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LXD 2.0: Live migration(stgraber.org)
2 points by mhw 10y ago|1 comments
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by mhw 10y ago
While it makes good headlines, I think most of this could be summed up as "vehicle emissions are more complex than the simple model you might expect". Go and read the Wikipedia page on the New European Driving Cycle - https:&#x2F
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by mhw 10y ago
See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/bulk_personal_datase... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11540777
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by mhw 10y ago
I got some of the way there with https://github.com/xdissent/ievms and https://github.com/xdissent/iectrl but I'd really like a way to provision things on to the VM once it's up and runn
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by mhw 10y ago
Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes Always worth a read before you fire up the installer...
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The dark side of Guardian comments(theguardian.com)
49 points by mhw 11y ago|15 comments
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GCHQ intervenes to prevent catastrophically insecure UK smart meter plan(theinquirer.net)
4 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
One lesser-known fact about laptop hard drive encryption (the kind that's built in to the SATA firmware) is that the passphrase used to encrypt the disk is often not the passphrase that you type in to the BIOS. On Lenovo laptops, for e
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Rclone – rsync for cloud storage(rclone.org)
5 points by mhw 11y ago|1 comments
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Thanks for Ruining Another Game Forever, Computers(blog.codinghorror.com)
6 points by mhw 11y ago|2 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
I went through a period of thinking the same: sometimes it would seem to want to type a letter instead of triggering the cursor movement. I think the key is that you just keep your finger on the screen while applying a bit more pressure (pr
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by mhw 11y ago
Hmm: CVE-2016-1752 : CESG CVE-2016-1750 : CESG I wonder if that's < https://www.cesg.gov.uk/> , which is "the Information Security Arm of GCHQ". If so I guess we should be thankful that they
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by mhw 11y ago
I might be unusual here, but I typically get stuck when trying to copy files off a remote Windows machine. Most recently was an aged Windows server with a version of internet explorer so old that all the modern file upload sites (e.g. http
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by mhw 11y ago
A simpler solution is to use the Plan 9 rc shell for scripting. It had more sensible syntax and doesn't rescan input so many of the issues raised in the article just don't occur.
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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie: Digital 'has Destroyed' Music(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
Immutable Infrastructure is the modern day "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
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by mhw 11y ago
One interesting aspect of the implementation of sam is that there are actually two different text representations. What's discussed here is the part in the main sam process, but there's another data structure in the samterm proces
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by mhw 11y ago
Ah, ok. So the issue is mixing binary packages from different distributions or different releases of the same distribution (the Debian doc mentions mixing Debian stable and testing for example). If that's what Mint are doing then I&#x2
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by mhw 11y ago
Hmm; I'm puzzled by a contradiction between this and another recent article. From this article we learn that we shouldn't do this: "Secondly, they are mixing their own binary packages with binary packages from Debian and Ubun
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York – the fibre frontier(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
Bear in mind that giving the password over the phone has a different threat model to sending the password over a TLS-secured connection from your browser to a bank-run web server. Specifically there is a human in the call centre who is tran
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White center lines are being removed from roads in the UK – for safety(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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Year Four Recap, and 2016 Plans(zerotier.com)
5 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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The new Remember the Milk is here(blog.rememberthemilk.com)
3 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
LDAP and OLAP are different things.
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BPF Compiler Collection(github.com)
1 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
I'm puzzled. As a developer the sites I work on are (mostly) going to be hosted on my local machine. I usually don't bother with all the effort to set up SSL certificates for my development web server unless I've got an SSL-s
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by mhw 11y ago
VMWare Workstation was a great product - I used it right from the very earliest betas on Linux. But somewhere along the line they seemed to stop taking an interest in individual purchasers like me. I stopped getting the reminders to purchas
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by mhw 11y ago
An approach that would be familiar to anyone who has programmed in vintage BASIC with line numbers!
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Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently? – Opensource.com(opensource.com)
2 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments

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