, it's DNS blocking, not at the IP level. Read the article again :)
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by josephb 13y ago
> NB: In my research, I've noticed that 99% of iPad users think iCloud backs up all their photos on all devices, which of course it does not. Another common misconception by family and friends iDevice users is that everything is automat
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by josephb 13y ago
Original article here: http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-...
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by josephb 13y ago
Witches?
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by josephb 13y ago
Yeah it is now, only took 30 minutes :-) The outage is affecting IMAP/POP/HTTP for email plus Gchat, the admin control panel/API is probably the least impact.
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by josephb 13y ago
Nearly 30 minutes since it started and the status page is it's customary blank screen. http://imgur.com/OLyGf0O Almost as bad as AWS at getting notices up.
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by josephb 14y ago
Looks great, I like how plain and simple it is. It would be interesting to include some other data, like top wikipedia links etc. Also the right hand column can sometimes feel a bit disconnected from the left when there is a long line of te

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