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by meaty 14y ago
TBH we don't use AV on the server. Tend do do it on the client machines or not at all if it's a Linux machine (mutt).
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes fully accurate. By DEFAULT it does local+global search. Motivation for user to turn this off - low. Education on what it's going to do - none. This is about as unethical as it can get. Even Windows 8 asks religiously before sending anyt
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by meaty 14y ago
Google is one of those providers: http://searchengineland.com/google-fired-two-employees-for-b... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/ http://readwrite.com/2010/09/27/googles_second_transparency_... Google read y
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by meaty 14y ago
Not quite. It depends on the context. This was a pointer to issues, none of which are supporting the argument but are of secondary interest.
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by meaty 14y ago
Local searches do not remain private as there is only one search box for global and local stuff. So when you type "goat porn" expecting it to open your folder of goat porn on your workstation, it will send it to amazon and show goat porn th
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by meaty 14y ago
It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this). I own a Kobo, but it's been seriously hacked by myself so it doesn't call home and
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by meaty 14y ago
You'll most likely be ok. The main attack vector is a chunk of regularly used usernames and a small selection of passwords. These are quite successful against shared hosting where password quality is hard to control properly. If you've got
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by meaty 14y ago
+1 for this. I've run my own mail server for 15 years, since I got my first permanent connection. I host on the end of it as I have a large distrust of "the cloud". It is cost effective for me as it has increased my merchantable skill p
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by meaty 14y ago
You only have to worry about them anyway if you have crappy passwords or stupid users.
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by meaty 14y ago
A big chunk of your energy will disappear in heat via resistance unless you run silver wire everywhere or keep the runs short. DC cabling has some weird voltage divider and load characteristics as well causing drop outs. This is particularl
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by meaty 14y ago
However, I think everyone knows someone who can fix it. There is something to be said for ubiquity. Although it is annoying being family tech support.
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by meaty 14y ago
Sell it before it depreciates further, buy a ThinkPad with half the change and go on holiday for a couple of days?
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by meaty 14y ago
If I give someone an iPad, I can be 99% certain they won't make it unusable or full of viruses in a month. Have you seen the average person's Windows desktop? I'm not sure that's a magic bullet. Amongst my family and friends at least, I h
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by meaty 14y ago
Well Microsoft do install dodgy stuff. The poorly thought out MS11-100 patch broke everything for us.
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by meaty 14y ago
I have doom on my TI Nspire CAS :) Unfortunately the crappy screen is no good for playing it. I've seen all sorts of hacks like this over the years but to be honest, I've fallen in love with the HP50g for hackability. The thing is awesome.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well it looks like I'm going to be dead by the time they send something interesting there. Back in the days of Apollo, they risked a hell of a lot in the name of exploration. It'd be nice to see the same spirit applied to Mars.
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by meaty 14y ago
None of which are relevant the the internet apart from providing some tunnels. The technical standards did not affect much in the osi stack bar the transport layer, which could be run quite happily over anything out there (Cambridge ring, a
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by meaty 14y ago
Always listen to the tinfoil hatted conspiracy theory spewing nutbags. Why? Because there are more of them in politics and business than there are anywhere else working on the opposite agenda.
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by meaty 14y ago
Did the ITU have any involvement in constructing the Internet? No. We can 'dial' (if you use Plan9 terminology) any address we wish? Yes. What would their involvement bring other than a commercial model which does nothing for the consumers
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by meaty 14y ago
Or stop being employees in the industry which is why I no longer work for a defence contractor.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'll probably get shot for this but in the shared source license there are a number of huge holes around the signing key code. NSAKEY doesn't exist any more but its more suspicious when there is just no code there. I wouldn't trust Microsof
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes BMWs are just like MacBooks. They catch fire too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17514172
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by meaty 14y ago
Instantly invoking Godwin's law; knowing about the Nazis causes a moral shift towards making sure some horrible things don't happen again. The same applies to PHP. please do use it for a bit, learn about the crimes and don't repeat them :)
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by meaty 14y ago
A friend and myself managed a slightly less epic 9.45m in 1989. We did it in the gap in the stairwell of our old flats. The base was only 8x8 and tapered every couple of meters and it was essentially hollow (to reduce weight and because we
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by meaty 14y ago
I doubt that was even the case, unless you wrote disk copying software. X-Copy Pro was the only bit of software I ever purchased :) Everyone had bags stuffed with 3.5" floppies.
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by meaty 14y ago
The power is fine. Everything computer-wise comes off the back off a large APC UPS. Nothing but apple kit has ever failed on it. Regarding owning two, its because I don't put all my eggs in one basket. Why buy one when you can have two for
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by meaty 14y ago
No you should buy shirts made of cotton, not tinfoil is what I'm suggesting.
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by meaty 14y ago
It's called solder mask and it doesn't cover the entire board... Compressing the bottom of the case will short. It's badly designed.
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by meaty 14y ago
Seeing as you're picking my comments out, I'm rather passionate when it comes to this as I really don't want other people to go through the excruciating pain both mentally and financially that I have. Nor do I want people to be left totally
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes - a good side effect. I reckon my T61 wouldn't get nicked and can quite happily use it on a train out of London even at night without being fussed. The same could not be said for a MacBook which just has "mug me" written on it.

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