khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
25 years ago, I'd be right with you. 15 years ago, too. Since then? I think your anecdata are outdated. Things just aren't going to be caught by signature-based scanning anymore. In terms of automated detection, the bad guys won.
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by khedoros 10y ago
About how I feel whenever someone's holding up an actual camera, filming. It's obnoxious, but it's not the end of the world, and it's not going to make me want to punch someone. It's kind of funny to listen to peopl
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by khedoros 10y ago
Do you agree that there's a difference between collecting information from spherically-broadcast radio waves, to which most building walls are nearly transparent, and collecting other electromagnetic waves by putting a detector in a pl
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by khedoros 10y ago
Ditto, Nexus 5, Android 6.0.1. That's how I interpreted it: as a relocation and rewording of a setting.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Interesting. I can look in the corporate address book, and we've got people in Burlington, Ontario who have titles like "SW Quality Engineer" and "Group Leader-SW Engineer". I wonder if that means that they can&#x27
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by khedoros 10y ago
For RAID hardware, it's not that unusual to have a device that isn't supported by standard Windows install media. To install Windows, you'd put the Intel-provided driver on another medium (or slipstream it into the Windows on
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by khedoros 10y ago
Do they, though? Everything I've read over the past 5 years has claimed an 80-90% miss rate. On the other hand, often the first sign I see of an infection is that the virus scanner is disabled, so I suppose it acts as a kind of canary,
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by khedoros 10y ago
Are you more interested in actually writing to PC VGA registers, or just the idea of writing a pixel-by-pixel renderer? There are bindings for SDL and SFML in a lot of languages, and the web technology option mentioned by the sibling commen
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Where? I was imprecise. The chipset supports a Linux-compatible option, were it not explicitly disabled in the firmware. > Lenovo has issued a formal statement denying it. They deny purposefully disabling Linux, and I don't hav
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by khedoros 10y ago
I agree completely with that. I responded because I partially disagreed with your earlier statement; I think it misses the point. It's a locked UEFI setting causing a problem: true. The setting is causing a piece of hardware to behave
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by khedoros 10y ago
The laptop supports a Linux-compatible option, and effort was expended specifically to disable that option. If some hardware isn't supported by Linux drivers, that's understandable. If software is added to restrict the modes that
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by khedoros 10y ago
Yes, but it's a setting that causes the hardware to behave differently, and which would need driver support to function.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Don't feel too bad. I had to read it twice to get the meaning, myself. The fact that it's used in a literal sense outside of the U.S. isn't something that I would have considered. I suppose that my viewing of foreign media ha
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Or perhaps this is one of those things where people assert that the existence of things they don't want to use is somehow offensive. It could be related to the signal-to-noise ratio. If I'm a non-dev looking to throw somethin
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by khedoros 10y ago
I think it's more like if I said "90% of Narnians are bankers and bankers statistically give less to charity; here's the data supporting each statement" or "Kilrathi are statistically 47% more likely than Dothraki t
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by khedoros 10y ago
It'll just have different design decisions and flaws. Expecting anything else is unrealistic. Bit-rot means that X isn't as well-suited to today's environment as we'd like, but I'm sure that some things in X that
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by khedoros 10y ago
The way I see it, Wayland will implement interfaces that make sense the way things are now. Compared to X, development will be quicker ( because deprecated interfaces won't be implemented), and the code will be cleaner and more secure
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by khedoros 10y ago
Ditto, because most things I use online load in the >10 second range and don't "install" in any meaningful sense of the word.
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by khedoros 10y ago
If you've got space for 2 machines, you can increase energy efficiency by using the specialized machines.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Fair enough. I'm accustomed to reading 200 character lines, so I guess I don't notice as much. Making the window narrower to force the lines to wrap at 40 or 60 chars feels constricting/claustrophobic to me, and I'm not
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I suggest you find a better forum cause imho fb just sucks in general "Better", for what I use Facebook for, is equivalent to "has more people that I know". I don't expect much from it, and I get what I expect.
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by khedoros 10y ago
What's uncomfortable about browsing with a full-size window? I usually find it slightly more painful not to have the browser maximized.
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by khedoros 10y ago
If you need to maintain a certain level of performance, and the system has early indications that you won't be able to reach that by continuing with the current implementation, then that's hardly "premature" optimization
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by khedoros 10y ago
A standing directive that I've got is "get your work done; other than that, I don't care how you spend your time". I regularly put something like "researched current code-signing best practice" into my status r
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by khedoros 10y ago
You could be right. Reading the original comment again, they might have meant that Facebook has a level of influence that is exceptional for a private-sphere entity, rather than that they aren't privately-held.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> In what sense? Legally they are, they act like one so I am not sure in practice what makes that distinct. Facebook, Inc. is a publicly traded company. An example of a private company would be Dell Technologies.
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by khedoros 10y ago
We've got the example of places like Finland, that are supposed to be much more successful than U.S. schools. They've got the same distractions, technological and social, that are available in the rest of the world. It's a ve
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by khedoros 10y ago
Me, every time I do an install. I've got a ton of DVDs left around. I've had USB devices designated as OS install devices, but those always end up repurposed or given away in the months/years between OS installs...but I don&#
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by khedoros 10y ago
> The problem with school is that most of the consumers of said education are unmotivated slackers whom you practically have to beat the information into. So, we agree there's a problem. It's immaterial if the issue is in the s
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by khedoros 10y ago
Heh. Well, they failed at teaching that, then. I've learned to quickly do the things that interest me and leave the rest languishing on a "to do" pile for as long as I can justify.

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